Marketing & Communications Associate

Application Deadline: 7 July 2025

Department: Marketing + Design

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: New York | Fidi

Compensation: $70,000 - $90,000 / year

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of firmwide sales and marketing campaigns in collaboration with the CEO, Leadership Team, and external vendors.
• Write and design branded content that reflects the firm’s voice and values and wins project work, including newsletters, firm bios, project one-pagers, and service overviews.
• Maintain and evolve brand consistency across channels—including presentations, reports, digital content, and visuals.
• Direct overall content strategy for social media, website, and newsletters and day-to-day execution (content creation, scheduling, engagement tracking, analytics).
• Support and lead PR initiatives in collaboration with external vendor(s), including press releases, award submissions, media engagement, and executive visibility.

• Project manage and contribute to the full lifecycle of proposal development—content writing, layout/design, submission, and interview preparations.
• Write and design persuasive proposals and pitch decks that respond to client needs and align with our brand.
• Represent marketing in teaming meetings with external partners and clients; lead content coordination and follow-up strategy with internal and external collaborators.
• Support internal go/no-go and prioritization discussions by bringing marketing perspective to pursuit strategy.
• Maintain proposal infrastructure, including templates, resume libraries, and project content databases.

• Write and design a wide range of visual and written marketing materials—including proposals, presentations, project collateral, and digital content—with a focus on clarity, strategic alignment, and brand consistency.
• Lead the development of high-impact visual and editorial content by producing original work and directing junior staff or external creatives as needed.
• Apply strong visual storytelling and layout skills to create compelling graphics, templates, and slide decks that communicate complex ideas clearly and accessibly.
• Review and refine content produced by others to ensure it meets brand standards, communicates clearly, and aligns with marketing and business development strategy.
• Balance both execution and direction by contributing content directly while mentoring junior team members and managing vendor contributions.
  
  

• Design, implement, and manage marketing operations systems (e.g., Trello, SmartSheets, HubSpot, Insightly, Mailchimp, etc) that streamline content production, workflows, and planning.
• Build infrastructure that enables accountability and transparency—ensuring deadlines, contributors, approvals, and assets are clearly tracked and aligned with firm priorities.
• Proactively manage timelines and workflows, using systems to keep team members and contributors on task, elevate high-priority items, and surface blockers, risks, or resource gaps to leadership as needed.
• Champion internal adoption of new tools and processes by training users, creating templates, and aligning tools with cross-functional needs.
• Analyze and report on performance data across marketing channels (e.g., social media, newsletters, proposals), using insights to refine strategies and demonstrate ROI.
• Research, test, and integrate AI and automation tools to improve efficiency and scalability of content creation, design, project management, and campaign execution.
• Act as a systems champion across the team—ensuring marketing tools and workflows are well-integrated, user-friendly, and aligned with firm-wide goals.

• Collaborate on long-term planning for firm visibility, brand positioning, and marketing investment.
• Contribute to visibility initiatives including the firm’s 10-year anniversary campaign, thought leadership, and conferences.
• Serve as a bridge across teams, ensuring that marketing reflects insights from our project work and client partnerships.
  
  

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 3–6 years of experience in marketing, communications, or business development in a mission-driven or professional services setting.
• Expert fluency in English, with exceptional command of grammar, tone, and structure across formats and audiences.
• Excellent writing and editing skills—able to craft persuasive, engaging content in both sales-driven and layperson-friendly language for proposals, pitches, social media, press, and digital platforms.
• Strong visual communication skills with the ability to either design high-impact content directly (e.g., in Adobe Express/Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, InDesign, Wix, Figma) or effectively manage and direct external designers and content creators.
• Project management expertise—comfortable managing timelines, priorities, and deliverables across cross-functional contributors and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience using marketing data and KPIs to evaluate campaign and channel performance, and refine strategy accordingly.
• Familiarity with website content management, including direct experience managing and updating websites using Wix (highly preferred) or similar tools.
• Curiosity and comfort with emerging technologies, including AI tools and automation for content creation, marketing operations, and process improvement.
• Deep cultural competency and demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging—able to incorporate inclusive storytelling and audience awareness into all communications.
• Familiarity with platforms like Insightly, MailChimp, HubSpot, Airtable, Smartsheets, Trello, Google Suite, or other marketing and CRM systems.
• Adaptable, organized, collaborative, and excited to contribute both big-picture strategy and day-to-day execution.

Benefits

• Wellness: Access to in-person and remote wellness services via Primary.
• Health: Medical, dental, and vision insurance; membership to One Medical.
• Rest: 20 PTO days + 7 sick/safe days, with flexible hours and remote work options.
• Savings: 401(k) with employer match; access to HSA, FSA, and commuter benefits.