Position Summary:

The Marketing Project Manager provides operational leadership and end-to-end coordination of multichannel marketing initiatives across the organization. This role is responsible for project planning, timelines, resourcing coordination, and execution while ensuring alignment with organizational goals, brand standards, and audience strategy established by marketing leadership.

Serving as partner to the Vice President of Marketing & Revenue, Director of Marketing and cross functional stakeholders, this position leads project governance, optimizes workflows, manages internal and external resources, and proactively identifies risks and opportunities. The Marketing Project Manager plays a critical role in translating marketing strategy into executable plans, ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget, and with measurable impact.

This position, as well as all positions at O-pa, embody the organizational values of collaboration, inclusion, trust and integrity, and serves to support O-pa as an organization that serves a diverse, inclusive, and growing audience.

Position Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leads the planning, execution, and delivery of major, multi channel marketing projects and campaigns across departments and platforms, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, timelines, and resource allocations. 
• Ensures adherence to approved project management processes, workflows, standards and best practices; proactively identifies risks, dependencies, and solutions to protect scope, schedule, and budget. 
• Administers and maintains the marketing project management system (Monday.com), ensuring consistent use, documentation, and reporting in alignment with department standards.
• Manages internal and external resources by assigning work across teams and partners, balancing capacity, expertise, and priorities. 
• Serves as the primary liaison between internal departments and external agencies, vendors, and media partners to ensure seamless execution, timely delivery of assets, and adherence to specifications.
• Facilitates stakeholder approvals while ensuring version control and asset management standards are upheld. 
• Identifies and implements opportunities to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and enhance collaboration across the marketing function.

Other Functions:

• Join the marketing department and other O-pa colleagues to provide support at performances and scheduled events throughout the season
• Represents O-pa in a professional manner, including presentation of an enthusiastic and positive attitude when interacting with O-pa audiences, subscribers, and donors.
• Attend all meetings as required
• May be required to perform other duties as assigned

Minimum Experience and Qualifications:

• Five to seven (4-6) years of progressive experience in marketing project management, integrated marketing, or a related leadership role.
• Demonstrated success managing complex, multi stakeholder projects from concept through execution.
• Strong strategic planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Proven experience managing budgets, timelines, vendors, and cross functional teams.
• High level of professionalism and ability to work effectively under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Advanced proficiency with project management platforms (e.g., Monday.com), CRM systems (e.g., Tessitura), and email/digital marketing platforms.

Minimum Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent from an accredited college or university with an emphasis in marketing, communications, business administration, project management or related field required.

Miscellaneous:

• Evening and weekend hours for performance duty are required.
• Maximum of 5% travel annually.