Project Coordinator I for Marketing

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Liberty University, Inc. is hiring a Project Coordinator I for Marketing. The role involves coordinating marketing projects from inception to completion, collaborating with creative teams and clients to produce various marketing materials, and ensuring deadlines and workflow procedures are met while acting as a liaison between departments.

Highlights

Coordinate and complete marketing projects including emails, digital ads, mailers, booklets, posters, brochures, and promotional items.
Act as liaison between clients, internal teams, and vendors to ensure clear communication and timely completion of projects.
Manage multiple tasks, enforce workflow procedures, and monitor project progress and deadlines.
Perform frequent data entry related to project management tasks such as accepting projects, assigning tasks, updating details, and creating bids.
Collaborate with internal departments including Analytics and Decision Support (ADS), IT Development, Print Shop, and Purchasing Department.
Obtain necessary approvals on marketing drafts and coordinate all edits with the creative team.
Required skills include proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, strong verbal and written communication, and problem-solving abilities.
Requires a bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or related field, with two years of related experience preferred.
Position is full-time and remote, with occasional in-office requirements in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Liberty University is a Christian religious-affiliated organization committed to equal opportunity employment.

Project Coordinator I for Marketing Full Description

The Project Coordinator works directly with a creative team of writers, designers, and HTML Specialists while being supervised by a Marketing Manager to produce marketing collateral for university departments. The types of projects created include, but are not limited to, emails, digital ads, mailers, booklets, posters, brochures, and promotional items. This position sees projects through from inception to completion while acting as a liaison between departments and marketing to ensure accurate information is shared with the creative team and deadlines are met.
While the Marketing Department home office is in Lynchburg, Va., this position is a remote, work from home position. There are a few occasions where Project Coordinator will be required to be in the office/Lynchburg area which will be discussed after the job offer.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

1. Responsible for the coordination and completion of projects; assists in brainstorming and implementing client marketing plans while setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring progress of projects.

2. Acts as liaison with clients to produce public relations and advertising materials such as direct mail, online and print ads, emails, websites, booklets, brochures, and other marketing collateral.

3. Plans, directs, and implements organizational communications activities. Works with clients and team to ensure that key, strategic messages are communicated effectively to target audiences.

4. Able to manage many tasks at once while staying organized and hitting deadlines.

5. Requires forward thinking, creative problem solving, and strong attention to detail.

6. Enforces workflow procedures to be followed by clients and team members.

7. Frequent data entry is required â accepting projects, assigning out tasks, updating project details, creating bids, and more.

8. Works with management to ensure assignments are completed, deadlines are maintained, and team members stay on task until projects are complete.

9. Acts as client liaison with internal service departments such Analytics and Decision Support (ADS) and IT Development.

10. Works with Liberty's internal Print Shop and Purchasing Department and outside vendors to create, submit, and award bids on promotional materials.

11. Obtains necessary approvals on drafts of marketing projects. Coordinates all requested changes with team members to ensure all edits are completed.

Qualifications, Credentials, and Competencies

A bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field, proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, and ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment are required. Two years of related experience and a bachelor's degree with a specialization in Project Management, Communications, Marketing, or related field are preferred. Effective communication both verbally and in writing. Ability to intuitively reason, analyze information and events, and apply judgment in order to solve problems of both a routine and complex nature.

Target Hire Date

2025-08-01

Time Type

Full time

Location

The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe it is our moral and legal obligation to meet the responsibility of ensuring that all management practices regarding employees are conducted in a nondiscriminatory manner. In compliance with Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and other applicable federal and state statutes, all recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including state of employment protected classes. It is, therefore, our policy and intention to evaluate all employees and prospective employees strictly according to the requirements of the job. All personnel related activities such as compensation, benefits, transfers, job classification, assignments, working conditions, educational assistance, terminations, layoffs, and return from layoffs, and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including all applicable state of employment protected classes. The University is a Christian religious-affiliated organization; and as such, is not subject to religious discrimination requirements. The University's hiring practices and EEO discrimination practices are in full compliance with both federal and state law. Federal law creates an exception to the "religion" component of the employment discrimination laws for religious organizations (including educational institutions), and permits them to give employment practice preference to members of their own religious beliefs.

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