Marketing & Development Manager - Partners for Youth with Disabilities

Marketing & Development Manager

40 hours/week – FLSA Status – Non-Exempt

We help young people with disabilities reach their potential through mentorship, career development, and leadership programs while guiding organizations to build disability-inclusive environments. Through innovative programs we break down barriers, providing the support and resources needed to increase participation and inclusion for disabled youth and forward-thinking organizations.

Description

The Marketing & Development Manager supports the Senior Administration team to plan and execute marketing and development strategies. Under the general direction of the Executive Director, the Marketing and Development Manager will support development projects to provide the highest level of service, attention, and recognition to PYD’s donors. The Marketing and Development Manager will act as the day-to-day lead for social media content, calendar manager and post creation, including planning and scheduling content. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter, team player and excellent communicator with excellent skills creating, developing, writing, and reporting in various forms of communication, including blogs, marketing and social media campaigns, and special events, and donor cultivation letters and materials. Through their work, this professional will assist to drive revenue growth to meet the operational budget targets both annually and long term.

Founded in 1985, PYD serves youth ages six to twenty-six with a broad range of disabilities across Massachusetts, with select programming offered nationally. In addition, PYD increases the inclusivity of workplaces, organizations, and communities across the country through coalition building, innovative programs, and supportive services. Since our founding, PYD has grown from one program serving nine youth to an array of award-winning programs, including Mentoring, Career Readiness, Youth Leadership Forum, Young Leaders Rising, the National Disability Mentoring Coalition, LEARN, and the National Career Readiness Certification. We empower more than 500 youth with disabilities each year and have trained more than 15,000 people from over 300 organizations in inclusion best practices.

PYD’s programs are community based with headquarters located in Boston, MA. The position is a full- time, hybrid job. Currently, all staff are expected to work in the Boston office two days a week.

Key Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Executive Director, this role will support development efforts, and is responsible for marketing, social media, and related content creation for PYD.

Marketing and Social Media responsibilities:

• In coordination with other PYD staff, support maintenance of all social media channels. Act as day-to-day lead for content calendar management and post creation, including planning and scheduling content for all social media channels and the PYD blog.
• Writes blogs, social media content, flyers, and other promotional collateral, and when necessary, in collaboration with program managers.
• Attend programs and events regularly to take pictures and videos for social media and marketing and development materials.
• Analyze and report on social media performance to help inform new strategies and marketing, providing updates to senior leadership.

Development responsibilities:

• Assist the Executive Director and PYD leadership in planning, coordination and execution of PYD events and development campaigns.
• Oversees the logistics of PYD events, including booking vendors, locations, organizing staff into roles,creating and printing event materials, or other services. Ensures the smooth running of those events.
• Oversee organization-wide events calendar to ensure all events are updated promptly.
• Ensure that development campaigns (giving Tuesday, annual appeal, etc) are completed in a timely, efficient, thoughtful, and accurate way.
• Ensure effective and accurate documentation of relevant funder/donor information and ongoing database management to support development operations.
• Creates development material- fundraising cards, reports, or email campaigns.
• Manages the development department’s correspondence.
• Provides support to the senior management team on any necessary tasks.

Who You Are:

You must be:

• Legally authorized to work in the U.S.
• Passionate about working with youth with disabilities and have an unshakable belief in their potential and a strong commitment to the mission of PYD.
• Available for occasional evening and weekend programming.
• An excellent writer with the ability to draft different types of materials.
• Able to work both collaboratively as part of a team and independently with excellent project management skills.
• An innovative creative thinker.
• Have excellent project management and organizational skills with strong attention to detail.
• Able to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
• Have very strong computer skills, preferably including Canva, Adobe Photoshop, social media platforms, Microsoft Office Suite including mail merge. Have very strong social media skills, including active and creative TikTok and Instagram account experience.

It would also be great if you:

• Have a bachelor’s degree.
• Are bilingual skill in ASL, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, or Mandarin
• Have experience with community engagement with motivation and aptitude for networking/outreach.
• Have experience with marketing including material design, blogging, and social media management.
• Have experience with data management, including Salesforce, or an equivalent database.

What You will Get:

• Compensation range of $53,000-60,000
• Health/Dental/Vision Insurance individual and family coverage with a generous employer contribution.
• Employee Assistance Program, including unlimited, confidential, 24/7, phone counseling services and up to three free, in-person counseling sessions, plus a lot more.
• Employer Paid Insurance includeslife, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with 3% employer contribution.
• Provision of necessary technology to be effective in your role.
• Extensive training from PYD with a disability inclusion focus and other professional development opportunities.
• Access to free professional development opportunities through PYD Learn which features self-directed coursework and resources on disability inclusion and disability mentoring best practices.
• Limited reimbursement for travel to PYD approved programming and community events.
• Internet reimbursement up to $35/month while required to complete some service from home.
• Paid Time Off including vacation time starting at 15 days per year, sick time at 12 days per year, 14 paid holidays per year, and personal time of 3 days per year.
• Supportive Staff Culture committed to providing our employees with the support & accomodations they need to be successful.

How to Apply:

• Note: A recent writing sample of no more than five pages must be submitted to be considered for this position.

Diversity & Inclusion – Inclusion Promise

At Partners for Youth with Disabilities, we welcome and include people of all abilities, identities, and backgrounds. We believe that a diverse and fully inclusive organization empowers individuals, heals communities, and creates a better world for us all. As such, we are committed to equal opportunity and the diversity of our workforce and do not exclude, deny benefits to, or otherwise discriminate against any person on account of that individual's gender, race, color, religion, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status or any other protected category under applicable law.

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