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Email Marketing Specialist Volunteer
Team: Marketing Team (reports to Marketing Director)
Time Commitment: Approximately 2-3 hours per week
Start Date: ASAP
Position Type: Volunteer
Work Arrangement: Remote, Part-time, Flexible
Summary of Role
Contribute to the investigative genetic genealogy community and advance IGGAB's mission by supporting and managing email communications with our stakeholder audiences.
The Email Marketing Specialist works with the Marketing Director, Board members, and other volunteers to create and distribute email communications, maintain subscriber information, and support the forms and automated workflows connected to IGGAB's email program.
This is a flexible volunteer role well suited for someone who enjoys writing, organization, technology, and helping a growing professional organization communicate effectively with its community.
Key Responsibilities
Suggested Qualifications
The ideal candidate will be organized, curious, comfortable with technology, and interested in helping IGGAB communicate effectively with the growing investigative genetic genealogy community.
Time Commitment: Approximately 2-3 hours per week
Start Date: ASAP
Position Type: Volunteer
Work Arrangement: Remote, Part-time, Flexible
Summary of Role
Contribute to the investigative genetic genealogy community and advance IGGAB's mission by supporting and managing email communications with our stakeholder audiences.
The Email Marketing Specialist works with the Marketing Director, Board members, and other volunteers to create and distribute email communications, maintain subscriber information, and support the forms and automated workflows connected to IGGAB's email program.
This is a flexible volunteer role well suited for someone who enjoys writing, organization, technology, and helping a growing professional organization communicate effectively with its community.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with the Marketing Director, Board members, and other volunteers to develop, draft, and coordinate email communications.
- Create, format, test, and schedule emails in Constant Contact, including sending drafts and test emails for approval prior to distribution.
- Maintain subscriber lists, segments, tags, and contact information to help ensure communications reach the appropriate audiences.
- Create and maintain Jotform forms and integrations with Constant Contact and other applications as needed.
- Create and maintain email automations and workflows, and troubleshoot issues when emails, forms, or integrations do not function as expected.
- Help maintain consistent IGGAB email branding, templates, and an organized archive of previous communications.
- Follow the established email campaign calendar, coordinate communications with scheduled IGGAB activities and initiatives, and provide recommendations on timing and scheduling as appropriate.
- Support communications for IGGAB programs, accreditation activities, examinations, announcements, stakeholder outreach, and other initiatives.
- Monitor email deliverability and engagement and help identify opportunities to improve IGGAB's email communications.
- Maintain basic documentation of important forms, automations, integrations, and email processes to support continuity within the organization.
Suggested Qualifications
- Strong written communication skills and attention to detail.
- Experience with Constant Contact or another email marketing platform, including basic list and audience management.
- Familiarity with email automations or an interest and ability to learn how to build and manage them.
- Comfortable working with online forms, integrations, and digital tools. Experience with Jotform is helpful but not required.
- Organized, dependable, and comfortable managing projects independently while collaborating with a remote volunteer team.
- Able to troubleshoot problems and learn new tools and platform features as needed.
- Experience with Canva and Google Workspace is helpful.
- Familiarity with investigative genetic genealogy is helpful but not required.
The ideal candidate will be organized, curious, comfortable with technology, and interested in helping IGGAB communicate effectively with the growing investigative genetic genealogy community.
