Community Marketing Coordinator

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? Are you happily haunted by visions of marketing, branding, PR and the like? If so, this might be the position for you!

Job Description:

Create flexible, long-term strategy for building Free Geek as a brand, distinguishing us above the competition. Increase donations by marketing to individuals and businesses. Create professional print materials to appeal to wider audiences. Create media kits and perform media outreach. Foster and maintain relationships with the community and members of the media on Free Geek's behalf. Develop a group of volunteers to share in the work associated with accomplishing these tasks.

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, fax sheets, correspondence and other documents
• Maintain confidential data and information
• Work various floor shifts
• Plan and organize work to meet schedules and timelines
• Establish, maintain, and foster effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work
• Coordinate and train volunteers for outreach opportunities
• Maintain print and electronic documentation to support these goals
• Lead a standing committee to support these goals

Desired Skills:

• Background in Outreach and/or Marketing
• Graphic design experience
• Grant writing experience
• Website management experience
• Friendly, outgoing personality
• Patient and courteous with the public
• Likes working with people
• Solid organizational skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Able to extract info from current staff and put into transparent system that everyone can understand
• Empowered and self-motivated worker
• 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
• Previous experience in a collectively-run organization
• Experience coordinating volunteers