Digital Marketing Associate

Job Description

We’re looking for a Digital Marketing Associate with 2 - 4 years of experience in New York City. Acumen NY is working under a hybrid model and working in the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

About Acumen
Acumen is changing the way the world tackles poverty by investing in companies, leaders, and ideas. We invest patient capital in businesses whose products and services help people living in poverty to transform their lives. To date, Acumen has positively impacted over 500 million lives by investing $154.4M in 167 innovative, early-stage companies in Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the United States. But investment isn’t just about capital, we’ve been investing in relationships for years, connecting with emerging leaders in their own countries and engaging them in extended collective dialogue, moral inquiry, and skill building.

About Acumen Academy
Acumen Academy is the world’s school for social change. We aim to unleash a new generation of social innovators and leaders with the character and competence to solve problems of poverty and build a world based on dignity. Anyone with an internet connection, anywhere in the world, can access the practical tools, practices, resources, and supportive community they need to achieve positive social change. With 1,200 Fellows and Accelerator alumni, and 1.2M course sign-ups from 193 countries, the Acumen Academy community represents a new generation of social innovators and leaders committed to doing what’s right in a world that loves easy.

About the role
The Acumen Academy community is filled with potential leaders and their stories of success and even meaningful failures. In a field of over 500,000 Acumen Academy students, we need to identity them and tell their stories in a cohesive and compelling manner across our digital properties. This is where you come in: the media savvy storyteller who knows how to build relationships with community, media outlets, and thought leaders. You’ll work closely with our community, product, and marketing teams to discover leaders within our community of course takers and then distill our collective story into a consistent, compelling, and brand-aligned narrative. Accountabilities include:

• Craft and manage impactful campaigns to a large, global and growing audience
• Work with our community and product team to identify candidates for our Corps of social change leaders
• Integrate yourself into product, content, and marketing workflows to surface material to share more broadly while ensuring consistent messaging and visuals across our public-facing elements
• Cultivate reciprocal professional relationships with key community members, sector influencers, bloggers, journalists, press, media outlets, podcasters etc…
• Become one of the “faces” and “voices” of Acumen Academy in video, live feeds and podcasts
• Distill a growing library of courses, videos, interviews and transcripts into engaging content
• Work with Acumen’s offices around the globe to deepen or establish their media and social presence

Qualifications and skills

• 2 - 4 years of experience
• Familiarity and fluency with CMS and backend systems
• A social media native, fluent in Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn (and are always on the lookout for other emerging platforms)
• A passion for community outreach
• Can create content that packs a punch
• Can create digital campaigns that drive engagement and reach
• Understands the backend of CMS platforms
• Proficient in SEO, able to identify key words and opportunities to “own” a given phrase
• Can execute a social media strategy and effectively communicate it to related stakeholders
• Can craft engaging email campaigns that build and sustain engagement over time
• Detail oriented and is excited to look through course submissions, community interactions, and historical data to find individuals possessing a defined set of characteristics
• Understands and gets excited about branded storytelling
• Self-reflective and aligned with Acumen values
• Authorized to work in the US
• Ability to pick up new systems and technologies quickly and self-train
• Bonus: Experience doing editorial work of some sort
• Bonus: a proven track record of working with media and influencers
• Bonus: able to craft Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat stories using only basic equipment
• Bonus: Stay on top of trends and best practices and never shy away from learning and leveraging the latest and greatest
• Bonus: Spanish fluency

Location
New York, NY

Deadline
Apply as soon as you are able, as applications will be reviewed and interviews scheduled on a rolling basis.

About the Organization

Supports enterprises that increase income, increase assets and create jobs for the four billion people on earth who earn a few dollars a day. Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. We seek to prove that small amounts of philanthropic capital, combined with large doses of business acumen, can build thriving enterprises that serve vast numbers of the poor. Our investments focus on delivering affordable, critical goods and services ? like health, water and housing ? through innovative, market-oriented approaches. Our History Acumen Fund was incorporated on April 1, 2001, with seed capital from the Rockefeller Foundation, Cisco Systems Foundation and three individual philanthropists. Since then our network of investors and advisors has grown to include a wide range of individuals and organizations who share our belief in using entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty.