Graphic Design and Marketing Coordinator

Job Type: Full-Time, Salaried, In-Person

Location: Iowa City (Wilson's Orchard & Farm)

Summary Wilson’s Orchard & Farm is a farm, food, and beverage company. Established in 1980, we are a family-owned, team oriented company with a mission to help develop local, regenerative, and ethical farm, food, and beverage systems. In this role, you will be expected to create high quality content and effectively distribute it to our various marketing channels. You will also be responsible for online communication with customers. We are a rapidly growing business and candidates who perform at a high level will have opportunities for advancement.

Responsibilities

• Create high quality text, video, photo, and graphic design content for distribution to our website, social/online media accounts, as well as email and text messaging platforms.
• Create high quality designs for product packaging, merchandise, apparel, and other important customer-facing applications.
• Curate third party content, and repost user generated content.
• Effectively distribute content to our marketing channels; manage multiple calendars to schedule and coordinate content distribution.
• Manage all online customer communications, including but not limited to email and online/social media.
• Other day to day operations for multiple social/online media accounts.
• Ensure that key online/social media metrics and standards are met or exceeded.
• Act as a brand ambassador- you should have a passion for our mission to improve farm, food and beverage systems, you should study and be aware of the key issues and opportunities in these areas.
• Work effectively within cross functional teams to ensure that projects are completed on time and that company wide objectives are met.
• Establish and maintain best in class customer experience and customer service.
• Develop in-depth knowledge of all of our products.
• We are a fast growing company, from time to time you will be expected to perform tasks outside your core areas of responsibility.

Qualifications

*You will be required to submit a design portfolio in order to be considered for this position, ideally include it in your really application, or email it to info (at) wilsonsfarm (dot) com.

• Excellent graphic design aptitude, an eye for the aesthetics, able to understand and adhere to brand standards.
• Must be fully literate and capable at using the Adobe Creative Suite, especially In-Design and Illustrator.
• Comprehensive knowledge of and experience working with the major online media platforms, including: search, social, video, review, etc.
• Relevant social media marketing experience and a good understanding of marketing.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Highly productive, good time management, must be able to multi-task and perform well in a fast-paced environment.
• Team oriented but also must have a very high level of self-motivation and be able to efficiently work on projects/tasks by yourself.
• Entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for our mission of local, sustainable, and ethical food and farm systems.
• Do not need to have a college or university degree; however, do need to have a positive attitude, willingness to learn, and an outstanding work ethic.
• Videography and/or video editing skills/experience would be a plus, but not required. This will only be considered if there are multiple candidates who score highly on all other qualifications.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $40,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Weekends as needed

Work Location: In person

Salary : $40,000