August Ryan
Biography:
Work Experience: 8.1 years
Work Experience:
I am a communications professional driving creative multimedia, multi-channel storytelling, as well as managing the strategic and technical aspects of web and social media management. Detail-oriented and a lifelong learner, I am just as excited to dive into analytics or emerging best practices as I am to apply creative thinking to campaign planning, visual content creation, or the writing process for a feature story. I am passionate about applying my skills to organizations founded on building stronger communities, with commitments to diversity and service to others.
Work history:
Job Title: Web content specialist
Company: St. Andrew's School
Period: January 2025 - present
Role Description:● Creates brand-aligned content for school social media, email newsletters, web stories, and magazine features;
● Manages publication deadlines across platforms, ensuring timely sharing of mission-driven communications;
● Collaborates with teammates to strategically share the school’s narrative, vision, and values with varied audiences;
● Generates, curates, and edits photo and video content to support written messaging;
● Supports Admissions, Advancement, in sharing institutional storytelling that drives highly specific engagement;
● Balances recurring or long-term projects with day-to-day and ad-hoc responsibilities;
● Manages website content to ensure complete, accurate, and up-to-date information (Finalsite CMS);
● Project manages social media posting, web updates, and all mass email;
● Copyedits and proofreads speeches, policy documents, and other internal and external communications materials;
● Hones knowledge of digital marketing best practices, technologies, and tactics to help determine strategy;
● Uses analytics in determining the effectiveness of current practices and fine-tuning communications strategy.
Job Title: Web content writer
Company: Drexel University College of Medicine
Period: March 2020 - January 2025
Role Description:● Showcased educational and patient-care value of the College and its medical offices with cross-platform content;
● Managed deadlines, edited multimedia for three to five departmental content creators per semester;
● Built relationships with doctors, faculty, current students, and alumni to support strong institutional storytelling;
● Developed expertise in tailoring communications to stakeholders’ goals, audience interest, and best practices;
● Audited and updated web content for AP Style alignment, informational accuracy, and optimal user experience;
● Produced written and visual social content, web and print writing, and co-produced 10+ podcast episodes.
Job Title: Public relations associate
Company: Philabundance
Period: March 2019 - February 2020
Role Description:● Collaboratively shaped the narrative voice and communications strategy for a large Philadelphia food bank;
● Managed major outlets’ media presence at medium- to large-scale events (including Good Morning America);
● Secured news coverage with press releases, cold calls/emails, and relationship- and trust-building with reporters;
● Analyzed data on news coverage and social media response to inform communications priorities;
● Showed the organization’s mission and its value in CEO speeches, press releases, and multi-platform storytelling.
Job Title: Education and general assignment reporter
Company: The Burlington County Times
Period: March 2018
Role Description:● Managed deadlines to publish 2-3 high-quality daily news stories as an education and general assignment reporter;
● Developed subject-matter expertise with AP Style;
● Balanced multiple projects, including ongoing education series and “all-hands” tight-deadline general news;
● Connected with community needs via face-to-face communication and social listening.
Job Title: General assignment reporting intern
Company: The Burlington County Times
Period: June 2015 - August 2017
Trainings, Certifications and Licences:
- Second-place winner, enterprise reporting with community impact, New Jersey Press Association 2017 for investigative project
● Completed three summer internships as a full-fledged member of the newsroom, contributing at least one story per day over 8 to 10 weeks of full-time work;
'● Project-managed an in-depth, multimedia investigative reporting project during my 2017 internship;
● Delivered original reporting and 3 podcast episodes, contributed to photo and video content creation for 2017 story;
● Honed organizational, trust-building, and storytelling skills with a longform project on county jails in 2016;
● Managed daily deadlines while generating standard-length weekly news articles as well as these 2017 and 2016 longform projects.
Education:
University of Delaware
Bachelor's Degree – Mass communications
Period: September 2014 - December 2017
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