Associate, Digital Marketing & Communications

CADCA; Alexandria (VA); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

PTO & holidays

Collaborative team environment

Predictable hours (8:30–5:30, Mon–Fri)

Hybrid schedule: 3 days in office, 2 W

Job summary

CADCA in Alexandria, VA, is seeking an Associate, Digital Marketing & Communications to lead social storytelling, design, and email campaigns. The role blends content creation, analytics, and web updates within a hybrid in-office/remote schedule.

You will manage editorial calendars, optimize SEO, and collaborate on Google Ad Grants and multimedia projects, ensuring consistent brand across channels.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, public relations, graphic design, or related field.
• 2-3 years of relevant experience (internships count).
• Strong graphic design, writing, editing, and digital storytelling chops.
• Experience managing social content, editorial calendars, and performance reporting.
• Comfort with audience data, digital analytics, and juggling multiple platforms.
• Sharp organizational skills and the ability to manage several deadlines at once.
• Portfolio showing design, writing, social, or multimedia work.

Responsibilities

• Own the story on social; write, schedule, publish, and monitor CADCA's channels.
• Design graphics, infographics, flyers, emails, and presentations.
• Run email campaigns start to finish with segmentation and clean data.
• Dig into data; track performance and make data-driven recommendations.
• Keep WordPress updates, SEO, accessibility, and conversions in mind.
• Support Google Ad Grants campaigns and multimedia projects.
• Manage timelines, reviews, and proofread content before publication.

Skills

Graphic design

Writing

Editing

Digital storytelling

Social media

Analytics

Organization

Education

Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, public relations, graphic design, or related field

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Canva

WordPress

Google Analytics

HTML/CSS

NetForum

Informz

Social scheduling tools

Job description

Associate, Digital Marketing & Communications

CADCA | Alexandria, VA | Hybrid

Your work will help build healthier, drug-free communities - worldwide.

CADCA is the premier prevention association in the country, equipping more than 7,000 coalitions across the United States and 28+ countries with the tools, knowledge, and support they need to fight substance misuse and create lasting change. Every graphic you design, every email you send, and every post you publish helps local coalitions reach the people who need them most.

We're looking for a creative, organized, and data-minded Associate, Digital Marketing & Communications to help tell that story — across social media, email, web, and beyond. If you love turning complex ideas into content people actually want to engage with, and you get a kick out of watching the analytics prove it worked, we want to meet you.

What You'll Do

• Own the story on social. Write, schedule, publish, and monitor CADCA's social channels, and build an organization-wide content calendar that keeps campaigns, events, and priorities all moving in sync - with an eye on what's trending.
• Design work that gets noticed. Create social graphics, flyers, infographics, one-pagers, email graphics, presentations, and event materials that keep CADCA's brand sharp, consistent, and accessible.
• Run email campaigns start to finish. Build, test, schedule, and deploy campaigns, and partner with the Membership team to segment audiences, clean data, and keep distribution lists accurate across our AMS and email platform.
• Dig into the data. Research new audience segments, track performance across social, email, and web, and turn what you learn into recommendations that make the next campaign better than the last. Keep UTMs, links, and conversion tracking in order.
• Keep our digital home fresh. Make routine WordPress updates using best practices for SEO, AI-driven search discoverability, accessibility, and conversion.
• Help stretch every marketing dollar further. Support the optimization of CADCA's Google Ad Grants campaigns and contribute to integrated marketing efforts, including video and multimedia projects.
• Keep it all on track. Manage timelines, coordinate reviews and approvals, and proofread everything that goes out the door — because details matter when you're representing a national movement.

Occasional travel or after-hours work may be needed around our signature events.

What You Bring

• A bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, public relations, graphic design, or a related field
• 2-3 years of relevant experience (internships count!)
• Strong graphic design, writing, editing, and digital storytelling chops
• Experience managing social content, editorial calendars, and performance reporting
• Comfort with audience data, digital analytics, and juggling multiple platforms
• Sharp organizational skills and the ability to manage several deadlines at once, across teams
• A portfolio that shows off your design, writing, social, or multimedia work

Nice-to-haves:

• Adobe Creative Suite and/or Canva, WordPress, Google Analytics, social scheduling tools
• NetForum and Informz (or similar database/email platforms), including queries, segmentation, and list hygiene
• Working knowledge of HTML/CSS for email formatting and troubleshooting
• SEO, AI search discoverability, conversion optimization, and Google Ads / Google Ad Grants experience
• Video production or editing experience
• Experience in a nonprofit, association, membership, or event marketing setting

What We Offer

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous paid time off and holidays
• A collaborative, mission-driven team that genuinely likes working together
• Predictable hours (8:30 am-5:30 pm, Monday-Friday), with extra hands-on-deck time during our signature events
• Hybrid schedule - 3 days in office, 2 from home after your first 90 days

Ready to Make a Difference?

Applicants must have residency in VA, MD, or DC and be currently authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. on a full-time basis. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

CADCA is located at 500 Montgomery Street, Suite 400, Alexandria, VA 22314