Marketing Manager

Marketing Manager

New York, New York, United States

Manager, Marketing Hybrid-2 Days in Office

Anticipated deadline to submit application: October 9th by 5pm EST. Position may close early if application limit is met. Apply promptly for full consideration.

The Opportunity

In collaboration with the Vice President of Communications, the Manager of Marketing is responsible for supporting the development of, managing, and executing CEO's organization-wide marketing strategy across email, social media, paid advertising, search, and other digital channels. This role grows CEO's audiences, increases awareness of its programs, initiatives, and products, and develops targeted marketing campaigns that advance CEO's programmatic, fundraising, advocacy, and organizational goals.

This role oversees campaign planning and execution, audience segmentation, email marketing, social media, digital advertising, content distribution, and performance measurement.

This role works closely with internal teams to translate organizational priorities into integrated campaigns that reach the right audiences with compelling messages and clear calls to action.

As part of our mission, we strongly encourage individuals who have lived experience of incarceration or involvement in the justice system to apply for this role.

Who We Are

The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) provides employment services to people recently released from incarceration. Across the United States, 8,000-9,000 people participate in CEO each year, transitioning to employment that supports themselves, their families, and their communities.

What began as a demonstration project of the Vera Institute of Justice in the 1970s to address employment barriers facing the formerly incarcerated following release in New York City has grown into the leading reentry employment organization in the country, where over 30,000 formerly incarcerated individuals have secured full-time employment since 1996.

Who You Are

You have 3+ years of experience in marketing, digital marketing, audience engagement, or related field

You have a proven track record planning and executing integrated, multi-channel digital campaigns (email, paid/organic social media, search, display), including experience with:

Managing organic and paid social media campaigns

Building strategies for audience acquisition, engagement, conversion, and retention strategies

Managing search marketing, search engine optimization, landing pages, and digital campaign optimization

You have experience managing marketing budgets, vendors, and contracts

You have strong project management skills and experience with project management platforms

Preferred:

You have people management experience

You have experience in nonprofit, workforce-development, economic-mobility, or criminal-justice experience or experience marketing nonprofit programs, social-impact initiatives, direct services, or technology products

You have experience with Salesforce, marketing automation, or fundraising platforms

You have experience with Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Ads Manager, LinkedIn Campaign Manager, or similar platforms

Major Responsibilities

These responsibilities are representative, but not all-inclusive, of the responsibilities of this role:

Marketing Strategy Management and Execution

Manage the development and execution of CEO's organization-wide marketing strategy across email, social media, paid advertising, search, and other digital channels

Lead marketing efforts and integrated campaigns that increase awareness and support for CEO's programmatic, fundraising, advocacy, and organizational goals

Partner with internal teams to establish campaign objectives, audiences, messages, timelines, budgets, and measures of success

Manage marketing-related budgets, vendors, consultants, contracts, and scopes of work using internal project management tools such as Monday.com

Prepare campaign briefs, proposals, presentations, and marketing performance reports for executive leadership, funders, and other key stakeholders.

Email Marketing and Audience Development

Lead CEO's email marketing strategies, including audience growth, segmentation, campaign development, automation, testing, and performance analysis

Manage the strategy and production of email communications, including newsletters, fundraising appeals, advocacy campaigns, program promotions, and targeted constituent journeys

Identify and segment priority audiences, including program participants, employers, donors, policymakers, partner organizations, and the general public

Develop targeted email journeys that engage different audiences and encourage action

Grow email lists and improve subscriber acquisition, engagement, retention, and conversion

Establish standards and best practices for email frequency, design, content, accessibility, and CRM/platform integrations, using testing and performance data to improve messaging, targeting, calls to action, and campaign results

Paid Advertising, Search, and Social Media

Implement paid advertising and SEM strategies across search, social, display, and digital channels, optimizing budgets and targeting to drive recruitment, fundraising, and awareness

Oversee CEO's social media presence, including LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and other relevant platforms, directing platform-specific growth strategies, content calendars, publishing, and audience engagement

Monitor advertising and social media performance and use insights to strengthen targeting, content, cadence, and spending

Manage campaign budgets, targeting, content development, placement, testing, optimization, and reporting

Lead CEO's search engine marketing and search engine optimization strategies

Manage CEO's social media calendar and coordinate content with broader communications and marketing campaigns

Content Distribution and Performance

Coordinate marketing activity across CEO's website, email, social media, paid media, and partner channels to ensure brand consistency and accessibility

Partner with communications staff and creative vendors to produce high-impact content, advertisements, and landing pages needed for effective campaigns

Develop distribution strategies that maximize the reach and impact of CEO's stories, reports, videos, events, and campaign materials

Ensure that marketing content is accessible, accurate, audience-centered, and consistent with CEO's messaging and brand standards

Establish key performance indicators and analyze email, social media, advertising, search, website, and conversion data, communicating performance and translating data into actionable recommendations

Advise and train CEO staff and local site teams on marketing and social media best practices

Team Leadership and Support

Manage and coach a small team, establishing clear priorities, workflows, performance expectations, and accountability

Provide opportunities for team to strengthen their marketing, analytics, content-development, and project-management skills

Manage Emerging Leaders Program members assigned to the marketing track and/or fellows/interns, providing structured, on-the-job training

Foster a collaborative, creative, inclusive, and results-oriented team culture

Maintain CEO's marketing calendar and project management tools

Coordinate campaign intake, prioritization, production, review, approval, and distribution

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range for this position is $73,000-$92,000/annually. CEO's compensation philosophy considers a variety of factors including experience, internal equity, and the labor market associated with the city in which the position is located. The labor markets associated with the cities in which CEO is based are variable, and the salary range included here reflects this. Our salary offer will fall within this range and will be reflective of the labor market of the city in which the position is based, as well the other factors named above.

We recognize that salary is a part of the overall compensation package and also provide a comprehensive benefits package, including medical and dental coverage, as well as professional development opportunities to our staff.

We also offer paid parental leave, participation in a retirement plan, sick and vacation leave, paid holidays and more. We are a workplace that promotes continual learning and teamwork, offering lunch and learns, team outings, holiday gatherings and more for our staff.

More About Us

Center for Employment Opportunities believes that everyone deserves the chance to shape a stronger future for themselves, their families, and their communities. People who are justice involved are highly encouraged to apply for vacant positions at all levels. CEO is committed to the CROWN Act, and creating an open space where our employees can present as their true authentic selves.

All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, gender, gender identity, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, prior record of arrest or conviction, citizenship status, current employment status, caregiver status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. We value diverse experiences, including with regard to educational background and justice system contact.

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