Marketing Specialist

Description

ABOUT THIS POSITION

The goal of our dynamic marketing team is to help educate and inspire people about their solar options! As a Marketing Specialist, you will lend a hand to members of the marketing team, and handle administrative tasks that keep our customers engaged and our marketing programs running smoothly. This person in this role is proactive, solution-oriented, and ready to see tasks through to completion. You'll be engaging with community members through various channels, supporting the sales team, and contributing to our social media and content strategies. Ideal candidates are enthusiastic, well-organized, and possess excellent communication skills. If you're eager to learn, passionate about building a brighter future, and love working in a collaborative environment, this will be a great position.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS 

• Engage with community members through in-person events, inside sales calls, and social media. Some events take place weekends/evenings; 1-2 times a month expected. 
• Assist with qualifying leads via phone/email to discuss solar options and determine the viability for solar
• Explain the value of solar, and speak eloquently and passionately about our mission
• Ability to accurately input data into CRM
• Supports marketing team workflow, including social media calendar, basic webpage and email creation.
• Support marketing campaign and content ideation.
• Support outside sales team with event sign up, as well as occasionally attending in-person events.
• Create and curate content for social media, and monitor/report on performance, trends, and community conversations.
• Assisting with the implementation and coordination of marketing campaigns and strategies
• Contributing to social media and content calendars by managing the production of shareable and interesting content, such as videos, infographics, social media posts, and blog articles
• Ensuring that regular web content updates are performed and checking content for consistency and accuracy
• Assist in planning, coordination and execution of marketing events for business prospects, community events and marketing driven partnerships
• Support SunCommon Values of Embody Excellence, Maintain Humanity, Prioritize Inclusivity, and Cultivate Joy.

Requirements

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• Eager to learn and not afraid to make mistakes along the way.
• Strong organizational/project management skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable engaging with people across the organization and in our communities in person, by phone, emails, and video conferencing.
• Proficiency with social media platforms (Twitter/X, Facebook/Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, Reddit, etc.).
• Proficiency with the following a plus:
  • Google Suite
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Customer Databases 
  • Wordpress
  • Email Marketing Tools
  • Digital Marketing
  • Customer Support
• Willingness to continually embrace personal and professional development
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic business environment and shift gears as needed.
• Ability to engage in a collaborative, team atmosphere – giving and taking feedback to improve your personal performance as well as that of your team and the entire business.
• Commitment to social change and building a brighter future in our local communities through SunCommon’s mission and values.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

• SunCommon provides our employees a competitive salary and strong package of benefits, including:
• For the employee and their family, fully paid medical premiums as well as a significant contribution toward medical deductible expenses,
• For the employee and family - fully paid dental premiums,
• 3 weeks paid personal leave (combined vacation and sick) for year 1; 4 weeks for year 2,
• 10 paid holidays annually,
• 401k company match 1:1 up to 3% of salary that the employee sets aside then 1:2 match for 4 or 5%.
• Student Loan Paydown Program
• Employee Assistance Program

SUNCOMMON VALUES

Achieving our mission is critical work, and how we do that work matters. One way SunCommon creates positive change is internally, by instituting and measuring ourselves against practices that do right by our employees, customers, and communities. The following core values are critical to our operations and our success: Embody Excellence, Maintain Humanity, Prioritize Inclusivity, Cultivate Joy.

We do it by celebrating creativity, cross-functional collaboration, high energy, hard work, good play, deep networking and with the acknowledgement that we’ll each make mistakes and learn from them.  We know success.  We know fun.  Come do both with us.

As a certified BCorps, we take seriously our responsibility to succeed and to honor our triple bottom line commitments to People (our employees and their families, our Customers and residents of the communities where we do business), Planet (our beloved environment and the broader globe, given climate change) and Profit (providing capital to grow, revenue to share among our employees, and a reasonable return to our investors). This is important work, and we have fun doing it.  Innovation is fun stuff.

SunCommon of course is an equal opportunity employer and we don’t tolerate harassment or other discrimination based upon sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, caregiver status, pregnancy, military or veteran status, race, color, religion, national origin, place of birth, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other legally protected status.

OUR PURPOSE

SunCommon believes business should create positive change and help solve the world’s biggest problems.  Our mission is to accelerate the transition to solar power in our communities because ensuring a habitable planet is the most important work of our lifetimes.

ABOUT THE BUSINESS

SunCommon is a market leading renewable energy company operating in Vermont and New York’s Hudson Valley and Capital District. SunCommon is a subsidiary of iSun, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISUN), a leading solar energy and clean mobility infrastructure company with 50-years of construction experience in solar, electrical and data services. We use an innovative approach to marketing, via high-touch, personal interactions with home and business owners who want clean electricity and more energy security. We’ve done all the legwork to put together a total package that’s easy for the customer. We picked the best equipment manufacturers, arranged attractive financing that saves our customers real money and hired up the finest installers. There’s over 8,000 happy SunCommon residential and commercial customers so far - and lots more to come. Organized as a Benefit Corporation and certified as a BCorp, we’re committed to the triple bottom line of People, Planet and Profit. Our goal is to become the largest publicly traded, BCorp in the country producing renewable energy. 

Salary : $22 - $24