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 Manager
Possible locations for this position: Berkeley, CA / Washington, DC
**All MWD Employees are working remotely until it's safe to re-open our offices.**
About the Opportunity:
Our Account Managers work within Client Services teams to support the Account Lead and manage their own direct mail fundraising programs on behalf of our clients. The Account Manager serves as liaison between clients, vendors, and internal teams; and they ensure the timely and successful delivery of a wide variety of project management and client facing duties.
Core responsibilities:
- Assist Account Lead in developing client annual plans and budget
- Work with Account Lead to develop and execute year-long direct marketing fundraising schedules
- Guide production management and design process for projects
- Draft preliminary client budgets, strategies, list orders, and performance reviews
- Create package specs and bid out client projects
- Verify costs and approve project invoices and budgets
- Track production schedule and deliverables
- Monitor client deliverables and proactively keep projects on schedule
- Proof copy and art for client projects
- Perform weekly reporting
Your Background:
- 4½ to 6 years’ relevant work experience
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Basic production knowledge
- Experience with nonprofit fundraising and/or advocacy
Your Skills, Abilities, & Personal Characteristics:
- Excellent organizational and project/ time management skills
- 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
- Initiative
- Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion and judgement
- Ability to establish work priorities
- Ability to consider and evaluate problems and produce viable solutions
- Positive “can-do” attitude
- Pro-active problem solver
- Interest in progressive social issues, including the environment, foreign policy, aid and development, human rights, women’s rights, LGBTQ issues, electoral politics, etc.
- Comfort with networking
To apply:
We encourage you to apply if any of what you see here resonates with you. Don’t worry about being the “perfect” match, connect with us if you see yourself working at a place like this and tell us more about you!
Please send your submission to jobs[at]mwdagency.com (along with "Account Manager — Your Name" in the subject line) and include these elements so we can get to know you:
- Cover letter
- Resume
- Salary Requirements
No phone calls please.
Beyond being an equal opportunity employer, MWD is committed to being an anti-racist and anti-oppression organization and we have a zero-tolerance policy for racism, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and oppression of any kind. We are dedicated to the fulfillment of this commitment through our Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion initiatives that connect to every phase of the employee-owner lifecycle, starting with recruitment. We encourage candidates of all identities and backgrounds to apply for positions you believe align with your skill set and future interests. And we review applications based on agency need, position requirements, and candidate qualifications without elimination based on race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other protected status.
Online Account Coordinator
Possible locations for this position: Berkeley, CA / Washington, DC
**All MWD Employees are working remotely until it's safe to re-open our offices.**
About the Opportunity:
Our Online Account Coordinator works within and supports the Client Services team to deliver direct marketing fundraising service by assisting with the timely and accurate project management of digital client work across a broad portfolio of nonprofit clients. The Account Coordinator ensures successful projects and campaigns for our client.
Core responsibilities:
- Manages the administration and day-to-day milestones of multiple and concurrent client projects
- Maintains and updates deadlines and project work through project management system
- Strong grammar and spelling background with experience in copyediting
- Helps prepare details related to project work including tracking timelines, following-up on action items, and communicating project status updates to production team
- Assists with gathering information for client presentations and reviewing PowerPoint decks for consistency across clients
- Assists with quality assurance checks across clients
- Assists with preparation of text message campaigns for multiple clients
- Collects data for weekly performance reports
- Works within Client Service team in a support staff capacity
- Helps prepare presentations and reports before client meetings as needed, with guidance from the account team
- Helps maintain and organize all client documents and files on a shared drive for team’s reference
- Uses client-specific checklists for quality assurance checks of emails and landing pages we create for clients
Your Background:
- Minimum of 1 year of experience in project management
- Experience and comfort with working on multiple projects simultaneously
- Editing experience with background in English grammar and spelling
- Technology-leaning (Note: This is not a Web development position.)
- Additional preferred (but not required) experience:
- Nonprofit fundraising or advocacy
- Basic HTML and other web tools experience
- Some experience with Luminate, Salsa, EveryAction, Engaging Networks, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, or similar eCRM platforms
Your Skills, Abilities, & Personal Characteristics:
- Excellent organizational and project/ time management skills
- Extreme eye for detail and ability to catch mistakes and inconsistencies
- Excellent proof-reading skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work with many stakeholders with multiple simultaneous requests
- 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
- Excellent computer skills — Word, Excel, database, Internet
- Desire to learn more about how online fundraising, e-mail marketing, and advocacy works
- Positive “can-do” attitude
- Pro-active problem solver
- Interest in progressive social issues, including the environment, foreign policy, aid and development, human rights, women’s rights, LGBTQ+ issues, electoral politics, etc.
Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly operates a computer and other office equipment and remains in a stationary position, often sitting (or standing if at a standing desk) for prolonged periods; communication is via phone, email, video, and/or in-person with others inside and outside the agency in order to exchange information; repetitive motions may include the wrists, hands, and/or fingers in order to operate computer equipment, copy machines, and printers.
To apply:
We encourage you to apply if any of what you see here resonates with you. Don’t worry about being the “perfect” match, connect with us if you see yourself working at a place like this and tell us more about you!
Please send your submission to jobs[at]mwdagency.com (along with "Online Account Coordinator — Your Name" in the subject line) and include these elements so we can get to know you:
- Cover letter
- Resume
- Salary Requirements
No phone calls please.
Beyond being an equal opportunity employer, MWD is committed to being an anti-racist and anti-oppression organization and we have a zero-tolerance policy for racism, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and oppression of any kind. We are dedicated to the fulfillment of this commitment through our Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion initiatives that connect to every phase of the employee-owner lifecycle, starting with recruitment. We encourage candidates of all identities and backgrounds to apply for positions you believe align with your skill set and future interests. And we review applications based on agency need, position requirements, and candidate qualifications without elimination based on race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other protected status.
Account Manager
Possible locations for this position: Berkeley, CA / Washington, DC
**All MWD Employees are working remotely until it's safe to re-open our offices.**
About the Opportunity:
Our Account Managers work within Client Services teams to support the Account Lead and manage their own direct mail fundraising programs on behalf of our clients. The Account Manager serves as liaison between clients, vendors, and internal teams; and they ensure the timely and successful delivery of a wide variety of project management and client facing duties.
Core responsibilities:
- Assist Account Lead in developing client annual plans and budget
- Work with Account Lead to develop and execute year-long direct marketing fundraising schedules
- Guide production management and design process for projects
- Draft preliminary client budgets, strategies, list orders, and performance reviews
- Create package specs and bid out client projects
- Verify costs and approve project invoices and budgets
- Track production schedule and deliverables
- Monitor client deliverables and proactively keep projects on schedule
- Proof copy and art for client projects
- Perform weekly reporting
Your Background:
- 4½ to 6 years’ relevant work experience
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Basic production knowledge
- Experience with nonprofit fundraising and/or advocacy
Your Skills, Abilities, & Personal Characteristics:
- Excellent organizational and project/ time management skills
- 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
- Initiative
- Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion and judgement
- Ability to establish work priorities
- Ability to consider and evaluate problems and produce viable solutions
- Positive “can-do” attitude
- Pro-active problem solver
- Interest in progressive social issues, including the environment, foreign policy, aid and development, human rights, women’s rights, LGBTQ issues, electoral politics, etc.
- Comfort with networking
To apply:
We encourage you to apply if any of what you see here resonates with you. Don’t worry about being the “perfect” match, connect with us if you see yourself working at a place like this and tell us more about you!
Please send your submission to jobs[at]mwdagency.com (along with "Account Manager — Your Name" in the subject line) and include these elements so we can get to know you:
- Cover letter
- Resume
- Salary Requirements
No phone calls please.
Beyond being an equal opportunity employer, MWD is committed to being an anti-racist and anti-oppression organization and we have a zero-tolerance policy for racism, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and oppression of any kind. We are dedicated to the fulfillment of this commitment through our Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion initiatives that connect to every phase of the employee-owner lifecycle, starting with recruitment. We encourage candidates of all identities and backgrounds to apply for positions you believe align with your skill set and future interests. And we review applications based on agency need, position requirements, and candidate qualifications without elimination based on race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other protected status.
Online Account Coordinator
Possible locations for this position: Berkeley, CA / Washington, DC
**All MWD Employees are working remotely until it's safe to re-open our offices.**
About the Opportunity:
Our Online Account Coordinator works within and supports the Client Services team to deliver direct marketing fundraising service by assisting with the timely and accurate project management of digital client work across a broad portfolio of nonprofit clients. The Account Coordinator ensures successful projects and campaigns for our client.
Core responsibilities:
- Manages the administration and day-to-day milestones of multiple and concurrent client projects
- Maintains and updates deadlines and project work through project management system
- Strong grammar and spelling background with experience in copyediting
- Helps prepare details related to project work including tracking timelines, following-up on action items, and communicating project status updates to production team
- Assists with gathering information for client presentations and reviewing PowerPoint decks for consistency across clients
- Assists with quality assurance checks across clients
- Assists with preparation of text message campaigns for multiple clients
- Collects data for weekly performance reports
- Works within Client Service team in a support staff capacity
- Helps prepare presentations and reports before client meetings as needed, with guidance from the account team
- Helps maintain and organize all client documents and files on a shared drive for team’s reference
- Uses client-specific checklists for quality assurance checks of emails and landing pages we create for clients
Your Background:
- Minimum of 1 year of experience in project management
- Experience and comfort with working on multiple projects simultaneously
- Editing experience with background in English grammar and spelling
- Technology-leaning (Note: This is not a Web development position.)
- Additional preferred (but not required) experience:
- Nonprofit fundraising or advocacy
- Basic HTML and other web tools experience
- Some experience with Luminate, Salsa, EveryAction, Engaging Networks, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, or similar eCRM platforms
Your Skills, Abilities, & Personal Characteristics:
- Excellent organizational and project/ time management skills
- Extreme eye for detail and ability to catch mistakes and inconsistencies
- Excellent proof-reading skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work with many stakeholders with multiple simultaneous requests
- 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
- Excellent computer skills — Word, Excel, database, Internet
- Desire to learn more about how online fundraising, e-mail marketing, and advocacy works
- Positive “can-do” attitude
- Pro-active problem solver
- Interest in progressive social issues, including the environment, foreign policy, aid and development, human rights, women’s rights, LGBTQ+ issues, electoral politics, etc.
Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly operates a computer and other office equipment and remains in a stationary position, often sitting (or standing if at a standing desk) for prolonged periods; communication is via phone, email, video, and/or in-person with others inside and outside the agency in order to exchange information; repetitive motions may include the wrists, hands, and/or fingers in order to operate computer equipment, copy machines, and printers.
To apply:
We encourage you to apply if any of what you see here resonates with you. Don’t worry about being the “perfect” match, connect with us if you see yourself working at a place like this and tell us more about you!
Please send your submission to jobs[at]mwdagency.com (along with "Online Account Coordinator — Your Name" in the subject line) and include these elements so we can get to know you:
- Cover letter
- Resume
- Salary Requirements
No phone calls please.
Beyond being an equal opportunity employer, MWD is committed to being an anti-racist and anti-oppression organization and we have a zero-tolerance policy for racism, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and oppression of any kind. We are dedicated to the fulfillment of this commitment through our Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion initiatives that connect to every phase of the employee-owner lifecycle, starting with recruitment. We encourage candidates of all identities and backgrounds to apply for positions you believe align with your skill set and future interests. And we review applications based on agency need, position requirements, and candidate qualifications without elimination based on race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other protected status.
