Project Coordinator Marketing

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The Project Coordinator works directly with a creative team of writers, designers, and HTML Specialists while being supervised by a Marketing Manager to produce marketing collateral for university departments. The types of projects created include emails, digital ads, mailers, booklets, posters, brochures, and promotional items. This position sees projects through from inception to completion while acting as a liaison between departments and marketing to ensure accurate information is shared with the creative team and deadlines are met.

While the Marketing Department home office is in Lynchburg, Va., this position is a remote, work‑from‑home role. There are occasional onsite requirements in the Lynchburg area discussed after job offer.

• Coordinate and complete projects; assist in brainstorming and implementing client marketing plans while setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring progress.
• Act as liaison with clients to produce public relations and advertising materials such as direct mail, online and print ads, emails, websites, booklets, brochures, and other marketing collateral.
• Plan, direct, and implement organizational communications activities. Work with clients and team to ensure key, strategic messages are communicated effectively to target audiences.
• Manage multiple tasks simultaneously while staying organized and meeting deadlines.
• Demonstrate forward thinking, creative problem solving, and strong attention to detail.
• Enforce workflow procedures to be followed by clients and team members.
• Perform frequent data entry: accepting projects, assigning tasks, updating details, creating bids, and more.
• Work with management to ensure assignments are completed, deadlines are maintained, and team members stay on task until projects are complete.
• Act as client liaison with internal service departments such as Analytics and Decision Support (ADS) and IT Development.
• Collaborate with Liberty’s internal Print Shop and Purchasing Department and outside vendors to create, submit, and award bids on promotional materials.
• Obtain necessary approvals on drafts of marketing projects. Coordinate all requested changes with team members to ensure edits are completed.

A bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field, proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, and the ability to multi‑task in a fast‑paced environment are required. Two years of related experience and a bachelor’s degree with a specialization in Project Management, Communications, Marketing, or a related field are preferred. Effective written and verbal communication skills. Ability to intuitively reason, analyze information and events, and apply judgment to solve routine and complex problems.

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The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe it is our moral and legal obligation to meet the responsibility of ensuring that all management practices regarding employees are conducted in a nondiscriminatory manner. In compliance with Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and other applicable federal and state statutes, all recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including state of employment protected classes.

It is, therefore, our policy and intention to evaluate all employees and prospective employees strictly according to the requirements of the job. All personnel related activities such as compensation, benefits, transfers, job classification, assignments, working conditions, educational assistance, terminations, layoffs, and return from layoffs, and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including all applicable state of employment protected classes.

The University is a Christian religious‑affiliated organization; and as such, is not subject to religious discrimination requirements. The University’s hiring practices and EEO discrimination practices are in full compliance with both federal and state law. Federal law creates an exception to the “religion” component of the employment discrimination laws for religious organizations (including educational institutions), and permits them to give employment practice preference to members of their own religious beliefs.