JACLYN KRIZANIC
Digital Designer & Content Creator
Contact
krizanicjaclyn@gmail.com
Education
B.A. in professional writing & minor in graphic design, Michigan State University
GPA: 3.93
Graduated with Honors
Skills
- Social media strategy and content planning tools | Later, Sprout, Emplifi
- Adobe Creative Suite | Photoshop, Premier Pro, Illustrator, InDesign
- Canva
- Web content development
- Copy editing
- Developmental editing
- Website & content management
- Layout design | social media, magazine, website
- Photo editing | Procreate, Adobe
- Social media analytics | SEO
- Video editing | Long and short form Adobe Premier Pro expert
- Website Development | HTML, CSS, accessibility, design
Viral Moments
- TikTok received over 1.5 million views, 500 comments, 228 thousand likes, and 900 followers in under two weeks
- TikTok with 152.3 thousand views, 80 comments, 9,774 likes, and 50 followers gained in under two weeks
Experience
Social Media Freelancer & Video Editor: Management, strategy and digital content focus
FREELANCE | working with clients JULY 2021- PRESENT
- Develop social media strategy based upon clients needs for organic or paid outreach
- Video editing with social-friendly focus | both long and short form content
- Schedule out social media posts and manage content calendar using management tools
- Create monthly metrics decks to showcase areas of improvement or needing assistance for better targeting future content
- Organically grow clients social presence from ground up with continual growth | ex. current artist client with over 780 subscribers on YouTube with a total watch time of 2.3K hours and over 580K channel views
- Write scripts for videos and voice overs
Social Media Designer
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | AUG 2022 – PRESENT
- Develop audience first media across all national brand social media platforms
- Photo and video editing for social content using Adobe Creative Suite
- Design content for tier 1 through tier 3 priorities per month Collaborate across multiple internal teams and business leads for content execution
- Increase brand awareness through earned and owned social content
- Leverage trends and internal resources to develop quick-turn content
Social Media Coordinator & Graphic Designer
IFAW Global | Oct. 2021 – June 2022
- Create captions and stories for social media content from IFAW’s projects, rescues, rehabilitation and release blog posts
- Help strategize social media posts for Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and YouTube Community
- Research trending topics and trends in conservation social spaces and generate ideas for future social media posts and graphics
- Experience as a brand voice by doing comment moderation across different global social media platforms
- Design graphics for @Ifawglobal’s social campaigns
- Lead and designed Earth Day’s tier 1 global campaign graphic for year 2022
Social Media Strategist
The Cube | Sept. 2020 – May 2021
- Managed The Cube’s Twitter account and created social media for daily postings
- Create social media campaigns that also coincide with the publication’s Instagram
- Increased social media following by over 20 followers in two weeks and more than 7 engagements on the first post I made
- Conduct analytic research to strategize the Twitter to reach an audience that will engage with tweets
Social Media Manager
The Current | Sept. 2020 – Present
- Schedule out social media posts to Twitter and Instagram
- Write captions and tweets promoting the newly released online exclusive articles through Hootsuite
Editor-In-Chief
The Current | Sept. 2020 – Present
- Responsible for checking over final edits in the article publishing process for the publication
- Head of website posting online exclusive articles
- Manager of editorial policies and production
Writer, Editor, and Website Manager
The Current | May 2020- Sept. 2020
- Write weekly articles about current news or media trends
- Developmental edit and copy edit other intern’s articles
- Manage The Current magazine’s online website by posting and scheduling articles weekly through HootSuite
Writer and Research Coordinator
Zpryme | Jun 2019- Aug 2019
- Data researcher and article writer for the energy consumer company
- Construct research reports
- Create data tables specialized in Excel for events
- Phone interviews with energy clients interested in the research surveys and reports
Involvement
- Member of Kappa Delta sorority
- Golden Key National Honor Society
- Phi Sigma Theta Honor Society
- The National Society of Collegiate Scholars