National Public Media (NPM) is the media sales division of NPR and PBS. As the sponsorship sales team for national and regional offerings on NPR and PBS stations and digital assets, National Public Media offers the best public media sponsorship opportunities. Sponsorship offerings include flagship news programs like Morning Edition®. We work with companies across categories with a range of objectives — from financial services to home improvement, national branding to regional retail — to create sponsorships that perform. Learn more at http://nationalpublicmedia.com/
This is a contract Project Coordinator position to support NPM’s Sponsorship Product Team. You will ensure that team members are on-track to deliver on deadline to our clients and assist with coordination across the many departments that touch sponsorship product development.
Time Frame: June 18 – Nov 2 (20 weeks)
The Sponsorship Product Team is responsible for both building and maintaining NPR’s digital sponsorship product offerings and creating custom creative executions for our clients. This team manages multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously and we are looking for a contract Project Coordinator that can help us stay on track.
The type of person we are looking for is:
- Extremely organized. A person who loves nothing more than checking things off a list, gets excited about things like color-coding, and makes packing spreadsheets for vacations.
- Able to stay positive and focused in a world of constant potential distractions, but to be patient with those of us with short attention spans.
- Kind and respectful to others, but not afraid to voice an opinion.
- Coordinates the details of our custom creative executions. This includes keeping track of all deadlines and deliverables, ensuring the design team has all necessary assets and launching custom creative campaigns on our various digital platforms.
- Compiles and disseminates resources for intra-departmental communications. When team members need information or assets we'll look to you to know where resources live, and help to collect and distribute them.
- Manages our metrics reports for clients. Custom campaign performance indicators need to be sent to clients regularly. You'll make sure metrics spreadsheets are accurate and updated in a timely fashion.
- Assists with quality assurance testing. You will help coordinate and participate in testing our products and reporting bugs to the correct people.
- Assist with scheduling meetings and documentation requirements as determined by the Project Manager.
- 2 years of experience coordinating projects
- Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly to stakeholders
- Comfortable managing multiple deadlines and projects simultaneously
- Able to understand and communicate about technology
- Capable on Microsoft Office (particularly Excel)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working in a technology environment
- Familiarity with project management and issue tracking software like Jira, Confluence, Basecamp, etc.