Job Summary
As the Marketing & Communications Coordinator at Harvest Intercontinental Church–Olney, you’ll help people know what’s happening, why it matters, and how to take their next step.
You’ll coordinate church-wide communications and marketing across email, text messaging, social media, the website, digital platforms, print, and event promotion. You’ll work closely with the Media Director, Graphic Designer, Production Manager, ministry leaders, and volunteers to turn ministry updates, stories, and opportunities into clear, engaging communications.
This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys both creativity and organization. You may spend one part of your day developing a campaign for an upcoming event and another writing an email, coordinating a social media post, updating the website, or helping capture a testimony.
Your impact: You’ll help Harvest communicate more clearly, reach new people more intentionally, strengthen engagement with members and guests, and tell meaningful stories from a multicultural church community with local and global reach.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and coordinate the church-wide communications calendar, including upcoming services, events, campaigns, ministry initiatives, and publishing deadlines.
- Write, edit, schedule, and distribute church-wide email, text/SMS, website, social media, and other approved communications.
- Plan and coordinate marketing campaigns for major services, events, outreach initiatives, ministry opportunities, and other church-wide priorities.
- Help identify target audiences, key messages, appropriate channels, calls to action, and campaign timing.
- Manage and coordinate social media publishing, including captions, scheduling, audience engagement, and collaboration with the Graphic Designer, content contributors, and volunteers.
- Coordinate creative requests and ensure graphics, video, copy, links, and other campaign assets are prepared and delivered on schedule.
- Keep assigned website and event information accurate, current, and easy to navigate.
- Support guest and newcomer communications by helping ensure people receive clear information and meaningful next steps.
- Help identify, collect, organize, and share testimonies, ministry stories, event highlights, and other content that reflects what God is doing through Harvest.
- Review email, social media, website, and campaign performance and recommend practical improvements.
- Help maintain consistent messaging, brand standards, terminology, and calls to action across communication channels.
- Coordinate incoming communications requests from ministries and departments, clarify missing information, establish appropriate timelines, and help prioritize requests based on church-wide priorities.
- Support occasional paid digital promotion or advertising campaigns when approved.
- Respond to or appropriately route digital inquiries, comments, and messages.
- Support internal communications for staff, leaders, and ministries as assigned.
- Perform other communications and marketing responsibilities as needed. The examples above describe the general scope of the position and are not an exhaustive list of duties.
Requirements
- Experience in communications, marketing, digital media, social media, public relations, content creation, or a related field.
- Excellent writing, editing, proofreading, and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, requests, and changing priorities.
- Experience managing or supporting social media platforms, email communications, websites, or digital campaigns.
- Strong understanding of audience-focused communication and the ability to adjust messaging for different groups and channels.
- Ability to take scattered information and turn it into clear, accurate, engaging communication.
- Comfortable reviewing basic analytics and using performance insights to improve future communications.
- Strong attention to detail, initiative, follow-through, and sound judgment.
- Ability to work collaboratively with staff, ministry leaders, volunteers, designers, and production teams.
- Ability to handle sensitive information and personal stories with appropriate discretion.
- Comfortable learning and using new communications and marketing tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in church, nonprofit, ministry, community, or mission-driven communications.
- Experience developing or coordinating marketing campaigns.
- Familiarity with email marketing platforms, content management systems, social scheduling tools, analytics platforms, or customer relationship management systems.
- Basic Canva or Adobe Creative Suite skills are helpful, but this position is not the primary graphic design role.
- Experience with digital advertising, audience segmentation, or campaign reporting is a plus.
- Degree in communications, marketing, public relations, digital media, or a related field is preferred but not required.
Ministry Alignment
Because this role helps communicate the life and message of Harvest, the ideal candidate should demonstrate a personal commitment to Jesus Christ, support Harvest’s mission and values, and approach their work with integrity, humility, excellence, sound judgment, and genuine care for people.
Pay: $42,000.00 per year
Benefits
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Olney, MD 20832
