Marketing Specialist Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Project Management, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of traffic management, marketing operations, project management, creative operations, or comparable experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent marketing or digital projects with competing priorities and deadlines.
• Strong working knowledge of project management principles, workflow development, project intake, capacity planning, approvals, and status reporting.
• Hands-on proficiency with project management and collaboration platforms such as Monday.com, Workfront, or comparable systems.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills, including identifying missing information, anticipating bottlenecks, and keeping complex work moving.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication across individual contributors, managers, and team stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, manage ambiguity, and maintain accuracy and follow-through.
• Ability to travel to the Middle Tennessee area 2–4 times annually for team gatherings.
• Active involvement in an evangelical Christian church.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree.
• Experience supporting paid media programs in a matrixed organization.
• Experience administering Monday.com, including workflow configuration, dashboards, automations, forms, and templates.
• Project management certification or training.
• Experience with campaign calendars and launch-readiness processes.
• Working knowledge of digital marketing terminology and campaign lifecycles.
• Experience in retail, eCommerce, publishing, ministry/nonprofit, or a multi-brand and multi-audience organization.

Responsibilities

• Live out Lifeway’s mission and values, demonstrating commitment to Kingdom work.
• Act as the day-to-day project liaison, track deliverables against scope, collect internal input from marketing partners, and deliver work to Strategists for campaign implementation.
• Manage paid media request intake and ensure objectives, audiences, budgets, deliverables, timing, and success measures are defined before scheduling work.
• Track workload against team capacity, identify competing priorities and tradeoffs for Paid Media Strategists, and route work according to leadership priorities.
• Build and maintain project plans, timelines, milestones, and approval paths in the project management tool, following work from kickoff through completion.
• Follow up on creative, copy, landing pages, and tracking requirements, and confirm assets meet platform specifications.
• Identify risks, missing requirements, and approval delays early; escalate material concerns with context and options to help prevent schedule slippage.
• Maintain the paid media budget tracker, process insertion orders and purchase requisitions, and shepherd payments through accounts payable.
• Administer access to advertising platforms and shared tools, and keep project systems, dashboards, calendars, and campaign archives accurate.
• Facilitate kickoffs, status meetings, and retrospectives; report project status, workload, and delivery to leadership; and help improve intake, workflow, and approval processes.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits plans for eligible full-time employees, including healthcare.
• Vacation and sick time.
• Holiday pay.
• Care days.
• 401(k) plan.
• Maternity and parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Mission trip time.
• Equipment and resources for a productive and ergonomic workspace.
• Travel for key team gatherings for remote-based team members.
• Autonomy and flexibility with work hours.