Marketing and Communications Specialist Recruitment at Venture 2 Impact

Venture 2 Impact is an organization exists to help communities around the world break the cycle of poverty. Our mission is to transform individuals, families, and communities out of poverty into lasting well-being by connecting bright minds to complex challenges plaguing people around the globe. Since our inception, we have been integrating volunteers into worthy non-profits and charities around the world. Every year our volunteers travel to work on projects in collaboration with communities in Africa, South America, Europe, and Asia.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Marketing and Communications Specialist

Job Location: Halifax, Canada (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-time (37.5 hrs/week)
Start Date: ASAP
HQ Hours: Atlantic Standard Time

Job Description

• Are you passionate about leveraging your marketing and communications skills to bridge the global digital divide?
• Do you want to be a part of an organization disrupting the corporate employee engagement and nonprofit world? Join our team!
• Venture 2 Impact is seeking a marketing and communications specialist to help us tell impact stories about our work, engage corporate partners and increase our brand awareness.

What You’ll Love Doing

• Developing marketing and promotional strategy and materials for a company or product, including brand management, advertising, and web and sales collateral
• Overseeing branding, advertising, and promotional campaigns.
• Keeping informed of marketing strategies and trends
• Lead in preparation of long- and short-term marketing plans, budgets
• Planning, developing, and directing multiple avenues of marketing strategies to drive sales
• Overseeing social media accounts and websites to engage existing customers and establish positive public relations
• Implementing search engine optimization (SEO) in online media
• Researching trends and new marketing opportunities, and brainstorming ideas
• Communicating and negotiating with ad agencies, employees, marketing staff, editors, and writers
• Addressing problems and troubleshooting campaigns
• Analyzing customer feedback and campaign performance
• Develop and edit communication materials like newsletters, blogs, press releases and similar marketing materials in order to promote Venture 2 Impact work, services and impact.
• Implement company’s communication plan in order to increase brand awareness.
• Develop overall communications strategy for the company
• Measure and analyze current communications efforts.
• Work with different departments to generate new ideas and innovative strategies.
• Develop and manage relationships with key media players to secure and grow media online and offline coverage.
• Write press releases for local, national and international media.
• Amplify opportunities for positive Public Release.
• Ensure communications consistency among different stakeholders.
• Communicate brand values to both internal and external customers and stakeholders.

What Skills You’ll Need to Get the Job Done

• Bachelor's Degree in Journalism, Public Relations, Economics or other relevant fields.
• 3 - 5 years of experience working in a similar role.
• Proven strong presentation and communication skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of communications practices, tools and techniques in social media.
• Knowledge of SGDs, ESG and nonprofit space is an asset
• Proactivity, self motivation and the ability to meet deadlines
• Creativity in developing relevant marketing content
• Highly developed project and time management skills
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Project and stakeholder management skills
• Strong organization and planning skills with great attention to detail
• A focus on curiosity and co-creation
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
• Commitment to excellent service for relevant stakeholders
• Focus on continuous improvement and optimization
• Ability to work independently in a remote, deliverable oriented environment
• Have experience volunteering would be considered an asset.

Salary
USD700 - USD850 Monthly.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resume to: info@venture2impact.org using the Job position as the subject of the mail.