Marketing & Events Coordinator

Family Violence Project (FVP) is working to end domestic violence in Kennebec and Somerset counties in Maine. We believe it will take the whole community to accomplish our mission. This includes a strong and committed, diverse workforce. If you are seeking a challenging position in a critical field of advocacy and social justice, please consider the following open position:

Family Violence Project seeks a full-time Marketing & Events Coordinator to support our agency’s marketing, communications, and fundraising events. Working under the direction of the Development & Community Engagement Director, this position will help bring the agency’s mission, programs, events, and fundraising initiatives to life through strong visual and written communications and well-coordinated events.

The Marketing & Events Coordinator will design and write print and digital materials, including event promotions, advertisements, social media content, newsletters, appeals, presentations, signage, and other communications while maintaining consistent agency branding. This position will maintain website content and help coordinate email marketing, media outreach, social media content and scheduling, and will handle the printing and production of agency materials. Working with direction and approval from the Development & Community Engagement Director, the Marketing & Events Coordinator will help coordinate all aspects of fundraising events from planning through post-event follow-up, including sponsorship fulfillment, guest communications, promotional activities, and day-of operations.

The coordinator will work with agency staff, sponsors, vendors, and community partners to successfully carry out events and related activities. This position will also provide administrative support for fundraising activities as needed, including donor database updates, gift entry, acknowledgments, mailing lists, and donor recognition.

This is a full-time, 32-hour per week non-exempt position with a Monday through Thursday, 8:30am to 5:00pm schedule; each day includes a half-hour unpaid lunch break. Some evening and weekend hours are required for events and other activities. After one year of successful employment, a person may have the option to work from a home office. Excellent benefits are provided for the employee, including free health insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.

Vision, dental and supplemental insurances, as well as health insurance for dependents, are available efits also include paid time off (beginning with three weeks of accrued time per year), fourteen paid holidays each year, and a 403(b)- retirement plan with an employer match. The starting pay range for this position is $37,024 annually ($22.25 per hour) to $44,428 annually ($26.70 per hour), based on experience.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, climb stairs, sit (including prolonged sitting), talk, and listen. The employee is also required to operate a computer using a standard keyboard and mouse; use a fax machine, printer, scanner, and copier; and communicate using a telephone. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.

The ideal candidate will have at least one year of demonstrated experience planning and coordinating events and at least one year of experience creating marketing and communications content for social media, email, and websites. The successful candidate will have professional-level graphic design skills using Canva, Adobe products, or comparable software, and will…