Marketing Project Specialist | Paid Media

Overview

Lifeway is seeking a Remote Marketing Project Specialist to keep our paid media work moving from first request to launch. You will manage intake, prioritization, scheduling, approvals, and budget administration for the Paid Media team, giving ministry and business partners clear visibility. This is a remote role open anywhere in the United States, with in-person gatherings in the Nashville, Tennessee area and any additional travel noted in the posting. 

Why Lifeway? 

Lifeway is a place where you can bring your faith and work experience to join in the most important mission in the world: making disciples of Jesus Christ. Whether you’re a creator or storyteller, data guru or problem-solver, or anywhere in between, if you’re passionate about serving the church, we have a place for you. Lifeway has a strong Work from Anywhere (WFA) culture that is deeply focused on our mission and values. While headquartered in Nashville, TN, many of our positions are remote-eligible and have autonomy and flexibility with work hours. We provide equipment and resources to ensure team members have access to a productive and ergonomic workspace. We believe building relationships and community is essential to how we work together, so Lifeway hosts all-team meetings several times per year and provides travel for key team gatherings for remote-based team members. Full-time employees are eligible for enrollment in our comprehensive benefits plans including healthcare, vacation and sick time, holiday pay, care days, 401(k) plan, maternity and parental leave, adoption assistance, mission trip time, and more. If this sounds like a place where you would be excited to serve the kingdom of God, we would love for you to join our team.

Learn more about our culture at team.lifeway.com/culture-code 

This is a remote position in the U.S. with occasional travel to Nashville for in-person team gatherings. #LI-Remote 

Responsibilities

• Lives out Lifeway’s mission and values, showing deep commitment to Kingdom work
• Act as the day-to-day project liaison tracking deliverables against scope, collecting internal input from marketing partners, and delivering to Strategists for campaign implementation
• Manage intake of paid media requests and make sure objectives, audiences, budget, deliverables, timing, and success measures are clearly defined before work is scheduled
• Track workload against team capacity, surface competing priorities and tradeoffs to the Paid Media Strategists, and route work according to the priorities leadership sets
• Build and maintain project plans, timelines, milestones, and approval paths in the project management tool, and follow work from kickoff through completion
• Chase creative, copy, landing pages, and tracking requirements, confirm assets meet platform specifications
• Identify risks, missing requirements, and approval delays early, and escalate material concerns with context and options so dates do not slip
• Maintain the paid media budget tracker, process insertion orders and purchase requisitions, and shepherd payments through accounts payable
• Administer access to advertising platforms and shared tools, and keep project systems, dashboards, calendars, and campaign archives accurate
• Facilitate kickoffs, status meetings, and retrospectives, report on project status, workload, and delivery to leadership, and help improve the team's intake, workflow, and approval processes 
• Limited travel: 2-4 times per year, typically overnight

Qualifications

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Project Management, or a related field, required 

Master's degree, preferred

Advanced graduate degree (PhD, etc.), not required

Skills, Knowledge, & Experiences, required

• 3+ years of traffic management, marketing operations, project management, creative operations, or comparable experience 
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent marketing or digital projects with competing priorities and deadlines
• Strong working knowledge of project management principles, workflow development, project intake, capacity planning, approvals, and status reporting
• Hands-on proficiency with project management and collaboration platforms such as Monday.com, Workfront, or comparable systems
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify missing information, anticipate bottlenecks, and keep complex work moving
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication across individual contributors, managers, and team stakeholders
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, manage ambiguity, and maintain a high level of accuracy and follow-through 
• Ability to travel to the Middle Tennessee area 2-4 times annually for team gatherings

Actively involved in an evangelical Christian church

Skills, Knowledge, & Experiences, preferred 

• Experience supporting paid media programs in a matrixed organization
• Experience with Monday.com administration, including workflow configuration, dashboards, automations, forms, and templates
• Project management certification or training 
• Experience with campaign calendars, and launch-readiness processes
• Working knowledge of digital marketing terminology, and campaign lifecycles
• Experience in retail, eCommerce, publishing, ministry/nonprofit, or a multi-brand and multi-audience organization