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Position Summary

Department: Marketing & Client Services
Supervised By: Director of Marketing & Client Services

The Event Planning Assistant works closely with the Event Planner to plan and implement a strategic and robust event calendar that meets the needs of markets in the U.S. and the International school community. This position is responsible for the logistics of events.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Works with Event Planner and Director to research and plan event schedule that will best meet the needs of target markets within geographic regions
• Works with Event Planner to secure venues and caterers for events and ensure timely processing of paperwork, including contracts and check requests for vendor payment
• Secures lodging for event staff that is within budget and close by to events
• Creates and maintains offerings in Salesforce for events
• Runs reports from Salesforce to support in the planning and implementation of events
• Maintains filing system for events with updated and relevant event details and paperwork
• Maintains organization of all event materials in the RC Shipping Center
• Monitors and communicates to Director the inventory needs for materials stored in the RC Shipping Center
• Creates and maintains a shipping queue for events.  Packs, ships and tracks materials, resolves issues, and receives materials back into the office
• Maintains logistic worker schedules for advertised events and prepares and maintains logistic worker training binder and materials
• Serves as on-site logistics worker at events as needed
• Performs effectively as a team player in a highly collaborative work environment

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required

• Minimum of 2 years related work experience in event planning and customer service
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work well in a highly collaborative environment
• Creativity, strong work ethic, and ability to work autonomously
• Strong communication, organization, decision-making and client service skills
• The ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously while paying close attention to details
• Interest in education and organization’s mission
• Travel required (approximately 10-20%) with the ability to work extended hours, sometimes over weekends

• Regular and reliable attendance is required

Physical Requirements

• Ability to use a computer for up to 8 hours per day, with breaks and lunch.
• Ability to talk on the telephone for up to 4 hours per day.
• Ability to travel by airplane and automobile, at times extensively.
• Ability to lift 30 pounds

 

These requirements are representative, but not all-inclusive, of the knowledge, skill, and ability required to perform this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This job description is only a summary of the typical functions of this position, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible job responsibilities, tasks and duties.  Responsibilities, tasks, and duties of individual jobholders may vary from the above description.  Other duties, as assigned by the jobholder’s supervisor, may also be required.

How to Apply

To apply for this position, please click here.

Position Summary

Department: Marketing & Communications
Supervised By: Director of Marketing & Communications

The Marketing and Communications Project Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating and managing campaigns that promote CRS’ programs, products and services.  This position requires creativity, project planning and management, data collection and use and strong interpersonal skills. This position will work closely with other members of a matrixed marketing team, (developers, designers) to determine the goals and outcomes of each project and how the activities fit in the overall marketing strategy for each program, product or service.  They are also responsible for using a variety of marketing and promotional tools to achieve the campaign’s objective and will be responsible for monitoring all phases of each campaign to ensure it runs smoothly. They are responsible for working closely with the Director of Marketing and Communications to ensure each campaign’s effectiveness. This position is also responsible for collecting and managing data and using it to tell impactful stories in compelling, interesting and fun ways.

This position is responsible for marketing and communication that raises brand awareness and recognition, increases desirability of CRS programs, products and services, ensures CRS and/or its programs achieves its annual goals and maintains and reinforces brand integrity.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

Planning, coordinating and managing campaigns for CRS programs and services

• Work closely with the Director to develop detailed plans for promotions in line with the overall marketing strategy.
• Clearly articulate the goals and intended results of each campaign.
• Develop and manage to deliverables timelines that cover the planning and design, development, testing and production of campaign and materials for an on-time launch.
• Ensure each campaign includes a full-spectrum of digital, print and social media tools and activities.
• Collaborate with team members to monitor and ensure the effectiveness of each campaign.

Writing, research and data use

• Write marketing and social media content in a clear, concise, crisp and compelling manner; free of grammatical and syntactical and spelling errors.
• Excellent journalistic writing style
• Write website content that maximizes SEO
• Content writing that represents CRS and its programs, products or services accurately and in line with expectations for preserving brand integrity.
• Inclination to learn and conduct research to enhance ability to present program, product and service in an accurate and well-informed manner.
• Works closely with the Director to collect data that informs marketing efforts, can be used to increase leads and to tell compelling data stories that are relevant and important to current and prospective clients and present CRS as a leader in the SEL industry.

Conference and Event Planning

• Plans, collaborates across the organization and executes on all aspects of conferences that CRS hosts.
• Works closely with the Director to create, and updates on an annual basis, a calendar of conferences (1) regional educator; (2) professional associations; (3) international education; (4) SEL and general education for raising awareness, promoting and generating sales of CRS’ programs, products and services.
• Ensures that the marketing conferences are staffed by the appropriate representatives and they have what they need to be effective at the conference.
• Collaborates on the development of Marketing Consultant guides for use by those presenting at marketing conferences.

Digital Promotional, Informational, Communication Products

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to plan and implement a regular schedule for producing a wide range of print and digital, informational and communication materials including, but not limited to brochures, newsletters, catalogs, cards, blog posts, social media posts, webinars, etc.
• Works closely with internal stakeholders on establishing content and visual direction for products
• Manage production to timeline and budget.

Planning, Creativity and Resilience

• Effective planning, follow-through, time management.
• Takes and responds to feedback on marketing products
• Turns new and imaginative ideas into reality by finding hidden patterns, making connections between incidents, events or trends and generating solutions.
• Uses both conventional methods and critical problem solving to address each situation from a creative viewpoint.
• Can communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, English, communications, journalism or related field
• At least 3 years’ successful marketing project management experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Creativity and strong work ethic
• Strong organization, decision-making, and customer service skills
• Proficient with MS Office Suite and Google Suite
• Ability to work well in a highly collaborative environment
• Caring for and commitment to the mission and vision of CRS
• Regular and reliable attendance
• Ability to travel to conferences and events as needed

Physical Requirements

• Ability to use a computer for up to 8 hours/day with breaks and lunch.
• Ability to talk on the phone for up to 4 hours/day.
• Ability to travel by airplane and automobile, occasionally.

 

These requirements are representative, but not all-inclusive, of the knowledge, skill, and ability required to perform this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This job description is only a summary of the typical functions of this position, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible job responsibilities, tasks and duties.  Responsibilities, tasks, and duties of individual jobholders may vary from the above description.  Other duties, as assigned by the jobholder’s supervisor, may also be required.

How to Apply

To apply for this position, please click here.