Manager, Marketing and Communications

Carlsbad, CA (Hybrid)

$74K/yr – $94K/yrManager5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Oversee client campaigns and multi-channel communications for government-focused work, with an emphasis on strategy, project management, and stakeholder updates.

  • Must-have: 5–7+ years in client content development and 2–4+ years PM experience.
  • Standout: 1500+ annual billable hours target and hybrid Carlsbad, CA office requirement.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Assist in the development of account strategies in areas of community relations, marketing, media outreach, digital advocacy and strategic communication services
  • Oversees the management of each project through allocating resources, maintaining the budget, monitoring progress and keeping all stakeholders both external clients and internal team informed through the lifecycle of the project
  • Manages client relationships and expectations through regular and timely project updates
  • Develops engaging and innovative content for advertising, videos, websites, fact sheets, presentations, newsletters and other collateral material
  • Ensures all client deliverables meet standards, expectations and align with overall campaign strategy
  • Works with the graphics team for the development and production of creative collateral materials, advertisements, and websites
  • Facilitates external and internal group meetings, one-on-one meetings and events
  • Tracks and analyzes metrics and keeps internal and external teams up to date on the progress of campaigns
  • Guides team members on the development of content creation and the editing process
  • Manages quality control of team members’ content and messaging
  • Maintains an annual billable target of 1500 hours or more
  • Other duties as assigned

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations, marketing or closely related field
  • 5 to 7+ years of demonstrated experience managing client content development
  • 2 to 4+ years of progressive project management experience
  • Ability to create strategic communications, marketing and outreach plans
  • Strong computer skills with proficiency in Microsoft Office products including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
  • Advanced knowledge of website and email campaign platforms such as WordPress, Squarespace, Granicus, Constant Contact and Mailchimp
  • Demonstrated work experience with project management platforms
  • Understanding of government operations in areas such as trash and recycling disposal, water delivery and treatment, city public information dissemination, city-wide engineering and construction projects desired, but not required
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Strong written and oral communication skills; detail-oriented with strong organizational skills
  • Strong ability to adapt to changing priorities, and work with a sense of urgency
  • Strong multi-tasking skills required, ability to set project priorities, establish project/team goals and objectives for self and team

Benefits

  • bonus, benefits and perks
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JPW Communications

JPW Communications is an award-winning full-service communications, marketing and outreach firm laser-focused on the needs of government agencies. Our team’s passion for public service, groundbreaking creative ideas and unique acumen all stem from decades of first-hand experience in the public sector, making JPW Communications the leader in government communications. We use our team’s extensive in-house government experience to empower and encourage organizations to rethink communications in a fresh, dynamic and compelling way. Our goal is to ensure the engagement between governments and people is meaningful and productive, leading to greater public trust and transformed communities.

Founded in 2015
Carlsbad, California, USA
13 employees (11 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.3%
Direct
41.2%
Referral
13%
Social
8.7%
Paid
1.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~13

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
9 (69% of company)