Marketing Manager (Direct Marketing)

World Vision is hiring a Marketing Manager to serve on the Direct Marketing Team.

At a Glance 
Role: Marketing Manager
Location: Remote from within the U.S.; Hybrid if located near D.C. or Seattle
Reports to: Director of Direct Marketing
Required Experience: Bachelor's degree in marketing, business or related field. Requires a minimum of five years of experience in marketing, fundraising or related area.
Work Authorization: Must be authorized to work in the U.S.A. for any employer.
Travel: Up to 10% of time within the U.S. 
Estimated Salary Range: $70,000 - $85,000

The Job
World Vision is looking for a Marketing Manager to join our talented direct marketing team and work on mail campaigns. You’ll have a pivotal role in managing assigned fundraising program(s) for mass marketing, supporting channel & marketing campaigns through entire life-cycle of development to execution, and managing robust budgetary cost centers while helping achieve direct marketing business goals. S/he will help carry out our Christian organization’s mission, vision, and strategies with their work. The Marketing Manager will personify the ministry of World Vision by witnessing to Christ and ministering to others through life, deed, word and sign. This role has no director reports and will be an important individual contributor within the Direct Marketing Team. 

Your Responsibilities Will Include: 

• Keep Christ central in individual and corporate life. Actively participate in and contribute to the spiritual disciplines of the organization (Christian conduct, chapel, prayer, worship, devotions and the leadership of devotions); incorporate WV Core Values into decisions within scope of role.
• Manage the activities of partners, agencies, suppliers, and/or internal support departments and divisions in the execution of tactical marketing activities.
• Manage and/or support programs/projects.  Develop business cases at a strategic and tactical level to ensure the initiative is successfully launched, nurtured and matured.
• Monitor results and recommend changes to strategies.  Be responsible for supplying estimated and actual costs, audience, campaign source codes, and other critical campaign related data to ensure accurate and timely reporting of campaign outcomes.
• Provide technical expertise cross-functionally and across the organization to manage and optimize marketing efforts on an assignment basis.
• Coordinate the creative review process for all direct marketing campaigns, including routing/trafficking/consolidating edits and feedback with internal & external partners.
• Verify invoices against contract activity.  Process invoices and coordinate payment to actual for project assignments.
• Coordinate and Partner effectively with Vendor Contract Services (VCS) on agency contracts & Scope of Work (SOW).
• Develop and manage and/or support project budgets, including expenses and anticipated income and/or retention outcomes.  
• In a timely manner, provide expense and income reconciliation of budget to actual, budget to plan, and plan to actual for project assignment.  
• May participate in overall division budgeting process and ensure alignment of department budget.

You Bring These Skills:

• Fundraising Knowledge: Knows what it takes to develop and/or support a successful fundraising campaign, appeal or program. Understands fundraising sources and competition for funds.
• Project Management: Breaks projects down into time-phases and measurable milestones. Ensures activities produce results within constraints. Identifies people and resources needed.
• Planning and Organizing: Establishes a systematic course of action for self or others to ensure accomplishment of a specific objective. Determines priorities and allocates time and resources effectively.
• Budgeting: Understands fundamentals of complex organizational budgeting.
• Attention to Accuracy: Through the process of fact checking, and proofreading demonstrates a concern and commitment to accuracy and an attention to detail.
• Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes situations and/or issues, considers options, develops and decides on solutions, recommends and/or implements and monitors appropriate solutions.
• Deadline Orientation: Works effectively in a deadline driven environment, meeting or exceeding time and quality expectations.
• Communication: Presents ideas articulately. Uses effective listening skills to promote the free flow of information.
• Shows consistency between words and actions. Works collaboratively with others to promote consistent communication across the department.
• Results Orientation: Drives for quality results and success; demonstrates a sense of urgency in achieving goals; persists despite obstacles.
• Proofreading/Editing: Proofreads/edits all documents for accuracy, grammar, syntax, etc. to provide a quality product for customers.

Education and Experience: 

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, business or related field or equivalent work experience (eight years).
• In addition to education or education equivalent, requires a minimum of five years of experience in marketing, fundraising or related area. 
• Experience with physical mail campaigns preferred.

Additional Skills We Are Interested In:

• Strong attention to detail is vital to this role (creative review process, proofreading, and budgetary details).
• Highly task-oriented that requires a significant level of heads down work and focus time on assignments & projects as assigned.

Salary Range & Benefits: 

• WVUS Pay Grade Level: 223
• The estimated hiring range is $70,000 – $85,000 a year.
• The full earning capabilities for this position is $64,117.30 – $98,616.96
• This range applies to locations with a market similar to our Washington D.C. and Seattle-area office. A different range may apply based on your work location.
• Job offers are based on relevant qualifications and pay equity.
• Please indicate your salary expectations in the application.
• In addition, we have a robust and comprehensive benefits package to round our total compensation package. Click here to learn more.
• Merit, auto allowance, and relocation may be available to eligible to some employees based on the role.

Where This Job Could Take Your Career: 
You'll have opportunities to advance within our robust and talented group of professionals as you continue to stretch and grow your career for the future.   You’ll be part of World Vision USA as well as part of the larger World Vision International Partnership. Globally, we have over 40,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries (~1,000 staff with World Vision US). 

 
About World Vision: 
We're a global Christian humanitarian organization. We partner with children, families, and their communities to empower them as they reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. For nearly 70 years, World Vision has followed Jesus' example to show unconditional love to the poor and oppressed. We serve every child regardless of faith.
 
What Happens Next? 
Applications are reviewed weekly. Short-listed candidates will be contacted for an initial phone conversation with a recruiter. If questions arise on our end about your application, we will message you to learn more. We encourage you to submit a PDF resume and a cover letter! Our goal is to fill this vacancy with the right person in the shortest amount of time.