Social Media Manager

Sacramento, CA (Remote)

$75K/yr – $125K/yrMid Level8+ years expOther

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own enterprise social strategy for JAX, turning complex science and institutional priorities into credible social content for executives and researchers, with LinkedIn as a primary thought leadership channel.

  • Growth and engagement: build audience personas, tailor content to institutional, scientific, advancement, and business audiences, and grow credible networks.
  • Strategic alignment: advise leaders, partner with content experts, and ensure campaigns and events feed social channels with authentic, data-driven content.
  • Execution discipline: maintain writing quality, support social-first video and multimedia, and respond to real-time opportunities while coordinating with internal partners on priorities.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead JAX’s enterprise social media strategy and strengthen presence across institutional, scientific, advancement and business audiences.
  • Focus on audience growth, engagement, channel strategy and LinkedIn thought leadership, helping JAX leaders and experts show up in credible, authentic and engaging ways.
  • Match the right content to the right audiences across channels; build audience personas; support major campaigns and events; partner with content experts to turn complex science, institutional priorities, videos and philanthropic stories into social-first content.
  • Be a thoughtful strategist and momentum-builder; advise leaders; work with expert content partners; use data to sharpen the work; grow relevant audiences; stay focused in a collaborative environment with many stakeholders.
  • Grow audience engagement and ensure social content is credible, authentic and worthy of engagement across channels.
  • Maintain writing quality and contribute to social-first content creation; respond to opportunities and challenges in real time as needed.
  • Coordinate with internal partners to ensure alignment with institutional priorities and campaigns.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years or related experience
  • Progressive experience in social media, digital communications, or integrated content marketing.
  • Demonstrated success developing and executing integrated social media strategies tied to measurable organizational outcomes.
  • Demonstrated experience developing executive or institutional thought leadership content, particularly on LinkedIn and professional platforms.
  • Strong understanding of social media strategy, audience segmentation, content distribution, paid amplification, and performance optimization.
  • Experience building audience personas and matching content strategies to distinct audiences, platforms, and engagement goals.
  • Exceptional writing, editing, storytelling, and audience engagement skills.
  • Experience with social analytics, social listening, and reporting tools used to measure and improve engagement performance.
  • Strong visual and video content instincts, including experience supporting social-first video and multimedia engagement.
  • Sound judgment managing public-facing communications, reputational considerations, and sensitive issues.
  • Ability to work effectively within a fast-paced, matrixed, and collaborative environment.
  • Experience within biomedical research, healthcare, higher education, life sciences, or mission-driven organizations preferred.

Preferred

  • Experience within biomedical research, healthcare, higher education, life sciences, or mission-driven organizations preferred.
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The Jackson Laboratory

OVERVIEW• The Jackson Laboratory is an independent, 501(c)3 nonprofit biomedical research institution founded in 1929 in Bar Harbor, Maine.• Our mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health.• We are a global team of nearly 3,000 people at 11 locations in Maine, Connecticut, California, Japan and China, and in remote locations around the world.• With a 2023 operating budget of $628M, JAX has substantial impact on our local communities.RESEARCH• With more than 60 faculty members, our diverse and multidisciplinary research programs include the National Cancer Institute-designated JAX Cancer Center, as well as coordinated research centers focused on addiction, aging, Alzheimer’s and dementias, genomics and computational biology, precision genetics and rare disease.• JAX has had a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center since 1983, and is one of only seven institutes in the United States that has received this designation for its contributions to basic cancer research.• Our researchers have made significant contributions to medical progress, including bone marrow and organ transplants, stem cell therapies and in vitro fertilization.EDUCATION• We offer comprehensive educational programs for scientists throughout their careers, from high school students and teachers, to researchers at all experience levels, and for clinical providers interested in incorporating genetics and genomics into their practices. RESOURCES• Over 2,400 organizations in 68 countries rely on over 13,000 strains of genetically-specialized JAX® Mice and research services in a wide range of therapeutic areas.• Our Mouse Genome Informatics database is the world’s source for information on mouse genetics and biology.

Founded in 1929
Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
2.2K employees