Digital Membership and Engagement Specialist

Philadelphia, PA (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and drive multi-channel digital membership, fundraising, and audience engagement programs, partnering with leadership to shape strategy, lifecycle communications, and cross-functional execution.

  • Lead planning and execution of email, SMS, newsletters, and journey-based communications across partners.
  • Analyze audience data and campaign performance to inform segmentation, testing, and personalization.
  • Coordinate with Marketing, Content, Data, and Product teams to deliver cohesive audience experiences and reporting.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with the Director, Digital Membership Manager, and key partners to shape digital membership, fundraising, stewardship, and audience engagement strategies and campaign plans. Contribute audience insights, performance data, and channel expertise to planning discussions.
  • Execute coordinated digital membership, fundraising, stewardship, and audience engagement communications using approved strategies, campaign plans, messaging, and review processes.
  • Write, edit, build, segment, test, quality-assure, schedule, deploy, and document email, SMS, newsletter, automated journey, and other digital communications.
  • Support the full audience and supporter lifecycle, including acquisition, conversion, onboarding, stewardship, renewal, retention, reactivation, sustainer conversion, upgrades, and deeper levels of giving.
  • Develop relationship-building communications that connect audiences and supporters with WHYY's journalism, programming, events, services, benefits, and community impact.
  • Curate and produce newsletters and related communications in collaboration with content and program partners, using strong editorial judgment and a clear understanding of audience needs.
  • Maintain accurate data selection, links, tracking, personalization, consent, and quality assurance across campaigns and platforms; follow privacy, accessibility, brand, and fundraising standards.
  • Use audience behavior, campaign results, fundraising performance, and organizational benchmarks to recommend segmentation, testing, personalization, and workflow strategy and improvements.
  • Monitor and report on assigned communications and initiatives, identify meaningful trends, and recommend actions that improve engagement, giving, retention, and the member or supporter experience.
  • Maintain active relationships with assigned departments or organizational areas, serving as a Digital Membership point of contact and proactively identifying relevant communication and fundraising opportunities.

Requirements

  • Education: Bachelor's degree in communications, marketing, journalism, nonprofit management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
  • Experience: Three to five years of progressively responsible experience in digital membership, fundraising, marketing, communications, audience engagement, or a related field. Experience executing email or multichannel campaigns through a CRM or marketing automation platform is strongly preferred.
  • Technical Skills: Proficiency with CRM, email marketing, marketing automation, content management, audience segmentation, testing, quality assurance, deployment, and performance reporting. Ability to learn new systems quickly. Working knowledge of HTML/CSS, web analytics, data visualization, project management tools, or AI-assisted workflows is desirable.
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WHYY makes our region a better place, connecting each of us to the world's richest ideas and all of us to each other through Member-supported public media. Through WHYY-FM 90.9, WHYY-TV 12 and WHYY.org, we reach 1.3 million people on average each week in the Greater Philadelphia area. We are your local PBS and NPR member station, bringing you long-time favorite programs, such as Masterpiece and All Things Considered. But our national programs are only the tip of the iceberg. WHYY Studios produces more than a dozen local programs, such as Fresh Air with Terry Gross, You Oughta Know and The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane. We offer a robust regional news service supported by an award-winning newsroom, home to Billy Penn, PlanPhilly and the WHYY Climate Desk.We are deeply committed to the needs of young people. Many people’s first experience with WHYY is watching our award-winning PBS Kids television programs as a child. We also teach thousands of kids to make videos in 40+ local schools and at our studio.We bring together people in the region for interesting and fun events in person and online. From critical community conversations to advanced screenings with big personalities, keep an eye on WHYY.org/events for things to do all year round.Of course, all of this is only possible through Member support.

Founded in 1954
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
457 employees (176 in marketing)

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
123 (27% of company)
Median Tenure
3.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$25K
Last Raise
$25K
Grant, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2023
    Grant • $25K

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.5M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.1%
Direct
43.7%
Referral
6.9%
Social
3.8%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~457

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Digital Membership and Engagement Specialist

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