Nonprofit
Communications and Marketing Specialist
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Description
Ballard Food Bank’s mission is to bring food and hope to our neighbors because there can be enough for everyone. To achieve our mission, we provide access to nutritious foods through our grocery model food bank, Kindness Café, and Community Resource Hub, which encompasses financial resources, referral, and mail services that support self-sufficiency. We also advocate for food equity and justice. Our home, which opened in October 2021, serves as a Hub for Hope as it brings together food, services, and community partners in a one-stop shop. The Ballard Food Bank actively strives to be an anti-racist organization and promotes the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion in its work.
Position summary:
Ballard Food Bank is seeking a Communications and Marketing Specialist with social media experience who is passionate about our mission and telling the stories of our programs, clients, volunteers and community. The tea member we’re looking for loves to create content that supports the organization’s goals, builds meaningful connections, and encourages the community to actively participate. If you’re excited about using storytelling, writing, and different communication channels to help address food insecurity and the systemic injustices that lead to poverty, this may be the role for you!
Responsibilities:
- Lead Ballard Food Bank’s social media efforts.
- Monitor and analyze social media channels to build and engage a community of followers.
- Create consistent and meaningful content on multiple channels, including writing and editing social media posts and testing audience response.
- Take and edit photos and short videos.
- Provide data-driven insights on what themes are resonating with audience.
- Write and perform light graphic design for digital and print publications.
- Interview volunteers, clients, staff, donors and community members for feature stories.
- Draft and finalize stories with a focus on equitable and strengths-based storytelling.
- Draft and edit content for monthly e-newsletter; coordinate design and distribution.
- Support the program team with miscellaneous collateral including flyers, posters, brochures, one-pagers, and signage, coordinating with external designers as needed.
- Work with Sr. Communications Manager and team on quarterly print newsletters and annual report.
- Partner with printing and mailing vendors, along with volunteer writers and external designers.
- Steward resources wisely within established budget
Qualifications:
- At least 2 years of experience managing social media for an organization.
- Experience with Mailchimp or another email marketing platform.
- General understanding of graphic design concepts; ability to follow and champion brand standards.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and other office productivity tools, with aptitude to learn new software and systems.
- Superb written and verbal communication skills; ability to handle difficult issues with tact and diplomacy.
- A high degree of discretion and demonstrated ability to handle confidential information.
- Commitment to Ballard Food Bank mission, racial equity, and social justice.
Hours
This is a full-time hybrid position, working Monday through Friday with minimal evening and weekend events. Ballard Food Bank currently works a 35-hour work week.
Equal Opportunity Employment
Ballard Food Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We seek to cultivate a staff team that reflects the rich diversity of our community. We value a team that is vibrant, inclusive and offers a place of belonging. Applicants representing the diversity of our communities including, people of color, people with disabilities, people with lived experience, and people of diverse sexual orientations and gender expressions are encouraged to apply.
Benefits
The starting salary for this position is $71,000-79,000. Ballard Food Bank provides a comprehensive benefits package including but not restricted to: Medical, Dental, Vision; employer-matched Simple IRA; paid vacation, wellness, and holiday time; Flexible Spending Accounts, and transit benefit.
Location
Associated Location
How to Apply
How to Apply:
Please answer the following questions, then submit your responses, along with your resume and cover letter, to careers@ballardfoodbank.org with Communications and Marketing Specialist in the subject line.
Please address the following questions within your cover letter:
1) Explain how your skills and/or experience relate to this job and will make you successful?
2) Below are Ballard Food Bank’s core values. Please share which of these values resonates with you the most and why.
- Access to food is a human right, as is access to housing, education, and healthcare. Lack of access to these fundamental rights is a direct result of systemic racism and other systemic injustices that lead to poverty.
- Every individual is worthy of respect, and we value each person’s dignity, worth, and lived experience.
- We commit to centering relationships and meeting people where they are in the moment.
- We strive to create a welcoming, intentionally inclusive environment.
- We seek to include perspectives, input, and guidance from the people we serve.
- Healthy, culturally appropriate food is critical to our community’s wellbeing.
- We are stewards of the land. We aim to minimize our environmental footprint, promote sustainability, and support local farmers and communities to grow their own food.
