RMI’s newly imagined marketing and communications team – known inside the institute as the Influence Team – is looking for a detail-oriented project manager to coordinate all aspects of planning and execution for a variety of projects across the organization. This person will also work closely with the marketing team to coordinate, track, and help execute marketing campaigns, so experience in email marketing, lead generation, events, and paid media is a plus.
In addition, this person will be the steward of the various marketing elements of campaigns, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget and on brand. They will help oversee the marketing portion of the Influence Team’s budget, including managing outside agencies and various digital tools, as well as accurately pricing marketing into restricted funding proposals.
The ideal candidate for this position will have excellent project and time management skills, be a natural problem solver who can develop and tweak processes and workflows to deliver top-quality content and products across our various programs, and have meticulous attention to detail.
This role will report to the Head of Communications Operations and work closely with the Director of Impact Marketing.
We highly encourage individuals of underrepresented groups to apply!
Responsibilities:
- Act as project manager on assigned projects, collaborate cross functionally, and guide teams through all stages of a multi-channel content production process
- Be an expert on all marketing processes and budgets, including content production, software, and contractor and agency support
- Set and coordinate production schedules for a team of marketers working across RMI programs
- Review restricted grants proposals to ensure marketing is adequately scoped
- Generate and manage project timelines, including coordinating key milestones
- Initiate and lead all appropriate project meetings, and assist in preparing presentation materials as needed
- Organize the concepting of ideas, development, and execution
- Influence the efficiency and quality of work
- Monitor and enforce project constraints (schedule/scope/resources), while keeping the team on track and motivated
- Own project management/workflow system data entry, reporting, and actualization of project budget
- Monitor out of scope requests and initiate additional estimates and client approvals
- Prepare vendor bid packages as needed, generating estimates and securing approvals on estimates and overages
- Manage vendors and talent on relevant projects, monitoring actual vs. budgeted costs
- Anticipate and flag project issues/risks and clearly communicate possible solutions