Communications and Social Media Specialist

Chicago, IL (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own LBFE’s external voice by shaping written content, digital presence, and event-driven communications to inform and engage supporters and partners.

  • Content & Media: Create PSAs, media alerts, press releases, articles, newsletters, and fundraising letters while ensuring branding consistency.
  • Digital & Social: Update WordPress site weekly, optimize for SEO/AI, manage site content and blog, and produce social content with analytics-driven refinements.
  • Collaboration & Campaigns: Plan deadlines with designers and developers, coordinate print and annual reports, and support branding, events, and development workplans.

Job Description

Own LBFE’s external voice by shaping written content, digital presence, and event-driven communications to inform and engage supporters and partners.

  • Content & Media: Create PSAs, media alerts, press releases, articles, newsletters, and fundraising letters while ensuring branding consistency.
  • Digital & Social: Update WordPress site weekly, optimize for SEO/AI, manage site content and blog, and produce social content with analytics-driven refinements.
  • Collaboration & Campaigns: Plan deadlines with designers and developers, coordinate print and annual reports, and support branding, events, and development workplans.

Little Brothers - Friends of the Elderly, Chicago

Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly (LBFE) is a national network of non-profit volunteer-based organizations committed to relieving isolation and loneliness among the elderly. LBFE Chicago serves nearly 1,000 adults over 70 years of age who are aging without the support of family or close friends. We offer to people of goodwill the opportunity to join older adults in friendship and celebration of life.Our motto, flowers before bread, expresses our philosophy that people need the special pleasures in life in addition to the basic necessities. Love, dignity and beauty in life are as essential as physical needs.

Founded in 1959
Chicago, Illinois, USA
40 employees (2 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$28.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
26.8%
Direct
49.1%
Referral
6.1%
Social
16.6%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~40

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (5% of company)

Funding

Last Raise
Grant, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2024
    Grant