Content Creator and Marketing Coordinator
Join a great team! National Event Management, located in Markham, is Canada's leading consumer event producer, with over 38 successful annual events across North America. National Event has over 40 years of experience in creating and producing enduring market leading events, which deliver entertainment, education and opportunities for companies to connect with their target audience. Our events attract hundreds of thousands of attendees annually, driven from in-house strategically executed promotional campaigns.
We are looking for a full-time Content Creator & Marketing Coordinator. Reports to the Vice President of Marketing.
This is a full-time position working in a Hybrid model, 3 days a week in office and 2 days a week from home.
Content Creation Responsibilities:
- Craft compelling, brand-consistent social media content designed to engage target audiences and promote events. Maintain an annual calendar of social posts for multiple brands.
- Writing, reviewing, editing, and updating content for company websites, email campaigns, blogs, marketing materials, press releases and similar platforms.
- Stay abreast of the latest social media trends and technologies to ensure the brand’s online presence remains relevant and effective.
- Regularly report insights gained from social media monitoring to internal and external stakeholders.
- Monitor the company's social media performance usage reports and tracking search engine results.
- Work collaboratively with marketing and sales to achieve coherent and comprehensive brand messaging and customer engagement.
Marketing Responsibilities:
- Liaison with sponsors, partners and exhibitors to ensure events run smoothly including speaker selection, staffing and scheduling, audio visual needs, marketing and media campaigns, on-site management, etc…
- Helping source partners for show features such as fashion shows
- Collaborating with the partners on features and special presentations
- Organize special celebrity guests' travel, payment, contracts, booking.
- Communicate with Operations – on as needed basis. Helping coordinate needs for such items like décor and audio visual
- Coordinate and organize presentation schedules for multiple events.
- Perform marketing coordination and administration as it pertains to events including PowerPoint presentations, updating of benefits trackers, coordinating operation needs with ops team, running contesting and managing prizing, etc.
- Build and foster relationships with existing and potential sponsors
- Plan, design and execute sponsorship proposals to solicit and secure in-kind and monetary contributions to meet event budgets.
Qualifications & Requirements:
Deep understanding and expertise in platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, and YouTube.
Proficient use of social media management tools like Hootsuite for scheduling, analytics, and campaign management.
Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
Technical knowledge and understanding of social media platforms, metrics and tracking
Learns quickly and able to change in fast paced environment - Ability to handle the pressure of meeting tight deadlines
Some knowledge of Adobe Acrobat Software Programs, in particular InDesign and Illustrator
Availability to work a flexible and sometimes varied schedule, including some evenings and weekends
Strong organizational and time management skills
Strong work ethic and high energy; suited to a multi-tasking, fast-paced environment
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Experience:
- Marketing: 2 years (preferred)
- creating social media content: 3 years (preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Markham, ON