Marketing Associate, Marketing and Business Development; AA

Posted on January 29, 2019

You are mission driven and action oriented. You love to get involved, and work as part of a team to accomplish something great. Any job is your job if it helps the team succeed, and you thrive on variety. Today, you’re looking for a role where you can use those traits to make a real difference in the world by advancing the most important social issues facing humanity today.

Arabella seeks an up-and-coming marketing and communications professional with a deep interest in helping to advance our work across the social-impact sector. We seek a candidate who brings strong project management skills plus a marketing mindset that can help us continue to grow and expand.

Marketing Campaign Management (~50%)

Supporting the Head of Marketing and Communications, and in conjunction with other team members, the Marketing Associate will manage multiple projects, coordinating internal and external personnel and resources to drive execution of firmwide marketing activities.

• Campaign execution:
  Coordinate marketing campaigns and trackeffectiveness
• Digital marketing:
  Manage Arabella’s digital communications, social media, and website channels
• Conferences and events: Coordinate firmwide conference and event planning, participation, and follow up
• Partnership and membership management:
  Research optimal partners (content, channel, etc.) and support teams in developing engagement strategies and mutually beneficial partnership models
• Metrics:
  Track and share core marketing metrics that drive decision-making

Develop materials for use withinmarketing efforts, including:

• Website updates
• Email blasts and related peer-to-peer outreach
• Social media
• Collateral leave behinds and decks for use in business development
• SharePoint site and resources

Other Marketing / Client Development Activities (~10%)

• Conduct individual prospect and conference researchby request
• Perform firm-widetarget research and other market research
• Own information and logistics for firmwidesubscriptions,memberships,andaffiliations
• Monitorfirm-wide email boxesfor business development opportunities and contact updates
• Capture and document best practices related to marketing and sales effectiveness

• Undergraduate degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, or related field required
• At least 3 years’ experience, preferably with professional services marketing or fundraising
• Excellent writing, communication (both written and verbal) and follow-up skills
• Experience creating marketing collateral
• Experience with email marketing platforms
• Experience with Word Press and Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience with Salesforce and/or another CRM
• Ability to handle time-sensitive requests in a fast-paced environment

• Ability to provide excellent, including the ability to efficiently and independently address routine service matters, to suggest effective client-centered solutions when elevating challenges or concerns, and to understand how the team can operate to maintain high-quality service.
• The ability to complete complex tasks, to use a work plan to undertake projects, and to understand how those projects impact the client, team, and/or firm’s objectives
• The ability to understand stakeholders’ perspectives and circumstances, and to build and manage strong relationships that reflect that understanding.
• The ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and professionally, including the ability to adapt style, tone, and content to various audiences; to make technical information assessible to broader audiences; and to collaborate with others to produce strong written deliverables
• The ability to work cooperatively and inclusively with others to achieve shared goals, including knowing when and how to compromise, being willing to proactively help colleagues, and sharing knowledge in various mediums
• An enthusiasm for taking on stretch and development opportunities, including the ability to accept feedback and use it to improve performance
• The ability to take ownership and be creative and solutions-oriented when encountering challenges that don’t have obvious answers,…