Social Media & Digital Marketing Specialist

Lech-Lecha’s Mission

Lech-Lecha facilitates empowering outdoor adventures and communal journeys that catalyze personal development and spiritual growth, connection with the wonder of Hashem’s creation, meaningful interpersonal relationships, and joyful community deeply rooted in Torah and a holistic approach to Jewish life and practice. 

Job Description

Lech-Lecha is seeking a Social Media & Digital Marketing Specialist.  The specialist will be responsible for creating and publishing marketing materials in addition to managing social media networks and developing newsletters and other publications.  The Specialist will work under the direction and with the support of Lech-Lecha’s Director of Outreach and Engagement in addition to reporting to the Executive Director.

Responsibilities

1. Creating marketing materials such as posts, flyers, reals, and videos.
2. Coordinating contributions from team members, participants, and others to social media
3. Managing Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn accounts
4. Expanding our network of connections and relationships over social media
5. Communicating directly with participants and interested parties through social media
6. Constructing bi-weekly emails to be sent out to our mailing list through mailerlite
7. Beautifying reports (i.e. transforming content of Yearly Impact Report into a beautiful product for public sharing)

Hours: 10-20 hours/week

Compensation: $900 - $1700

Previous Experience

Education and experience in design, social media, and digital marketing.

Skills We are looking for candidates possessing the following skills and aspirations:

1. Digital Marketing: The applicant should have artistic abilities to create beautiful, professional marketing material.  Familiarity with Canva and Mailerlite is an advantage.
2. Independence and Organizational skills: Our specialist will have significant autonomy in completing assigned tasks and will be supported in remaining organized and responsible.  As a remote position, our specialist must be independent and accountable.
3. Detail-oriented: In many ways you will be the face of our organization, sharing through social media and creating publications. Orientation to detail is an important skill that we will work with you to develop.
4. Strong communication and interpersonal skills: The role entails writing clearly, concisely, and professionally and communicating warmly and caringly with our community.
5. Creativity: We are a burgeoning entrepreneurial non-profit, and your creativity is highly encouraged.
6. Teamwork: This position will be highly collaborative, working with trek organizers, Lech Lecha director, and our fundraising officer.
7. Ability to work independently and take appropriate initiative.

Work Environment

This is a remote position in which you will be working in conjunction with our team on the web and over the phone.  The advantage of this environment is its flexibility: work wherever you want, often choose when you want as well.  The challenge is that it requires a high level of self-organization, motivation, and responsiveness.  While we seek to work together and collaborate as much as possible, self-discipline is essential to finding success in this role.

Future Potential

Over the coming years, we are confident that this position will transform into a demanding, paid position. There is much room for continued growth in our organization and your experience here will be highly transferable to future job opportunities.