| Location | Lexington, SC |
| Salary | $52,100–$70,300 Per Year |
Digital Outreach Coordinator - State Office
Salary
$52,100.00 - $70,300.00 Annually
Location
Lexington County, SC
Job Type
FTE - Full-Time
Job Number
191245
Agency
Vocational Rehabilitation Department
Opening Date
08/11/2026
Closing Date
8/17/2026 5:00 PM Eastern
Class Code:
AH40
Position Number:
60007430
Normal Work Schedule:
Monday - Friday (8:30 - 5:00)
Pay Grade
GEN09
Hiring Range - Min.
$52,100.00
Hiring Range - Max.
$70,300.00
EEO Statement
Equal Opportunity Employer
Agency Specific Application Procedures:
Applicants must submit the on-line application before 5 PM on the closing date. Resumes/cover letters are welcome but please include all current and previous work history and education on the State Application as the resume will not be accepted nor reviewed to determine if an applicant has met the qualifications for the position. Special accommodations needed for interviewing must be requested in advance by calling Human Resources (803-896-6500).
Veteran Preference Statement
South Carolina is making our Veterans a priority for employment in state agencies and institutions.
Job Responsibilities
Join South Carolina state government where you can have a meaningful career, incomparable benefits, and a positive work-life balance!
Under limited supervision by the Communications Manager, the Digital Outreach Coordinator will serve as the subject matter expert for external communication platforms focused on employer engagement, digital media, video production, social media content, campaign support, field content collection, and multimedia storytelling.
In this position you will be responsible for the following:
Develop, produce and support video and multimedia content within guidelines for approved SCVRD events and programs.
Draft concepts to include, but not limited to, video outline, scripts, storyboards, shot lists, and production approaches for assigned campaigns and projects before initiating the project.
Capture professional photographs, interviews, short-form videos, video cutdowns, recap videos, social media clips, and other approved multimedia materials.
Support major awareness months and Agency priorities to include, but not limited to, Recovery Month, NDEAM, Manufacturing Month, Mental Health Month, Deaf Awareness/Disability Awareness content, the 100-Year Observance, Mobile Unit rollout, Consumer Class montage, Consumer of the Year spotlight, Business Class mash-up video, SCVRA recognition, employer engagement and assigned campaigns.
Utilize communication archives or area office submissions whenever possible for efficiency.
Identify and report when additional filming, travel, vendor support or outside production assistance is needed.
Prepare files for review, revision, final approval, presentation, publishing, and playback.
Label and archive final assets using established naming and storage standards.
Coordinate the Agency's day-to-day external social media content and publishing process across approved platforms.
Develop and maintain a weekly social media content calendar aligned with Agencys priorities, campaigns, employer engagement, field activities, and leadership direction.
Draft captions, post copies, graphics, photographs, short-form videos, links, calls to action, and visual concepts for review and approval.
Schedule and publish approved content.
Monitor comments, questions, mentions, and engagement.
Elevate issues requiring leadership, program, legal, or customer-service response.
Ensure content complies with Agency approval, branding, accessibility, confidentiality, records-retention, and consent requirements.
Track reach, engagement, video views, audience growth, click activity, and other available performance indicators.
Provide weekly analytics, observations, and recommendations.
Establish and promote SCVRD's external employer-facing communications platforms to highlight SCVRD as a workforce solution for businesses across South Carolina.
Create employer-facing materials, outreach tools, and digital content that support Business Development staff and employer engagement priorities.
Develop content to explain SCVRD services to employers, chambers, partner organizations, and community stakeholders.
Assist with LinkedIn content, business outreach messaging and other approved external-facing initiatives.
Recommend practical advertising, social media, chamber, partners or digital-outreach opportunities that support employer engagement goals.
Coordinate with Business Development staff, Field Operations and communications leadership to ensure business-facing content reflects the Agency's priorities and approved messaging.
Coordinate assigned external website content in partnership with communications leadership, the Digital Communications Coordinator, IT, and program owners.
Ensure all content is accurate, accessible, organized, relevant, user-friendly, and consistent with Agency messaging.
Identify content that is outdated, missing, duplicated, inaccessible, or unclear and recommend updates for approval.
Prepare approved text, photographs, videos, links, and other digital assets for website use.
Obtain required review and approval before making substantive content changes.
Produce purposeful photography, videography, and multimedia coverage of approved Agency events and activities.
Develop event-coverage plans identifying priority photographs, video footage, interviews, speakers, partners, signage, audience interaction, geographic representation, and expected deliverables.
Coordinate with area offices, program staff, Business Development staff, project leads, and communications leadership to confirm event details and content priorities.
Confirm participant names and titles, release information, accessibility needs, travel requirements, deadlines, and expected deliverables.
Capture clear, professional, usable images and footage that reflect the Agency's mission and protect consumer privacy and dignity.
Select, edit, caption, label, archive, and distribute approved photographs and videos for social media, the external website, internal platforms, presentations, publications, media outreach, recognition activities, and future campaigns.
Provide area offices with clear photography, video, release, and submission instructions when in-person Communications coverage is not warranted or possible.
Collaborate with departments to support content collection, event coverage and coordination of needs to complete assigned communications projects.
Request and organize photographs, quotes, logos, videos, names, titles, release forms, event information, and story details.
Confirm the accuracy and completeness of submitted content.
Follow up promptly when required information or materials are missing.
Maintain a geographically and programmatically balanced pipeline of consumers, employers, partners, staff, and event stories.
Coordinate deadlines and deliverables with project leads, AV vendors, internal contributors, and communications leadership.
Participate in Communications Department planning, reporting, and continuous improvement activities.
Attend weekly department meetings and other required meetings.
Provide weekly updates on all assigned projects to include topics such as, but not limited to, social media, campaign work, recognition videos, conference needs, or travel requirements and include outstanding tasks and risks.
Proactively communicate when competing priorities, missing materials, travel limitations, or production requirements may affect deadlines or quality.
Present drafted material for review, feedback, revision and final approval.
Collaborate with the Digital Communications Coordinator and the Communications Department team to have continuous innovation and improvement.
Maintain assigned photography, videography, audio, and multimedia production equipment, and digital assets.
Maintain an accurate inventory of cameras, lenses, microphones, lighting, tripods, memory cards, portable backdrops, and other assigned production equipment.
Ensure equipment is properly checked out, returned, stored securely, and maintained in good order.
Maintain organized digital archives, usage rights, release records, and final approved files.
Report missing, damaged, or malfunctioning equipment immediately.
Perform all other duties as assigned.
Complete additional assignments/projects assigned accurately and in a timely manner.
Minimum and Additional Requirements
If invited to interview, please obtain your Official 10 year driving record from the Department of Motor Vehicles to bring with you.
Official transcripts will be required to verify college degree.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Physical Demands:
Work Environment:
Preferred Qualifications
Additional Comments
The South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including, but not limited, to lactation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.
The South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department offers an exceptional benefits package for FTE positions that includes:
Benefits for State Employees
The state of South Carolina offers eligible employees generous benefits, including health and dental insurance; retirement and savings plan options; and paid vacation and sick leave. Plus, work-life balance programs such as telecommuting and flexible work schedules are available to employees of some state agencies.
Insurance Benefits
Eligible employees may enroll in health insurance, which includes prescription coverage and wellness benefits. Other available insurance benefits include dental, vision, term life insurance, long term disability and flexible spending accounts for health and child care expenses.
Retirement Benefits
State employees are also offered retirement plan options, including defined benefit and defined contribution plans. Additionally, eligible employees may elect to participate in the South Carolina Deferred Compensation Program, which is a voluntary, supplemental retirement savings plan offering 401(k) and 457 plan options.
Workplace Benefits
State employees may also be eligible for other benefits, including tuition assistance; holiday, annual and sick leave; and discounts on purchases, travel and more.
Note: The benefits above are available to most state employees, with the exception of those in temporary positions. Employees in temporary grant and time-limited positions may be eligible for all, some or none of these benefits as benefits are associated with each position type. For these positions, contact the hiring agency to determine what benefits may be available.
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Do you have a bachelor's degree and four years of professional experience working in communication, public relations, digital media, photography, videography, filmmaking, scriptwriting, editing, marketing, journalism or related field.
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Do you have experience using social media platforms, content management systems, digital analytics, and multimedia production tools?
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If yes, please share your experience using social media platforms, content management systems, digital analytics, and multimedia production tools.
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Do you have experience working with Microsoft 365, specifically SharePoint, Teams and OneDrive?
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Do you hold a valid drivers license and the ability to travel?
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If selected and offered this position, are you willing to accept a salary between $52,100 and $70,300?
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Are you a current employee or have ever been employed by the state of South Carolina?
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If yes" please provide details concerning your employment with the state of South Carolina. (Agency Name and Dates of Employment)
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If offered employment with SCVRD, would you plan to continue additional employment elsewhere?
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If yes, please provide details concerning the employment.
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Do you have a family member who is a current employee of SCVRD or do you reside in the same household with a current SCVRD employee?
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If you do have a family member who is a current employee of SCVRD or you reside in same household with a current SCVRD employee, please provide the name(s) of the employee(s).
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Pre-Employment request for Veteran Classification: South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department (SCVRD) is a Government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended by the Jobs for Veterans Act of 2002, 38 U.S.C. 4212 (VEVRAA), which requires SCVRD to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment: (1) disabled veterans; (2) recently separated veterans; (3) active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans; and (4) Armed Forces service medal veterans. These classifications are defined as follows: A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability. A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veterans discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service. An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense. An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985. Protected veterans may have additional rights under USERRA - the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act. In particular, if you were absent from employment in order to perform service in the uniformed service, you may be entitle
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Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability: Why are you being asked to complete this form? Because we do business with the government, we must reach out to, hire, and provide equal opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. To help us measure how well we are doing, we are asking you to tell us if you have a disability or if you ever had a disability. Completing this form is voluntary, but we hope that you will choose to fill it out. If you are applying for a job, any answer you give will be kept private and will not be used against you in any way. If you already work for us, your answer will not be used against you in any way. Because a person may become disabled at any time, we are required to ask all of our employees to update their information every five years. You may voluntarily self-identify as having a disability on this form without fear of any punishment because you did not identity as having a disability earlier. How do I know if I have a disability? You are considered to have a disability if you have a physical or mental impairment or medical condition that substantially limits a major life activity, or if you have a history or record of such an impairment or medical condition. Disabilities include, but are not limited to: •Blindness •Autism •Bipolar disorder •Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) •Deafness •Cerebral palsy •Major depression •Cancer •HIV/AIDS •Multiple sclerosis (MS) •Obsessive compulsive disorder •Diabetes •Schizophrenia •Missing limbs or partially missing limbs •Impairments requiring the use of a wheelchair •Epilepsy •Muscular dystrophy •Intellectual disability (previously) called mental retardation OMB Control Number 1250-005
Required Question
Employer State of South Carolina
Agency Vocational Rehabilitation Department Address 1410 Boston Avenue
West Columbia, South Carolina, 29170
Phone 803-896-6500
The language used in this document does not create an employment contract between the employee and the agency. This document does not create any contractual rights or entitlements. The agency reserves the right to revise the content of this document, in whole or in part. No promises or assurances, whether written or oral, which are contrary to or inconsistent with the terms of this paragraph create any contract of employment.