Join one of the fastest-growing and most innovative companies in international development – Devex. Serving more than 100,000 international development professionals from around the world, Devex is a social enterprise founded at Harvard University in the year 2000 with a mission to bring efficiency to international development, global health, and humanitarian relief. Today, we are a 75-person company with offices in Washington, DC, Manila, Tokyo, and Barcelona. We provide an online platform that provides recruiting, business development, and networking services to international development professionals around the world. For entrepreneurial, motivated, and energetic professionals, we offer tremendous opportunity for personal and professional growth.

Devex operates one of the most popular websites in international development – devex.com. Already, over 100,000 professionals utilize our website but we believe there is a tremendous opportunity to expand our site by attracting highly-relevant traffic to devex.com. This would be the primary mission of the Web Marketing Associate, a position that has been newly created to take advantage of this growth opportunity.

Position Description:****

The Web Marketing Associate position is a unique opportunity for a web-savvy professional with a deep commitment to international development to play a key role in growing the largest global network of international development professionals. The ideal candidate will be extremely familiar with the web and how to drive web traffic, including Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In addition to web expertise, the successful candidate must have the interpersonal skills to develop content partnerships and link relationships with other organizations. The Web Marketing Associate must also have sufficient knowledge of international development and know the major websites and organizations in this field in order to develop sound marketing strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Managing the search engine optimization of devex.com


• Developing content partnerships with other organizations and websites


• Communicating with existing users to encourage online networking and site traffic growth

Qualifications:

• Very web savvy professional with extensive knowledge of Facebook, LinkedIn, and other online networking platforms, blog and discussion sites, and SEO


• Entrepreneurial mindset with an interest in working in a growing online company


• Strong interest in and knowledge of international development


• Strong writing skills


• Bachelor’s degree


• 0-3 years experience (recent graduates may apply)

Details:

• Position is part of our Marketing & Creative Services Team, a global team responsible for overall corporate marketing


• Position based in our Washington, DC office, but we are open to work-from-home arrangements


• Full-time position, but we are open to part-time or consultancy arrangements for the right candidate


• US citizenship or permanent residency required


• Salary range: competitive for entry-level positions in the Washington, DC area, and based upon experience; compensation in part based upon site traffic targets


Application Instructions:

Please submit your Devex profile by clicking on the green button entitled, “Apply for this job.” If you do not have a profile on our site, you may send your CV via email to Meryl Ferry at meryl.ferry@devex.com. Please reference the job title in the subject of your email.