Coordinator, Communications & Marketing en Meridian International Center

Description

Title: Coordinator, Communications and Marketing

Employment Status: NON-EXEMPT

Salary: $49,350-$55,125

Supervisor Title: Senior Manager, Communications & Marketing

Date Revised: September 2025

Summary of Position:

The Coordinator creates and executes a marketing strategy for Meridian’s flagship and donor events across email, web, and social channels to reach targeted audiences and grow engagement. The role will position Meridian’s brand, mission, and work as esteemed, credible, and trusted. This role is primarily responsible for designing and implementing creative, data-driven event marketing strategies for each distribution channel, email marketing, producing digital marketing campaigns, managing livestream and event logistics, maintaining editorial calendars, coordinating paid and earned media campaigns, and building print and digital content needs for Meridian’s signature programming. 

This position is located in Washington D.C. and Meridian requires MD, DC, or VA residence for all employees. The position may work partially remotely until further notice. 

Position Responsibilities:

• Coordinate      marketing campaigns for large-scale institutional events across digital      and traditional channels, including X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube,      LinkedIn, and email.
• Assist      in growing and sustaining partner branding and activation strategies that      highlight donor contributions, amplify stakeholder expertise, and enhance      audience engagement.
• Draft      and design email marketing content—such as invitations, newsletters, and      appeals—using Pardot, leveraging segmentation and performance metrics to      optimize engagement.
• Collaborate      with the Senior Director of Communications & Marketing to track KPIs      and audience growth goals tied to flagship and donor events.
• Create,      edit, and publish compelling social media content, tailored for key events      and donor recognition moments.
• Coordinate      with program and development teams to produce event-related multimedia      assets, including videos, GIFs, infographics, presentations, and other      branded materials.
• Update      and manage website content to highlight Meridian’s signature programs and      donor engagement initiatives.
• Provide      live coverage of in-person and virtual events through social media and      digital platforms.
• Capture      and curate visual content (photos, short videos, and behind-the-scenes      material) for event promotion, digital archives, and post-event donor      engagement.
• Recruit      and manage the Communications and Marketing fellowship program.
• Other      duties as assigned

Employer’s Statement

Meridian is committed to empowering global leaders and amplifying voices of a wide variety of backgrounds to create pathways for greater understanding, shared values, and respect. Connecting people has been our foundation for over 65 years. If you share our values and enthusiasm to promote non-partisan collaboration to address global challenges and opportunities, you can find a home at Meridian. 

As an equal opportunity employer, Meridian promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, personal appearance, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, family responsibilities, marital, veteran or military status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, matriculation, political affiliation, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Equal employment opportunity will be offered and maintained to all persons at every stage and condition of employment, including recruiting, hiring, training, upgrading, promotion, transfer, discipline, layoff, recall, and termination.

Meridian offers a comprehensive benefits package including a full medical plan with no deductible, dental (including orthodontics), a retirement plan with a substantial employer contribution from day one, fully paid life, long- and short-term disability, a variety of voluntary benefits, and generous paid leave and holidays. 

How to Apply 

Only internal candidates will be considered for this position. Qualified internal candidates should apply here. Only candidates being considered for this position will be contacted. 

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Requirements

 Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in communications,      marketing or related fields. 
• 2-4      years of related experience
• Or any      equivalent combination of training, education, and experience that      demonstrates the ability to perform the essential functions of the      position

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Event marketing experience with an      emphasis in a non-profit, government, political campaign or      small-to-medium sized company.
• In-depth knowledge of digital and      social media platforms and their respective functions, algorithms and user      types to design successful social media campaigns on Twitter, Facebook,      LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, among other media platforms. 
• Proven ability to curate, create and      compose compelling written, visual and multimedia content for social media      and digital platforms published in a timely way with viral potential.
• Knowledge and experience working      with Salesforce and Pardot to manage online email communications.

Technical Requirements:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office,      including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams is necessary for      this role
• Basic HTML and WordPress, as well as      SEO (SEM, CRO and PPC is a plus)
• Google Analytics and Google Ads
• Adobe Creative Cloud (specifically      Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, InDesign, Illustrator, Light Room,      Stock)
• Copywriting, proofreading and      editing (AP style knowledge a plus)