MarComms Project Manager

Start Date: Immediate

Role Type: Full-time employee

Location: Flexible -- Fully remote/virtual team

Travel: Flexible; willingness to travel approximately once a month for 1-2 days, ~10% travel

Who We Are

Transcend's mission is to support communities to create and spread extraordinary, equitable learning environments. Founded in 2015, Transcend has partnered with over 390 schools/partners which collectively serve thousands of students in over 30 states across the country. As a research and development (R&D) hub for the education field, Transcend provides schools and systems with research-backed, community-driven models and capacity so they can make significant leaps to reimagine the future of education. Transcend is a nonprofit that operates with a fully remote, nationwide team; currently with 120 teammates and growing. For more information, visit our website; follow us on LinkedIn, check out this podcast featuring our two co-founders on Class Disrupted, or read this recent article that illuminates the need for this work.

The Opportunity

As Transcend's MarComms Project Manager, you'll have the exciting opportunity to project manage and coordinate the operations for Transcend's MarComms work, supporting deeper integration within our work with school partners and more efficient, data-driven, and responsive storytelling. To do this, you'll be charged with coordinating, project managing, and executing Transcend's marketing communication efforts across a variety of channels (newsletters, website, social media, branding, media relations, conferences, and video) and doing so in deep collaboration with teammates and teams across the organization.

Reporting to Divya Mani, Managing Director, External Affairs, you'll work closely with our Digital Marketing Manager, Abby Callard, and our Communications Manager, Ana Vargas. Together, the team will work to capture, organize, and amplify the inspiring stories and insights from our work, both within Transcend and with external partners.

As the MarComms Project Manager, you will steward the following projects:

Project Management and Coordination (40%):

• Lead project and content management for key campaigns and projects, including coordinating with internal teams and external partners to source, review, and approve content.
• Support media relations, media tracking, and Comms-to-Comms efforts
• Own internal requests for MarComms support and ensure requests get routed to the correct marketing and communications team member.
• Lead knowledge management for the MarComms team using Google Drive and Notion.
  
  

Community and Email Management (40%):

• Manage engagement with our Transcend Community via LinkedIn, email newsletters, and jobs board
• Project manage production cycles for ~10 targeted newsletters each month (e.g. establish all monthly production schedules and curate content menu including resources/opportunities from external partners).
• Project manage internal project communication with related team members including lead writers, editorial reviewers, and copy editors to ensure deliverable deadlines are met and the production process stays on track.
• Coordinate the publication of newsletters and e-blasts including final copy proofing, building individual campaigns in Mailchimp, conducting email tests, and successful publication delivery.
  
  

Analytics (10%):

• Gather and help analyze data for monthly digital marketing reports and ongoing monitoring/tracking of specific marketing and communications campaigns
• Track and monitor key engagement metrics and trends for newsletters and LinkedIn
  
  

Click here to learn more about the role from Divya Mani (hiring manager)!

Who You Are

You are a dynamic professional who thrives on cross-functional collaboration and innovative problem-solving. You love coordinating with multiple teams, teammates, and creating the systems that allow for work to beautifully and efficiently come together. With your strong project management skills and creative thinking, you excel at managing multiple processes and meeting tight deadlines while consistently improving workflows. You are a good writer, with a solid foundation in marketing principles and an emerging ability to analyze data to inform strategy. Your commitment to ethical storytelling and collaborative spirit make you a valuable team player in the nonprofit sector. You're adept at leveraging various software tools, from the Google Suite to Canva to project management tools like Asana, to organize work and bring your ideas to life. You thrive on managing complex projects and have a proven track record of leading teams to successful outcomes. Your approachability, responsiveness, flexibility, curiosity, and respect for diverse perspectives make you an ideal fit for this role. You're excited to contribute your skills to special projects and continue growing in a dynamic, mission-driven environment.

Lastly, you love that your everyday work is in service to a mission that truly matters. You deeply believe in the power of education to change lives and elevate the voices that have been marginalized for too long, and can't wait to contribute your love of all things research and smooth operations to help communities make radical changes to reinvent schools in America.

To all of this, you bring:

• A commitment to Transcend's mission of transforming education, with a passion for creating extraordinary and equitable learning environments.
• A commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in your approach to data collection and analysis.
• A willingness to travel up to 10% of the time to represent Transcend at events and visit partners, when it is safe to do so.
• Eagerness to embrace and live into Transcend's core values.
• An orientation of flexibility and collaboration in an environment of ambiguity, resource constraints, and shifts in priorities and needs.
• A strong detail orientation, and skills to manage all details and support effective execution and impeccable follow-through.
• Outstanding project management and organizational skills that allow you to gather and organize multiple work streams and logistics efficiently. You can keep many people on task and on track while preserving a positive and strong collaborative vibe!
• Strong personal org systems for the remote work environment.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, allow you to convey complex ideas and information effectively and bring a detailed copyediting eye to ensure messages are polished.
• A passion for storytelling and a creative mindset that enables you to develop innovative and engaging content for different audiences and platforms (social media, email, etc.)
  
  

Perks and Benefits

Transcend is committed to providing our colleagues with a competitive benefits package. Transcend offers medical, dental and vision coverage options, org-wide holidays, paid time off, paid parental leave, professional development opportunities, and fully remote work. We're also proud of our values-grounded, equity-focused, and fun (!) work environment, incredible colleagues, and dedication to our purposeful work and to one another.

Join Us!

Transcend is an equal opportunity employer. We are building a diverse team that values diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we encourage candidates from historically underrepresented groups to apply.