National Cathedral School (NCS) seeks a Digital Marketing Manager, whose primary role will be to manage an integrated, multi-channel portfolio - including website, social media, and e-mail - to develop engaging and visual online communications that tell the story of the school and advance the school’s strategic priorities.

A successful candidate will produce work that compellingly conveys NCS’s unique mission and how students, faculty, staff, and alumnae live out the school’s core values. The Digital Marketing Manager will be equally comfortable producing quick-turnaround projects and longer-term, high-impact communications, knowing there will be opportunity throughout the year for both. The Digital Marketing Manager reports to the Head of Strategic Marketing and Communications.  

The Digital Marketing Manager will be joining a dynamic and collaborative team at an exciting time, as the team embarks on developing a comprehensive marketing and communications strategy.  There will be space to propose new ideas, innovate and get in at the ground-level of impactful, important work that helps NCS achieve its mission.

Responsibilities:

• Project manage the school’s public-facing and internal website refreshes, with direction from the Head of Strategic Marketing and Communications and the goal of making the site more dynamic and engaging, working with vendor and internal resources 
• Coordinate website experience maintenance, working with the communications colleagues and web/data services teams to ensure an updated website
• Manage the social media editorial calendar and create content for the school’s social media channels, including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube; conduct social media listening
• Coordinate regular mass communications, including newsletters and portal information, to students, faculty, staff, and alumnae
• Assist the Head of Strategic Marketing and Communications in developing a digital strategy based on metrics, feedback, and innovation, looking regularly for improvement opportunities
• Track engagement levels and metrics across all digital channels, identifying trends and areas for improvement
• Assist in the creation of digital templates and infrastructure to support communications such as newsletters, calendars, and portals, in conjunction with other communications team members
• Serve as primary photographer to capture the life of the school during both planned and ad hoc moments for use in digital and print channels, with the exception of major schoolwide events like Commencement
• Shoot and edit short-form videos for social media
• Organize and maintain a database of video footage and photography 
• Work with and continue to identify freelance videographers and photographers who can assist in the creation of distinctive digital materials, and successfully manage working relationships with them, including by creating and meeting production schedules and budgets 
• Coordinate and collaborate with Communications colleagues as to create a team environment that is highly connected, supportive, and engaged.
• Support the communications department as needed in fulfilling its mission to provide consistent, high-quality visual and narrative content, compelling storytelling, and clear and consistent information across digital channels, including collaboration with Development, Admissions and other departments as needed 

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, digital media, or a related field 
• Minimum of two years of relevant professional experience 
• Experience managing professional social media channels
• Experience shooting photos for professional use
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite or similar video- and photo-editing software 
• Strong interpersonal skills that allow the establishment and development of solid, collaborative working relationships 
• Experience and skill managing multiple deadlines and a complex calendar of assignments 
• Familiarity with a content management system preferred
• Experience in video creation preferred 
• Experience in graphic design preferred 

About National Cathedral School

National Cathedral School for Girls serves 580 students in grades 4 through 12. Faculty and staff are curious intellectually, advocates of lifelong learning, flexible, collaborative, and view education as an engaging vocation. Students thrive in an intellectual environment and love to be challenged. NCS graduates are recognized as highly motivated and confident. Faculty and staff maintain a lively conversation about the meaning of all-girls education, an interest in pedagogy, and innovative uses of technology. As an Episcopal school, NCS welcomes people of all backgrounds and faiths while maintaining a close identity with Washington National Cathedral’s commitment to be a house of prayer for all people. Located in Northwest Washington on 57 beautiful acres, the Cathedral Close is home to NCS, St. Albans School for Boys, and Beauvoir: The National Cathedral Elementary School. NCS is committed to leadership in multicultural education and a culturally diverse faculty and staff. The school therefore seeks applications from candidates who will contribute to an atmosphere in which all are valued and supported.

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