Position Overview:
The Marketing Manager is a hands-on creative role responsible for producing and managing content that supports CCE’s institutional visibility, fundraising, educational services, and recruitment efforts. Reporting to the Director of Marketing, Communications & Enrollment, this position helps bring CCE’s mission, programs, student outcomes, and community impact to life through strong design, writing, photography, video, social media, newsletters, website content, and branded collateral. This role requires someone who can both create and execute. The successful candidate must be comfortable designing materials, capturing and editing content, writing copy, publishing across platforms, and supporting campaigns for donors, families, volunteers, tutors, partners, and the broader community.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Content Creation and Marketing Execution
- Create content for social media, newsletters, website updates, email campaigns, donor communications, recruitment materials, and institutional collateral.
- Design flyers, one-pagers, invitations, reports, presentations, event materials, digital graphics, and other branded materials.
- Capture and edit photo and video content for social media, website, donor stewardship, recruitment, and program storytelling.
- Write, edit, and publish clear, audience-specific copy across print and digital platforms.
- Maintain consistent brand identity, tone, and visual quality across CCE materials.
Digital Communications and Audience Engagement
- Manage day-to-day social media content creation, scheduling, publishing, and engagement.
- Support website updates, landing pages, blog posts, event pages, and program pages.
- Create and distribute newsletters and email communications.
- Monitor digital performance and help improve audience engagement, visibility, and conversion.
Fundraising, Education, and Recruitment Support
- Support donor-facing materials, campaign content, stewardship pieces, sponsorship materials, event collateral, and impact stories.
- Create materials that support CCE’s educational services, including The Foundations School and other programs.
- Support student recruitment, volunteer recruitment, tutor recruitment, community outreach, and family engagement.
- Work with advancement, school leadership, program teams, and recruitment staff to gather stories, photos, data, and program updates.
Brand and Project Support
- Maintain CCE’s library of photos, videos, logos, templates, collateral, and branded assets.
- Help ensure all materials are accurate, mission-aligned, visually strong, and respectful of student and family privacy.
- Support events, campaigns, media opportunities, and special projects as needed.
Candidate Profile:
We are seeking someone who is:
- A creative doer who can design, write, shoot, edit, post, and manage content.
- Comfortable taking an idea from concept to finished product.
- Skilled in graphic design, social media, digital content, newsletters, and visual storytelling.
- Able to create polished materials without relying on outside designers for every project.
- Organized, responsive, collaborative, and able to manage multiple deadlines.
- Mission-aligned and interested in education, creativity, student success, and community impact.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred in marketing, communications, graphic design, public relations, journalism, digital media, education, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience in marketing, communications, content creation, graphic design, social media, digital media, or related work.
- Experience creating marketing materials, social media content, newsletters, website content, and branded collateral required.
- Experience with nonprofit, education, school, youth-serving, arts, or mission-driven organizations preferred.
- Experience supporting fundraising, donor communications, enrollment marketing, recruitment, or community outreach is a plus.
Portfolio or work samples are required. Candidates should be prepared to share examples of graphic design, social media content, writing, video, newsletters, collateral, campaigns, or other creative work they personally created or significantly produced.
Key Capabilities
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
- Strong graphic design and layout skills.
- Strong social media content creation skills.
- Ability to shoot and edit basic video content for web and social platforms.
- Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills.
- Comfort with email marketing, newsletters, website updates, and digital publishing.
- Ability to create content for families, donors, funders, educators, volunteers, tutors, and community partners.
- Strong project management, organization, judgment, and follow-through.
Preferred Technical Skills
Experience with some or all of the following is preferred:
- Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, or comparable graphic design tools
- Video editing tools such as Adobe Premiere, CapCut, iMovie, Canva Video, or similar platforms
- Email marketing platforms such as Mailchimp, Constant Contact, or similar tools
- Website platforms such as WordPress or comparable content management systems
- Social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and emerging platforms as appropriate
- Basic photography and videography
- CRM, donor database, or contact management systems
- Google Workspace and/or Microsoft Office
What Will Set You Apart
- You are not just comfortable with marketing ideas; you can actually create the materials.
- You have a strong design eye and understand how visuals shape public perception.
- You can capture a classroom moment, student project, donor event, or community story and turn it into meaningful content.
- You understand that marketing supports fundraising, enrollment, recruitment, credibility, and trust.
- You can balance creativity with deadlines, accuracy, brand consistency, and organizational priorities.
- You are energized by helping CCE tell its story as both a local education organization and a broader model for what can work in education.
Work Environment and Expectations
- This is an in-person role based in West Palm Beach, Florida.
- Regular presence on campus is important to capture content, understand the mission, and stay connected to students, staff, families, programs, and events.
- This role requires close collaboration with the Director of Marketing, Communications & Enrollment, Chief Advancement Officer, advancement staff, recruitment staff, school leadership, program teams, and executive leadership.
- Some evening and occasional weekend work may be required for events, school activities, donor engagement, community outreach, and content capture.
- The role requires creativity, responsiveness, strong follow-through, and the ability to manage multiple projects at once.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Simple IRA with company match
- Life and disability insurance
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Professional development opportunities
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to safely and successfully perform essential job functions in accordance with ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards
- Ability to lift and carry up to 40 pounds
- Ability to talk, listen, and speak clearly on the telephone
- Must successfully pass a Level II background check through AHCA and be cleared through the Department of Homeland Security
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $60,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year
Application Question(s):
- • What personal experiences have shaped your fundraising philosophy?
- • Walk us through how you’ve previously identified and researched a potential major donor. What tools or strategies did you use, and how did you turn research into meaningful engagement?
- Portfolio or work samples are required. Candidates should be prepared to share examples of graphic design, social media content, writing, video, newsletters, collateral, campaigns, or other creative work they personally created or significantly produced.
Education:
Experience:
- Fundraising Strategy, Donor Engagement and Stewardship: 5 years (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
