Marketing Specialist

About the role

All God's Children International is actively seeking a dedicated individual to serve as our Marketing Specialist. The Marketing Specialist will provide and support critical communications for the organization. This position will serve as a project coordinator and provide support for the Marketing Department’s projects and initiatives. The Marketing Specialist must have exceptional writing skills and have a good eye for design. The ideal candidate must also exhibit strong project and time management skills, take initiative, prioritize and manage multiple projects, and communicate professionally and compassionately.

Responsibilities

• Event Management: Plan and execute large-scale fundraisers/galas and provide support for additional events, collaborating closely with third-party vendors and the Advancement team to ensure seamless event delivery
• Copywriting: Write content; ensure voice, quality of content, and communications are consistent with the organization’s message and voice
• Website Management: Execute website requests, build pages, and manage edits
• Uphold Branding: Ensure that brand guidelines are adhered to in all marketing materials
• Design: Utilize graphic design capabilities to maintain and create supporting documents with programs such as InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator
• Email Marketing: Create and track email campaigns; monitor performance metrics and support ongoing optimization
• Project Management: Juggle projects with competing deadlines from multiple departments
• Print & Production Coordination: Coordinate the printing/production of collateral materials
• Operational Support: Assist the Director of Marketing and support the marketing team with ongoing initiatives; execute day-to-day marketing tasks and coordinate marketing projects and tasks as requested
• Cross-Department Collaboration: Work collaboratively with all the departments to coordinate and execute tasks aligned with AGCI’s strategic plan

This position does not have supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements

• Education and Experience: Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university with a major in Marketing, Communications, English, or a related field; plus, two or more years of related experience in the Marketing Field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Communication Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business correspondence, reports, and inquiries. Ability to write error-free business correspondence, reports, and presentation materials. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from supervisors, donors/sponsors, clients, vendors, organization partners, and the general public.
• Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Calculates currency conversion, discounts, and interest, when needed.
• Computer and Technical Skills: The job requires advanced basic computer skills, including logging on to systems, word processing, spreadsheet, report writing, project management, presentation creation/editing, database, the use of the internet, and communication by e-mail. Requires knowledge of and use of Software Systems.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to work with and protect extremely confidential files and information, and have the appropriate discernment regarding handling issues of varying complexity and sensitivity. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions, and can deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables. Has the discretion to weigh the levity of an issue and pass it along to the appropriate party/leader within the organization, as needed.
• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Must possess a valid driver’s license and the ability to supply appropriate documentation/identification to travel authorities when traveling domestically and internationally.
• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, or hike, use stairways to climb to multiple floors within office buildings, use hands and fingers to keyboard or dial, reach with hands and arms, and see, smell, talk, or hear. The employee must have the ability to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, especially while traveling. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close and distance vision, the ability to distinguish colors, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus, especially with frequent computer use. Strong physical fitness will be required to be successful in this job.
• Work Environment: The work environment while traveling domestically or internationally could contain several environmental factors, including, but not limited to: outdoor weather conditions (extreme hot/cold), work in countries with a high incidence of illness/disease or poor living conditions of its inhabitants, political unrest/danger, and physical obstacles and/or hazards. The