Responsibilities

• Lead the year-round marketing that helps churches and 18-25 year olds discover CROSS, and tell the story of the ministry across every channel we own.
• Plan, build, execute, and evaluate email marketing campaigns.
• Coordinate Meta advertising campaigns and use performance data to improve future decisions.
• Help lead the CROSS Ambassador Program.
• Coordinate promotional mailers and church marketing initiatives.
• Own the marketing calendar, including campaign timelines, project schedules, dependencies, and handoffs.
• Maintain marketing databases and contact lists, keeping segmentation accurate and useful.
• Define practical success measures, prepare recurring reports, and bring evidence — not impressions — to marketing decisions.
• Publish conference talks to podcast platforms.
• Prepare and schedule content for YouTube, podcast, email, and social channels.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, design, business, or a related field.
• 3-10+ years of relevant professional experience; candidates with substantially deeper experience are welcome.
• Demonstrated experience managing designers, agencies, printers, vendors, or other external creative partners.
• Proficiency with project-management systems and the discipline to keep multiple workstreams moving.
• Working proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud or comparable design tools, sufficient to tweak, resize, correct, and prepare creative assets.
• Experience interpreting marketing analytics and preparing clear, decision-useful reporting.
• A portfolio or work examples that demonstrate relevant marketing, creative-direction, design, campaign, or production experience, if available.

Benefits

• Health coverage: CROSS pays 100% of health-insurance premiums for the employee and spouse.
• Retirement: Employer contribution equal to 5% of salary.
• Insurance: Disability coverage and $50,000 in life insurance.
• Vacation: 15 paid vacation days, plus all federal holidays.
• Sick leave: 5 paid sick days.