Marketing and Communications Coordinator

Kelly; Cedar Rapids (IA); Hybrid; USD 29,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Paid holidays

Transit spending account

Paid sick leave

Job summary

Kelly is seeking a Marketing and Communications Coordinator in Cedar Rapids, IA, on a temporary-to-hire basis. The role focuses on promoting employee awareness, crafting messaging, and reinforcing the company brand across internal and external channels.

Ideal candidates bring a bachelor’s degree in journalism, English, communications, or marketing and at least two years of marketing or communications experience. The position is hybrid, offering collaboration with a proactive team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, English, Communications, Marketing, or a related area (preferred).
• Minimum 2 years of technical or professional experience in marketing or communications.
• Excellent writing skills and strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication abilities.
• Proficiency with common computer software (email, word processing, spreadsheets, project management).
• Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams to bring ideas from concept to execution.

Responsibilities

• Ensure marketing initiatives promote employee awareness of company information and activities.
• Recommend and support the best methods and types of marketing or communication tools to reinforce key messages.
• Utilize writing skills to effectively market programs or solutions to employees and customers while reinforcing the company brand.
• Support planned marketing activities for internal and external customers, incorporating relevant subject matter into communications.
• Ensure marketing and communications activities meet internal customers’ timing and objectives, considering potential impacts on other planned communications.
• Apply various marketing strategies to engage the target audience.
• Participate in community events to enhance the company's reputation and brand presence.

Skills

Excellent writing

Interpersonal skills

Verbal & written communication

Team collaboration

Event planning knowledge

Marketing planning & budgeting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in journalism/English/communications/marketing

Tools

Email software

Word processing

Spreadsheets

Project management tools

Job description

What’s next for you?

This great job.

Finding a job that fits your lifestyle isn’t always easy. That’s where Kelly® Professional & Industrial comes in. We’re seeking a Marketing and Communications Coordinator to work in a temporary to hire opportunity with a Top Client in Cedar Rapids, IA. We’re here to help you find something great that works for you—so you won’t miss a moment of what really matters in your life.

Snapshot

• Pay rate is $25/hour
• Hybrid role
• Opportunity to work with a great team

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure marketing initiatives promote employee awareness of company information and activities.
• Recommend and support the best methods and types of marketing or communication tools to reinforce key messages.
• Utilize creative concepts and writing skills to effectively market programs or solutions to employees and customers while reinforcing the company brand.
• Support planned marketing activities for internal and external customers, incorporating relevant subject matter into communications.
• Ensure marketing and communications activities meet internal customers’ timing and objectives, considering potential impacts on other planned communications.
• Apply various marketing strategies to successfully engage the target audience.
• Participate in community events to enhance the company's reputation and brand presence.

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, English, Communications, Marketing, or a related area (preferred).

Required Experience

• Minimum of 2 years of technical or professional experience in marketing or communications.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Excellent writing skills
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Proficient in computer software programs (e.g., email, word processing, spreadsheets, and project management tools).
• Experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams to bring marketing ideas from concept to execution.
• Familiarity with event management and sponsorships.
• Understanding of short and long-term marketing plan development, budgeting, and project scheduling.
• Ability to thrive in a diverse work environment.

As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan.

About Kelly

Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we’re obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it’s about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It’s the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It’s the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life-just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

Kelly is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants regardless of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and we take affirmative action to recruit, employ, and advance qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in the workforce.

Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to the Kelly Human Resource Knowledge Center.

Kelly complies with the requirements of California’s state and local Fair Chance laws.

A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment.

Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

Kelly may use AI-powered tools during the recruitment and hiring process. For full details, including how Kelly uses AI, your rights, and how to request a reasonable accommodation, visit the Recruitment Artificial Intelligence Notice.