The Social Media Specialist for the Today in the Word devotional brand provides social media and strategic communications support for Today in the Word. This position interacts and collaborates with the Strategic Communications team along with the Chief Marketing Officer to deliver messages and strategies for Today in the Word’s social media brand awareness, engagement, and lead generation campaigns. This individual will administer all social media accounts for the Today in the Word brand. As a member of the Strategic Communications team, this individual contributes to the ideation for social media campaigns that integrate with websites, tailored landing pages, and annual/one-off marketing campaigns.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

• Collaborate with Social Media Manager, the Today in the Word team, and Videographer on writing, editing, and curating digital content that is timely, accurate and positively promotes and reinforces the Today in the Word brand.
• Manage social media calendars and content marketing efforts for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, and YouTube.
• Produce a variety of social media campaigns and initiatives involving concept development, creative design, execution, and analytics.
• Responsible for attributable follower and engagement growth on all major social media profiles and maintains consistent system of measurement for profile success, optimizing for greater impressions, reach, and engagement.
• Monitor, evaluate and report on social media activity and conversations, tracking trends, evaluating the performance of initiatives, and identifying threats and opportunities.
• Use research to support the Today in the Word team in recommending strategy to improve brand management and community engagement on social media.
• Know, practice, and enforce Moody Bible Institute’s Website and Public Relations Style Guide and serve as a creative member of the Strategic Communications Team.
• Ensure content alignment between digital and traditional media communications and maintain current skills and job knowledge through professional development opportunities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements

• Associate degree or relevant experience
• Passionate and knowledgeable about biblical studies and theology
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to think, plan and execute across multiple tasks with minimal supervision
• High level of attention to detail
• Ability to be organized in a fast-paced environment
• Strive to live a life consistent with biblical principles and demonstrate continued growth and spiritual development
• Authorized to work in the US legally without sponsorship

Preferred Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and experience with social media brand management
• Ability to measure and report on project goals and objectives
• Basic knowledge and experience working with Adobe Design Suite, Sprout Social, and Canva.

Work Environment/Conditions

Moody Bible Institute is a Christian-based Higher Education and Media Ministry. We exist to equip people with the Truth of God’s Word. If you are mission-minded, and have a servant’s heart, join us as we look to further impact the Kingdom of God.

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

This is a part-time position, working 28 hours per week, Monday through Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. We prefer this role to be a local hybrid position, requiring the individual to be on campus every Tuesday, with the possibility of needing to be on campus up to two additional days per week as needed. No travel is expected for this position.

Additional Information

Moody Bible Institute is a Christ-centered, multicultural community that values and seeks faculty and staff who are committed to diversity, work effectively with diverse populations, and engage others in ways that honor our rich cultural mosaic and biblical foundation. Candidates must align with MBI’s Christian identity. Employees are expected to sign a Statement of Faith and adhere to the Community Standards.

We comply with all applicable laws pertaining to nondiscrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, and any other applicable legally protected category. As a religious institution, we have the right to, and do, require that employees hold beliefs consistent with our Doctrinal Statement and conduct themselves in a manner consistent with our religious beliefs, as explained in our Community Standards.