Digital Media Coordinator, IL Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights - Hybrid (Chicago, IL)

 

Details

Job Type:Full Time

Education:High School Diploma Required

Experience Level:Mid-level

Salary:USD $45,000 - $55,000 / year

Salary to commensurate with experience and qualifications, plus generous benefits ICIRR is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer

Areas of Focus:Children & Youth, Civic Engagement, Community Development, Health & Medicine, Volunteering

Description

Specific responsibilities:

• Be a part of winning campaigns: Work with members of all ICIRR departments to develop and implement digital advocacy and storytelling tactics that drive our coalition’s campaigns toward victory. This will include managing our digital advocacy platform to publicize and help mobilize ICIRR events.

• Digital content creation and audience management: Develop, implement, manage and analyze new and alternative social media strategies and use creative, cutting-edge practices to grow our coalition’s visibility, traffic, and reach. In doing so, ensure that ICIRR has an integrated approach to all aspects of its digital presence. This includes tracking success through analyzing metrics and suggesting adjustments.

• Community outreach through digital platforms and tactics: This includes managing phone banks and text banks, assisting with digital ad buys, and responding to community members on Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or email. Work across departments to schedule and execute informational or advocacy live streams. Track website performance and ensure up-to-date content.

• Mass email and text message support: Calendar, write, and send action alerts by text and email to mobilize ICIRR’s membership and online base. Assist with fundraising and e-newsletter campaigns.

• Assist with media and press outreach: Assist with press activities, including press conferences, rapid response activities, writing press releases; pitching to the media; maintaining media lists; and conducting media monitoring.

• Additional responsibilities include: Photography at in-person events; light video editing; assistance with annual fundraising event; rapid response for breaking immigration news; supporting ICIRR members in their digital outreach. Considering event and rapid response work, availability on some nights and weekends may be necessary.

Job requirements:

• Experience: Minimum two years of experience in communications, social media, or community organizing. Examples include but are not limited to paid or volunteer work with political campaigns, community-based organizations, or college student organizations.

• Skills: Excellent writing, editing, proofreading and verbal communication skills. Strong analytical skills. Ability to speak and write in Spanish is a plus. Demonstrated project or program management is a plus. Team player who is willing to experiment and try new tactics to reach our audiences.

• Programs and platforms: Familiarity with social networking, content management systems, web development, database management, and/or community outreach strategies (including phone banking, text banking, or canvassing). Programs and platforms you would be using include but are not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, StreamYard, Canva, VAN, and Phone2Action.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree, preferably in English, creative writing, communications, marketing, or journalism. Organizing or community-based experience is accepted in lieu of formal education.

• Interests: Interest in immigration and refugee issues and understanding of Chicago and Illinois communities preferred.

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Marketing Coordinator, HR&A Advisors - New York, NY

Marketing Coordinator

HR&A Advisors

Professional Area: 

Real Estate Development

Experience: 

1-3 years

Phone: 

6466955317

Website: 

http://www.hraadvisors.com/contact/career-opportunities

Location: 

New York, NY

Position Description | HR&A New York seeks a Marketing Coordinator with at least 2 years of relevant work experience supporting a marketing team in a professional services firm. Candidates should be passionate about urban development, real estate, design, and public policy. The position involves significant collaboration with senior professionals to support them as they build their practice areas. This includes working with the Marketing Director and different senior members of the firm to identify and pursue business opportunities, and maintain HR&A’s standard of high quality workmanship. In addition to supporting the growth and business development of the New York office, the Marketing Coordinator will provide dedicated support to our Los Angeles, DC, and other new offices. Specific duties include:

• Supporting proposal efforts (RFP/RFQ)
• Maintaining and updating digital content
• Creating and maintaining marketing collateral
• Coordinating and standardizing firm’s marketing deliverables
• Generating press releases and e-blasts
• Maintaining the firm’s marketing database 
• Researching and identifying new business opportunities
• Supporting the growth of HR&A’s Los Angeles and DC office

Ideal candidates will have experience working in a fast-paced office environment; have demonstrated the capacity to multi-task, excellent analytical and quantitative skills; and be willing to commit to the position for two years.  

Experience Required | Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree, preferably with a concentration in marketing, communications, or PR, with a keen interest in urban planning and real estate economic development.  Candidate must possess excellent organizational and writing skills, as well as proficiency in Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Adobe Creative Suite, WordPress, and other basic design software. He/she should be a highly motivated independent thinker who can handle a fast-paced work environment with poise and maturity.  The ideal candidate will be interested in growing with the company.  Excellent attention to detail and organization skills are essential.

Salary | Competitive, based on qualifications and experience. HR&A provides a comprehensive benefits package including a full range of health benefits, retirement plan, and paid holidays.

Submission | Please send cover letter and resume as a single PDF document on the HR&A website at www.hraadvisors.com/contact/career-opportunities. Portfolio and/or writing samples are also encouraged. Your file must be named in the following format “LAST NAME.FIRST NAME.DATE.MARKETING.” Applications are due by June 26th, 2015. For more information, please visit www.hraadvisors.com or contact us at jobs@hraadvisors.com. Please do not call regarding this position.

Marketing Specialist, Opticos Design, Inc. - Berkeley, CA

Marketing Specialist 

Opticos Design, Inc.

Experience: 

3-5 years

Email: 

jobs-ms@opticosdesign.com

Website: 

http://www.opticosdesign.com

Location: 

Berkeley, CA

Are you passionate about walkable neighborhoods and sustainability, and looking to work at a firm with similar interests? Are you enthusiastic, self-motivated, and want to make an impact? You may be just the person we are looking for.

Opticos Design, Inc. is an award-winning urban design and architecture firm in Berkeley, California. We are a founding B Corporation, committed to a triple-bottom line of social, environmental and financial responsibility. 

The Marketing Specialist is responsible for promoting the Opticos mission through the coordination and oversight of all marketing efforts, including coordinating with outside marketing and design consultants, while being responsive to the goals of the Principals. The job entails responsibility for all things marketing and graphic design. The person filling this role must be self-motivated and able to prioritize among multiple responsibilities. This position primarily operates independently and requires an individual with both creative and strategic skills who likes to take a grassroots approach and do more with less. We’re looking for someone with passion for highlighting a values-based company and culture amongst its peers and greater global community. The ideal candidate will be a dedicated team player and great communicator who loves to engage in order to improve any process. This role is for someone able to see the vision, design and develop the communications, prioritize the implementation, work with all the players, and make it happen–with pizzazz!

Our baseline compensation for this position is $50,000 - $55,000, plus benefits as mentioned above.

Opticos Design, Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer.

Process to Apply

Please send a pdf resume and portfolio to jobs-ms@opticosdesign.com and address the following topics in a cover letter in the order described below (emails and cover letters that do not explicitly address the following questions will be dismissed without review).

1. What most excites you about our company? Be specific about at least two aspects.
2. What role have you held in the past that you sense is most similar to this the role described or what life experiences have you had that you sense have prepared you most for this role?
3. What challenges would you anticipate, if any, in taking this role?
4. Describe one thing you’ve learned about our organization while researching this opportunity.

Senior Associate, Research and Digital Media Urban Land Institute - Washington, D.C.

Senior Associate, Research and Digital Media

Urban Land Institute

April 28, 2015 

Professional Area: 

Housing

Real Estate Development

Other topics not covered above

Experience: 

3-5 years

Location: 

Washington, DC

Senior Associate, Research and Digital Media

About ULI
ULI – the Urban Land Institute is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit research and education organization supported by its members. Founded in 1936, the Institute has more than 34,000 members worldwide representing the entire spectrum of land use and real estate development disciplines working in private enterprise and public service.

Established in 2007 with a gift from longtime ULI member and former ULI chairman J. Ronald Terwilliger, the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing focuses on a broad range of housing issues, with an emphasis on expanding housing affordability to the full spectrum of buyers and renters in communities across the country. The center engages in a multifaceted program of work that includes research, publications, convenings, awards, and technical assistance. The center integrates ULI’s many housing efforts into a coherent program of work that furthers the development of mixed-income, mixed-use communities and the full spectrum of housing affordable to all—a critical aspect of the organization’s core mission of the “responsible use of land.” For more information on the Terwilliger Center for Housing, please visit http://uli.org/research/centers-initiatives/terwilliger-center-for-housing/. For more information on ULI, please visit www.uli.org.

The Senior Associate Role
Reporting to the Vice President, Housing the Senior Associate will assist in the Web portal management, event planning and coordination, awards program support and research and writing for the Terwilliger Center’s program of work.  The ideal candidate will have a passion for urban planning or comparable field, possess demonstrated excellence in writing and editing for a variety of platforms and experience in website management and updates.

The Senior Associate’s overall responsibility will include writing, program management, event coordination and relationship management. This includes updating the “How Housing Matters” Web portal and writing clear and actionable research for nonacademic audiences, assist with program development and execution coordination for the Center’s annual conference as well as for additional workshops, forums, and meetings. Additional responsibilities require the Senior Associate to coordinate with other departments, and effectively manage the application, marketing, and award processes for the Center’s annual housing awards program in addition to conducting research and writing, as needed, in support of the Center’s program of work.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with coursework in urban planning, public administration, urban policy, sociology, economics or comparable fields. 3 to 5 years of overall related experience, graduate education may substitute for experience.
• General knowledge of and passion for housing policy, urban planning or residential real estate development.
• Demonstrated excellence in writing and editing for research reports, newsletters and online publications.
• Experience in website management and updates, preferably using the WordPress platform. Knowledge of information visualization tools preferred.
• Experience in meeting planning and awards programs preferred.
• Professional oral and written communication and interpersonal skills to work with content partners, editorial advisors, internal and external ULI constituencies.
• Ability to initiate tasks and assume responsibility, and to work with minimal supervision in a fast-paced environment with a high-volume of work. Ability to prioritize tasks, to handle multiple tasks concurrently and completely, with responsible follow-through.
• Strong computer skills with proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, and Power Point).

To apply, please submit your letter of interest and resume to jobs@uli.org, subject line “Senior Associate, Research and Digital Media” For a full job description, please visit www.uli.org/about-uli/career-opportunities. No phone calls, please.  EOE/m/f/d/v