LOCO Administrative & Marketing Support Position

Term: Part-time (approximately 25 hours per week), 3 Month Contract with intention to extend

Job Description

LOCO BC supports a vibrant local economy in Greater Vancouver through local purchasing, business connections and sustainability. We’re a membership-based not-for-profit society with over 80 forward-thinking member businesses. Our founding members are PacBlue Printing, Salt Spring Coffee, and Vancity.

LOCO holds monthly events to connect our business members, hosted by a different member each month. We are launching a consumer-facing buy-local campaign called “Own Your Own” that will move Metro Vancouver toward a more vibrant, sustainable local economy.

We’re looking for an energetic, personable, and details-oriented person to help manage our members, provide event coordination support, and manage and execute the beginning of our 12 month Own Your Own campaign.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience managing websites, or the ability to learn
• Experience using SalesForce, or the ability to learn
• Experience with Quick Books, or the ability to learn
• Excellent communications skills, clearly communicating the value of LOCO membership to potential business members, and clearly communicating the value of buying local to consumers.
• Experience managing the creation of sales/marketing collateral.
• Experience managing events.
• An associate’s degree or a few years experience in business, marketing, or communications.
• A love for Vancouver and a passion for developing our community through a local, sustainable, vibrant economy!

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate new and existing members.
• Manage a database of leads; create and execute conversion strategies.
• Grow LOCO membership by recruiting businesses via direct sales to Businesses and BIAs  through presentations, calls, and emails, supported by advertising, partnerships, etc.
• Throw rockin’ events that generate interest among businesses and the public. The highlight event will be the launch of the OYO campaign in September.
• Manage advertising buys and relationships with advertisers.
• Coordinate the printing and delivery of already-designed collateral.
• Sniff out good, media friendly stories related to Own Your Own, then write and pitch news releases
• Assist our ED and Board in various marketing-related tasks