Description

The Marketing Coordinator supports business-to-consumer marketing and business-to-business marketing initiatives for The Post and Courier Columbia expansion and sister publication Free Times. This position is the “boots on the ground” to implement our company-wide marketing strategies as it relates to the Columbia market. The position’s objective is to enhance the brand, lead community engagement, generate leads, grow revenue, and meet revenue objectives.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Strategize and execute paid social media campaigns to increase awareness and drive leads and conversions for digital subscribers, event marketing, and business-to-business for the advertising division
• Coordinate the distribution of content and create copy for ads across social media and the digital ad space based on the marketing strategy for select company accounts:
  • Create social content cross-platform, respond to and engage with followers
  • Assist newsroom in promotion of editorial content
  • Create detailed targeting for audiences based on niche content
  • Produce monthly reports on social growth for analysis to share with key stakeholders
  • Increase engagement and traffic through social and digital outlets
  • Work with agency to optimize paid ad campaigns for conversion
  • Maintain and report on paid campaign status, including budget spend and results
• Interpret data from social media and digital campaigns to make strategic decisions and adjust positioning for future campaigns
• Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of marketing events in the local market
• Prioritize knowledge of emerging platforms to promote The Post and Courier Columbia / Free Times to current and new digital subscribers
• Use knowledge of social platforms to acquire and retain digital subscribers
• Write press releases on behalf of The Post and Courier for earned media opportunities
• Identify potential trade partnerships and manage existing trade partnerships
• Serve as primary point of contact for trade and other community partners to ensure that trade benefits P&C Columbia and Free Times receive are utilized well, including but not limited to signage, brand exposure, event tickets, contest opportunities, etc.
• Collaborate with graphic design resources to develop creative and marketing materials to be used in the Columbia market
• Support advertising department in Columbia as needed through collateral and/or proposal creation, prospect/lead generation, B2B engagement efforts, etc.
• Proactively stay ahead of industry best practices and trends through research, networking, training, and education
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Requirements, minimum education level, and experience:

• BA in marketing communications or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 1-2 years of marketing, events, communications and/or sales experience
• Experience with social media content creation and editing
• Experience with social media marketing platforms and campaigns
• Experience with CRM and email marketing systems a plus
• Knowledge of photo editing platforms a plus

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Self-starter with the ability to work independently and within a collaborative, team environment
• Background in HTML emails, graphics for use on the web and social media
• Incredible attention to detail & capable of multi-tasking and coordinating several projects at once
• Ability to segment social media audiences
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Effective project management skills
• Strong copywriting skills and the ability to communicate complex ideas
• Basic understanding of SEO and social media platforms

Physical Requirements, Work Environment and Travel:

Regularly required to sit, stand and walk for long periods of time. The job requires reaching with hands and arms, bending and stooping; light to moderate lifting of 15-30 pounds. The job requires hearing, speaking and writing with close eye work on a computer screen.

The worker is generally subject to inside environmental conditions, which provide protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.

Local travel may be required occasionally. The Post and Courier is an equal opportunity employer.