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AMPERAGE Marketing & Fundraising is looking for an Account Executive to join the team, focusing on healthcare clients.

Account Executives (AE) are responsible for managing relationships between the agency and clients with a focus on new business development and marketing strategies. AEs build and maintain their own book of business and are responsible for gaining new business from existing clients.

AEs are also the liaison between the client and the AMPERAGE creative team. This position manages budgets and is responsible for project management, ensuring the production team is up to speed and has the information needed to work effectively.

In this role, you’ll get to:

• Identify, source and close good-fit prospects in the healthcare industry
• Use your sales talents to acquire new business through networking, cold calling, responding to requests for proposals and more
• Serve as a consultant to prospective and current clients to grow accounts
• Utilize a customer relationship management software (CRM) to track new business opportunities and forecast sales
• Set and manage sales goals
• Write proposals and give presentations
• Manage client portfolios and partner closely with internal stakeholders to achieve team goals and work towards AMPERAGE’s mission
• Move the needle for clients by bringing your thinking, strategies and ideas to the table

We are looking for talented AMPers who:

• Have a bachelor’s degree and at least one year of sales experience
• Have experience in the healthcare industry
• Have exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Have strong consultative selling and closing skills
• Are detail oriented and highly organized
• Have strong collaboration skills
• Are proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Have CRM software experience tracking leads through the sales process; CMS experience preferred but not required

Email cover letter and resume to Mickey Waschkat at mwaschkat@amperagemarketing.com.  No telephone calls please.

AMPERAGE Marketing & Fundraising is looking for a Web Developer to join the team in Cedar Falls.

The Web Developer is responsible for executing interactive and other web-based projects including internet strategies for brand image creation, website maintenance and troubleshooting, product marketing, promotions, information transfer and technical support.  The Web Developer will help formulate an effective, responsive design and turn it into a working theme or plugin.

Qualifications include:

• Demonstrated programming experience in HTML5, PHP, CSS, SASS, JavaScript and jQuery
• Ability to work with PSD designs and follow specifications that have been outlined to produce a fully functional web project
• Experience with WordPress and ability to set up new WordPress instances including multi-site networks
• Strong understanding of latest industry trends and content management systems
• Knowledgeable in mobile responsive CSS and optimizing for different devices and browsers
• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Ability to handle multiple projects and meet varying deadlines
• Adaptability and flexibility to changing agency needs
• Strong planning and organizing skills
• Strong prioritization and project management skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with internal team and external clients
• A thorough understanding of user experience design is essential
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to estimate time needed for completing tasks
• Familiarity with browser capabilities, user interface requirements, cross-platforming, site architecture and web server hardware
• Experience with web server management is a plus

Email cover letter and resume to Mickey Waschkat at mwaschkat@amperagemarketing.com.  No telephone calls please.

AMPERAGE Marketing & Fundraising is looking for a Creative Director with a vision for a creative approach to elevate our creative.

The Creative Director is responsible for the overall vision of the agency’s integrated creative product, with an emphasis on our visual approach – brand, copy, design, digital and video.  The Creative Director interfaces between the client, the account team and the creative department.

If you’re skilled in taking strategic marketing plans and interpreting them into big ideas, this job is for you!

In this role, you’ll get to:

• Direct the creative product at the agency and strive for excellence in everything from concept to completion.
• Collaborate with account services to obtain knowledge of the clients’ objectives and requirements to solve marketing and branding challenges through smart, well-designed campaigns and projects that tie back to strategy.
• Conceive and implement concepts, guidelines and strategies in various creative projects.
• Direct and motivate teams of art directors, illustrators, copywriters etc. to help them use their talents effectively.
• Lead brainstorming/creative sessions to generate ideas.
• Revise content and presentations, approve/reject ideas and provide feedback to the team.
• Monitor results of team efforts and propose actions for the future.
• Oversee creative solutions and present those to account executive/manager for internal approval.
• Present creative concepts at client presentations.
• Maintain current working knowledge of computer-related skills, software and programs to ensure entire creative department as well as individual staff members remain on the leading edge of essential technology and skills.
• Represent the agency at creative/professional/civic functions.

We are looking for a talented AMPer who is:

• Creative
• Collaborative
• Visionary
• Strategic
• A strong problem-solver
• An excellent communicator
• An outstanding leader skilled in relationship building and fostering teamwork

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a creative director or in a similar role
• Hands-on experience in the creative process, marketing, graphic design, video production, website design and brand development

Position location: Iowa – must be available for in-person client presentations and company meetings

Email resume to Mickey Waschkat at mwaschkat@amperagemarketing.com.

AMPERAGE Marketing & Fundraising is looking for a professional, energetic individual to join the team as a fundraising adviser in Cedar Falls.

The fundraising adviser is responsible for providing counsel and direction to non-profit clients regarding their fundraising efforts, including feasibility studies, capital campaigns and marketing strategies. The fundraising adviser will also work to develop new business.

A bachelor’s degree and a minimum 3-5 years of direct fundraising experience, including capital campaigns, are required.

Other qualifications include:

• Strong communication and writing skills
• Knowledge of fundraising regulations and practices
• Ability to manage complex projects

Email cover letter and resume to mwaschkat@amperagemarketing.com

AMPERAGE is an Equal Opportunity Employer.