Community Marketing Coordinator

Job description last modified October, 2007

Salary/Benefits
Salary is $30,000 per year. 3.6 weeks paid time off per year (combined vacation and sick time, based on an assumed 37 hours work week). Health care, dental, and vision plan. Employer-matching retirement plan
Work Hours
Four and a half to five days per week, Tuesday through Saturday, 10:30am to 7:30pm, some evening or morning meetings, with some flexibility.
To Apply
To apply, e-mail your cover letter and resume to jobs@freegeek.org, detailing your volunteer coordination experience and any other pertinent information. We will be contacting a small group of candidates via e-mail to take a tour of Free Geek prior to being interviewed. This position is open until filled.

Free Geek is a unique work environment. For this reason it is essential that each applicant take a tour of our facility (active volunteers are exempt). Tours are offered Tuesday - Saturday at both 12:00PM and 6:00PM.

Can you make us loom head and shoulders above the competition? Can you help us help the public love and appreciate our greatness? Are you comfortable in a unique, constantly changing, non-heirarchical work environment? Do you know some stuff about marketing, PR and the like? If so, this might be the position for you!

Responsibilities:

• Formulate promotional strategies and make appropriate recommendations for publicity mediums
• Plan and coordinate promotional, public education, and informational activities
• Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing, tailoring the message to the intended audience
• Make effective visual and oral presentations
• Write news releases, public service announcements and advertising copy
• Lead a standing committee to support these goals

Required skills:

• Friendly, outgoing personality
• Patient and courteous with the public
• Likes working with people
• Detail oriented
• Good organizational skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Able to extract info from current staff and put into rational, transparent system that everyone can understand
• Empowered and self-motivated organizer
• Multi-tasker
• Legible handwriting
• Basic computer knowledge, use of web browser, email and word processor, database and spreadsheet
• Able to work in an informal, friendly environment with a diverse staff
• Work well under stress in an unusual setting, maintaining a positive attitude even in the face of adversity
• Ability to work and communicate well in a collectively-run organization
• Ability to work in a consensus decision making process related to staff and policy issues
• Not afraid to ask questions, but able to work on projects almost entirely without supervision
• Able to remain flexible as Free Geek grows and changes

Desired skills:

• Payroll and bookkeeping experience
• Previous experience in a collectively-run organization
• Experience coordinating volunteers