Digital Marketing Person or Marketing Consultant (temp)

The IEEE Boston Consultants Network seeks a college intern or consultant to assist in digital marketing for the organization.

https://www.bostonconsultants.org/

Job Description:

Initially, the marketing person shall complete a marketing plan using a supplied Word document template that contains the goals of the marketing plan. The marketing person shall complete writing the document with information about how the plan will be implemented using your own knowledge of effective content marketing. The draft will be reviewed, redrafted, and approved by management before implementing the plan. After approval, the marketing person shall implement the plan using a few hours each week.

The plan consists of marketing IEEE Boston Consultants Network via social media. The goal of the plan is to increase our presence in social media and gain several new members. The IEEE Boston Consultants Network is a membership organization; we sell annual subscriptions to members. We hope that your plan includes methods of increasing our membership by 8 people within 3 months. The 2 to 4 hours per week is spent implementing the marketing plan by using social media to attract new members, advertise events, and market the organization. Events are coordinated by the board of directors, not the marketing person. The marketing person needs to market those events by using the website source material. See our website events as an example of the event source material. The marketing person may influence the type of events we run, if that leads to more members, so some knowledge of technical events is helpful.

Requirements:

• Junior, Senior or Masters in a college marketing program.
• Excellent writing skills and ability/prior experience writing a marketing plan is required.
• LinkedIn knowledge is required and essential.
• Social media knowledge for managing an organization on Facebook, X, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn and possibly other social media is required. 
• Knowledge and/or experience on how to market a technology organization to engineers, and technology consultants using social media is required. All of our members are currently IEEE members.
• Knowledge of running technical or engineering events is preferred.
• Some website administration knowledge is preferred, preferably  on this platform: https://www.wix.com/

Length of contract: ~60 hours, 8 hours in the first week to draft the marketing plan, ~ 2-4 hours per week after

Starts March 2026

Rate: $20 per hour

The marketing person role is a part-time consulting opportunity, not an employee of the organization. The position reports to the board of directors.