Coordinating marketing-communications work — press releases, internal announcements, customer comms, brand consistency across channels — usually supporting a specialist or manager. The job is detail-heavy and mostly invisible until something doesn't ship on time.
Coordinating marketing communications means supporting the production and distribution of press releases, internal announcements, customer comms, and brand-consistent messaging across channels. You're typically supporting a specialist or manager, handling the detail-heavy coordination work that keeps communications shipping on schedule.
Your daily workflow involves drafting, editing, and routing communications through approval chains. You're maintaining editorial calendars, coordinating with design for visual assets, and ensuring brand consistency across the materials the organization produces. The work is detail-heavy and mostly invisible until something doesn't ship on time.
The challenge is managing multiple stakeholders who all want their message to be the priority. Internal communications, PR, customer messaging, and brand work all compete for bandwidth, and the coordinator is the one who has to keep everything moving without anything falling through the cracks.
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Coordinating marketing-communications work — press releases, internal announcements, customer comms, brand consistency across channels — usually supporting a specialist or manager. The job is detail-heavy and mostly invisible until something doesn't ship on time.
Median pay for a Marketing Communications Coordinator is about $70K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $41K to $129K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Active Listening, Speaking, Social Perceptiveness, Writing, and Reading Comprehension.
Most people in this role hold a bachelor's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to grow about 4.8% through 2034, with roughly 280,590 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Marketing Director, Junior Marketing Communications Coordinator, and Communications Specialist.
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