Website Cascade Climate
Location: Boston, MA (Hubs in Washington D.C., NYC, and the Bay Area).
Candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to one of Cascade’s hubs. Cascade is headquartered in Boston and has hubs in Washington D.C., New York City, and the Bay Area. We are a hybrid workplace, in-office a couple days a week out of a shared co-working space or our Boston headquarters. We have a strong preference for Program Marketing Manager candidates who are either based in or willing to relocate to the NYC or Boston hub.
We love seeing each other in person. We gather regularly for team time like retreats, learning experiences, and white-boarding sessions. Be ready to travel at least once per month—and occasionally a bit more as needed—for conferences, team gatherings, and partner meetings.
Overview: As Cascade’s first Program Marketing Manager, you will play a pivotal role crafting our organization’s narrative and communication strategy. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the voice and story of a young organization at a critical inflection point in its growth. Your work will empower us to connect effectively with funders, stakeholders, and the broader climate community.
You are a mastermind at storytelling and excel at bringing others along with the narratives you create. You might have experience leading a small marketing function at a new organization, shaping the communication strategy for a program or product, working with a marketing agency, or something else altogether. We care much more about you—your capabilities and mindsets—than about your exact background. Do you consistently show up with humility and contagious curiosity? Do you independently learn new things quickly and hungrily? Can you operate well without a roadmap that’s been handed to you? Are people wowed by the quality of outputs you produce?
Roles/Responsibilities:
- Drive the creation of high-quality external assets from ideation to execution, including 1) organization-wide materials (e.g. overview decks, one-pagers, newsletters) and 2) programmatic assets (e.g. publications, webinars, conference presentations)
- Support fundraising efforts by tailoring our story to various philanthropic funders, write grant proposals and reports, and create adaptable fundraising materials
- Build awareness of Cascade and natural system climate interventions at-large among target audiences by significantly increasing the organization’s reach through earned media and social media
- Lead the coordination and execution of well-organized events, including presence at various conferences (e.g. Climate Weeks, AGU, Carbon Unbound, etc) and Cascade’s local events
- Develop a “toolkit” for Cascade’s marketing and communication processes (e.g. branding, online presence, content calendars, etc)
- Manage Cascade’s website, ensuring consistent updates and seamless design
- Support program leaders in articulating audience persona and creating clear and consistent Cascade messaging to target audiences, including philanthropic funders, industry practitioners, academia, and policymakers
Qualifications: Desired skills & experiences –
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- 4+ years of cumulative work experience in marketing, communications, or a related field
- Skilled at effective translation, with the ability to distill complex technical subject matter into clear, engaging content for non-technical audiences
- Proficient with media strategies and press relations
- Experience working with a marketing agency and/or strong existing communications and design skills
- Excellent writing skills with a demonstrated track record of public writing
- Preferred: experience with grant writing and policy-related communications
More generally, we are looking for someone with the following mindsets and interests:
- Palpably demonstrating the empathy, humility and contagious curiosity that are at the heart of Cascade’s culture
- Ability to embrace tension and ‘inhabit’ both sides or perspectives on an issue
- Uncommonly strong self-driven learning habits with clear evidence of this hungry auto-didacticism in your past education and work experience
- Comfort working under uncertainty and ambiguity without any clear right answer
- Naturally high standards and expectations of yourself while avoiding letting “perfect get in the way of really good” so that you can deliver strong work quickly
- You are excited to dig deep into a range of natural-system climate intervention pathways. This may include research on climate-relevant financing, policy, and market mechanisms or parsing through hairy-looking scientific papers
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