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Communications Coordinator

FoodCorps

Communications Coordinator

New York, NY
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    What We’re Looking For:

    FoodCorps seeks a highly motivated self-starter who will support the communications team in implementing external communications across all channels: email, social media, website and print. The ideal candidate is creative yet detail oriented, lives and breathes marketing, communications, digital strategy, websites, and social media. The Communications Coordinator will be involved in a wide range of communications-related work but will focus primarily on social media and the website and the identification and telling of FoodCorps’ most compelling stories. This position reports to the Communications Director and will work closely with the Digital Communications Manager.

    This is a full-time position, located in FoodCorps’ New York City office.

    Who We Are:

    FoodCorps believes every school should be a healthy school and every child – regardless of race, place or class – deserves to be well nourished and ready to learn.  In underserved communities across the country, our AmeriCorps leaders teach students about healthy food through hands-on lessons, partner with farmers and food service workers to create nutritious and delicious school meals, and collaborate with communities to insure a long-term culture of health.  Building on this foundation of direct impact, FoodCorps pursues systemic strategies that will benefit all of our nation’s 100,000 schools.

    Who You Are:

    You are compelled by FoodCorps’ mission and eager to share our story with a broad range of audiences. You are building your career as a communications expert, with a strong desire to grow your skills in all areas of communications and marketing. You love staying current with the latest trends and technology. You are highly motivated, a great communicator, and are both design and detail-oriented. You are a strong and error-free writer, with experience writing for both print and web. You have experience managing social media and websites, and a strong interest in exploring how digital technologies can engage audiences and help a nonprofit organization accomplish its goals. You are comfortable working in a fast-growing, high-paced work environment. You have strong instincts for recognizing and avoiding high-risk or inflammatory communications. You have a commitment to diversity and inclusion with a desire to work for health equity and social and racial justice, and are committed to integrating these values into the messages and materials you create.

    Primary Responsibilities:

    ·       Collaborate closely with the Communications team on integrated execution of materials and channels for advocacy, fundraising, recruitment of AmeriCorps service members, and alumni engagement

    ·       Help to build strategy to acquire and retain website visitors and social media followers, and grow our email list with attention to diversifying our audiences around race, gender, and interest area

    ·       Implement social media strategy across multiple channels and multiple target audiences

    ·       Align social campaigns with organizational brand strategy, and create social media outreach around fundraising and messaging/awareness campaigns and special events

    ·       Work closely with communications staff to create regular, interactive, and dynamic content across various platforms, including writing, posts, graphics, videos, and blogs, resulting in increased engagement with target audiences

    ·       Measure, track, and report on the organization's social media presence, and learn from the data to grow our digital reach and engagement on existing and new channels

    ·       Identify trending topics in the press, social media, and popular culture relevant to FoodCorps and tap into them to build brand awareness;

    ·       Maintain an organized, searchable, and highly usable digital media asset library of photo, video, and audio files. Acquire new media assets by collaborating with professional photographers and service members in the field; manage our media release system

    ·       Help to train FoodCorps service members and staff on successful management of local social media channels and blogging

    ·       Provide additional help as needed on all communications projects

    Skills of the Ideal Candidate:

    ·       2-4 years experience with digital communications, social media and website management

    ·       Experience managing a brand's social media presence across multiple platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram

    ·       Experience with Wordpress and/or basic HTML/CSS coding and troubleshooting

    ·       Familiarity with using Salesforce or similar database a plus

    ·       Experience with SEO, Google AdWords and an understanding of online measurement platforms and tools

    ·       Strong writing and editing skills; ability to produce original, clear, concise content for both web and print within tight deadlines; attention to detail

    ·       Intellectual curiosity about, understanding of and enthusiasm for the work of FoodCorps, with an interest in food, health, education, agriculture, and/or national service

    ·       Ability to work independently and as part of a very collaborative team;

    ·       Demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks for multiple stakeholders and meet deadlines

    ·       Knowledge of graphic design and Adobe Creative Suite a plus

    ·       Experience with and interest in inclusive, equitable communications that increase the diversity of our audiences

    How to Apply:

    Applications will be accepted until our ideal candidate is identified. To be considered, submit your résumé, cover letter and salary requirements through our hiring site at http://foodcorps.hiringthing.com/.

    FoodCorps pays salaries that are competitive with nonprofits of our budget size and geographic location, and offers generous vacation and medical benefits, 401(k) matching, professional development funds and a sabbatical policy. This position is a Coordinator role with a salary range beginning at $47,000.

    People of color, people with disabilities, veterans and LGBTQ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.  FoodCorps is committed to a diverse workplace, and to supporting our staff with ongoing career development opportunities. FoodCorps is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions. FoodCorps provides reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees as required by law.

    Applicants with disabilities may request reasonable accommodation at any point in the employment process.