September 1, 2017

Job Posting for Executive Director of the Appalachian Children’s Chorus
The Organization:
The Appalachian Children’s Chorus (ACC), located in Charleston, West Virginia; is a small, well respected not for profit organization whose mission is to provide music excellence, quality music education and extraordinary opportunities while having a positive effect on the lives of West Virginia’s youth. ACC just completed its 26th season. ACC performs in local, state and national and international environments. The choir has traveled and performed in Florida, Washington, DC, New York City, Hawaii, London and Canterbury, England, Salzburg, Vienna, Austria and Prague, Czech Republic, Italy, and Canada.
ACC hosts a national children’s choir festival, the Appalachian Festival of Young Voices.


Job Description:
The Executive Director of the Appalachian Children's Chorus is the key management leader and key individual primarily responsible for fundraising, overseeing the day-to-day administration of ACC, devising programs and strategic planning for the organization. Primary duties in meeting these responsibilities are grant writing as well as face-to-face fundraising solicitation, community outreach and marketing. The position reports directly to the Board of Directors and works closely with the Artistic/Founding Director.
Responsibilities include:
• Board Relations: Works with the board to fulfill the organization's mission. Responsible for strategic planning to ensure that ACC can successfully fulfill its mission into the future
• Development and Fundraising: Establish new and build upon existing fundraising and grant writing activities. Meet or exceed goal of $150,000.00 by end-of-year.
• Marketing: Devise, develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to market the chorus. Actively promote ACC on social media
• Public Relations: Acts as spokesperson for the chorus to the media, government agencies, corporate community, foundation, funders and the school community
• Financial Management: Develop resources sufficient to ensure the financial health of the organization including oversight of the organization’s finances. Devise, develop, coordinate and execute a comprehensive strategy of financial development and support
• Concert Management Secure sponsors for concerts, ensure that donors and sponsors are properly acknowledged (program listing, posters, plaques, etc.), secure advertising for the programs and attend concerts and be available to meet special needs.
• Administration Actively support the board of directors and support hiring, training and supervision of support staff.
Qualifications/Requirements:
• A bachelor’s degree.
• Two or more years senior level nonprofit or for profit management experience.
• Ability to convey the vision of ACC’s strategic future to donors, staff, board, and volunteers.
• Solid, hands-on, budget management skills, including budget preparation, analysis, decision-making and reporting.
• Strong organizational abilities including time management planning, delegating, program development and task facilitation.
• Knowledge of fundraising strategies and donor relations unique to the nonprofit sector.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to interface and engage potential donors and donor groups.
• Demonstrate ability to oversee and collaborate with staff and volunteers.


Interested Candidates, please send your resumes to:
THE APPALACHIAN CHILDREN’S CHORUS
ATTN: Christy Dietz
PO Box 11342
Charleston, WV 25339-1342
AND/OR
Email to: Christy Dietz at
Application Deadline is Friday, September 18, 2017

August 9, 2017

SodexoatMarshall UniversityHome of the Thundering Herd, located in Huntington, WV is looking for aMarketing Specialist.

Are you Creative? have great presentation and 'people" skills?Sodexo at Marshall has a job for you. If you have experiencedeveloping and implementing effective marketing plans.

Marshall University is a large state university with two resident dining halls. Five retail locations with several brands as well as concessions and catering departments.

This positions supports the on-campus dining team by creating, customizing, implementing, and presenting marketing plans, strategies/programs, visualmerchandising andsocial media in order to promote our diningprogramand drive sales. This person will have a high level of customer contact and must be comfortable assuming a leadership position duringpromotional events and presenting/speaking to students, parents, faculty and staff. This position requires strongpresentation skills, excellent verbal and writtencommunication skills,

Duties will include;

·  Coordinates and implements all unit marketing initiatives to drive sales growth,coordinates unit specific strategic business plan/marketingplans and its implementation, communication and evaluation.

·  Maintains and track research, customer feedback and satisfaction and reviews statistics and trends withappropriate managers.Tracks, analyze and report on results of marketing initiatives responsible for daily posts/tweet and monitoring of allapplicable social media .Identifies needs and makes Recommendations for increasing sales.Creates and distributesmonthly marketing calendar for retail/res. dining.

·  Participate inMarketing Conference calls and training.

·  Must have computer and web-based systems training or demonstrate the ability to use.


This position leads coordinated efforts in implementing and deploying unit marketing growth and customer satisfaction and retention strategies. Leads unit marketing plan development, implementation, communication and evaluation with analysis, training and engagement. Leads projects and is a resource for a strategic area. Can work as a project manager and/or liaison for marketing strategies, concepts and projects.
Key Duties
-Student Engagement: Engaging student body with promotions and programs to increase customer satisfaction and retention
-Partnerships: Partner with University for special events
-Web/Social Media: Increase Website and Social Media presence through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
-Must have high energy, flexible, team oriented but work independently, and be a multi-tasker. Attention to detail, great communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills.
-Interacts with internal team members, media and public relations
-Ensures customers and Sodexo/SodexoMAGIC goals are aligned
-Coordinate all unit marketing initiatives to drive sales growth and track results