MacArthur Foundation
The Content Manager is an experienced, organized, project manager who will oversee the logistics of content creation and be responsible for supporting a team of communications officers in bringing communications and media relations plans to life; an entrepreneurial and collaborative colleague; and a results-oriented team player who gets things done.
Job Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Oversees and facilitates the creation of content, including e-mail campaigns, grantee stories, blogs, and evaluations and prepares them for distribution on the appropriate platform
- Shares oversight of quality control process for all web/digital production
- Facilitates the process of posting news releases, statements, blogs, and other content to the organization’s website
- Manages a shared repository of team documents and resources; archive project materials
- Creates and maintains the distribution of weekly and monthly content calendars
- Implements and maintains project management tool for content production and publication processes
- Produces or works with contract graphic designer on creation of designed materials for website and social media
- Manages and maintains photo/video archive for more than 35,000 existing assets and grows the archive over time
- Collaborates with Senior Associate and Social Media Associate on development of visual assets, experience with Adobe Express preferred
- Ensures all visual assets are optimized for accessibility
- Serves as Salesforce liaison for day-to-day Communications needs
- Serves as primary back-up on distribution e-mail campaigns and publishing web content
- Collaborates with Senior Associate on visual brand assets and launch of new website projects
- Handles other responsibilities and projects as assigned
Qualifications
- At least six-eight years of full-time experience working in strategic communications, preferably for social impact
- A track record of successful project management facilitating and executing comprehensive communications strategies, preferably in complex, multi-layered, intellectually charged work environments
- Experience working in or with the nonprofit sector and an understanding of the sector’s role in social change is preferred
- A strategic and creative thinker
- The ability to demonstrate grace under pressure while handling multiple competing demands and meeting tight deadlines
- Awareness and general understanding of social media tactics
- Demonstrated knowledge and implementation of AP style
- Significant experience writing and talking about social challenges and public issues in a style that respects their depth and complexity but is accessible to a well-educated, general audience
- An effective communicator and listener with superb organizational and interpersonal skills
- An agile, self-motivated, team player
This position is located in Chicago, IL.
Annual salary for this role will start at $95,000.