Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications

Glendale, CA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level9+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive marketing and communications for AFS across websites, email, webinars, and social channels in an Assistant Director role.

  • Coordinate multi-channel promotions per the Comprehensive Marketing Calendar.
  • Must-have: 7–10 years in digital marketing or communications.
  • Standout: Leading cross-channel initiatives and webinar scheduling.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Proactively plan and coordinate AFS-wide actions needed to ensure that AFS and Institute conferences, trade shows, programs, messages, and courses are promoted effectively on time, according to the Comprehensive Marketing Calendar via multiple media channels.
  • Ensure quality content by proofreading and editing content across channels for grammar, spelling, punctuation, formatting, tone, and consistency; verify names, titles, dates, links, and key facts to reduce errors and protect organizational credibility.
  • Exercise primary responsibility for ensuring that AFS websites – org, moderncasting.com, and castingsource.com – are current, accurate, and optimally communicating AFS messaging at all times.
  • Track and monitor all digital efforts, including email, web traffic and usage, social media growth, etc.
  • Glean insights from data to suggest plan changes if needed.
  • Exercise primary responsibility for advancing AFS messaging through social.
  • Serve as Marketing Division liaison to the AFS Institute and manage communications efforts on behalf of the Institute.
  • Advise the Institute on the best ways to segment audiences and achieve the Institute's communications goals.
  • Plan, prepare, and distribute promotional e-mails for all of AFS, pulling lists from the database, consulting with IT as needed, formatting HTML if needed, Create email blasts on behalf of advertising clients as needed.
  • Schedule and coordinate the AFS webinar calendar, and host multiple 30-60-minute webinars each month.

Requirements

  • A bachelor’s degree in marketing, public relations, corporate communications, digital media, and business administration, or another relevant field is preferred
  • 7-10 years of experience in a fast-paced digital marketing, communications, or marketing setting.
  • Association experience preferred but not required
  • Excellent writing, promotional copywriting, speaking, listening, and project-organization
  • Ability to travel occasionally & Tradeshow travel
  • Must be fluent in English, written and Proficiency with MS Office and social media is
  • Working Knowledge of Adobe Suite is
  • Experience with CRM and e-blast tools
  • Familiarity with HTML
  • Familiarity with Google Analytics reporting
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ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership

ASAE is a membership organization of more than 50,000 association executives and industry partners representing 7,400 organizations. Its members lead, manage, and work in or partner with organizations in more than a dozen association management disciplines, from executive management to finance to technology. Together, they create a vibrant community that makes the world smarter, safer, and better every day. With support of the ASAE Foundation, a separate nonprofit entity, ASAE is the premier source of learning, knowledge, and future-oriented research for the association and nonprofit profession and provides resources, education, ideas, and advocacy to enhance the power and performance of the association and nonprofit community.ASAE Business Services, Inc. (ABSI), ASAE’s wholly-owned subsidiary, provides business solutions to the association community that help associations grow and prosper, save time and money, and simplify the business of running an association.

Founded in 1920
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
169 employees (21 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
183.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.6%
Direct
52.7%
Referral
7.8%
Social
1.3%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~169

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
21 (12% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
2.9 years