The Communications team plays an integral role in connecting the mission, vision, and impact of the Commit Partnership directly with our key target audiences across the State of Texas.

This role will require a passionate, detailed oriented individual accustomed to a fast-paced environment. The Associate, Digital Marketing provides data-driven digital marketing planning, execution, and measurement for all Commit content engagement efforts including but not limited to social media, email marketing, and other digital channels. This role is responsible for the day-to-day implementation of Commit’s marketing programs and includes significant responsibility for measuring and reporting on the effectiveness of our engagement efforts.

 The ideal candidate should have experience developing digital marketing programs rooted in user behavior and 1st party data insights. They should be detail-oriented with an ability to maintain a view of the big picture. They should also be comfortable developing programs that span across email, social, and digital channels. The ideal candidate is insatiably curious about how to reach our target audiences and is comfortable bringing new ideas and recommendations to the table. 

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Digital Marketing Implementation: Own the development and execution of digital marketing campaigns for specific our identified target audiences based on our content calendar to include platform strategy, creative briefing, and performance/reporting insights
• Competitive Intelligence: Read voraciously and understand what is happening in education circles across the State of Texas. Use that context to help inform Commit’s content engagement strategy.
• Creative Briefing: Develop insightful creative briefs to provide focus and direction to developing creative program assets (email and social channel)
• Reporting Insights: Maintain regular analytics reporting on effectiveness of campaigns, and provide insight to Manager and Director on potential shifts in strategy
• Industry Immersion: Develop a deep understanding of the public education space and unique communication dynamics within the category
• Consumer Behavior: Develop a deep understanding of key audience engagement behavior and connect measurement analytics to larger communications strategy
• This role reports to the Manager, Communications and works closely with the entire communications team to collaboratively solve the communications challenges that face the organization.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Express complex ideas in conversation, presentation and prose
• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative input from multiple sources to generate insights
• Ability to think and act both strategically and tactically
• Excel at detail-oriented, hands-on tasks
• Collaborate cross-functionally in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Write insightful creative briefs and steward the creative process
• Originate and edit presentations to create excitement and sell ideas
• Comfortable operating in an ambiguous and dynamic environment

WHAT COMMIT IS LOOKING FOR:

While Commit has certain credential requirements, we are primarily looking a candidate with the potential to think deeply about how to connect great content with key audiences. The Commit Communications team is seeking someone special and that means:

Relationship- & Results-Oriented: You are more than a problem solver—you are a problem solver with a service mindset. When given a goal and the bar for success, you outline multiple ways to ring the bell, managing a project from end to end as you marshal the necessary people, information, and resources to get the job done.

Lead with Strengths; Grow with Intent: You know your strengths and how to put them to work for yourself and others. You openly acknowledge areas where you have room to grow and seek intentional development and mentorship to grow, learn, and lead.

 A Nerdy Passion for Detail and Organization: Friends joke that they can’t move even a pencil out of place on your desk without your noticing. Your keen attention to detail spots an error in a magazine article, and you can absolutely tell when someone switches fonts in the middle of a document. You’ve never met a project plan you didn’t love (unless it was thrown together haphazardly and fails to specify roles and responsibilities with time-bound milestones).

Equity Focused: The students we ultimately serve come from diverse backgrounds and experiences. You have a deep belief in the potential of all students (every child, every day, no excuses) and a commitment to do whatever it takes to expand educational opportunities. Furthermore, you approach the work with a perspective informed by experience in low-income communities and an understanding of the systemic challenges of poverty and racism.

REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

Associate’s Degree in English, Communications, Marketing, Public Relations or other related field or 2+ years of relevant experience.

2+ years of hands on digital marketing experience at an agency, consultancy or within a marketing department

Specific expertise in developing digital marketing programs

Initiated, managed and led the formation of deliverables such as: Personas, customer journeys, communication architectures, interactive/connection/touch-point plans, campaign plans, program strategies, etc.

Insight development from primary and secondary research, plus online communities, ethnography, traditional and web-based focus groups, social media monitoring, digital audits and digital behavioral data, and online/offline media measurement tools.

Hands-on experience with MailChimp, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn platforms, including paid advertising implementation on social channels.

LOCATION: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas

If a direct apply link is not included, interested candidates should visit WWW.COMMITPARTNERSHIP.ORG/CAREERS to apply. Inquiries regarding the position can be sent to CAREERS@COMMITPARTNERSHIP.ORG.

The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion, all employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.

THE COMMIT PARTNERSHIP DOES NOT SPONSOR VISAS OF ANY KIND.

ABOUT THE COMMIT PARTNERSHIP:

Founded in 2012, The Commit Partnership (“Commit” or “The Partnership”) has become the largest educational community-based collective impact organization in the U.S. as measured by either staff, by budget, or by total students supported (790,000+ ages 0 through 22). Encompassing 200+ partners across Dallas County, including almost every public school district, higher education entity and large foundation in the region, The Partnership also encompasses numerous independent private schools and public charter networks, businesses and educational non-profits. The Partnership’s overriding vision is relatively simple and straightforward: our community, working together, to ensure that all students receive an excellent and equitable education.

Over 100 different local, regional and national investors have supported the backbone to date. They include major foundations, high net worth philanthropists, and corporate partners, all of whom believe that investing in a dedicated backbone organization, armed with powerful data and the power to continually convene and align stakeholders, will lead to meaningful systems change as public and philanthropic funding streams align strategically behind what is needed to grow the number of students with a postsecondary degree or technical certificate.

While The Partnership’s geographic scope focus is Dallas County, it also supports statewide implementation of Texas House Bill 3 and similar efforts in Fort Worth/Tarrant County (350,000 K-12 students) and Houston/Harris County (~900,000 K-12 students). Collectively, these three regions educate 1 in 3 children in Texas and roughly 4% of the nation’s K-12 population. When aligned in the future by common data and goals, these regions could prove a powerful force behind aligned advocacy to alter state public funding streams and key policies benefiting students.