Coordinator, Social Media

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$47K/yr – $51K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Coordinate planning, posting, and asset reviews for national social channels to support mission-focused storytelling.

  • Coordinate planning, scheduling, and posting across national social channels.
  • Must-have: 1–2 years in social media coordination or digital marketing.
  • Standout: nonprofit or mission-driven context and capacity to cover high-volume campaigns.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the Social Media Managers in planning, scheduling, and posting content across national social media channels.
  • Maintain a master social media calendar, ensuring all planned content is reflected.
  • Track incoming social media requests from across the organization, maintaining a clear queue of deliverables, deadlines, and review needs.
  • Coordinate asset collection, reviews, and approvals for posts; ensure all materials are properly formatted and captioned prior to scheduling.
  • Monitor upcoming content for potential overlaps, conflicts, or timing issues.
  • Support posting, monitoring, and community management as needed, including coverage during high-volume campaigns or staff absences.
  • Help maintain the organization’s social media management and analytics tools (e.g., Sprout Social).

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in communications, Marketing, Public Relations, or related field preferred (or equivalent experience).
  • One to two years of experience in social media coordination, content management, or digital marketing; nonprofit or cause-based experience a plus.
  • Strong organizational and project management skills with exceptional attention to detail.
  • Experience with social media management and analytics tools (e.g., Sprout Social, Hootsuite, Meta Business Suite, native scheduling tools).
  • Familiarity with creative workflows and asset management systems (e.g., Canto, Click-Up, or similar).
  • Comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • Passion for digital storytelling and advancing public health or mission-driven causes through social media.
  • Ability to lift and carry 25 lbs. (event supplies).
  • Consistent with its mission, the American Lung Association maintains a smoke-free workplace; all employees must abstain from tobacco use in any form, including vaping.

Preferred

  • Nonprofit or cause-based experience a plus.

Benefits

  • Paid Leave - 10 vacation days in the first year (15 days thereafter), 2 personal days and 15 sick days per year, as well as 12 company-paid holidays per year. We also offer Paid Parental Leave for eligible employees.
  • Insurance - Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in our medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as voluntary plans for critical illness, accident, hospital indemnity, short-term disability and supplemental life/AD&D insurance. Employees will be enrolled in company-paid life/AD&D and long-term disability Insurance coverage.
  • Retirement Plan - Eligible employees can participate in our 401(k) Defined Contribution Retirement Plan, which offers matching employer contributions (up to 4%) and year-end discretionary non-elective contributions.
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American Lung Association

The American Lung Association is the leading organization working to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease through research, education and advocacy. The work of the American Lung Association is focused on four strategic imperatives: to defeat lung cancer; to improve the air we breathe; to reduce the burden of lung disease on individuals and their families; and to eliminate tobacco use and tobacco-related diseases. For more information about the American Lung Association, a holder of the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Guide Seal, or to support the work it does, call 1-800-LUNGUSA (1-800-586-4872) or visit: www.Lung.org.

Founded in 1904
Chicago, Illinois, USA
1.1K employees (85 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$570.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
65%
Direct
26.3%
Referral
5.8%
Social
1.7%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
77 (7% of company)
Median Career Experience
20 years
Median Tenure
6.8 years

Funding

Total Funding
$100K
Last Raise
$100K
Grant, 7 months ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2025
    Grant • $100K

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