Marketing and Communications Specialist at Venture 2 Impact

Start Date: ASAP Location: Remote Wage: 700-850 USD/Month

Job Type: Full-time (37.5 hrs/week) HQ Hours: Atlantic Standard Time

Are you passionate about leveraging your marketing and communications skills to bridge the global digital divide?

Do you want to be a part of an organization disrupting the corporate employee engagement and nonprofit world? Join our team!

Venture 2 Impact is seeking a marketing and communications specialist to help us tell impact stories about our work, engage corporate partners and increase our brand awareness.

What You’ll Love Doing

• Developing marketing and promotional strategy and materials for a company or product, including brand management, advertising, and web and sales collateral 

• Overseeing branding, advertising, and promotional campaigns.

• Keeping informed of marketing strategies and trends

• Lead in preparation of long- and short-term marketing plans, budgets 

• Planning, developing, and directing multiple avenues of marketing strategies to drive sales

• Overseeing social media accounts and websites to engage existing customers and establish positive public relations

• Implementing search engine optimization (SEO) in online media

• Researching trends and new marketing opportunities, and brainstorming ideas

• Communicating and negotiating with ad agencies, employees, marketing staff, editors, and writers

• Addressing problems and troubleshooting campaigns

• Analyzing customer feedback and campaign performance

• Develop and edit communication materials like newsletters, blogs, press releases and similar marketing materials in order to promote Venture 2 Impact work, services and impact.

• Implement company’s communication plan in order to increase brand awareness.

• Develop overall communications strategy for the company

• Measure and analyze current communications efforts.

• Work with different departments to generate new ideas and innovative  strategies.

• Develop and manage relationships with key media players to secure and grow media online and offline coverage.

• Write press releases for local, national and international media.

• Amplify opportunities for positive Public Release.

• Ensure communications consistency among different stakeholders.

• Communicate brand values to both internal and external customers and stakeholders.

What Skills You’ll Need to Get the Job Done

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, public relations, economics or other relevant fields.

• 3-5 years of experience working in a similar role.

• Proven strong presentation and communication skills.

• Knowledge and understanding of communications practices, tools and techniques in social media.

• Knowledge of SGDs, ESG and nonprofit space is an asset

• Proactivity, self motivation and the ability to meet deadlines

• Creativity in developing relevant marketing content

• Highly developed project and time management skills

• Creative problem-solving skills

• Project and stakeholder management skills

• Strong organization and planning skills with great attention to detail

• A focus on curiosity and co-creation

• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills

• Commitment to excellent service for relevant stakeholders

• Focus on continuous improvement and optimization

• Ability to work independently in a remote, deliverable oriented environment

• Have experience volunteering would be considered an asset