Senior Associate, Content Marketing & Audience Insights

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$78K/yr – $80K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive digital audience growth and engagement for Aspen Institute's content across web, email, and social, coordinating with Communications and programs to package and promote content.

  • Must-have: 3-5 years in digital audience growth, community management, or content marketing.
  • Standout: Experience connecting CRM-driven segmentation and engagement journeys to content.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Communications staff and Aspen Institute programs to curate and share engaging content across the Institute’s primary digital channels — web, social media, video and email newsletters.
  • Edit and optimize homepage and blog content to drive discoverability and engagement.
  • Develop and manage content calendars across email and major digital touchpoints.
  • Package content to support audience growth and deepen engagement across programs.
  • Ensure consistent brand voice, tone, and accessibility standards across channels.
  • Identify opportunities to cross-promote program content to broader Institute audiences.
  • Support the launch of the Aspen Passport.
  • Drive logged-in adoption and repeat engagement behaviors of Aspen Passport.
  • Help define governance, editorial curation, cadences, and decision rights for dashboard modules.
  • Integrate future initiatives into the logged-in experience.

Requirements

  • 3-5 years in digital audience growth strategy, community management, content marketing, or related roles.
  • Content Creation and Marketing Skills: Demonstrated ability to curate and package content that drives measurable engagement.
  • Demonstrated experience creating content calendars and implementing strategies.
  • Experience managing social media, including Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube
  • Experience in crafting engaging digital content for websites, social media, and email.
  • Strong writing/editing skills for concise and compelling online content.
  • CRM Platform Management Skills: Hands-on experience with a CRM (ideally Salesforce, including Marketing Cloud and Experience Cloud), including segmentation, journey building, personalization, reporting, and management of enterprise community platforms in partnership with system admins — beyond traditional social media community management.
  • Proficiency in multitasking and meeting deadlines and working across teams and functions.
  • Excellent communication skills for teamwork and stakeholder collaboration.
  • Curiosity, empathy, hustle, and grit.

Benefits

  • The Aspen Institute offers a generous benefits package including health, dental, vision, and prescription benefits, retirement benefits, and paid leave.
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Our Purpose:We ignite human potential to build understanding and create new possibilities for a better world.Our Mission:The Aspen Institute is a global nonprofit organization committed to realizing a free, just, and equitable society. Founded in 1949, the Institute drives change through dialogue, leadership, and action to help solve the most important challenges facing the United States and the world.As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, the Aspen Institute is nonpartisan and does not endorse, support, or oppose political candidates or parties. Further, the views and opinions of our guests and speakers do not necessarily reflect those of the Aspen Institute.

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Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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Monthly Google Ads Budget
$58.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
47.8%
Direct
40.2%
Referral
8.2%
Social
3.1%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.7K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
78 (5% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$76.5M
Last Raise
$75M
Grant, 10 months ago

Funding History

  • May 2025
    Grant
  • Dec 2024
    Grant • $75M
  • Dec 2023
    Grant • $1.5M

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