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Communications & Marketing Lead Jobs in California, United States at Vizard Marketing & PR
Title: Communications & Marketing Lead
Company: Vizard Marketing & PR
Location: California, United States
About Vizard Marketing & PR
Vizard Marketing & PR is a mission-driven marketing, public relations, and communications agency based in Riverside, California. We work with nonprofits, public agencies, healthcare organizations, educational institutions, small businesses, and community-centered brands to develop campaigns that inform, engage, and inspire action.
Our work blends strategy, storytelling, public relations, marketing, outreach, and community engagement. We are looking for a strong communicator and creative thinker who can help lead client projects, develop compelling content, support media and outreach efforts, develop creative briefs and campaign strategies, support proposals and RFP responses, and bring meaningful campaigns to life.
Position Overview
The Communications & Marketing Lead will support and help lead the planning, development, and execution of public relations, marketing, outreach, and engagement campaigns for Vizard Marketing & PR clients.
This role is ideal for someone who is both strategic and hands-on. The right candidate is a strong writer, organized project lead, creative storyteller, and confident communicator who understands how to move a campaign from concept to execution. This person should be comfortable developing messaging, writing content, coordinating outreach, supporting client communication, helping develop proposals and RFP responses, and managing campaign deliverables across multiple platforms.
Our work often involves community impact, public awareness, media relations, stakeholder engagement, events, and culturally responsive communications.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop press releases, media advisories, pitches, talking points, fact sheets, newsletters, website copy, social media captions, client updates, campaign messaging, RFP responses, proposals, and other strategic communications materials.
- Support media relations efforts, including media list development, pitch coordination, follow-up, coverage tracking, and client preparation for interviews or public-facing opportunities.
- Help shape client stories in a way that is clear, newsworthy, credible, and aligned with campaign goals.
- Assist with the planning and execution of integrated marketing and communications campaigns across digital, print, email, social media, events, public relations, outreach, and community engagement.
- Develop and support content calendars, campaign timelines, creative briefs, campaign strategies, promotional materials, proposal materials, and client deliverables.
- Coordinate community outreach, stakeholder engagement, partnership development, and event promotion with community-based organizations, schools, businesses, public agencies, media partners, and other key audiences.
- Assist with planning and execution of events, activations, workshops, press events, and community engagement activities.
- Work with the creative team, vendors, contractors, and internal team members to move projects forward and maintain quality across all campaign materials.
- Serve as a key support contact for assigned client projects, helping manage timelines, deliverables, communication, follow-up, meeting notes, project updates, campaign reports, status documents, and client-facing presentations.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have:
- 3–5+ years of experience in public relations, marketing, communications, community outreach, journalism, nonprofit communications, agency work, or a related field
- Strong writing, editing, and storytelling skills
- Experience developing content for press, social media, websites, newsletters, campaigns, and client communications
- Understanding of media relations, public relations, marketing strategy, and community engagement
- Strong organizational and project management skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Confidence communicating with clients, partners, media, vendors, and internal team members
- A creative, solutions-oriented mindset
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to work independently while also collaborating with a growing team
Preferred Experience
Experience in any of the following areas is a plus:
- Agency, nonprofit, government, healthcare, education, or community-based campaign experience
- Experience supporting proposals, RFP responses, creative briefs, campaign strategies, or client presentations
- Experience working on public awareness, behavior change, enrollment, health, education, or community impact campaigns
- Bilingual English/Spanish communication skills
- Event planning or community outreach experience
- Platforms such as Constant Contact, Mailchimp, Cision, and Canva
- Social media content planning and management
Skills We’re Looking For
We are looking for someone who is:
- A strong writer and natural storyteller
- Organized and dependable
- Comfortable leading projects
- Thoughtful with client communication
- Strategic, creative, resourceful, and proactive
- Ability to adapt writing style, voice, and tone across different clients, industries, and audiences
- Passionate about meaningful work and community impact
Why Join Vizard Marketing & PR
This is an opportunity to be part of a growing agency that works on campaigns with purpose. You will have the chance to contribute to meaningful projects, work directly with clients and community partners, and help shape communications that reach diverse audiences across California and beyond.
At Vizard Marketing & PR, we value creativity, strategy, collaboration, cultural relevance, and purpose-driven work.
