Project Manager, Communications and Marketing

About the role

Clean Power Alliance (CPA) is Southern California's locally operated not-for-profit default electricity provider for 38 communities within Los Angeles and Ventura counties and the 4th largest electricity provider in the State of California. We provide clean renewable energy at competitive rates to over three million residents and businesses through approximately one million customer accounts.

CPA is seeking a detail-oriented and highly motivated professional to join our team as a Project Manager, Communications and Marketing. This role will play a crucial role in overseeing and coordinating marketing initiatives and campaigns to drive brand awareness, support program enrollment, and grow understanding of CPA throughout the communities we serve.

Responsibilities

• Project Management: Develop and maintain marketing campaign plans, production schedules, creative and technical project deliverables, and workflow processes. Oversee marketing deliverables and coordinate campaign reporting for internal and external stakeholders. Manage project tracking systems and reporting related to metrics, budgets, contractor scopes of work, and deliverables to ensure compliance and timely achievement of project goals. Develop and refine operational processes, evaluate stakeholder and customer feedback, and implement improvements to enhance campaign performance and efficiency. Lead cross-functional coordination to ensure marketing initiatives progress efficiently, risks are addressed proactively, and deliverables are completed on schedule.
• Budget Management: Manage project budget(s) and participate in departmental annual budgeting activities including forecasting, allocation, and tracking. Manage the financial workflow for assigned integrated marketing projects, including coordinating estimates, routing approvals, tracking expenditures, and maintaining accurate budget projections. Monitor project burn rates, identify potential budget risks or variances, and proactively communicate adjustments needed to keep projects on track. Review vendor estimates against similar projects to ensure pricing is appropriate, consistent, and aligned with budget expectations.
• Vendor Management: Manage relationships with external vendors and agencies to support the successful execution of integrated marketing initiatives. Oversee vendor scopes of work, timelines, deliverables, and communication workflows to ensure alignment with creative briefs, brand standards, program visual identities, and communications guidelines, maintaining the highest quality throughout execution.
• Content Management: Oversee marketing workflows, campaign assets, and content management processes. Manage activities related to the ongoing development, enhancement, storage, and retention of content workflows within various applications (e.g., Wrike, SharePoint, Smartsheet). Serve as a subject matter expert and provide support and guidance to new team members and agency partners to ensure consistent, effective use of content. Foster cross-functional collaboration and accountability on projects being managed.
• Data Analytics: Manage the collection, analysis, and communication of campaign data to support project oversight and strategic planning. Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to develop data collection approaches and reporting frameworks that support the integrated marketing dashboard, including Program, Board and Committee reporting (e.g., quarterly board reports), internal program updates (e.g., bi-weekly program reporting), and decision-making.
• Strategic Analysis: Oversee the tracking and evaluation of campaign metrics. Develop and maintain reports, dashboards, and analyses that provide operational insights and recommendations to support project improvements. Analyze campaign outcomes and operational data to inform recommendations for improvements and support decision-making related to implementation activities and project effectiveness.
• Continuous Improvement: Create, enhance, document, and recommend continuous improvement initiatives across marketing campaign plans, production schedules, creative and technical project deliverables, and workflow processes. Responsible for issue resolution for active projects, schedules, project deliverables, and proposing solutions to leadership that enable the team to scale and improve.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality.
• Ability to fully own tasks and processes with minimal oversight.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities to meet deadlines and escalate key issues.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Comfortable presenting to senior leaders/officials and in public settings.
• Excellent organizational, scheduling, time management skills, and attention to detail.
• Experience with using data visualization tools and software (i.e., Tableau, Power BI) preferred.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree and at least 2 years of relevant experience.
• Integrated marketing project management experience (required).
• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, or related field (preferred).

Skills

• Demonstrate good judgment and integrity.
• High attention to detail with strong organizational skills.
• Communicate effectively, orally and in writing; ability to translate complex technical information into non-technical language.
• Strong work ethic and comfort taking initiative in a fast-paced environment.
• Work well on diverse teams and be highly collaborative.
• Ability to work at a desk and on a computer for prolonged periods.

Work Location

This position is eligible for either Hybrid or Remote options:

• Hybrid: Requires attendance in our Downtown Los Angeles office on a full-time basis 2-3 days per week on days determined by CPA, with work location on the remaining days either in office or remote. Includes a transportation allowance.
• Remote: Requires availability to attend full-time in-office days and/or field events within Los Angeles and Ventura Counties in accordance with the needs of the company that may start as early as 8:30am at least 2 days per week.

The Remote & Hybrid options require full-time in-person attendance at organization or team-wide events 3 times per year for 3-5 days per event. All staff are required to work during CPA's office hours Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:30pm PST.

Benefits

• Salary range: $90,743.24–$136,114.86, with exact compensation dependent on experience.
• Health care benefits.
• 401(k)-like match program.
• Paid vacation and sick leave.

This is not a civil service position; however, all CPA employees are required to submit a Statement of Economic Interests form (Form 700).