Fast Facts
Penn Foster Group is seeking a proactive Marketing Project Coordinator to enhance the execution of key marketing initiatives by improving planning processes, ensuring accountability, and fostering team collaboration.
Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include translating strategic priorities into actionable marketing plans, clarifying roles, tracking project progress, maintaining clear documentation, and coordinating team initiatives to enhance collaboration.
Skills: The ideal candidate will possess strong organizational skills, clear communication abilities, a proactive mindset, and familiarity with project management tools, ideally Workfront. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and collaboration tools is also required.
Qualifications: A Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business or a related field plus experience in project coordination or marketing support is preferred.
Location: This position is based in the United States and does not specify any remote opportunities.
Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $50,000 - $75,000.
Position Summary:
Penn Foster Group is seeking a highly organized, proactive Marketing Project Coordinator to bring structure, clarity, and momentum to our key marketing initiatives. This role plays a critical part inturning strategy into execution, ensuring project plans are clearly defined, timelines are aligned, and our teams are moving forward with focus and accountability.
As Marketing Project Coordinator, you will partner closely with the Sr. Marketing Operations Managerto strengthen our planning process, improve visibility across initiatives and streamline how we get work done. You will be a driver for our quarterly planning, cross-functional marketing projects, and help ensure process, communications and executions are seamless.
You are a connector and operational driver who thrives in ambiguity and is highly organized. You understand that strong coordination, partnership and communication are what unlocks team effectiveness, and you take pride in helping others do their best work by building structure that drives measurable marketing impact.
Essential Job Functions:
Planning and Alignment
- Translate strategic priorities into clear, actionable marketing plans with defined timelines, milestones, and shared visibility across initiatives.
Project Enablement
- Clarify roles, responsibilities, and deliverables while tracking cross-functional progress, surfacing risks, and facilitating stakeholder communication to keep projects advancing.
Operational Excellence
- Strengthen marketing workflows through consistent use of planning tools, maintain clear documentation, and continuously improve processes to enhance efficiency and transparency.
Team Experience
- Coordinate team initiatives, meetings, and programs while building repeatable systems that improve collaboration and long-term effectiveness.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business or a related field
- Experience in project coordination, marketing support, operations, or an administrative role
- Strong organizational instincts and an ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and bringing structure where it does not yet exist
- High attention to detail paired with an understanding of broader goals and timelines
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset
- Familiarity with project management tools (Workfront) preferred but not required
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word PowerPoint, Excel) and collaboration tools (Slack & Teams)
- Collaborative team player with a proactive approach to solving problems and improving processes and workflows
About Us:
At Penn Foster Group, we are transforming online learning to help learners by uniting Penn Foster, CareerStep, Ashworth College, James Madison High School, the New York Institute of Photography, the New York Institute of Art and Design, and other education platforms. Together, we create an accelerated path to greater economic mobility through real-world skills and knowledge that enable them to achieve long-term success in the workplaces of the future. Our history dates back to 1890 when our founder, Thomas Foster, pioneered distance education by offering training by mail for coal miners to get the necessary skills for safer jobs. Today, with the partners who use our education and training programs, we continue that mission of providing accessible training and education for in-demand skills and are building a workforce that’s prepared for the future job market.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
We strive toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Penn Foster Group by intentionally building teams that are diverse – in identities, lived experiences, and ideas to create a culture where people feel connected to each other and have a sense of belonging. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion because it is the foundation that enables us to achieve what we set out to do as an organization – from maximizing the number of learners who can reach their goals while giving them the kinds of experiences we want them to have, to becoming the type of company we want to work in.
What We Offer:
We offer a robust benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, generous paid time off, sponsored volunteer opportunities, a 401K with a company match, plus free access to all of our online programs.
