WELCOME TO MWD!
We are a direct marketing agency with almost four decades of fundraising success, having raised over $1 billion in support of progressive causes and political campaigns. Our employees are at the top of their game—leaders of our industry and, quite frankly, some of the most creative, impassioned, and exceptional humans to walk the earth. If our mission and values resonate with you, we encourage you to take the leap and apply.
JOB OPENINGS
Account Executive
Possible locations for this position: Berkeley, CA / Washington, DC
Our Account Executives provide strategic leadership for direct marketing fundraising programs with nonprofit organizations who are our clients. They serve as the lead relationship manager for a portfolio of several clients, and work within a team to deliver direct marketing fundraising programs.
Core responsibilities:
- Work with Account Lead to develop and execute year-long direct marketing fundraising schedules
- Provide strategic oversight of client direct marketing fundraising programs
- Guide production management and design process for projects
- Prepare and secure strategy documents and budget approvals for projects
- Create and review strategies and annual plans with clients
- Develop and execute year-long direct marketing schedules
- Draft appeal letters and/or work with copywriters to draft content
- Work with clients to identify topics, issues, and projects for fundraising appeals
- Work with list brokers to develop lists
- Develop up-sell/cross-sell strategies
- Travel several times a year to meet with clients
- Assist with new business proposals and presentations
Required qualifications:
- 7 1/2 to 9 years relevant work experience
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Experience with nonprofit fundraising and/or advocacy
- Strong knowledge of direct marketing and individual donor fundraising
- Focused attention to detail and ability to create outstanding messaging
- Excellent organizational and project/time management skills
- Excellent proof reading skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Attention to detail, resourcefulness, and high level of accuracy
- Top-notch customer service skills
- Ability to work under pressure, establish work priorities, and multi-task
- Ability to work under short lead times, and can deliver on milestones and deadlines
- Independent self-starter
- Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion and judgement
- Ability to independently establish work priorities
- Ability to help analyze problems and produce a viable solution
Personal Characteristics:
- Positive "can-do" attitude
- Pro-active problem solver
- Committed to progressive social issues, including the environment, foreign policy, aid and development, human rights, women's rights, LGBT issues, electoral politics, etc.
- Willingness to travel
- Strong presentation and persuasion skills
To apply:
This is a full-time position. Please direct all submissions to jobs@mwdagency.com and include ALL of the following (along with "Account Executive — Your Name" in the subject line):
- Cover letter — Who are you, and why are you our next exceptional employee?
- Resume
- Salary Requirements
No phone calls please. MWD is an equal opportunity employer.
Account Coordinator
Possible locations for this position: Berkeley, CA / Washington, DC
The ideal candidate works as a part of a team assisting with or leading many aspects of client work and project management. The ideal candidate is someone who both works well independently and is a strong team player.
Core responsibilities:
- Monitor client deliverables and proactively keep projects on schedule
- Draft preliminary strategy documents and client memos
- Create package specifications and budgets, and bid out print jobs
- Create purchase orders, personalization, and mailshop instructions
- Proof copy and art, and ensure timely approvals from client
- Draft preliminary direct mail list orders and order internal mailing lists from clients
- Perform regular client reporting
- Gather information, coordinate and prepare client summary reports
Required qualifications:
- 2+ years relevant industry work experience
- Agency experience is a huge plus!
- Direct mail fundraising experience is ideal
- Excellent organizational and project/time management skills -- must be able to handle 15- 20 concurrent projects
- Superb attention to detail
- Strong written communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to independently establish work priorities
- Ability to work under pressure and multi-task
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Personal Characteristics:
- Positive "can-do" attitude
- Pro-active problem solver
- Committed to progressive social issues, including the environment, foreign policy, aid and development, human rights, women's rights, LGBT issues, electoral politics, etc.
To apply:
This is a full-time position. Please direct all submissions to jobs@malwarwick.com and include ALL of the following (along with "Account Coordinator — Your Name" in the subject line):
- Cover letter — Who are you, and why are you our next exceptional employee?
- Resume
- Salary Requirements
No phone calls please. MWD is an equal opportunity employer.
Online Account Executive
Possible locations for this position: Berkeley, CA / Washington, DC
The Online Account Executive works as part of an account team that delivers direct marketing fundraising programs by assisting with or leading many aspects of client work and project management for a portfolio of clients.
Core responsibilities:
- Working with the account lead to develop and implement online fundraising/advocacy campaigns with specific benchmarks and deliverables, including email newsletters and solicitations, fundraising appeals, advocacy campaigns and more
- Assisting with creative services, including writing/editing Web fundraising copy, promotional copy and email newsletters and solicitations
- Coordinating email message production and implementation with internal departments and clients
- Implementing and overseeing message and landing page setup in the client+s eCRM platform
- Working with Director of Research and Analytics to pull messaging data and other metrics
- Monitoring message performance after a launch and doing preliminary analysis for client report-back
- Helping prepare presentations and reports before in-person client meetings as needed, with guidance from the account lead
Education, Experience & Knowledge:
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in one of the following areas of work: advocacy, fundraising, electoral campaigning, project management, event planning, Internet marketing, direct response
- Technology-oriented, with the ability and desire to understand how online fundraising, marketing and advocacy technology works (Note: This is not a Web development position.)
- Demonstrated knowledge and interest in online fundraising, e-mail marketing and advocacy
Skills & Abilities:
- Excellent computer skills — Word, Excel, database, Internet
- Excellent organizational and project/time management skills
- Excellent proof reading skills
- Excellent communicator, strong written and verbal communication skills
- Attention to detail, resourcefulness, and high level of accuracy
- Top-notch customer service skills
- Ability to work under pressure, establish work priorities, and multi-task
- Ability to work with short deadlines, and deliver on set milestones
- Initiative
- Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion and judgement
- Ability to establish work priorities
- Ability to consider and evaluate problems and produce viable solutions
- Focused attention to detail and ability to create outstanding messaging
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Luminate, Salsa, Net Community, Engaging Networks or similar
- Experience with nonprofit fundraising or advocacy
- Basic HTML and other web tools experience
- Previous experience in a client service role
- Experience with online advertising a plus
Personal Characteristics:
- Positive “can-do” attitude
- Enthusiastic problem solver
- Interest in progressive social issues, including the environment, foreign policy, aid and development, human rights, women’s rights, LGBT issues, electoral politics, etc.
- Comfort with networking
- Willingness to travel
- Strong presentation and persuasion skills
To apply:
This is a full-time position. Please direct all submissions to jobs@mwdagency.com and include ALL of the following (along with "Online Account Executive — Your Name" in the subject line):
- Cover letter — Who are you, and why are you our next exceptional employee?
- Resume
- Salary Requirements
No phone calls please. MWD is an equal opportunity employer.
Account Executive
Possible locations for this position: Berkeley, CA / Washington, DC
Our Account Executives provide strategic leadership for direct marketing fundraising programs with nonprofit organizations who are our clients. They serve as the lead relationship manager for a portfolio of several clients, and work within a team to deliver direct marketing fundraising programs.
Core responsibilities:
- Work with Account Lead to develop and execute year-long direct marketing fundraising schedules
- Provide strategic oversight of client direct marketing fundraising programs
- Guide production management and design process for projects
- Prepare and secure strategy documents and budget approvals for projects
- Create and review strategies and annual plans with clients
- Develop and execute year-long direct marketing schedules
- Draft appeal letters and/or work with copywriters to draft content
- Work with clients to identify topics, issues, and projects for fundraising appeals
- Work with list brokers to develop lists
- Develop up-sell/cross-sell strategies
- Travel several times a year to meet with clients
- Assist with new business proposals and presentations
Required qualifications:
- 7 1/2 to 9 years relevant work experience
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Experience with nonprofit fundraising and/or advocacy
- Strong knowledge of direct marketing and individual donor fundraising
- Focused attention to detail and ability to create outstanding messaging
- Excellent organizational and project/time management skills
- Excellent proof reading skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Attention to detail, resourcefulness, and high level of accuracy
- Top-notch customer service skills
- Ability to work under pressure, establish work priorities, and multi-task
- Ability to work under short lead times, and can deliver on milestones and deadlines
- Independent self-starter
- Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion and judgement
- Ability to independently establish work priorities
- Ability to help analyze problems and produce a viable solution
Personal Characteristics:
- Positive "can-do" attitude
- Pro-active problem solver
- Committed to progressive social issues, including the environment, foreign policy, aid and development, human rights, women's rights, LGBT issues, electoral politics, etc.
- Willingness to travel
- Strong presentation and persuasion skills
To apply:
This is a full-time position. Please direct all submissions to jobs@mwdagency.com and include ALL of the following (along with "Account Executive — Your Name" in the subject line):
- Cover letter — Who are you, and why are you our next exceptional employee?
- Resume
- Salary Requirements
No phone calls please. MWD is an equal opportunity employer.
Account Coordinator
Possible locations for this position: Berkeley, CA / Washington, DC
The ideal candidate works as a part of a team assisting with or leading many aspects of client work and project management. The ideal candidate is someone who both works well independently and is a strong team player.
Core responsibilities:
- Monitor client deliverables and proactively keep projects on schedule
- Draft preliminary strategy documents and client memos
- Create package specifications and budgets, and bid out print jobs
- Create purchase orders, personalization, and mailshop instructions
- Proof copy and art, and ensure timely approvals from client
- Draft preliminary direct mail list orders and order internal mailing lists from clients
- Perform regular client reporting
- Gather information, coordinate and prepare client summary reports
Required qualifications:
- 2+ years relevant industry work experience
- Agency experience is a huge plus!
- Direct mail fundraising experience is ideal
- Excellent organizational and project/time management skills -- must be able to handle 15- 20 concurrent projects
- Superb attention to detail
- Strong written communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to independently establish work priorities
- Ability to work under pressure and multi-task
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Personal Characteristics:
- Positive "can-do" attitude
- Pro-active problem solver
- Committed to progressive social issues, including the environment, foreign policy, aid and development, human rights, women's rights, LGBT issues, electoral politics, etc.
To apply:
This is a full-time position. Please direct all submissions to jobs@malwarwick.com and include ALL of the following (along with "Account Coordinator — Your Name" in the subject line):
- Cover letter — Who are you, and why are you our next exceptional employee?
- Resume
- Salary Requirements
No phone calls please. MWD is an equal opportunity employer.
Online Account Executive
Possible locations for this position: Berkeley, CA / Washington, DC
The Online Account Executive works as part of an account team that delivers direct marketing fundraising programs by assisting with or leading many aspects of client work and project management for a portfolio of clients.
Core responsibilities:
- Working with the account lead to develop and implement online fundraising/advocacy campaigns with specific benchmarks and deliverables, including email newsletters and solicitations, fundraising appeals, advocacy campaigns and more
- Assisting with creative services, including writing/editing Web fundraising copy, promotional copy and email newsletters and solicitations
- Coordinating email message production and implementation with internal departments and clients
- Implementing and overseeing message and landing page setup in the client+s eCRM platform
- Working with Director of Research and Analytics to pull messaging data and other metrics
- Monitoring message performance after a launch and doing preliminary analysis for client report-back
- Helping prepare presentations and reports before in-person client meetings as needed, with guidance from the account lead
Education, Experience & Knowledge:
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in one of the following areas of work: advocacy, fundraising, electoral campaigning, project management, event planning, Internet marketing, direct response
- Technology-oriented, with the ability and desire to understand how online fundraising, marketing and advocacy technology works (Note: This is not a Web development position.)
- Demonstrated knowledge and interest in online fundraising, e-mail marketing and advocacy
Skills & Abilities:
- Excellent computer skills — Word, Excel, database, Internet
- Excellent organizational and project/time management skills
- Excellent proof reading skills
- Excellent communicator, strong written and verbal communication skills
- Attention to detail, resourcefulness, and high level of accuracy
- Top-notch customer service skills
- Ability to work under pressure, establish work priorities, and multi-task
- Ability to work with short deadlines, and deliver on set milestones
- Initiative
- Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion and judgement
- Ability to establish work priorities
- Ability to consider and evaluate problems and produce viable solutions
- Focused attention to detail and ability to create outstanding messaging
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Luminate, Salsa, Net Community, Engaging Networks or similar
- Experience with nonprofit fundraising or advocacy
- Basic HTML and other web tools experience
- Previous experience in a client service role
- Experience with online advertising a plus
Personal Characteristics:
- Positive “can-do” attitude
- Enthusiastic problem solver
- Interest in progressive social issues, including the environment, foreign policy, aid and development, human rights, women’s rights, LGBT issues, electoral politics, etc.
- Comfort with networking
- Willingness to travel
- Strong presentation and persuasion skills
To apply:
This is a full-time position. Please direct all submissions to jobs@mwdagency.com and include ALL of the following (along with "Online Account Executive — Your Name" in the subject line):
- Cover letter — Who are you, and why are you our next exceptional employee?
- Resume
- Salary Requirements
No phone calls please. MWD is an equal opportunity employer.
