Marketing Project Manager (Campus & Experiences)

National Geographic; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 81,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

National Geographic Society is seeking a Marketing Project Manager for the Campus & Experiences Marketing Team in Washington, DC. You will translate marketing strategies into coordinated plans, manage campaigns and calendars, and collaborate across creative, digital, CRM, and partner teams.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in marketing project management, strong organizational skills, and experience guiding multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience managing multiple campaigns, projects, or workstreams simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of integrated marketing workflows across creative, digital, social, CRM/email, web, paid media, and related channels.
• Experience working with creative teams, agencies, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Exceptional organizational and project-management skills with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritize competing needs and maintain momentum in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio & Marketing Project Management: Translate strategies into actionable project plans, timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
• Integrated Campaign Coordination: Build and maintain an integrated marketing calendar across channels and campaigns.
• Creative & Marketing Workflow Management: Manage intake and workflow of marketing requests with clear objectives and deadlines.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinate with internal partners to balance priorities across Campus & Experiences.
• Agency & External Partner Coordination: Oversee timelines, assets, and approvals with agencies and vendors.
• Marketing Operations & Team Effectiveness: Improve processes, templates, and dashboards for leadership visibility.

Skills

Campaign management

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Marketing operations

CRM familiarity

Scheduling & planning

Education

Bachelor's degree (Marketing/Comms/Business)

Tools

Monday.com

Job description

How You’ll Contribute The Campus and Experiences division creates and supports inspirational experiences for live audiences and delivers excellent service and operations at National Geographic Society facilities. The division is responsible for our Base Camp headquarters, including all aspects of the Museum of Exploration. This division also produces and generates revenue through National Geographic Live, Speakers Bureau and National Geographic’s Traveling Exhibitions programs. Reporting to the VP, Business Strategy and Performance, the Marketing Project Manager will serve as the operational and project-management hub for the Campus & Experiences Marketing Team, helping translate marketing strategies and business priorities into coordinated, actionable work across the portfolio. This role manages the flow of marketing initiatives across Campus & Experiences, ensuring campaigns, programs, experiences, sales initiatives, and business priorities move efficiently from planning through execution. Working closely with marketing leads, business teams, creative partners, digital teams, agencies, and cross-functional stakeholders, the Marketing Project Manager establishes clear timelines, deliverables, ownership, dependencies, and approval processes. The ideal candidate is highly organized, proactive, collaborative, and comfortable managing multiple priorities across a diverse portfolio. This person thrives in a fast-moving environment and brings the structure, communication, and accountability necessary to help a complex marketing organization deliver great work.

Your Impact Responsibilities Include:

Portfolio & Marketing Project Management (30%):

Manage marketing projects and initiatives across the Campus & Experiences portfolio from initial brief through launch and completion. Translate marketing strategies and business priorities into actionable project plans, timelines, milestones, and deliverables. Maintain a centralized view of active and upcoming marketing initiatives across the portfolio. Coordinate overlapping campaigns, launches, programs, events, and sales priorities to identify dependencies and potential conflicts. Lead project kickoffs, status meetings, and cross-functional working sessions. Track deliverables and proactively follow up with owners to keep projects moving. Identify risks, resource constraints, and potential delays early and work with teams to develop solutions. Help leadership prioritize work based on business objectives, timing, team capacity, and organizational needs.

Integrated Campaign Coordination (30%):

Coordinate status of integrated marketing campaigns across paid media, web, CRM/email, social, creative, partnerships, PR, and other channels to ensure on time execution. Build and maintain an integrated Campus & Experiences marketing calendar connecting major campaigns, launches, programs, events, sales initiatives, and organizational moments. Ensure campaign teams understand objectives, audiences, deliverables, deadlines, dependencies, and approval requirements. Coordinate the delivery of creative assets, copy, digital requirements, media specifications, and other campaign materials. Manage launch readiness to ensure campaign components are complete and aligned before go-live. Support post-campaign wrap-ups and documentation of key learnings and opportunities.

Creative & Marketing Workflow Management (20%):

Manage the intake and workflow of marketing and creative requests across Campus & Experiences. Ensure requests have clear objectives, audiences, deliverables, specifications, deadlines, and business context before work begins. Partner with marketing and creative leads to prioritize incoming requests based on business needs and team capacity. Manage review and approval processes and consolidate stakeholder feedback. Help reduce unnecessary revision cycles by ensuring teams receive clear, actionable, and consolidated direction. Maintain organized project documentation, approvals, and version control.

Cross-Functional Collaboration (10%):

Serve as a key coordination point between the Campus & Experiences Marketing Team and internal business partners. Establish clear expectations around responsibilities, deliverables, timelines, approvals, and next steps. Coordinate marketing content and campaigns involving multiple business areas and organizational stakeholders. Analyze priorities, timelines, or project requirements to improve SOPs and workflows Help ensure individual business needs are balanced with broader Campus & Experiences priorities, in collaboration with other departments across National Geographic. Build strong working relationships while maintaining accountability for agreed-upon commitments.

Agency & External Partner Coordination (5%):

Coordinate timelines, deliverables, assets, meetings, and approvals with marketing agencies, vendors, and external partners. Ensure external partners receive the information, direction, and materials required to execute effectively. Track agency deliverables against agreed-upon scopes and timelines. Coordinate internal reviews and consolidate feedback to keep external work moving efficiently. Maintain visibility into key agency and partner workstreams across the portfolio. Monitor budget tracking and administrative processes, including invoice processing and corporate card expenditure documentation for event-related activities.

Marketing Operations & Team Effectiveness (5%):

Help establish and continuously improve processes, templates, workflows, and project-management standards for the Campus & Experiences Marketing Team. Maintain centralized visibility into team workload, deadlines, major milestones, and upcoming priorities. Develop status reports and dashboards that give marketing leadership a clear view of project progress, upcoming decisions, and risks. Support documentation of marketing processes and standard operating procedures. Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, eliminate unnecessary steps, and improve team efficiency. Help establish consistent ways of working across Campus & Experiences marketing initiatives.

Education Required

Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, project management, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Minimum Years and Type of Experience

5+ years of experience in marketing project management, marketing operations, integrated marketing, account management, or a related discipline.

Necessary Knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrated experience managing multiple campaigns, projects, or workstreams simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of integrated marketing workflows across creative, digital, social, CRM/email, web, paid media, and related channels.
• Experience working with creative teams, agencies, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Exceptional organizational and project-management skills with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritize competing needs and maintain momentum in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to build relationships and hold colleagues and partners accountable in a collaborative manner.
• Experience with project-management platforms and marketing workflow tools.
• Ability to work independently, anticipate needs, and proactively solve problems.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience within a cultural institution, attraction, hospitality, entertainment, media, events, or other consumer-facing organization.
• Experience supporting multiple products, business units, or revenue streams within a broader portfolio.
• Experience supporting marketing for ticketed experiences, events, programs, group sales, event sales, or other revenue-generating products.
• Experience coordinating multiple agencies and external partners.
• Familiarity with CRM, CMS, digital marketing, creative production, and paid media workflows.
• Experience building or improving marketing intake and project-management processes, familiar with Monday.com or other project management tools is a plus.

Supervision

No direct reports

Salary Information

The National Geographic Society offers a competitive and holistic total rewards package. Our compensation structure and transparent pay philosophy are based on industry-specific market data for similar-sized nonprofit organizations. The salary range for this position accounts for a wide range of factors including but not limited to organizational need; specific skill sets; experience and training; certifications; and more. At the National Geographic Society, individuals are typically hired at or near the starting point of the salary range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. The salary range for this position is $80,750.00 - $85,000.00. In addition, the National Geographic Society offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package that includes, but is not limited to, medical, dental, and vision insurance; engaging and comprehensive wellness program; 401(k) retirement savings plan with matching contributions after 6 months of employment; flexible paid time off benefits with up to 22 days of paid annual leave per calendar year (15 days for new hires in their first year, prorated based on the number of pay periods remaining in the year) and 10 days of sick leave; 12 paid holidays and a paid winter break between December 25 and 31 (May not apply to all roles that are required to work during high volume seasons or essential workers. Please check with the hiring manager for confirmation.); paid parental leave, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility benefits; learning and development opportunities; Lifestyle Spending Account; pet adoption assistance and insurance; pre-tax transportation benefits with a generous employer subsidy; employer-paid life insurance and disability benefit; and a variety of National Geographic discounts and perks.

Job Designation

On-Site Flex - Staff members who must be physically present at Base Camp to do the vast majority of their work supporting overall building and museum operations. On-Site Flex staff hours are determined in consultation with supervisors, and are responsive to the needs of the MOE and other building operations, often including nontraditional (M-F, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.) work hours.

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

We encourage you to apply even if your experience is not a 100% match with the position. We are looking for someone with relevant skills and experience, not a checklist that exactly matches the job description. We want to help you grow and in return, you help us grow into a stronger, more inclusive organization.

Who We Are

The National Geographic Society uses the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of our world. Our mission is only complete when our staff, explorers, educators, youth and partners are seen, valued, and heard. We embrace each person’s identity, experiences, and abilities, and we commit to cultivating an environment where everyone benefits from opportunity, mutual respect and a sense of belonging. National Geographic's headquarters is located in the heart of Washington, D.C. We offer our employees a comprehensive benefits package, including health and dental benefits, generous vacation and parental leave time, a 401(k) plan, flexible work options, and career development.