We are looking for a part-time paid Marketing Assistant to join our world-class team in downtown Austin and help us finance a return on educational for students of all backgrounds and walks of life.

What is the opportunity?

As Skills Fund’s Marketing Assistant, you are an essential part of our Marketing and Growth teams who lives to connect as many students as possible with a transformative education.

Responsibilities include:

1. Website Management
   • You put the quality in quality assurance: you own the management and updating of our 50+ websites via our content management system. Light coding (JavaScript + HTML) skills and experience with Spacecraft (or a similar drag-and-drop CMS) are a plus.
2. Paid Advertising
   • Spread the word: You execute a high-performing, low-cost digital marketing campaign to generate core and secondary customer lead engagement and conversion across digital platforms. These include search, retargeting & display, social media, and others TBD.
   • Strive for continuous improvement: You set budgets, bids, campaign strategy, geo-targeting, etc. You proactively track, measure, and analyze campaign performance, constantly improve overall effectiveness, and increase the impact of marketing on revenue and profitability.
3. SEO
   • Make our voice heard: In partnership with content marketing, you amplify our SEO strategy and execute on cross-promotional and key influencer initiatives.
   • Stay ahead of the curve: You’re always up-to-date on search engine marketing research, news, and upcoming changes. #1 on Google search results is our guiding light – and you’ll pave the way via metadata, link-building, and other identified methods.
4. Team Collaboration
   • Skills Fund is currently experiencing rapid growth, and the organization is in a state where scalability is key. As a member of our all-hands-on-deck team, no task is beneath you – and you’ll be the first to hop on new tasks, projects, and initiatives as they come down the pipeline. This never means fetching coffee; this means helping the team when it’s crunch-time to deliver our headstrong mission and change as many lives as possible.
   • As we identify the tools, processes, and project management systems for our team, you’ll be quick to lead by example, foster trust, and get things done at a quick pace.

What does it take to succeed?

• Passion for our Mission and an Interest in Finance and Education: You are our inherent brand ambassador. You should care deeply about helping drive access to quality, skills-based education and financing a return on education for all. You don’t just communicate our mission – you believe in it.

• Digital Marketing Expertise: Experience developing, testing, and scaling high ROI digital marketing campaigns including SEO, SEM and social. Digital marketing, Google AdWords or similar certification is preferred.

• A Learner’s Mindset: You should have a desire to learn, adapt and grow in a rapidly growing and changing start-up environment amongst other high performers.
   
• A Highly Collaborative Focus: To be successful, you will proactively work closely with marketing and corporate communications colleagues to drive brand and B2B2C digital initiatives.

• Qualities: Energetic and Passionate. Highly analytical, data driven and detail oriented.  Exceptional ability to prioritize and focus, and understand. Not intimidated by getting thrown into the deep end (or anything else for that matter).

• Impact: You’re hungry to be a part of something bigger than yourself. You don’t work just to make money. You work to create significant impact and have extreme dedication to professional and personal growth. You’re looking for an opportunity to build a great career and take on responsibility way above what you would receive in other organizations.

• Attitude: Positive, relentless, curious, fun, inviting, warm. No BS. Zero office politics.

How do I apply?

In your cover email, please include an explanation as to why you want to join the team at Skills Fund based on the company’s purpose, the Skills Code, or the Skills Fund Compensation Philosophy found at https://skills.fund/careers. Email this plus your resume to [email protected]

In your brief explanation, please also response to these two questions:

1) Are you authorized to work lawfully in the United States for Skills Fund? Yes/No

2) Will you now or in the future require Skills Fund to commence (“sponsor”) an immigration case in order to employ you (for example, H-1B or other employment-based immigration case)? This is sometimes called “sponsorship” for an employment-based visa status. Yes/No