Digital Media Technician

Kenai Peninsula College is seeking a full-time Digital Media Technician to help faculty create accessible course materials—everything from lecture videos and screencasts to accessible PDFs and online course documents. This position also serves as our primary accessibility technician, training and supporting staff in creating accessible digital content.

The Digital Media Technician is an entry level position. You’ll spend your day helping faculty record videos, troubleshoot microphones, fix captions, run accessibility audits on course materials, training faculty and staff on accessible document creation, and keeping our media spaces organized and welcoming. You'll work with cameras, OBS, Adobe Creative Cloud, accessibility tools like Blackboard Ally, and our learning management system to help instructors produce and remediate clear, accessible materials for online and hybrid courses.

We're looking for someone who enjoys both the tech and the people. You should be comfortable explaining how to set up a ring light to a nervous first-time recorder, running accessibility reports and training faculty or staff on remediation, doing light video editing (trimming clips, cleaning up audio, adding captions), and tracking accessibility compliance across the college. You'll troubleshoot everyday issues and provide training—but you won't be expected to solve everything alone; complex problems get escalated.

You'll thrive here if you're a curious learner who picks up new tools quickly, communicates clearly with diverse faculty and staff, and genuinely enjoys helping people teach well with technology. We're looking for someone welcoming, patient, and practical—committed to helping others create digital materials that are clear, inclusive, and accessible.

Helpful experience includes: OBS or screen capture tools, Adobe Creative Cloud, Blackboard or another LMS, and digital accessibility practices (WCAG 2.1 AA, captions, alt text, document structure). But if you're a fast learner with solid tech fundamentals and a service mindset, we'd love to hear from you.

Minimum Qualifications:

Associate’s Degree in a related field and one year experience in media design, OR an equivalent combination of training and experience.

Personal YouTube or other self-produced media projects may be counted as relevant experience. Current KPC students are encouraged to apply.

Position Details:

This position is located on the Kenai Peninsula College campus in Soldotna, Alaska. This is a full-time, term-funded, non-exempt staff position complete with both a competitive salary and full employee benefits package. UA provides a generous compensation package that includes retirement options, annual leave, 12 paid holidays per year, tuition waivers for employees and family members, and affordable medical, dental and vision care coverage. New hires will be placed on the UA Staff Salary Schedule, Grade 76, starting at $20.73 based on education and experience.

We review applications on a rolling basis. Because we may close the posting once a sufficient pool of qualified candidates is established, we encourage early submission. Please note that once a viable pool is identified, further applications may not be reviewed. 

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This is a term-funded position reviewed annually for contract renewal at the University's discretion.

☎️If you have any questions regarding this position, please contact Katy Koetitz, KPC HR Coordinator, at kmkoetitz@alask.edu or 907-262-0317.

*To be eligible for this position, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.  Applicants who now or may in the future require visa sponsorship to work in the United States are not eligible.

The University of Alaska (UA) is responsible for providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities throughout the applicant screening process. If you need assistance in completing this application or during any phase of the interview process, please contact the ADA team at ua-ada@alaska.edu.

The University of Alaska (www.alaska.edu) is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access Employer and Educational Institution.  The University is committed to a policy of non-discrimination (www.alaska.edu/nondiscrimination) against individuals on the basis of any legally protected status.

The successful applicant is required to complete a background check. Any offer of employment is contingent on the background check.

Your application for employment with the University of Alaska is subject to public disclosure under the Alaska Public Records Act.

All employees at the University of Alaska are expected to uphold the highest standards of ethics and professionalism when conducting or engaged in university business.

*Each university within the University of Alaska system publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report which contains information regarding campus safety and security including topics such as: campus law enforcement authority; crime reporting policies; campus alerts (Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications); fire safety policies and procedures; programs to prevent dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking; the procedures the University will follow when one of these crimes is reported; and other matters of importance related to security on campus. The report also contains information about crime statistics for the three most recent calendar years concerning reported crimes that occurred on campus; in On-Campus Student Housing Facilities; in Noncampus buildings or property owned or controlled by the University or a recognized student organization; and on public property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from, the campus.  The report also contains fire statistics for any fires occurring in an On-Campus Student Housing Facility during the three most recent calendar years.  

Access to the reports is available at:

UAA: (Addresses Anchorage campus, Aviation Technology Complex, JBER - Elmendorf Extension, JBER - Richardson Extension, Kenai Peninsula College - Kachemak Bay campus, Kenai Peninsula College - Kenai River campus, Kodiak College, Kodiak High School Extension, Matanuska-Susitna College, Prince William Sound College, and Prince William Sound College - Cordova Extension) Online: https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/students/safety. Request a paper copy in person: UAA Police Department Office at Room 114 of Eugene Short Hall on the Anchorage campus / UAA Dean of Students Office at Room 122 of Rasmuson Hall on the Anchorage campus. Request a paper copy by mail: 907-786-1120 or police@uaa.alaska.edu / 907-786-1214 or uaa_deanofstudents@alaska.edu. 

UAF: (Addresses Fairbanks Campus, Bristol Bay Campus, Chukchi Campus, Community and Technical College, Kasitsna Bay Campus, Seward Marine Center, Tok Campus, Kuskokwim Campus, and Northwest Campus) Online: https://www.uaf.edu/orca/files/ASFSR.pdf. Request a paper copy in person: UAF Office of Rights, Compliance and Accountability on the 3rd Floor of Constitution Hall. Request a paper copy by mail: 907-474-7300 or uaf-orca@alaska.edu.

UAS: (Addresses the Juneau Auke Bay Campus, Juneau Technical Education Center, Sitka Campus, & Ketchikan Campus) Online:  https://uas.alaska.edu/compliance/clery-act/annual-security-reports.html. Request a paper copy in person: Hendrickson Building, Suite 202 on the Juneau campus. Request a paper copy by mail: 907-796-6371 or emailing  uas.orca@alaska.edu.