Focus on the Family-posted about 1 month ago
$26 - $30/Yr
Full-time • Entry Level
Colorado Springs, CO
501-1,000 employees
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

The Email Marketing Specialist position exists to be responsible for administrating, coding, and deploying mass-market email, push and SMS notification campaigns. This position works with the Email Marketing Team to help impact relevance, incorporate best industry practice, and create error free production and distribution of each deployment.

  • Keeps at the forefront of the technical, analytical, and marketing concerns of email marketing
  • Manages the digital processes from creation through deployment while keeping on a strict schedule
  • Launches campaigns to the entire base or segmented list to our constituents
  • Initiates A/B testing toward improving key metrics (i.e., opens, clicks, and conversion)
  • Contributes and adheres to the development of department standards and processes
  • Steers the resolution of technical and business problems that result from assigned activities
  • Establishes and maintains a healthy give / take atmosphere of respect between ministry contacts and the Digital Interactive Marketing team
  • Creates, specifies, and recommends improvements that will increase value for the ministry and additional revenue, based on a sound understanding of the ministries' unique business challenges
  • Creates innovative marketing solutions that maximize the internet's strength
  • Brings strategic vision and objectivity to the Digital Interactive Marketing team, keeping all work in focus and on target to achieve significant returns on objectives
  • Helps develops base email contact strategies, and robust test matrix
  • Works with the data services team to execute list segmentation to impact relevance
  • Measures the effectiveness of initiatives to improve relevancy
  • Creates Dynamic content to target relevant content via digital marketing
  • Acts as a team representative on technical development projects that impact product, key metrics, and relevancy
  • Contributes to strategic and tactical planning
  • Masters software utilized by the ministry (Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Litmus, Aprimo and Photoshop)
  • Performs other duties as assigned
  • Exemplifies Ephesians 5:1-2, "Therefore be imitators of God as dear children and walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us..."
  • Pursues the Great Commission given by Jesus Christ in Matthew 28:19-20, "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
  • Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ; maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Focus; adheres to the Standard of Moral Conduct and Statement of Faith; upholds Focus on the Family's ministry in prayer
  • Prays personally for Focus on the Family's staff and constituents and may occasionally lead in a public prayer
  • Engages in Christian ministry
  • Demonstrates behaviors aligned with FOF core values
  • Bachelor's degree (or strong experience) in the Computer Science is desired
  • Experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud preferred, Enterprise ESP expected
  • 2-4 years of proven experience coding using a HTML & CSS
  • Coding experience for responsive email design
  • Understanding of AMPScript
  • 2-4 years of experience in digital marketing: online advertising, creative development, online media, site design and development, and/or managing Web sites preferred
  • 2-4 years of Database/Direct Marketing experience preferred
  • An Email/e-newsletter guru
  • Photoshop, and Adobe Creative Suite preferred
  • A/B testing experience preferred
  • Preferred programming knowledge (SQL, Javascript, etc.)
  • Ability to successfully organize, prioritize and manage multiple online projects in a deadline-driven environment
  • Effective problem-solving skills, specifically the ability to assess situations, evaluate options and make decisions/draw conclusions
  • Superior writing, communication, and presentation skills
  • Understanding of the overall media landscape and the digital sector
  • Ability to grasp, understand, and discuss complex technical and analytical topics
  • Willingness to adapt to multiple environments
  • Experience and expertise with high-level contact management and digital marketing development
  • Creativity and inventiveness in problem solving
  • Spreadsheet manipulation and basic statistical analysis
  • Experienced with online marketing tools (i.e., Litmus, Return Path, Mail Chimp, etc.)
  • Ability to work well in a team, to shine as an individual and to maintain a sense of humor
  • Extensive knowledge of email marketing, a desire for ownership
  • Ability to juggle multiple tasks without losing your focus
  • Excellent organizational and record keeping skills
  • Analytical bias
  • Curiosity -- about what our competitors are doing, about how our users think, about how our products work, about what others inside Focus would like to try, and about how ourvendors' other clients do things
  • Experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud preferred, Enterprise ESP expected
  • Photoshop, and Adobe Creative Suite preferred
  • A/B testing experience preferred
  • Preferred programming knowledge (SQL, Javascript, etc.)
  • Norton LifeLock ID Theft Coverage
  • Legal Shield/ID Shield Coverage
  • AFLAC
  • 403B Retirement Plan
  • Vacation Time & Vacation Payout
  • Sick Time
  • Holidays
  • Service Awards
  • Community Service Days
  • Bookstore Discount
  • Fitness Center
  • Medical Plan
  • Dental Plan
  • Vision Plan
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Warehouse Membership Reimbursement
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