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Manager, Marketing & Communications

StoryCorps

Job Title: Manager, Marketing & Communications
Department: Marketing & Communications
Division: Finance & Administration
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Reports to: Director, Finance & Administration
Status: Full-time Regular, Exempt

Position Overview

The Manager, Marketing and Communications works directly with StoryCorps’ Executive Team, management, and other departments to develop and expand the StoryCorps brand and market the organization’s programs, products, and services.

The Manager will lead a fast-paced, creative, and highly collaborative team that creates marketing collateral, promotes StoryCorps to media outlets, and manages StoryCorps’ two websites – storycorps.org and nationaldayoflistening.org. A successful marketing function is critical to StoryCorps’ ambitious long-term vision: to touch the lives of every American family.

The Manager reports to the Director of Finance and Administration and supervises the Marketing and Communications staff and interns. This position may include occasional national travel.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

* Develop and implement a comprehensive marketing and communications strategy for the organization that includes targeted outreach to diverse communities;
* Set department goals that help support the marketing and communications goals of departments across the organization;
* Supervise the development and implementation of all StoryCorps print and digital marketing collateral, ensuring their quality and consistency;
* Work with senior leadership to reinforce an organizational brand identity;
* Direct the organization’s media relations efforts and strategies to raise StoryCorps’ visibility;
* Manage regular communications with key media contacts and cultivate new media contacts, with support from the Senior Coordinator, Communications;
* Manage and direct annual National Day of Listening media campaign, working with internal and external partners to coordinate successful, measurable media hits and placements;
* Supervise the writing of press releases, media advisories, and online promotional campaigns;
* Manage the coordination of media events for all StoryCorps products, services, and broadcasts;
* Manage the promotion of StoryCorps’ books through various media channels and promotional events;
* Create and implement an effective online communications strategy using various communications channels, including storycorps.org, blogs, and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter;
* Function as primary contact across the organization for issues related to marketing and communications;
* Supervise and assess performance of Marketing and Communications staff;
* Prepare regular reports on Marketing and Communications Department activities for StoryCorps’ Executive Team and interdepartmental staff.

Knowledge, Skills & Qualifications

Required

* Bachelor’s or Associate’s Degree;
* At least 8 years experience in marketing and/or communications, at an organization of national scope;
* Demonstrated experience in developing marketing and communications strategies, managing those strategies, and producing results;
* Proven ability as an effective leader, with strong team-building, conflict negotiation, and collaboration skills;
* Experience providing staff supervision and evaluation;
* Experience working directly with members of the press as an organizational spokesperson;
* Exceptional interpersonal, communication, and public speaking skills;
* Solid organizational and writing skills, with strong attention to detail;
* Ability to be flexible and adaptable in order to contribute to problem-solving activities within a growing, changing organization;
* Proficient with Microsoft Office.

Preferred

* Master’s Degree;
* Bilingual English/Spanish;
* Experience coordinating media events;
* Working knowledge of social networking technologies and marketing strategies;
* Proficiency on a Mac platform.

To apply, please send cover letter and resume to employment@storycorps.org and include your last name and “Manager, Marketing & Communications” in the subject line. Include the documents as attachments entitled “YourNameLetter” and “YourNameResume.” In your cover letter, please tell us how you found out about this opportunity and whether you have applied for a position at StoryCorps in the past. Resumes will not be reviewed unless salary requirements are included in your cover letter. No calls please.

StoryCorps seeks to hire staff who reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

All positions at StoryCorps are filled without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, HIV/AIDS status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. All are encouraged to apply.

Send application materials to:

Human Resources Dept.
80 Hanson Pl, 2nd Fl
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Email
employment@storycorps.org

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