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Marketing Specialist

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Irvine, CA, United States
Full-time

Assists and reports to the Director of Marketing to help build a strong brand image within the community. Ensures effective management of marketing, advertising and promotional activities of the organization. Cultivate relationships with both print and electronic media as well as vendors. Work independently and with consultants to prepare communication tools. Works with Senior Manager, Digital Marketing to support digital marketing projects.

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Manage the production of marketing projects by working closely with designers, production artists and vendors
  • Responsible for managing and driving projects to on-time completion, and communicating changes to project timelines/scope/budget as appropriate
  • Manage the marketing project traffic calendars
  • Implement media planning and place advertising buys
  • Manage production schedules
  • Create media & advertising reports
  • Ensure brand consistency. Be the gate keeper of our visual identity.
  • Schedule and manage photography and video projects
  • Liaison with media team and advertising reps to ensure placements
  • Work with event leads to fulfill promotional activities, displays, signage and media  assets to ensure branding, messaging and engagement 
Educational Background: 
Bachelor's Degree
Skills/Experience: 

Requirements

  • Attention to detail with an eye for “excellence” (seriously, if attention to detail does not come naturally to you, this position is not the best fit)
  • Highly organized
  • Ability to work within tight deadlines, adjust to new priorities and balance short-term needs with long-term strategic initiatives
  • Excellent written and oral communication, multi-tasking, and problem solving skills
  • 5+ years of project management experience with a proven track record of success completing marketing print and digital projects.
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams including marketing, designer, media, print vendors
  • Experience with Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
  • Experience in email marketing a plus
  • Experience with basic HTML and Adobe Creative suite a plus
  • Experience with social media management and basic video editing a plus

And Personal Excellence

  • React well under pressure
  • Treat others with respect
  • Responsible for own actions
  • Follow through on commitments
  • Ability to work independently and proactively

Physical Demands

  • These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the position.  The employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use their hands and fingers to handle or feel. The employee is required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb, balance, twist, lean, move from one location to another and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Vision abilities required by this job include close vision. Ability to, operate a computer keyboard, and lift files and reports. Exposure to glare from a computer. There will be evenings and weekends required of this position.  The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.

Organization Info

United Way Worldwide

Overview
Headquarters: 
Alexandria, VA, United States
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1934
About Us
Mission: 

United Way improves lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good.

United Way fights for the health, education and financial stability of every person in every community. We win by living United. By forging unlikely partnerships. By finding new solutions to old problems. By mobilizing the best resources. And by inspiring individuals to join the fight against their community's most daunting social crises.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Sep 22 2017
Active Until: 
Oct 22 2017
Hiring Organization: 
United Way Worldwide
industry: 
Nonprofit