Marketing Associate (Virtual/Remote)

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The Marketing Associate supports editorial and design content creation. This position requires close collaboration with the Marketing, Admin, Social Media, Blogging, Grants and Website teams to leverage content that will raise the visibility of School Group with key audiences, specifically donors and volunteers.

Responsibilities:

• Leverage content created by marketing and maximize the reach of the foundation's platforms with key audiences; assist with social media campaigns and event promotion and raising awareness of the foundation

• Coordinate and assist with various marketing strategies and work with events staff on content creation

• Write blog posts, newsletter articles both internal (for our volunteers) and external (for our supporters), and press releases to tell the stories of our work and the impact of donor/volunteer engagement

• Identify, recommend, and implement emerging methods of digital advertising and customer communications

• Assist with tracking and monitoring School Group media coverage

• Proactively search for new ways to disseminate School Group content in the digital space

• Develop and contribute to Marketing, Communications and PR Plans.

• Define needs for and execute production of advertisements, flyers and placement of promotion materials

• Engage / enable public relations

Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Bachelor's Degree in marketing, digital marketing, PR, or other closely related field or comparable work experience

• Experience in a marketing position with proven success in designing and executing effective digital marketing campaigns

• Demonstrates initiative and ability to think across multiple channels in an integrated and creative manner and proactively develop the digital portion of marketing and communications campaigns

• Experience creating various types of content - posts, emails, newsletters, website, landing pages, calls-to-action, etc.

• Strong writing and editing skills; appreciates the power of good storytelling and visuals with an eye toward design

• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team and multitask effectively in a fast-paced environment

• Tenacity in learning new skills, identifying solutions, and resolving issues

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and ability to interact with volunteer staff at all levels

Skills Required:

• Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and Google Suite

• Slack, Trello, Jira, Salesforce

• Wordpress, Wix, HTML, Adobe Suite (including InDesign and Photoshop)

• Social Media Tools: HootSuite, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn

• Ability to leverage social media to help us achieve campaign success

• Excellent organization, follow through and self management skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Team Player. Takes direction and initiates ideas.

Supervisory Responsibility

Not Applicable

Why Volunteer With Us?

We are a community of people from different parts of the world who share a common belief in improving education which will eventually reduce poverty and improve the quality of life and living conditions globally. Volunteering with us will enable you to build your resume and gain invaluable experience in a supportive environment.

● In USA, School Group is a Certifying Organization, offering the Presidential Volunteer Service Award (PVSA) to eligible volunteers.

● School Group will provide a letter of recommendation to all volunteers who are able to showcase outstanding performance for professional references.

Other information

This is a volunteer position. There will be no financial compensation. Our organization is 100% volunteer run. We welcome volunteers located anywhere in the world, as long as they can connect reliably to the Internet.

To apply: Please email your resume to apply@schoolgroup.org. We would love to hear from you!