Position Summary:
As Marketing Manager, you will help shape how Agriculture Future of America (AFA) engages our audiences through compelling, mission-driven marketing and communications. This role serves as our lead content designer, creating polished, on-brand materials that support programs, events, fundraising, and strategic initiatives. You will collaborate across our internal team and with external partners to deliver creative solutions, strengthen brand consistency, and advance AFA's mission.

This Position is Ideal if you…

• Enjoy designing across digital and print platforms.
• Blend creativity and strategy to create compelling content.
• Collaborate effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Manage multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail.
• Use data and insights to improve results.
• Are adaptable, proactive and passionate about AFA's mission.

Your Primary Functions:

• Serve as a steward of the AFA brand, ensuring consistency in visual identity, messaging and voice across all communications and experiences.
• Create and manage branded marketing materials across print and digital channels, including presentations, event collateral, email campaigns, social media content, signage and promotional assets.
• Develop and maintain templates, creative resources and brand tools that improve organizational efficiency and consistency.
• Plan, execute and optimize integrated marketing campaigns across email, web, social media, events and other channels, using performance data and audience insights to improve results.
• Partner with internal teams to develop marketing and communication solutions that support organizational priorities, programs, events, fundraising initiatives and partnerships.
• Manage multiple marketing and creative projects simultaneously, coordinating timelines, feedback, production and deliverables.
• Coordinate with vendors, contractors and external partners to support design, print, photography, video and other marketing needs.
• Stay current on marketing, content and design trends and provide strategic, flexible support as organizational priorities evolve.
• Provide flexible marketing support and serve as a strategic partner as organizational priorities and team needs evolve.

Competencies:

• Ability to build trust, foster collaboration, and maintain strong relationships with internal teams and external partners.
• Strong creative and analytical skills, with the ability to develop innovative marketing solutions and use data to evaluate effectiveness and inform decisions.
• Exceptional written communication skills, including the ability to translate complex ideas into clear, compelling messages for diverse audiences.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to communicate recommendations, influence stakeholders, and gain alignment on priorities.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, public relations or related field
• 3-5 years of marketing experience
• Proficient in Adobe Suite
• Email marketing, social media content creation
• Digital and event marketing experience

Preferred Education and Experience

• Email platform experience (Account Engagement, Constant Contact, Active Campaign, etc.)
• Involvement in or working knowledge of agriculture and food industry
• Donor and alumni marketing

Supervisory Responsibility
This position may involve the supervision of staff.

Work Environment
You will operate primarily in a professional office environment. If remote, you will work primarily from your home office.

Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, and subject to request for reasonable accommodations, you will be required to constantly operate a computer, and other office machinery as needed. You are expected to remain in a stationary position most of the day and to exchange information with internal and external constituents regularly. Occasionally, the employee may need to move or position equipment or supplies weighing up to 5-10 pounds. 

Because travel is frequent and this role represents our organization at other conferences, ability to transport personal belongings and organizational promotional materials for travel, with reasonable accommodation, is necessary.

Position Type/Regular Hours of Work
This is a full-time position, and regular hours of work and days are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. You will be expected to work some evenings and weekends as needed.

Travel
Some out-of-area and overnight travel is expected to AFA events throughout the year and on weekends. Travel is not expected to exceed 10%.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Agriculture Future of America (AFA) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, AFA complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

AFA expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of AFA’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

Interested in joining our team? Please submit your resume, cover letter, and a portfolio sample by clicking on APPLY TO THIS POSITION.