Associate Director of Marketing & Communications

iMentor is seeking a passionate storyteller and content creator to help build and strengthen iMentor's content library. This person will create impact for students and mentors by sourcing, developing, and crafting stories and using them to deepen iMentor's relationships with external stakeholders. They will work with the Managing Director of Marketing & Communications, the marketing & communications team, and iMentor's program teams to source and share stories in a variety of ways to elevate brand awareness for iMentor and inspire action: supporting mentor recruitment and fundraising.
The ideal candidate will have experience in researching, writing, editing, and crafting stories and content that moves and inspires, as well as using content management systems to distribute content across channels.Responsibilities

• Developing engaging, compelling, audience-specific content that inspires action, including writing, editing, and sharing content for multi-channel communications
• Developing, managing, and operationalizing a content calendar
• Working closely with regional teams to source mentor/mentee pair stories
• Collaborating with vendors and consultants on graphic design and web development
• Supporting and developing processes for timely content collection
• Identifying and researching new content opportunities
• Helping identify and develop systems for tracking and reporting on content performance and KPIs
  

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience writing and producing content and working with content management systems
• A skilled writer and editor who loves to take raw material and weave it into a compelling story
• Curious about people, their stories, and what motivates them to take action
• A diligent researcher who can track down information, opportunities, and identify elements with potential that others might overlook
• An outgoing people-person who loves collaborating across teams and regions to ensure that everyone's needs are met, with the power to inspire and motivate others
• Graphic design experience a plus
• Email marketing experience a plus
• Nonprofit or education sector experience a plus
• Demonstrated alignment with iMentor's mission, values, and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Views differences between individuals (race, gender, age, cultural heritage, physical ability, education, beliefs, and lifestyle) as an asset and demonstrates an appreciation of the diversity across the iMentor community
• Bachelor's degree required
• Our organization works in partnership with district public schools across the country. In doing so we must meet all compliance requirements of those districts including background checks.
• iMentor is committed to ensuring healthy and safe environments for our staff, mentors, and the students we serve. In order to fully comply with the NYC Vaccine mandate, all iMentor employees (regardless of role or region) are required to be fully vaccinated priority to their start date.
  

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual salary of $75,000-80,000 commensurate with experience
• Up to 100% employer funded comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• 18 days paid annual vacation (increasing annually to 21, 23, 25), 13 paid holidays + your birthday + one floating holiday, iMentor closed between Christmas and New Year's Day, plus 6-7 sick days annually
• 401K match up to 4%
• Significant opportunities for professional development and growth
• Flexible Home/Office/School working arrangement
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Dependent care and health care flexible spending plans
• 1 hour of wellness time off per week for wellness activities of your choosing
• 9 weeks of paid parental leave
  

About iMentor
iMentor believes that all students deserve an equitable chance to pursue their ambitions. Our program builds authentic mentoring relationships in order to bring greater equity to our students' educational journeys. Through these long-term relationships, first-generation, students of color from underserved communities increase their access to the knowledge, experiences, and resources required to succeed in college or their post-secondary pathway of choice, and to pursue their career ambitions.
By partnering with public schools serving primarily first-generation college students and providing every student in the school with a mentor, iMentor supports students' post-secondary journeys with a level of depth and personalization that cannot be matched by traditional advising models. iMentor's students are 37% more likely to enroll in college and are graduating college at double the rates of their peers. Since inception, iMentor has created and supported 38,000 mentoring relationships.
iMentor's Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
We believe that people of all backgrounds deserve equal access to educational opportunities. Recognizing that our country's history of racism and systemic oppression continues to drive educational disparities for students of color, we give special focus to addressing the economic and racial divides that impact the communities we serve. We are committed to the collective work and intentional investment necessary to consistently move in the direction of educational equity and inclusion. Learn more at www.iMentor.org.
Ho... to Apply
Visit www.imentor.org/jobs to submit a resume and detailed cover letter describing your interest in and qualifications for this position. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
iMentor is an Equal Opportunity Employer