Marketing Coordinator (Part-Time, Contract)

Responsibilities

• Support the execution of paid marketing campaigns promoting KQED content across digital, paid social, video, out-of-home, and other advertising channels.
• Manage creative production timelines and workback schedules, proactively tracking deadlines, outstanding assets, feedback, approvals, and deliverables.
• Maintain detailed campaign and creative asset trackers, ensuring project status, source materials, specifications, links, approvals, and final assets are accurate and up to date.
• Coordinate creative production with KQED's external agency partners, preparing briefs and source materials, tracking revisions, consolidating feedback, and confirming final deliverables.
• Partner with internal Content, Editorial, Social, and Creative teams to gather photography, video, copy, publishing information, and other materials needed for campaigns.
• Support copywriting and creative development for digital advertising, bringing a strong eye for clear messaging, visual hierarchy, and platform-appropriate creative.
• Support the development of social-first creative and short-form video for platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, with an understanding of hooks, pacing, storytelling, and platform conventions.
• Review final creative for accuracy, brand alignment, technical specifications, and consistency with the KQED content being promoted.
• Maintain organized archives of campaign creative and source materials for easy reference and reuse.
• Assist with campaign reporting and post-campaign documentation by organizing creative examples, campaign records, and learnings.

Requirements

• 3–4 years of experience in marketing, advertising, creative production, project management, social media, or a related field.
• Strong project management skills, with experience managing a high volume of concurrent creative projects, deadlines, workback schedules, and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Exceptional attention to detail and demonstrated ability to maintain accurate, organized project and asset trackers.
• Experience coordinating creative production and working with designers, video producers, agencies, or other creative partners.
• Strong eye for design and visual storytelling, with the ability to evaluate creative for clarity, hierarchy, brand consistency, and effectiveness.
• Strong copywriting and proofreading skills, particularly for concise, audience-focused digital advertising.
• Experience developing, producing, or coordinating social-first creative and short-form video.
• Understanding of digital creative best practices across paid social, display, video, and other digital formats.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly communicate feedback, deadlines, deliverables, and next steps.
• Proactive working style with the ability to identify missing information, anticipate roadblocks, and independently move projects forward.