Email Marketing Coordinator, Temporary Fixed Term Contract

Blavity, Inc. is a venture-funded media and technology company, founded in 2014 around a simple idea: enable Black millennials to tell their own stories. Today, we are home to the largest network of platforms and lifestyle brands serving the multifaceted lives of Black millennials & Gen Z through original content, video, unique experiences, and product solutions. Blavity Inc. has evolved into a market leader for Black media, reaching 250 million users per month through our growing brand portfolio, including Blavity , AfroTech , Talent Infusion , Travel Noire , HealthStack , and Blavity House Party . Our Blavity, Inc. employee community is composed of passionate, energetic, and culturally conscious individuals working together to deliver value to each other, the company, and our clients. We are always searching for new additions to our community that will help us continue to scale, contribute meaningfully to our culture, and advance our strategic direction.

Blavity Inc. is looking for a temporary Email Marketing Coordinator . This role will own the full newsletter production schedule across four brands Blavity, AfroTech, Travel Noire, and HealthStack while maintaining audience health and contributing to weekly KPI reporting. This is a high-volume, execution-focused role. The ideal candidate has direct experience with Iterable and can build and send 6-8 newsletters per day across a mix of RSS-automated and fully manual builds with confidence. All workflows are documented; the expectation is that you follow established processes precisely while flagging issues clearly and escalating when needed. The ideal candidate will implement updates including newsletter redesigns, send time optimization, and template rebuilds, as directed without disrupting the send schedule. This role will report to the Director of Growth Marketing.

Send Execution (primary focus) Own 6-8 newsletter sends per day across four brands, building each according to documented workflows and the established send calendar Execute a mix of RSS-automated and fully manual builds, each requiring property-specific preparation work completed before every send Apply editorial judgment to manual properties, drawing on content performance data to inform curation decisions Communicate proactively and professionally with editorial, creative, and engineering stakeholders providing timely status updates, flagging blockers early, and escalating issues with clear context Administer Pre-Send QA, a checklist that covers copy and content, links and assets, suppression and compliance, audience and list integrity, technical rendering, and scheduling Maintain a clear, up-to-date picture of your full send schedule and build windows, and communicate proactively when that schedule is affected. KPI & Benchmark Reporting Maintain weekly audience snapshots and list health metrics across all properties Contribute to bi-weekly KPI reporting, highlighting editorial newsletter metrics and trends Communicate proactively on task status, including when work is in progress or behind Platform Coordination Navigate Iterable across its full feature set: campaign builds, audience management, analytics, and template tools Identify and document platform issues clearly, distinguishing between platform-side problems and execution errors, and escalate to the right team with full context Qualifications:

Hands-on experience with Iterable is required. You must be able to navigate campaign builds, audience lists, segmentation, and drag-and-drop templates from day one. Experience managing high-volume email production: multiple properties, multiple sends per week, across a mix of automated and manual workflows Demonstrated QA discipline: ability to follow a multi-step checklist under time pressure without skipping steps Ability to read campaign analytics and identify patterns: open rates, click-through rates, engagement data Strong process discipline: documented