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Creative Project Manager

Are you highly intuitive and looking to harness your outstanding project management skills with your creative flare and eye for design? Better yet, do that in a place that’s passionate about making a differencein the lives of college students and colleges and employers around the country? When your passions meet, that’s where the magic happens.

We here at the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) are thrilled to have a passionate team looking to build on that with a remote Creative Project Manager role you may want to learn more about!

What you’ll do

Leading and owning the creative and production process from start to finish as a member of the marketing and creative teams. You’ll serve as the central coordinator between our project owners, marketing, creative designers, and cross-functional internal teams. Overall you’ll develop and orchestrate project plans, communicate flawlessly with stakeholders inside and outside of the creative function and fully immerse yourself in our business and owning your piece of the creative and execution process. Day to day you’ll:

Be a hands-on leader who can be direct and kind while managing teams/milestones, including the production process, budgeting, scheduling, and resource allocation.
Collaborate with internal/external creative teams and partners to develop fresh, creative, and diverse concepts and strategies for various projects, including quarterly magazines, research reports and dashboards, whitepapers, brochures, in person and virtual events, annual conference, email and banners, website homepage and landing pages, and more.
Be naturally curious, detail- and goal-oriented, serving as the primary contact for designers (freelance designers and design agencies), including job scheduling, leading project kickoffs and discovery meetings, coordinating internal feedback/approval, completing legal paperwork, approving timesheets, and paying invoices
Drive contract negotiations and payment, asset approval, final delivery and fulfillment of finished products.

What you need to thrive in this role

This role is fully remote though preference will be given to those in the Eastern or Central time zones.
Bachelor’s degree and 5 + years of creative project management or production experience, preferably at an association or similar organization, with experience in all design formats (print, digital publications, website, email, digital platforms, social media, etc.)
Excellent project management, creative design, marketing operations, execution, and technical fulfillment skills.
Strong relationship-building, listening, interpretation, negotiating, problem-solving, and decision-making skills and the ability to successfully communicate with people inside and outside of the creative function.
Excellent attention to detail
Excellent skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, Zoom, Aptify (AMS), and Smartsheet (project management platform).
Solid understanding of relevant design software (Creative Cloud, InDesign, Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Canva, etc.)

About us

The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) empowers and connects the community of professionals who support, develop, and employ the college-educated workforce. We are a professional association that represents organizations and individuals that work in career services on college campuses and recruiters that hire new college graduates. Together, we are bridging college to work and driving towards a career-ready workforce with equitable employment outcomes for all. Our team is highly collaborative, responsive, and cohesive. We have worked hard on our culture to ensure that everyone’s work is meaningful and appreciated.

What we offer you

NACE employees receive a competitive salary and enjoy a work environment that values collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Additionally, employees receive an extremely robust benefits package, including: 

Competitive salary in the range of $60,000 - $70,000/year
Generous paid time off and vacation time
Paid holidays –these include MLK Jr. Day, Juneteenth, and the week between Christmas and New Year’s
401(k) plan
Generous medical, dental, and vision plan (no premium for employee-only coverage and extremely reasonable rates for family coverage) 
Company provided short-term and long-term disability 
Company provided life insurance equal to two times annual salary

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Thank you for considering us as a potential employer!

As the voice of professionals focused on the development and employment of the college-educated, it is critical for NACE to be explicit in the expression of our collective drive toward these ideals. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to that by ensuring that our place can be anyone’s place and we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.