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Position: Front-End Email Developer - Philanthropy

Talent Area: Professional - Non-Clinical

Full/Part Time: Full time

Location: Houston, TX, US

Department: Philan - Planned Giving

Shift: 8 AM - 5 PM

Job ID: 413366

We’re looking for a Digital Marketing Project Lead / Front-End Email Developer, someone who’s ready to grow with our company. In this position, the project lead drives the development and fulfillment of online marketing strategies as defined by department leadership. You will lead, plan, direct, coordinates and execute activities related to design, programming, content oversight, security and user experience for Texas Children's mass email and digital fundraising platforms.

Any Experience With Litmus, Blackbaud CRM, Or Luminate Online - Highly Preferred

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Job Duties & Responsibilities

Serves as team Luminate Online expert and lead developer for Texas Children's fundraising websites, transactional forms/pages, and email.
Works with management, creative teams, outside vendors and IS to develop deliverables, such as email, forms, websites and other online elements.
Provide leadership in developing optimized, aesthetically-pleasing and accessible email/digital communications.
Lead implementation, production and sending of high-volume email.
Performs quality assurance review across team deliverables.
Participates in direct marketing planning sessions to discuss testing and optimization of email campaigns.
Facilitates and manages discussions with requestors to determine goals and objectives of the request, gathers requirements, sets expectations and develops project strategy.
Works with content developers on content strategy as it relates to Texas Children’s email and fundraising platforms.
Leverages knowledge of emerging digital trends related to email, digital fundraising and web development.
Oversees projects to completion on-time and within any budget constraints.
Serve as analytics expert for email and fundraising sites.
Assists in the development of team documentation.

Skills & Requirements Bachelor's Degree

4 years' experience required in interactive design experience including information architecture, user experience, web site development, content management systems and new media
2 years' experience in leading teams or projects preferred
Expert knowledge of Luminate Online including solid understanding of reuables, wrapper development, transactional pages, constituent/record management, and TeamRaiser. Able to troubleshoot LO issues that arise.
Comfortable documenting process and training other team members when needed.
Experience building responsive websites HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, and JavaScript/jQuery. Cross-browser compatibility.
Strong experience developing responsive transactional webpages and forms including frontend development of a user interface
Experience sending high-volume mass emails, understanding of list management and suppression
Experience with reporting on mass emails and transactional pages
Strong skills in UI/UX design and visual design skills as they relate to the digital experience
Experience setting up and reporting with Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and UTM codes
Experience with a test/development environment, version control, developer best practices, digital best practices, and documentation
Strong communicator, customer service oriented with experience in a high-volume production environment
Strong skills in coding environments, Adobe software, and Microsoft Office
Experience with Litmus a plus.
Must be independently motivated, able to work with a variety of people and able to coordinate multiple tasks and meet deadlines; as well as a strategic thinker—willing to search for ideas, establish and complete plans.
Strong project and organizational skills as well as good written communication skills.

About Texas Children’s

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S.News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.

Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Center for pediatric research; Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children’s care for communities north of Houston. We have also created the nation’s first HMO for children, established the largest pediatric primary care network in the country and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children’s Hospital is also academically affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.

To join our community of 14,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities. You can also learn more about our amazing culture at infinitepassion.org.

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.