Remote Marketing Specialist

IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE

Position: Marketing Specialist

January 2024

Above Group Overview

We offer you the opportunity to put your passion and your God given talents and abilities to use. Our goal is to attract and develop skilled, called, and passionate people to impact our devoted customers and our team. We want to attract immensely creative employees with an ability to inspire, motivate, and challenge others.

For more information, see www.abovegroupinc.com.

Our People Strategy

We believe in a people strategy to be the fundamental driver of our organization. While we can never reach a perfect organizational model, we can certainly strive towards it in our daily efforts and mission. With that vision comes a focus of key initiatives we are working on, listed here, with the indicators of what it should look like as we approach:

• Shared Direction: A collective understanding of what the organization stands for, where it is going, and how we will get there. Indicators: a clear inspiring vision, well-executed strategies, clear aligned goals.
• Authentic Values: Deeply held principles guiding all decisions and relationships and reflected in the conduct of everyone at all times. Indicators: high levels of trust and communications, uncompromising integrity and ethics, socially responsible practices.
• Productive Relationships: Open, collaborative relationships that recognize and honor the commitments that people make to themselves, each other, their work, and the organization. Indicators: respect for all individuals, effective problem solving and decision-making, clear accountability, effective teamwork at all levels.
• Liberating Processes: Flexible structures, processes, and technologies that allow people to do their best work and to collaborate effectively across boundaries. Indicators: clear organizational design, collective knowledge, the right tools and technologies, the right people for the right jobs.
• Outcome Learning: Results-focused learning that strengthens individual and organizational capacity to cope with the present and define the future. Indicators: continuous teaching and learning, effective knowledge and skills development, leadership development at all levels.
• Motivating Metrics: Fair, meaningful performance requirements, measure and rewards that reinforce high performance and manage poor performance. Indicators: clear and energizing performance requirements, relevant work measures, differentiated rewards.

Our Vision – What We Want to Do

Empower excellent AEC professionals to provide superior service.

Our Mission – Why We Exist

Demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ to those we reach.

Our Values – How We Will Accomplish This Mission

Our Core Values are the tools we use and the behaviors we exhibit as Employees of Above Group. They describe how we work together to achieve this special place we’re developing and how they make us uniquely successful.

• Christian Values - We demonstrate humility, honesty, integrity, respect, kindness, and a sense of social responsibility.
• Initiative – We are self-motivated, self-starting.
• Ambassadorship – We represent our brand passionately and accurately.
• Agency – We take on the attitude and responsibility of ‘owning it’.
• Extreme Team – Beyond just teamwork: it’s how we work together.
• Buffalo – We run toward challenges instead of away from them.
• Uncompromising Quality – We provide excellent results all the time, every time.

Marketing Specialist

The Position

Above Group is seeking a motivated, responsible, and reliable Marketing Specialist to assist with the marketing and business development initiatives of the company. Our ideal candidate will bring experience in the A/E/C or professional services industries, with a strategic, can-win attitude that is detail oriented, and organized. This position will play an integral role in customer service, organizational strength, and pursuit of new contracts for our company. We are looking for an individual who is efficient and comfortable being a member of a team, along with the ability to multi-task, and work as efficiently as possible with little or no supervision. If you have worked in a fast-paced environment in the past and have excellent client-facing communication skills, we’re excited to talk with you.

General Duties

• Coordinate the Request for Proposal/Request for Qualifications process.
• Assist with the development and implementation of annual strategic marketing plan including establishing and maintaining marketing budget.
• Provide support for speaking engagements, industry events, presentations, etc.
• Assist with marketing materials, including project descriptions, lists, resumes, data sheets, etc.
• Provide support on graphic needs for project renderings, preparation for interviews and graphic communication throughout our proposals and marketing communication pieces.
• Maintain the firm’s project portfolio digitally and for presentations.
• Create and produce award submissions, Power Point presentations, all social media representation of firm.
• Coordinate/perform website maintenance.
• Identify opportunities for staff to write for publications and to present at conferences and events.
• Prepare presentations, proposals and Statements of Qualifications for potential clients.
• Organize and maintain the resume database, project information, and project photos for team members.
• Designing marketing materials, and marketing programs.
• Coordinate professional photography.
• Create ad designs and work with online and print publications to further the brand and work of our firm.
• Promote the firm at events.
• Work closely with Principals to present and market work of the firm.
• Ability to exercise sound judgement and discretion with respect to important matters.
• Administrative Tasks.

Key Characteristics of the Marketing Specialist

Called – A strong sense of knowing who you are (i.e., gifts, talents, competencies) and how you are to spend your life. We fulfill our calling by being excellent at what God designed us to be and we diligently pursue it.

Practice Servant Leadership – Leaders at Above Group are called to serve. We realize that effective leadership starts on the inside. We demonstrate that we are willing to do what others are unwilling to do. We will practice a Servant Leadership character that enriches the lives of others.

A Commitment to Above Group – An understanding of and a commitment to the special purpose, mission, and beliefs of Above Group and will have a value system compatible with our values.

People Abilities – Deep interest and care for people with an understanding of their primary interests, aims, strengths, and motivations.

Working with Customers – A demonstrated ability to accomplish results through collaboration with and development of strong relationships with our customers.

Organizational Skills – An ability to organize his/her own thoughts and work, while continually growing a results-oriented team. Ability to win the confidence of colleagues and office staff that demonstrates a well-functioning department.

Insight and Strategy – A focused sense of strategy, (i.e., possessing the knowledge and sixth sense for how to implement our mutual goals). The ability to set realistic objectives and achieve them.

A Sense of Timing – An intuitive sense of timing and appropriateness in relation to people and projects.

Work Capacity – Sufficient physical and emotional energy to deliver the results necessary to advance our mission.

Self-Starter – Creates ideas and follow through without prodding. (Balanced with judgment and knowing when and how to ask for assistance and counsel).

Enthusiasm – A heartfelt passion for the work we do, which displays optimism – but not overselling and overstating.

Character – A level of impeccable integrity that permeates others.

Passion – The Above Group Vision will be irresistible to the right person. People skills, organizational and communication abilities must be truly remarkable, this person will be excellent at vision-casting in a manner that inspires others to join with us and develop solid relationships.

Minimum Requirements

The Marketing Specialist shall meet the following minimum requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required in marketing or related field.
• 3+ years’ marketing experience for an Architectural, Engineering or Professional Services firm.
• Excellent Communication skills, both oral and written.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize projects.
• Customer-service oriented.
• Strong work ethic and emphasis on attention to detail.
• Familiarity with mobile technology.
• Pleasant, friendly disposition.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills.
• Able to complete complex tasks with minimal supervision.
• Multi-tasking comfortability.
• Time Management. Ability to be flexible with schedules and duties.
• Proficiency in MS Office with expertise in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

• Position ideally Located in Melbourne, FL but may be remote.
• U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident of the U.S.