Marketing Associate

Clark Construction Group•McLean, VA

About The Position

Clark is seeking a Marketing Associate to join its creative, collaborative, and high-energy team. As part of the Marketing team, the associate contributes to the development of proposals, presentations, and other materials that help win new projects. The role focuses on maintaining accurate project information, supporting proposal closeout activities, coordinating project data with Corporate Communications, and capturing information for priority pursuits. The position is primarily based in a professional office, with occasional travel to other locations, including construction sites. It involves extended periods of focused desk work, detailed computer work and document review, movement throughout the office, and occasional handling of objects weighing up to 25 pounds. Construction-site visits may involve outdoor weather, louder noise, and moving equipment; employees must follow applicable safety policies and laws. The role is in a demanding, high-performance environment and may require extended hours and responsiveness to time-sensitive communications or emergencies outside regular working hours.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with a major in Communications, English, Business, Political Science, or another relevant focus involving writing, communication, and critical analysis.
One or more years of relevant and successful proposal and/or management experience.
Ability to write and communicate clearly and compellingly, with strong English grammar and attention to detail.
Strong organizational, planning, and project management skills, including the ability to coordinate team members across multiple deadlines.
Strong work ethic, problem-solving skills, a hands-on approach, and a team-oriented attitude.
Alignment with Clark Standards of Excellence: self-motivated, results-oriented, adaptable, a team player, accountable, ethical, innovative, resilient, relationship-building, able to build people/teams and followership, and able to set direction and execute.
Ability to perform prolonged periods of focused work and detailed computer and document-review tasks.
Ability to move actively throughout the office and travel occasionally to various locations, including construction sites.
Ability to lift and move objects up to 10 pounds regularly and up to 25 pounds occasionally.
Flexibility to work extended hours during critical project phases or client deadlines and to monitor and respond to communications when business needs or emergencies require it.
Required to complete a pre-employment drug fitness-for-duty screening and participate in random quarterly drug fitness-for-duty testing.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry.
Salesforce experience.
Technical writing background and/or marketing experience for professional services.
Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, primarily InDesign and Illustrator, for professional document design, layout, and production.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain content for the marketing information database covering past, current, and future projects.
Audit past project information for completeness and accuracy.
Audit current project information for completeness and accuracy.
Execute the formal data-capture process for future projects across the country.
Track national proposal closeout activities.
Collaborate with Corporate Communications to reconcile project information across award submissions, the intranet, publications, the external website, social media, and other channels.
Capture unique data in support of priority target pursuits.