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Web Producer, Share Our Strength
Position: Web Producer
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Organization: Share Our Strength
Location: Washington, DC
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Overview:
Share Our Strength is a national organization working to make sure no child in America grows up hungry. Share Our Strength weaves together a net of community groups, activists and food programs to catch children facing hunger and ensure they have nutritious food where they live, learn and play. Working with the culinary industry, Share Our Strength creates engaging, pioneering programs like Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation, the nation’s premier culinary benefit; Great American Bake Sale, a national grassroots effort; A Tasteful Pursuit, a touring dinner series; Great American Dine Out, a week-long program involving thousands of restaurants nationwide; and Operation Frontline, a cooking-based nutrition education program. To learn more about Share Our Strength, please visit http://www.strength.org.
Position:
Share Our Strength is currently seeking a Web Producer to manage all online production tasks relating to the organization’s online presence. With primary responsibility for project management for web-based campaigns, the Web Producer will work in collaboration with multiple internal and external partners on specific online initiatives that further the organization’s constituent engagement and fundraising goals. In addition to project management, the Web Producer will be responsible for maintaining and writing code for the organization’s websites, social media campaigns, and email campaigns.
Responsibilities:
• Manage the production, schedules, and deadlines for multiple web-based projects simultaneously, including ensuring the alignment of project goals, deliverables and milestones across internal and external teams.
• Traffic, respond to, prioritize and schedule all incoming web-based communications requests from other groups within the organization.
• Implement and institutionalize the use of a web-based project management system that proactively improves workflows and technology to benefit the entire team.
• Produce regularly scheduled email marketing campaigns to the organization’s activist lists and other online communities. Coordinate collection of content for various staff writers. Code campaigns by hand, as well as by leveraging tools in Convio’s email marketing system.
• In coordination with the Online Community Director, manage the overall web strategy for site structure, graphic design, content organization, page building, maintenance and regular updates of web-based materials for the entire organization.
• Assist in enforcing editorial and visual standards and policies.
Qualifications:
• Several years of experience in web production, with a particular focus on project management of multiple, concurrent projects and/or websites. Ability to identify the steps of a project, set appropriate timelines, enlist required participants, and hold self and others accountable to outcomes and deadlines.
• Solid coding skills in HTML are required. Coding ability in PHP/MySQL, and Flash are highly desirable.
• Demonstrated knowledge of current web-based marketing and communications technologies, including Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Adobe Creative Suite applications. Experience using Convio or similar nonprofit-oriented communications software is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with building and maintaining online communities through email campaigns and social media channels.
• Ability to work quickly and skillfully in a team-driven environment, as well as on independent assignments. Adeptness at handling shifting priorities, analyzing available information to aid decision making, and moving seamlessly between any number of prioritized tasks and functions.
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications or related field or equivalent experience.
To Apply:
Please upload a resume and thoughtful cover letter, outlining how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position, citing web-based writing samples, and stating how you heard about this opportunity, in Word format and addressed to Pat Nicklin, at http://jobs.cgcareers.org/application.aspx?id=1578. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Share Our Strength is an equal opportunity employer.
