Marketing Specialist

The Morton Arboretum is a world-renowned tree-focused botanical garden located just outside of Chicago in Lisle Illinois. With more than one million annual visitors the Arboretum seeks an experienced marketing specialist to drive awareness of the Arboretum with new audiences and keep recent guests informed and interested in what the Arboretum is offering through email and marketing strategies and tactics. Help advance our mission to plant and protect trees for a greener healthier and more beautiful world while working with a talented marketing team. Work with teams across the organization to achieve institutional priorities and objectives.

Location: Hybrid (The Morton Arboretum Lisle IL)

Position Summary: Responsible for the implementation of The Morton Arboretums integrated marketing communications that attract and engage audiences and heighten brand awareness. Create brand-appropriate promotional copy for marketing campaigns across communication channels. Play a key role in the development of annual advertising plans. Lead marketing automation and email marketing efforts. Collect and analyze data to measure the success of marketing efforts and improve understanding of Arboretum audiences.

Essential Functions:

• Develop and implement promotional and integrated marketing plans for Arboretum exhibitions events and programs. Prepare creative briefs and partner with Creative team for campaign creative development. Write edit and proofread branded marketing copy for use across communication channels..

• Serve as a point-of-contact with external media agencies and internal teams. Support the development of and facilitate an annual advertising plan to support reputation participation and revenue goals.

• Oversee the generation analysis and presentation of marketing statistic reports comparing promotional activities with attendance and revenue trends.

• Lead email marketing efforts including automation setting a comprehensive strategy that balances multiple departments needs and schedules providing and producing content tracking outcomes proposing tests and improvements.

• Work in partnership with the Marketing and Communications Project Manager as well as Creative and Public Relations colleagues to set priorities monitor job progress by tracking schedules and meeting deadlines for deliverables communicate changes and job status expedite requirements track and meet budgets and resolve scheduling conflicts and project problems.

• Assists in preparing the annual marketing budget. Submit and track incoming invoices to Finance team. Assist with budget management.

• Demonstrate alignment with the Arboretums employee core values.

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications: Bachelors degree required preferably in a related field. 3 years of relevant experience required including marketing email marketing and advertising project management. Exceptional writing/editing/proofreading skills and meticulous attention to detail. Experience leading project collaborations with successful and measurable outcomes required. Experience with email marketing and digital marketing (examples: Meta TikTok Google Ads) required. Ability to meet deadlines and handle multiple projects simultaneously required. Advanced knowledge and demonstrated ability of marketing tactics and how to combine them effectively required. Experience working with an advertising or media planning agency preferred. Critical thinking and problem-solving required. Familiarity with Google applications Asana Survey Monkey Salesforce Act On and email and marketing automation systems preferred. Experience in an agency museum botanic garden or large-scale nonprofit organization helpful.

Success Factors:Positive attitude with the ability to work to deadlines in a fast-paced environment. Curiosity about new communication channels and opportunities as well as the trends that inform them. Emphasis on teamwork and supporting others. Analytical mindset with the ability to identify solutions to increase marketing success. Confident comfortable public demeanor with strong verbal skills. Detail-oriented flexible and self-directed. Ability to balance creative and strategic thinking and sustain complex collaborations. Customer service-oriented with the ability to relate effectively with persons internal and external to the Arboretum.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Physical Demands: Requires some physical activity: it is necessary to operate a computer for prolonged periods on a daily basis limited carrying and lifting (up to 25 lbs.) some local travel.

• Work Environment: Office environment. Work is performed primarily indoors with some outdoors or off-site activity for public events.

• Equipment: General office equipment digital camera tablets scanner.

• Schedule: Position may require occasional weekend or evening hours.

The expected hiring range for this position is annualized at $60000-$66000 based on experience that will be evaluated during the candidate selection process. We believe in the importance of pay equity and consider the internal equity of our current team members as a part of the final offer.

Our benefits include:

• Medical Dental and Vision insurance

• 401(k) with generous match

• Generous vacation floating holidays and sick days

And more! For a complete list of benefits please view ourcompetitive benefits package.

For full consideration please submit a resume and cover letter.

The Morton Arboretum is a champion for diversity supporting a culture of inclusion that attracts inspires and engages people to achieve success. The Arboretum is committed to hire and develop employees based on job-related qualifications irrespective of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity age disability or veteran status. The Morton Arboretum is dedicated to complying with our obligations as an equal opportunity employer. All applicants are guaranteed equal consideration for employment.