About Us:
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) was founded in 2000 with one clear objective: finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease (PD) in our lifetime. The Foundation applies extraordinary scientific, business and media assets to this singular focus — thus creating a unique and dynamic organization. Since inception, MJFF has quickly grown into the largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson’s disease research worldwide, having funded more than $1 billion in research projects in academic and industry labs worldwide to date. We exist to put ourselves out of business, so we deliberately hold no endowment or excessive reserves, but spend what we raise quickly and efficiently; 88 cents of every dollar spent goes directly to research programs. Today, the Foundation has about 160 full-time employees.
We work aggressively to support the entire Parkinson’s therapeutic development enterprise by de-risking specific therapeutic approaches and developing and distributing fieldwide tools, in order to seed and support a robust pipeline of new treatments for patients. Achieving our mission requires that we inspire the engagement of all Parkinson’s stakeholder groups — industry and academic researchers, clinicians, data scientists, policy makers, and most important, people and families living with Parkinson's. In service of this mission, the Marketing & Communications team works to leverage the Foundation’s tremendous research achievements and highly respected brand identity in service of our mission to speed better treatments and a cure for Parkinson’s.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation strongly encourages applications from individuals who will contribute to our efforts to build and support a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce. Diversity may refer to characteristics including, but not limited to, race, religion, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic circumstance, geographic background, ability and disability, political ideology and age.
Job Summary:
The Marketing Officer will originate a role designed to provide broad support to a large and high-functioning marketing team divided into strategy and operations groups. This is an opportunity for a versatile, early-career generalist willing to provide support on a wide range of digital and traditional marketing tasks in order to gain fluency and experience in marketing and communications as a whole. Approaching our work with a creative but detail-oriented lens, the Marketing Officer will contribute tactics to help MJFF reach target audiences while working with team members at all levels to ensure cohesion across owned, earned and paid marketing channels. The Marketing Officer will support campaigns to promote enrollment in clinical research studies, financial support of MJFF, educational virtual/in-person events and policy/advocacy opportunities. The ideal candidate is eager to learn marketing fundamentals, and passionate about the progress of scientific research and our mission to make Parkinson’s a thing of the past.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide a wide range of support functions for tactical marketing plans promoting key calls to action through multi-channel marketing campaigns – using paid and organic social media, paid media, content marketing, email marketing, local outreach and other channels – to increase awareness and drive conversions.
- Generate and populate digital tracking links in various marketing assets.
- Build and QA social media campaigns and pull/format marketing analytics reports (Facebook Ads Manager, Twitter Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Social Studio, Google AdWords, etc.).
- Support email marketing campaigns by building and QAing content in-platform, including ensuring correct versioning/segmentation, timing, design and messaging; flag issues for strategists, content creators and operations leads.
- Write, edit or QA short-form content for a variety of digital environments, such as metadata for emails, social platforms or Foundation web properties.
- Support content creators in building online/web content through Drupal CMS.
- Support strategists in tracking spend level and efficiency of tactics (ex: Cost Per Result).
- Support analysts in capturing marketing channels via Salesforce with associated parameters so that results can be gathered in aggregate.
- Pull and format data analytics reports in different online platforms to optimize campaigns based on performance results.
- Take ownership of team support functions including invoice processing and assistance to directors and VPs with scheduling/calendaring meetings – both internally and with various agency partners.
Qualifications:
- College degree.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with precise attention to detail.
- Eager to collaborate within the MarComms department as well as work across departments.
- Familiarity with social media platforms, email marketing and the concept of marketing analytics.
- Organized approach to managing multiple projects and prioritizing initiatives accordingly.
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment with flexibility to pivot strategy based on a variety of needs.
- Supports the team in driving results based on data informed decision making and learnings.
- Creative, solutions-oriented with a proactive lens to problem solving.
- Learning mentality and openness to being coached.
- Strong desire to provide versatile support across a range of marketing strategy and operations functions.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should submit a resume. Please, no telephone inquiries and do not contact our staff directly. Only applicants who best match the position needs will be contacted.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation strongly encourages applications from individuals who will contribute to our efforts to build and support a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce. Diversity may refer to characteristics including, but not limited to, race, religion, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic circumstance, geographic background, ability and disability, political ideology and age.