About the position
Alta Planning + Design seeks a Marketing Associate I (TDM Practice) for our Portland office. This marketing role is a great opportunity for someone who believes in the importance of active, multimodal, and sustainable transportation. If you are looking to join an innovative organization and do work that connects people to places while advancing social justice, safety, and environmental resilience, apply with Alta today! Alta Planning + Design is a sustainable transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education/encouragement programs. Alta was founded in 1996 when communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed into a profession in the United States. We pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving our planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and gets them to where they need to go. Our core values and work bring about positive change by creating places that are geared toward moving people rather than cars, connecting community members to daily needs and human experience, and empowering every person to live an active healthy life. As a global leader in mobility innovation for over 27 years with over 225 staff, we are dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmental resilience.
Responsibilities
- Managing and leading from start to finish the execution of marketing projects and campaigns, including identifying and understanding target audiences, designing customer journeys, setting clear objectives, and planning and executing marketing campaigns.
- Serves as Project Manager on all sizes of projects, including project planning, staffing decisions, budget tracking, and invoicing.
- Demonstrating the ability to execute a variety of marketing strategies effectively.
- Maintaining and enhancing the brand for assigned programs and projects, particularly through brand management and full ownership of Quality Assurance & Quality Control (QA&QC) for all marketing and communications deliverables.
- Actively participating in project team meetings and marketing meetings, helping foster a collaborative team environment.
- Engage and manage other marketing specialists as well as external vendors, contractors, and partner agencies for specialized marketing services when necessary.
- Establishing and nurturing long-term relationships with clients, including understanding needs, expectations, and challenges, and ensuring they feel valued, understood, and supported.
- Leads proposal, interview, and negotiation efforts, with support from Principal(s). Is expected to participate actively in professional associations and conferences, and build client/contact network.
- Regularly communicating with clients through meetings, reports, and updates.
- Actively engaging in continuous learning and integrating this knowledge into projects, including an understanding of emerging tools and techniques in the marketing field as they apply to our work.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, journalism, digital media, psychology, sociology or other related field.
- Five or more years of full-time professional experience in a marketing or communications role.
- Experience working for an agency, consulting firm, or similar multi-client environment is preferred.
Nice-to-haves
- Knowledgeable (or highly curious) about behavior change, sustainability, transportation, TDM, city planning, community development, economic development, or related.
- Desire to positively affect the community, region, and environment.
- Hands-on contributor.
- Eagerness to build and refine your skill.
Benefits
- Medical: PPO or HSA medical plans.
- Dental/Vision: PPO.
- Life Insurance: Alta pays 100% of the premium for life and AD&D, equal to your base compensation.
- 401(k): Alta provides a match up to 3%.
- PTO: 21 days accrued annually to start.
- Holidays: 11 total company paid holidays.
- Paid Parental Leave/Short-Term Disability.
- Additional Benefits: Wellness reimbursement up to $800 annually, Alta Gets Around benefit of up to $900 annually, 5-year travel award, and professional development opportunities.
