Marketing Operations Strategist

Responsibilities

• Coordinates cross-functional teams, external vendors, and agency partners to support integrated marketing campaigns and projects aligned with Foundation priorities.
• Develops and manages project plans, timelines, milestones, action items, and status reporting to ensure successful execution of marketing initiatives.
• Manages marketing calendars, editorial calendars, campaign timelines, and asset inventories while maintaining visibility across projects and priorities.
• Develops and improves marketing department processes, workflows, and systems to increase efficiency, collaboration, and accountability.
• Supports integrated campaign execution by coordinating resources, deliverables, communications, and timelines across departments and marketing channels.
• Serves as a key operational partner to internal departments by understanding goals and needs and helping translate them into aligned marketing initiatives.
• Manages relationships with external vendors and service providers, including website, print, agency, and other marketing partners.
• Supports marketing performance tracking and reporting by maintaining KPI reporting, compiling campaign results, and assisting with measurement efforts.
• Manages marketing project management platforms, including Jira and Confluence, by maintaining project documentation, assigning tasks, tracking progress, and supporting team collaboration.
• Serves as a key point of contact for website maintenance, managing vendor communication, supporting website optimization, and assisting with the creation and tracking of source codes, vanity URLs, and QR codes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business administration, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in marketing operations, project management, communications, public relations, or a related field.
• Experience managing integrated marketing projects involving multiple stakeholders, timelines, vendors, and deliverables.
• Experience using project management platforms such as Jira, Asana, Trello, Monday, ClickUp, or similar tools to manage workflows, track milestones, assign tasks, and support collaboration.
• Strong understanding of marketing operations, including campaign execution, workflow optimization, project management, and performance reporting.
• Excellent written communication and editing skills.
• Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with staff, leadership, vendors, and external partners.

Preferred

• Master’s degree preferred.
• Experience with public relations, media outreach, or earned media opportunities preferred.
• Experience managing external vendors, agencies, and marketing service providers preferred.
• Experience with website content management systems, email marketing platforms, CRM platforms and media monitoring tools such as Meltwater preferred.
• Previous remote work experience preferred.

Benefits

• Employer paid medical benefits including healthcare, dental, and vision for individual; subsidized medical benefits available for spouse/family.
• Employer funded HSA (for those who elect a HDHP)
• Life insurance and disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with 12% employer contribution, no match required, after six months of continuous service
• 11+ paid Holidays and 20 PTO days per year
• Paid half-day Fridays between Memorial Day and Labor Day
• Remote work environment with a collaborative business center available to employees local to the Kansas City metro area as needed.