Willamette Week is a small team of hardworking folks who care deeply about making Portland a better place to live. We have an office in NW Portland with a hybrid work environment, asking all employees to be in the office a few days a week.

Each job we post has its own application process, please read descriptions carefully before applying. We embrace diversity and encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. Our priority is to select the most suitable candidate for the position, and we recognize that excellence can come from various experiences and perspectives.

Willamette Week offers full time employees health insurance (and we pay 100% of the premium for the base plan), a 401k that provides a small employer match, two weeks of paid vacation, and 11 paid holidays.

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Oregon is unhealthy, and it needs a relentless reporter to help it get well. This state ranks 48th in the country for youth mental health, and our rate of deaths from alcohol is double the national average. The state’s psychiatric hospital has no room to accept even the most dangerously troubled people, vaccination rates are plummeting, and Portland’s two largest hospital systems are on the brink of a merger that could dramatically reduce options for patients. Willamette Week, the locally-owned, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper and media company in Portland, is seeking a healthcare reporter to cover everything from water fluoridation to medical bill-rigging. If you like stirring up trouble, can spot poor performers hidden in a government database, and have a knack for getting nurses to talk on background, you’re just the person we’re looking for. Come from a background that’s underrepresented in journalism? That’s even better. Send a resume and three clips to amesh@wweek.com.

Job Summary: Willamette Week, Portland’s most vital source for news and culture coverage, seeks a Development Coordinator for our Friends of Willamette Week (FOWW) program - a vital and growing revenue source for our journalism. In this role you will perform administrative duties that are essential for the program’s success. You will be providing excellent customer service to our contributors and readers, entering and maintaining crucial data, and sending thank-you mail to contributors.

Note: while FOWW operates very much like a nonprofit, we are not a nonprofit—we have a fiscal sponsorship established that allows for our supporters to give tax-deductible contributions.

Supervisor: Jamie Strickler, FOWW Manager

Location: In office on Tuesday or Thursday

Hours: 8 hours per week

Compensation: $22/hour

To Apply: Apply here (Google Form)

Be prepared to upload your resume (pdf only, under 10 mb) and answer these questions:

1. What data management experience do you have?

2. What nonprofit experience do you have?

3. Other than what you’ve described above, how have your professional, academic, or lived experiences prepared you to be successful in this role?

4. How do you like to be managed?

5. How do you track your tasks and stay focused?

Hiring Process: Review of applications will begin immediately. Interviews with both the FOWW Executive Director and Manager will follow. Final candidates will be asked for references (2 professional, 1 personal).

Position will remain open until filled. We hope to hire quickly.

We embrace diversity and encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. Our priority is to select the most suitable candidate for the position, and we recognize that excellence can come from various experiences and perspectives. We encourage people from all experience levels to apply for this role.

Responsibilities include:

• Provide general donor support and customer service:

1. Help donors with their failed transactions.
2. Manage the membership email and voicemail; resolve requests
3. Write and send thank you notes, packages

• Enter and import data into our database with attention to detail
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Google suite skills or ability to quickly learn (Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Forms, Meet)
• Nonprofit experience, especially a fundraising background, is extremely helpful
• Donor database or other CRM experience is extremely helpful

Our ideal candidate will prioritize kind, helpful, and responsive communication and maintaining an accurate, clean and comprehensive database. Other valuable traits include:

• Willing to ask for help
• Dependable and trustworthy
• Self motivated and goal driven
• Collaborative partnership but with an independent work ethic
• Problem solve with transparency and positivity

To Apply: Send Cover Letter and Resume to jobs@wweek.com, with “Associate Account Executive” in the subject line.

Willamette Week (wweek.com), Portland’s most vital source for news and coverage of arts and entertainment, seeks a new Associate Account Executive for our Sales Team. In this role, you will work with local businesses on advertising solutions across our platforms (weekly paper, magazines, wweek.com, newsletters, events and social channels) in service of driving revenue for WW.

We’re looking for a driven, detail-oriented go-getter to join our fun, fast-paced team. As an Associate Account Executive, you’ll be building your book of business —researching leads, making cold calls, and handling the nitty-gritty tasks that turn prospects into long-term clients. You should thrive on checking things off your to-do list, staying organized, and tackling tasks with enthusiasm. But just as importantly, you should love connecting with people, building relationships, and bringing energy to every conversation.

To be successful in this role, you should be resourceful, analytical, adaptable, and organized with the ability to build rapport with clients.

A successful candidate understands and values the importance of local journalism, is excited about advertising, and is hungry to sell. WW offers an exciting and challenging environment that is best-suited to passionate self-starters who are not afraid to roll up their sleeves.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and sell to a small but ever-growing portfolio of accounts — embodying a keen sense of sales priorities.
• Deeply understand the WW media calendar, platforms, and audience — and be able to clearly target sales opportunities based on those inputs.
• Develop strong relationships with key clients. Build genuine trust and rapport with them.
• Identify growth opportunities with existing accounts and initiate long-term planning (quarterly business reviews, regular in person working sessions, and numerous client engagements/calls each week) to bring these opportunities to fruition.
• Develop creative marketing solutions that help solve key clients’ business goals. Build and present clear, thoughtful proposals.
• Demonstrate an ability to grow a book of business, focused on quarter over quarter net new revenue growth.
• Identify and contact new prospects with creative approaches.
• Actively contribute to the ad design/sponsored content process by having a strong point of view on strategic direction, vision, and business objectives that reflect the client’s voice.
• Keep up to date on digital tools and platforms — and how to best leverage them with social and digital advertising opportunities.
• Work daily within our CRM on booking ads, logging notes, managing accounts.
• Proof and audit all your clients’ ads to assure they are designed and placed correctly and on time.
• Provide ideas and feedback about how to improve Willamette Week’s advertising products and services for our partners, enabling our advertisers to maximize their participation
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the Account Management, Marketing, Analytics & Strategy teams to monitor client & portfolio activity and track performance against goals.

Experience

While the experience below is nice to have - we value kind, humble, hardworking people who are eager to learn and excited to be a part of the local journalism landscape. If that describes you, we encourage you to apply, regardless of your experience.

• 2+ years experience in a client facing role (in publishing, ad agency or start-up)
• 1+ years of experience in sales
• Savvy understanding of and interest in digital platforms, and non-traditional advertising.
• Creative thinker with ability to pick up information quickly — and work fast.
• Strong organizational skills, and the ability to juggle multiple projects at once.
• Possess entrepreneurial, brave, curious, focused, solution-oriented, empathetic, fun, and optimistic personal qualities.
• A genuine love of Portland: You need to be more than willing to dive deeply into local culture to develop a keen understanding of — and appreciation for — our city.

To Apply: Send Cover Letter and Resume to jobs@wweek.com, with “Associate Account Executive” in the subject line.

About Willamette Week

About Willamette Week: Willamette Week is Portland’s go-to alternative media source for news, politics, arts and culture. WW produces a weekly newspaper, annual culture magazines, a podcast, major events and daily content across our website, newsletters and social channels. Each month we publish original content on wweek.com and in weekly print editions, keeping over 2 million unique readers consistently up to date, engaged and coming back for more through our newsletters, social channels, magazines, events and more. We also operate Give!Guide, a charitable effort that has raised more than $73 million for local nonprofits since 2004, and we are the only weekly newspaper ever to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.