Marketing & Communications Project Lead - Hybrid

Maryland Clean Energy Center; College Park (MD); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Maryland Clean Energy Center seeks a Marketing & Communications Project Coordinator to support planning, coordination, and execution of marketing, communications, PR, sponsorship, and event initiatives. The role focuses on project coordination, communications support, production management, event logistics, and vendor coordination to ensure timely, on-brand delivery.

Collaborating across departments and with external stakeholders, you will support outreach, stakeholder engagement, and awareness

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Public Relations, Business Administration, or related field or equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant professional experience.
• Two to five years of experience in marketing, communications, project coordination, public relations, event coordination, or related field.
• Experience supporting multiple projects and coordinating cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience working with CRM systems, project management software, and digital communications platforms preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the organization’s marketing and communications project portfolio, calendars, timelines, and production schedules.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects and campaigns while ensuring priorities, deadlines, and deliverables are met.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and facilitate communication among internal stakeholders, consultants, vendors, and external partners.
• Monitor project progress, identify risks, and proactively resolve issues affecting project delivery.
• Support the use and development of project management processes, templates, workflows, and documentation standards.
• Support development and execution of integrated marketing campaigns across digital, print, email, social media, advertising, sponsorships, and events.
• Coordinate campaign production schedules, approvals, and deliverables.
• Conduct market and audience research to identify outreach opportunities and support communications planning.
• Coordinate production and distribution of organizational communications, newsletters, press releases, media advisories, presentations, and stakeholder communications.
• Support media relations activities and maintain media contact databases.
• Assist with development of executive communications, talking points, presentations, and public-facing materials.
• Monitor media coverage and prepare communications reports and metrics.
• Support planning and execution of conferences, workshops, webinars, stakeholder meetings, trade shows, and community engagement events.
• Coordinate venue selection, registrations, vendor management, logistics, travel arrangements, speaker coordination, sponsorship fulfillment, and on-site event support.
• Support event schedules, production timelines, post-event evaluations, and event related documentation.
• Ensure sponsorship commitments and partner deliverables are fulfilled accurately and on schedule.
• Coordinate with external marketing vendors, consultants, designers, printers, photographers, videographers, and agencies to support project delivery.
• Support production schedules, approvals, quality control processes, and asset delivery.
• Maintain organized digital asset libraries, templates, branding resources, and production archives.
• Support tracking of marketing and event-related expenses and maintain associate documentation.
• Compile project updates, campaign summaries, event reports, and other marketing and communications reports as requested.
• Maintain marketing databases, contact lists, communication schedules, and project documentation.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.
• This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
• Knowledge of marketing, communications, public relations, and event management principles.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously.
• Experience coordinating external vendors and stakeholder relationships.
• Attention to detail and commitment to quality
• Proficiency with project management, CRM, and marketing technology platforms.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

Project management

Marketing communications

Event management

Vendor coordination

CRM systems

Digital marketing platforms

Written communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business Administration, or related field

Tools

CRM systems

Project management software

Marketing technology platforms

Job description

Maryland Clean Energy Center seeks a Marketing & Communications Project Coordinator to support planning, coordination, and execution of marketing, communications, PR, sponsorship, and event initiatives. The role focuses on project coordination, communications support, production management, event logistics, and vendor coordination to ensure timely, on-brand delivery.

Collaborating across departments and with external stakeholders, you will support outreach, stakeholder engagement, and awareness