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The Center for Open Science (COS) is looking for a Marketing and Creative Manager experienced in digital marketing, agile methodology, and data-driven decision making to amplify a highly regarded nonprofit research and technology organization. We are recruiting for a highly motivated marketing methodologist and brand and digital strategist to work alongside our teams to strategize, plan, design, execute, and report on high-quality marketing campaigns, acquisition, and retention and brand reputation awareness to engage target and stakeholder audiences to promote open science in research.

The Marketing and Creative Manager will drive high-value and impactful marketing and brand strategies and implementation that can address a range of stakeholders across the research community to advance COS’s products and services. This role guides organizational-wide marketing and brand strategy, maintains a strong pulse on industry trends, and uses market data and insights to translate opportunities into actionable campaigns, supporting COS’s position as a thought leader in metascience and change accelerant across open scholarship.

The ideal candidate is passionate about helping science be more effective and efficient to accelerate sharing of knowledge, outcomes, and cures to solve society’s greatest challenges and will develop organizational marketing, brand, and digital strategy; maintaining a strong pulse on industry trends and using market data to translate opportunities into actionable campaigns, demonstrates outstanding people skills as a liaison between internal and external stakeholders, and excels at project management and cross-departmental collaboration.

Founded in 2013, COS is a nonprofit organization that improves the research culture. COS provides technology to make it possible and easy for researchers to increase rigor and transparency of their research; delivers education, training, and services to change norms, incentives, and policies that shape the research culture; conducting research to assess where friction is occurring in the research process and whether interventions to improve are working. We operate with transparency, openness, and inclusivity and use the same principles to enact change through our outreach and communication.

• Manages the development and execution of product and service marketing and brand strategy and campaigns.
• Oversee brand art direction, graphic design, digital content, and video/ multimedia production projects. 
• Create, manage, and execute multi-channel marketing and brand campaigns leveraging SEO/SEM, data analytics, social media, inbound marketing, stakeholder relations, email, multi-channel campaigns, and events to drive awareness and acquisition. Develop and manage digital marketing campaigns that leverage and optimize the full range of digital tactics. Optimize marketing automation and lead nurturing processes through integrated website workflows, email, content, and social channels.
• Monitor and continuously improve outcomes against KPIs and the related industry or domain-specific metrics and create monthly reports containing a robust description of monthly activity. Provide advice and recommendations based on a clear summary of performance against KPIs and metrics. Identify KPIs for marketing activities, track performance against KPIs, report findings and analysis, and make adjustments to the annual marketing plan.
• Partner across the organization to strategize and manage a content calendar and workflow informed by market data that attracts a qualified audience, including webinars, blog posts, social media engagement, digital content, multimedia, engagement emails, whitepapers, reports, and infographics.
• Enhance email engagement success through management and deployment of campaigns with ongoing testing and metric review.
• In coordination with the Partnership Development Manager, establish closed-loop analytics with product sales efforts to understand how and what inbound marketing activity converts leads. Collaborate to design and conduct customer, industry, and market research to support and inform strategies to meet organizational and team goals. 
• Oversee COS’s website and social media channels; advancing content, performance, and brand strategies.
• Lead project management and workflow for the Marketing/Communications Team.

• Strategic management, initiative, and adaptability
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills plus solid copywriting and editing abilities
• Creative thinker and problem solver
• Efficient organizational and time management skills
• Data-driven, customer-centric, and research-oriented
• Highly proficient in social media best practices, marketing automation, and digital advertising campaigns and experience with a variety of organic and paid acquisition channels like content curation, pay per click campaigns, event management, social media, lead generation campaigns, copywriting, performance analysis with experience in HubSpot, Salesforce, Mailchimp, Google AdWords, Google Analytics, and other integrated marketing software
• Proven project management skills
• Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud, video production, video editing, HTML, CSS, SEM, and SEO and managing CMS with a background in HubSpot CMS preferred
• Familiarity with academic and scientific research stakeholders
• Background in technology products and/or SaaS marketing

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Web Design/Development,  Graphic Design, or related field or equivalent work experience
• Previous experience in marketing, digital, and creative management for 5+ years (agency, in-house, technology sector, academic research, or higher education / nonprofit marketing/digital experience a plus)
• Extensive marketing, brand, video production, digital advertising, website management, and content background with a vast design, branding, and marketing portfolio 

• 401(k) with employer match. COS offers a matching contribution of 100% up to 3% of pay and another 50% up to 5% of pay (the full match will be 4% if participants elect to defer 5%)
• Health, dental, and vision insurance. COS covers 100% of employee premium and 50% of all dependent coverage costs under the base plan
• 15 days vacation in year one
• COS offers paid leave for up to three (3) months to all full-time, regular employees to care for their child after birth, after or during the adoption process, or to care for their spouse, child, or parent who has a serious health condition as well as for the employee’s own serious health condition.
• Remote work option or modern local office space with a MacBook and Google Workspace environment

Please apply by submitting a resume, cover letter explaining your background and interest in the position, as well as a link to your portfolio. Questions about the position and COS are welcome and can be directed to jobs@cos.io.

COS is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also strongly encourage applications from members of groups underrepresented in science and technology industries.

The Center for Open Science (COS) is a non-profit culture change organization founded in 2013 with a mission to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scientific research. COS pursues this mission by building communities around open science practices, supporting metascience research, and developing technologies such as OSF (Open Science Framework), a free, open source software tool.

COS is seeking a new Director of Development who will be responsible for identifying, cultivating, soliciting and stewarding philanthropic contributions in support of the mission and activities of COS. The Director of Development works closely with the Executive Director, COO & Managing Director, as well as the rest of the leadership team.  Supervising the Senior Development Manager and Development Coordinator, the Director will establish and implement the strategy and infrastructure needed to increase and diversify annual revenue through the development of individual donors, foundations, corporations, and innovative online giving.

If you are a strategic and entrepreneurial leader with demonstrable experience and success in development and excited by our mission and values, then we look forward to hearing from you.

The Center for Open Science is partnering with the executive search firm Perrett Laver on this search. A complete application will include a letter of interest and a current CV, all correspondence will be held in strict confidence. Apply Now.

The deadline for applications is Friday, February 11.

The Center for Open Science is located in Charlottesville, Virginia and this position can be located remotely. 

COS is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from members of groups underrepresented in science and technology industries.

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