Creative Services Manager

Company Description

About KIPP Texas Public Schools

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a free, public charter school network with more than 45 Pre-K - 12 schools across Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. With over 30 years in Texas, we work together with our families and communities to prepare students for college, career, and beyond! Our schools provide a high-quality, well-rounded education built on academic success and personal growth, where all students learn and thrive in a productive, safe, and joyful way!

As one of the earliest charter networks in Texas-founded in Houston in 1994 and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018-we hire dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join a Team and Family with an unwavering commitment to creating classrooms, offices, and communities rooted in academic success and joy. If you are passionate about joining a mission-driven community that wants every child to "run to school," the KIPP Texas Team and Family is for you!

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 278 schools with nearly 16,500 educators and 190,000 students and alumni.

Job Description

The Opportunity

The Student Enrollment and Data Operations Team is focused on ensuring that schools are fully enrolled so that students are free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities. The team supports this vision through application acquisition, family onboarding, cultivation, and persistence. The creative services manager position will reside within the marketing team and will manage the marketing team's print and digital creative outputs--from concept to on-time completion.

Reporting to the senior director of marketing, this role works with the members of the marketing team, various KIPP Texas enrollment departments, and external vendors to ensure all stakeholders are working together to develop the strongest creative materials and brand presence possible in support of student and staff recruitment, New-to-KIPP enrollment, and student engagement and persistence.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as primary creative design point of contact for the marketing team
• Manage the asset production queue and effectively communicate timelines and progress
• Ensure effective cross-functional communication between the marketing team and other teams throughout the organization (Student Recruitment, Talent Recruitment, New-To-KIPP Enrollment, School Operations, etc.)
• Champion our internal creative processes and effectively manage/utilize our project management software
• Build marketing concepts/visual products from written or verbal ideas
• Actively contribute to the creative process and creation of creative assets and ensure they are in-line with the approved marketing briefs, strategies, and goals
• Assist in execution of all collateral (not limited to flyers, billboards, brochures, digital ads, etc) by, contributing to and reinforcing brand guidelines and ensuring legal compliance
• Lead content marketing strategy, implementation and management of resources in partnership with marketing teammates
• Provide primarily graphic design and/or occasionally copywriting support on a variety of special projects
• Represent the marketing team in various cross-functional meetings, such as timeline reviews, marketing kick-offs, department touch-bases and more
• Co-manage design timelines related to implementation of marketing plans (including campaign launches, social media campaigns, event marketing, etc.) and communicate with all relevant parties to ensure deadlines are met
• Establish & consult on realistic creative timelines for each project;
  Maintain firm but respectful boundaries around timelines and workload
• Manage and assist in planning for and organizing freelance or outsourced capabilities when needed
• Work hands-on in creative production; from concept to photoshoots to file delivery
• Assist with additional tasks/projects as assigned by the senior director of marketing
• Protect the voice, look, and integrity of the KIPP Texas brand

Qualifications

Qualifications

• At least 3-5 years of creative, design, marketing, and/or agency experience
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite required;
  Proficiency in Canva preferred
• Strong understanding in delivery of both digital and print
• Must have a strong portfolio showcasing a variety of creative projects
• Excellent understanding of typography, color theory, layout and branding principles
• Excels at and enjoys creative project management and day-to-day designing
• Hyper-organized and has the ability to motivate others to align to timelines and deadlines
• Strong communication, project management, and client relationship skills
• Ability to prioritize, multitask, and change direction in a fast-paced environment
• High-level of interpersonal skills to handle sensitive and confidential situations…