Project Coordinator, Marketing

The Project Coordinator, Marketing reports to the Brand Manager and is a position responsible for supporting a broad range of strategic and commercial business initiatives across the club. These include supporting the marketing strategies that drive growth in existing and new business lines across several departments. **Responsibilities include**: - Work closely with the Brand Manager to support the development of detailed marketing project plans, outlining scope, objectives, timelines, and key stakeholders. - Oversee project management for day-to-day marketing initiatives using Asana, ensuring tasks are assigned, deadlines are met, and workflows are optimized. This includes managing relationships with internal stakeholders (sales, partnerships, community, events etc.) and external partners. - Liaise with in-house creative teams to develop compelling briefs that drive key outcomes (e.g., lead generation, market awareness, sales). - Support the creative proofing process to maintain accuracy, brand consistency, and quality across all marketing assets - ensuring final sign-off is received efficiently and revisions are made as necessary. - Coordinate the production and delivery of marketing materials, including but not limited to digital assets, signage, and promotional items. - Utilize best practices such as workback schedules, to ensure campaigns and collateral are delivered on time, within budget, and to high-quality standards. - Maintains constant knowledge of current and forecast upcoming projects **What are we looking for**: - 1-3 years marketing experience within sports/entertainment marketing, event management, media and/or promotion - Ability to move a given project from the strategic/philosophical into the executable - Ability to influence without authority - Experience with project management tools like Asana or Trello is a plus - Knowledge of North American sports, soccer or Major League Soccer is a huge plus - Open to working extended hours as needed - Practical, hands-on individual who can work multi-task and solve a crisis with a calm, common-sense approach - Great attention to detailStrong interpersonal skills **The Club** Vancouver Whitecaps FC is the longest-running professional soccer club in Canada and the United States. Since its inaugural season in 1974, the club has united generations of loyal fans in British Columbia and beyond. With academies in eight out of ten provinces, a network of partner clubs, and hundreds of camps and clinics every year, Whitecaps FC provide a foundation for Canada’s soccer future. We are also strongly committed to providing opportunities to Canadian athletes, both male and female, with the largest soccer development structure in Canada. This includes academy programs in eight of ten provinces across the country. In addition to building a winning team on and off the pitch, the Club places great importance in giving back to our community, harnessing the power of sport to create a stronger, more equitable & inclusive society through three key community goals: helping meet critical needs, using soccer to build life skills and creating soccer participation opportunities in Indigenous communities. We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted. No recruiters or agencies, please. - "Within these walls, you are welcomed, accepted, and respected._ - Here, no matter who you are or where you come from, you are home. And you’re part of the team regardless of your age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, race, marital or family status, disability, or religious belief or non-belief. All we ask is that you be ethical and inclusive in all that you do. Be respectful of all players, fans, and staff, and remember to cheer loudest for the ones wearing the blue and white. Go ‘Caps"_