Heads up, any of you marketers who are sick of selling cigarettes to toddlers (or just feeling a little unmotivated about the social impact of your work) and looking for something a little more aligned with your values. How about a job with one of Canada’s independent media powerhouses?

The Tyee is hiring:

Position title: Marketing Coordinator, Full time
Salary: Competitive; based on experience
Application deadline: Monday July 16th, 2007
Start date: Late July – early August 2007 (flexible)

The Tyee (www.thetyee.ca) is expanding its team, and looking for a creative and energetic marketing coordinator. Are you the next member of BC’s best independent online news source?

Personality Traits and Interests:

You are a highly motivated person who excels at creative and strategic solutions to marketing challenges.

You have a keen interest in new web technologies, web publishing, and in particular, independent online media.

You are an excellent communicator and writer who is not afraid of regular deadlines.

You are tapped into the Web 2.0 universe: social networks, social bookmarking, aggregation, SEO etc. are an integral part of your marketing vocabulary.

You have a strong interest in community outreach and your networks are broad and diverse, including academic, multicultural, non-profit, activist, socially responsible business, labour circles and more.

You have strong event management and volunteer coordination skills.

You are skilled at working with designers to complete projects, both online and in print.

You are familiar with Photoshop and other design and layout programs, and have an ability to deal with both print and online design projects. You can write basic HTML, and have very strong knowledge of online marketing techniques and strategies.

You are able to manage your time well, can prioritize tasks, and always respond promptly to emails and phone calls.

Required responsibilities:

• Work with the Business Director and other staff to:
• Grow the Tyee readership through viral marketing campaigns, online contests, syndication relationships, other reader-focused online initiatives
• Serve and understand the needs of Tyee readers through surveys, forums and other outreach
• Coordinate and manage ‘offline’ events and handle sponsorship relations
• Strengthen strategic relationships with community leaders and groups
• Manage eNewsletter distribution
• Implement new web features
• Explore other marketing and advertising options

Qualifications, skills and abilities:

Required:

• 2+ years of marketing experience
• College or university degree
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Keen eye for detail, self-directed, analytical. Takes initiative, curious, able to solve problems on one’s own, and knows how and when to ask for help
• Basic HTML, Photoshop and layout programs
• Ability and desire to learn new programs, concepts and strategies
• Knowledge of diverse communities in BC and Canada (including geographic and multicultural) considered an asset

Application information

The Tyee hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity and diversity. We encourage all qualified persons to apply, with the only restriction being that applicants must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents. Applicants must also be willing to work mostly in the Tyee’s Vancouver office, so only applicants living in the Greater Vancouver area will be considered.

Please send resume, including at least two professional references, and a brief cover letter to Michelle Hoar at mhoar@thetyee.ca with subject line “Marketing Coordinator posting.”

Application deadline is Monday July 16th, 2007.

Interviews will take place between Wednesday July 18th and Friday 20th, and the position will start as early as possible. Only applicants considered for interview will be contacted.

• Mike Harcourt and Ken Cameron talk about City-Making in Paradise
  Via Richard (http://justagwailo.com/2007/06/26/7388), the audio from Mike’s talk at SFU on June 14th.
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Here’s a fun idea from Vancity:

We are looking for participants to give bikes to. We are asking people to write 100 words or less on ChangeEverything.ca on why they’d want a bike. Then we will be setting the first flight of bikes free at the BEST pancake breakfast on Wednesday morning. The bikes will be free in the community for nine weeks, changing hands three times before finally being returned to Vancity. We will then in turn deliver the bikes to PEDAL where they will be retrofitted and donated to the people who most need them in our community.

It all happens Wednesday, June 27 at Granville Square (that huge terrace on the north side of Cordova and the east side of Howe). Things get underway at 9 a.m. – but if you show up a little early, you can catch the BEST pancake breakfast running from 7:30 am to 9.

 

With a bow to the great Peter Steiner.

Frankly, this is less onerous than the terms of most NDAs I’ve had to sign.