Social Media

• Manages the museum’s social media accounts (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok).

• Ideates, generates, and formats content in collaboration with all museum departments.

• Maintains open communication with colleagues to stay informed on upcoming events and museum initiatives, shaping the messaging for visitors, the community, and followers.

• Actively listens to relevant community conversations and monitors the Wende’s online presence.

• Develops and maintains internal policies to convey consistent voice, tone, and brand that aligns with the museum’s mission.

• Produces, edits, and shares video content from in-person and online programs.

• Produces reports that reflect and analyze the Wende’s online engagement and growth. Monitors traffic and trends and statistics across social media, email marketing, and the website while providing actionable insights to the Board and executive leadership on a quarterly basis.

Marketing and Communications

• Develops and implements marketing plans and projects for exhibitions, programs, events, and community engagement initiatives.

• Writes and sends weekly email newsletter.

• Oversees the production of and approves all marketing and communications materials, including event invitations, flyers, brochures, and other print and digital collateral.

• Collaborates on promotional strategies with local museums and cultural organizations.

• Creates, implements, and oversees strategies and timelines for marketing, communications, advertising, media buying, content marketing, and public relations.

• Acts as the staff liaison to the Board’s Marketing and Outreach Committee.

• Coordinates with other museum departments to ensure marketing and communications needs are being met, including bringing a communications perspective to the planning of programs and events.

Publicity

• Writes and/or edits press releases as well as content for museum promotions and communications (internal and external).

• Develops and proactively manages relationships with media organizations, fulfilling inquiries and image requests.

• Organizes and executes regular press previews, visits, and interviews.

Website

• Serves as the webmaster for the Wende website and makes regular content updates in collaboration with other departments.

This is a manager-level staff position with high inter-department exposure. The position reports to the Deputy Director while working with staff throughout the organization.

A flexible, hybrid on-site/remote schedule is available. While much of the role can be performed remotely, ability and willingness to be on-site in Culver City when needed (e.g., for press events) is required.

Medical/dental/vision benefits, 10 days paid vacation, paid sick time, and holidays.

This is a full-time, exempt staff position available in April 2022.

• Two or more years’ experience as a marketing and communications professional in a museum, cultural organization, or nonprofit setting

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, under time constraints

• Ability to develop and implement an integrated marketing and communications plan

• Excellent project management and decision-making skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Proven experience in marketing communications, publicity, public relations, digital media, and/or print media

• Knowledge of regional and national marketing trends for arts organizations/museums

• Self-sufficient in routine office administration tasks, including correspondence, maintaining calendar appointments, preparing presentations, etc.

• Able to effectively represent an organization at public events

• Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud, MailChimp (or similar), Eventbrite (or similar), Sprout Social (or similar), and other design and marketing applications

• Basic photography and video skills

Not required, but nice to have:

• Experience working with outside vendors (e.g., graphic designers, photographers, printers)

• Basic graphic design skills

• Experience managing a communications/marketing departmental budget