Employment at Messiah

Posted December 16, 2020 – The Digital Media Specialist will work with a variety of platforms ranging from social media, digital marketing and much more to engage with our online community and new people who are not yet connected to Messiah Church. This position is a component of our strategic plan, Vision 2023. It offers a challenging opportunity for a candidate to develop new strategies to improve and expand the church’s mission in the community.

Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in related field preferred (communications, digital marketing, or media)

Spiritual:

• Profess Christian principals and disciplines
• Model standards and expectations of leadership, including a personal devotional life, worship attendance, tithing, serving/witnessing, small group participation, and a dedication to personal development and a healthy lifestyle

Required Experience:

• Knowledge of marketing terms, concepts and strategies
• Broad working knowledge of marketing principles, communications, digital strategies, building websites and analytics, and social media
• Facebook and Google advertising knowledge
• Basic design skills (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, WordPress, Canva, etc.)
• Outstanding organizational and communication skills
• Ability to work with others at various levels internally and externally
• Ability to work efficiently in a team environment and share tasks
• Ability to prioritize simultaneous assignments and manage projects
• Self-motivated, ability to anticipate needs and requirements

Responsibilities:

• Publish and share consistent content (original text, images, video or HTML) that creates meaningful moments of connection for our online community
• Daily interaction with our online community through intentional messaging, comment and response management on platforms such as Instagram and Facebook; Moderate all user-generated content online within the moderation policy for the ministry
• In coordination with the Director of Communications, identify and deploy marketing strategies for key church initiatives and events
• Partner with leadership to help develop, establish and maintain digital strategies to meet ministry objectives as well as create new ministry and outreach programs through digital media
• Set up and optimize ministry webpages to increase visibility and engagement of the ministry’s digital content
• Maintain weekly media uploads to all web and digital marketing channels
• Continuously improve digital effectiveness by capturing and analyzing the appropriate social data/metrics, insights and best practices, and then acting on the information
• Equip and organize photography and social media team; Recruit and deploy unpaid volunteers to assist with media initiatives such as execution and management of content

Work Schedule: 20 hours a week; flexible to meet seasonal demand (half time, exempt)

Accountable to: Executive Pastor

To Apply: Submit letter of interest and resume to Tami Luckhardt, Executive Pastor, at tluckhardt@messiahchurch.org