Marketing Project Manager

Location:  Hybrid, Chicago

Job Type: Full-Time 

Compensation Range: $55,000 - $65,000 USD Salary

The compensation above is the estimated hiring range for this position. Final offers are determined based on a variety of factors including skills, experience, qualifications, internal equity, and other job-related considerations.

To access a list of benefits for full-time jobs, please visit www.moodybible.org/careers/benefits/.

What You Will Be Doing

Under the direct supervision of the Senior Director of Marketing Communications, this role serves as the Marketing Project Manager for Marketing and Strategic Communications (MSC). This position owns and directs project management processes, ensuring collaboration and efficiency for all MSC projects and campaigns. This person also manages projects and campaigns for specified ministry partners.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

• Responsible for documentation, optimization, and implementation of efficient and clear MSC process workflows for projects/campaigns across all MSC teams. Teams include Creative Services, Digital Marketing, Strategic Communications, Business Intelligence, and Strategic Marketing teams. Evaluate annually with the MSC team the effectiveness of current processes and update as needed.
• Serve as administrator and manager of project management software, Workamajig, ensuring database is up-to-date and effective, including but not limited to creating and maintaining staff and ministry partner profiles, job templates, project request forms, department and team lists, and identifying and running reports for operational effectiveness.
• Train all staff members who manage projects/campaigns in MSC processes, as well as the use of Workamajig and any other tools MSC utilizes for project/campaign management, including but not limited to the MSC server, Litmus, Optimizely, Canto, and Teams.
• Leading monthly meetings with each main ministry partner and the MSC team, gleaning updates from our ministry partners in terms of their performance metrics and upcoming projects or campaigns and providing space for collaborative and innovative discussions.
• Ensure all projects/campaigns are managed according to MSC processes, connecting with staff who manage project/campaigns as needed to coach and give feedback on process alignment.
• Serve as project manager for MSC corporate needs and with ministry partners such as Alumni Association, and other departments within Moody. This work includes printed programs, landing pages, email campaigns, digital marketing campaigns, social media campaigns, directional and promotional signs, and attendee surveys.
  • Engage with ministry partners throughout a project/campaign, indicating schedule/deadline probability, giving cost estimates, scheduling joint meetings with ministry partners and MSC staff as needed, advocating for the MBI brand, routing drafts and concepts, and negotiating with ministry partners on project specifics.
  • Utilize MSC’s project management software, Workamajig, to intake, plan, and monitor a project/campaign throughout its lifecycle. This includes opening projects, gathering assets, creating schedules, monitoring completion of tasks by MSC team, ensuring the most up-to-date information is available.
  • Connect with social, creative, and digital marketing teams throughout a project/ campaign, communicating scope and updates, measuring and assessing schedule/deadline probability with team supervisors and individuals, obtaining cost estimates, scheduling joint meetings with ministry partners and MSC staff as needed, and negotiating project specifics.
• Cultivate on-going trusted relationships by ensuring clear and consistent communication, utilizing a tone of collaborative assertiveness in all communications.
• With the goal of exceeding expectations, inform the Sr. Director of Marketing Communications of successes, failures, communication hurdles, and recommend solutions when appropriate.
• Seek out and recommend opportunities for professional growth.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• Five years of project management experience including experience working with project management software such as Workamajig.
• Proven success in managing projects and processes.
• Detail oriented and organized with flexibility for changing deadlines and scopes on a daily basis.
• Strong interpersonal skills with confidence in negotiating with an array of personalities
• A self-starter that is assertive and takes initiative
• Ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Authorized to work in the US legally without sponsorship

Preferred Requirements

• PMP Certification or equivalent work experience
• Ten years of professional working experience

Work Environment/Conditions

Moody Bible Institute is a Christian-based Higher Education and Media Ministry. We exist to equip people with the Truth of God’s Word. If you are mission-minded, and have a servant’s heart, join us as we look to further impact the Kingdom of God.

This is a full-time, hybrid, professional position with expectations that the employee will work from the Moody office at least three days per week.

Hours typically fall between Monday and Friday, 38.75 hours per week within normal office hours of 8:00am to 4:30pm.

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, and photocopiers.

Limited travel expected for this position.

Additional Information

Moody Bible Institute is a Christ-centered, multicultural community that values and seeks faculty and staff who are committed to diversity, work effectively with diverse populations, and engage others in ways that honor our rich cultural mosaic and biblical foundation. Candidates must align with MBI’s Christian identity.  Employees are expected to sign a Statement of Faith and adhere to the Community Standards.

We comply with all applicable laws pertaining to nondiscrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, and any other applicable legally protected category.  As a religious institution, we have the right to, and do, require that employees hold beliefs consistent with our Doctrinal Statement and conduct themselves in a manner consistent with our religious beliefs, as explained in our Community Standards.

Salary : $55,000 - $65,000