Senior Creative Project Manager

When you come work with us, here’s what you’ll find:

• Work that is meaningful. We are a fast-paced, deadline-driven consulting firm that only works with nonprofit clients who are essential to advancing the cause of justice, alleviating suffering, and solving the greatest challenges we face.
• Commitment to Anti-Racism, Equity, and Inclusion (AEI). We envision an anti-oppressive workplace that ensures an inclusive employee experience, promotes equitable outcomes for staff, and supports clients to center accessibility and anti-racism in their programs.
• Colleagues you can count on. Kind, dedicated, passionate people who work collaboratively to get things done and help you do your best.
• An organization that embraces change. We strive to improve and adapt and always seek new ways that we can contribute to a just, inclusive, and sustainable world. We are also continually working on making M+R a better place for our staff.

So that’s us. Now about the work:

• We run advertising campaigns that raise money and create change for our clients. Great big ones you read about in the news and tiny ones you’ve never heard of that are saving lives. Lots of politically progressive groups -- Planned Parenthood, League of Conservation Voters, PETA. Environmental groups such as NRDC and Oceana, and our clients also include organizations that are working in the most dire situations in the world such as the International Rescue Committee.
• Day-to-day, we’re raising revenue, acquiring new donors and supporters, winning campaigns and elections, and improving brand and issue recognition.

Here’s what you’ll be doing in this role:

• Manage client and internal communications across channels, ensuring all creative deadlines are met and work stays within budgeted hours and Asana work plans.
• Communicate directly with clients and internal stakeholders regarding creative direction, reviews, and approvals.
• Attend and facilitate creative agenda items during internal and client calls, managing all resulting action items.
• Contribute to brainstorms, draft creative briefs, write and revise copy, and drive creative concepts from inception to final delivery.
• Coordinate with designers and freelancers, providing initial edits, feedback, and quality control to ensure deliverables align with project and brand guidelines.
• Supervise and mentor junior staff, supporting their professional development, well-being, and performance through ongoing feedback.
• Review and manage team capacity, evaluate estimated hours, and reprioritize tasks to ensure deadlines are met.
• Optimize creative workflows, maintain updated case studies and proposals, and participate in broader agency-wide creative initiatives and working groups.

Skills and experiences required for this role:

• 5-7 years of creative project management experience with a focus on digital production and digital design.
• Basic Photoshop proficiency: you can make minor changes, such as text edits.
• Experience working with others to implement processes, systems, and tools that increase accuracy, effectiveness, and efficiency.
• Able to manage up and across to secure what you need to get the job done.
• Experience supporting the professional development of more junior staff, and coaching staff. 
 

Skills and experiences we expect of all M+R employees:

• Demonstrated commitment to anti-racism, equity, and inclusion.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively to gain trust and give respect to others through honesty, integrity, kindness, empathy, and authenticity.
• Acute attention to detail and demonstrated ability to prioritize time to meet deadlines for multiple projects.
• Proven track record to successfully pick up new skills, including learning new technologies.
• Drive to seek what can be improved and offer ways to fix any potential roadblocks.
• Comfort admitting what you don’t know and recognizing that feedback is part of the learning process.
• Ability to communicate persuasively in a way that articulates your ideas and conveys your expertise, whether on the phone, in-person, or in writing.
• Able to work within equitable and inclusive decision making models in moving decisions and initiatives forward.

Salary and benefits:

This is an exempt, unionized position, represented by the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. The salary for this position is $111,925. As part of M+R’s commitment to compensation equity and transparency, we have a no-negotiation policy. Salary negotiations can introduce bias and perpetuate wage inequality. Staff at M+R who successfully meet their performance expectations have regular opportunities for promotion with accompanying increases in compensation.
 
 
We also offer a generous benefits package:
• Three weeks vacation, three personal days, and 15 paid sick days;
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits with premiums fully paid for by M+R for individual employees;
• 401(k) plan with employer match;
• Quarterly discretionary profit-sharing contributions;
• Flexible work schedules and the option to work remotely anywhere within the United States and its territories with broadband internet;
• Annual $1,000 professional development stipend;
• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical, dependent care, and transit.