Integrated Marketing Specialist

Description

This posting will close September 24, 2026, at 11:00 pm central time.

The ELCA is one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States, with 3 million members in more than 8,700 worshipping communities across the 50 states and in the Caribbean region (Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands). With a vision to live in a world experiencing the difference God's grace and love in Christ makes for all people and creation, the ELCA strives to be a welcoming, thriving, and connected church that introduces people to Jesus so they can discover community, justice, and love.

The Lutheran Center (national office) is located in Chicago, Illinois. A staff of 400, under the leadership of the Presiding Bishop, serve as administrators, advisors, conveners, partners, and resource people for the ELCA and its ministries. Staff lead the work of national, domestic, and global ministries and programs including Lutheran Disaster Response, ELCA World Hunger, Service & Justice, Christian Community and Leadership, and Innovation.

We are also home to five of our separately incorporated ministries:
The Mission Investment Fund of the ELCA, Women of the ELCA, Lutheran Men in Mission, the ELCA Foundation and the ELCA Federal Credit Union.

The Mission Investment Fund (MIF), a financial ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, supports the establishment and growth of ELCA congregations, synods, and affiliated ministries by providing loans for capital projects for congregations and ministries. To fund these loans, MIF offers a variety of investments to ELCA members, congregations, and ministries.

The ELCA Federal Credit Union, a financial ministry partner of the Mission Investment Fund, offers financial products and services to members, pastors, congregations, synods, affiliated ministries, and their employees. The portfolio of products includes low-cost loans, deposit accounts, credit cards, and other solutions within a not-for-profit, cooperative structure.

Values - MIF's values are rooted in Christian faith, Lutheran traditions, and our identity as a ministry of the ELCA;
Integrity, Customer Focus, Inclusion and Diversity, Faithful Stewardship, Courage and Openness to Change.

The Integrated Marketing Specialist supports the execution of digital marketing, marketing communications, internal communications and sales enablement initiatives for the Mission Investment Fund and ELCA Federal Credit Union. This role, situated in the marketing team, works closely with internal teams, including Sales, Administration and the Transformation Office, to develop effective marketing and communications deliverables that support established priorities, strengthen audience engagement and align with MIF's brand standards.

The Specialist contributes to the team’s integrated marketing efforts across email, website, social, direct mail, campaigns, presentations and internal communications. This includes writing and developing polished communications and sales materials, designing presentations and visual assets that make information easier to understand, supporting digital and direct mail campaign execution and adapting messaging so it is appropriate for the audience, channel and purpose.

The role also supports internal enterprise-wide communications and presentations, requiring strong writing ability, attention to nuance, confidentiality and the ability to communicate clearly in a regulated financial services environment. This role requires demonstrated ability to shape messages for different mediums, audiences and contexts, whether communicating with employees, leadership, sales, ministry partners or external audiences.

The ideal candidate will be a digitally-fluent marketing generalist who can write clearly, think visually and move comfortably between content development, digital execution, direct mail support, presentation design and internal communications. They should be able to use objectives, source materials and stakeholder input to develop polished, review-ready work with careful attention to accuracy, audience, tone and brand standards, and…