Creative Project Manager

About You

You love Jesus. You love kids. You love creativity. You love working with diverse teams, and you have an unquenchable passion for bringing ideas to life through innovative projects.

As a Creative Project Manager, you're driven by collaboration, problem solving, and ensuring that every creative piece, campaign, or project reaches its fullest potential. You’re not just organized—you thrive on keeping multiple projects moving forward, adapting to challenges, and finding ways to inspire both the team and the audience. You’re probably a creative thinker who enjoys art, design, or storytelling, and you're always looking for ways to refine and elevate the work around you.

Most importantly, you know this isn’t just your career. It’s a chance to do something meaningful. A chance to serve others. And a chance to make a life-changing impact on students with the Gospel.

About the Job

As a Creative Project Manager, you will be at the intersection of creativity and organization, ensuring that ideas become reality through effective planning, execution, and team collaboration. You’ll oversee a variety of creative projects including branding, advertising campaigns, website and digital content, videos, events, and print materials. You’ll work closely with designers, writers, and producers to ensure that all creative projects are completed on time, and aligned with strategic goals. You'll help maintain the creative vision and ensure that all deliverables are consistent with the brand identity.

Responsibilities 

• Project Management Lead the planning, execution, and completion of creative projects from concept to delivery. Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources while keeping all stakeholders informed of progress.
• Creative Team Management Monitor the design queue, firm up work details, assign and manage to completion. Review program design requests in partnership with Program division.
• Team Collaboration Work closely with creative teams—designers, copywriters, and video producers—to ensure each project has clear objectives, and the right resources, and is delivered with excellence. Foster a positive and collaborative team environment. 
• Creative Strategy Execution Partner with other divisional teams to translate vision and strategy into actionable creative projects that meet organizational goals. Align creative work with brand guidelines and messaging priorities.
• Production Management Oversee production schedules for multimedia content including videos, photography, digital assets, print, merch, and event assets. Ensure projects are completed efficiently, within scope, and meet quality standards. 
• Problem Solving & Process Improvement Identify potential roadblocks or challenges early and work proactively with teams to resolve them. Continually seek to improve project processes and workflow for greater efficiency and output quality.
• Client and Stakeholder Communication Act as the primary liaison between the creative team and internal stakeholders. Ensure that organizational expectations are clearly understood and met throughout the project lifecycle.
• Other tasks as assigned

 Skills

• Project Management Expertise Ability to manage multiple complex creative projects simultaneously, ensuring timely completion and top quality result.
• Strong Organizational and Communication Skills Ability to clearly communicate project expectations, timelines, and feedback between creative teams and stakeholders.
• Creative Understanding Knowledge of design, video production, digital content creation, and branding workflows. You can effectively balance creativity with strategic business needs.
• Problem Solving & Adaptability Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to adjust and pivot based on project needs and unexpected challenges.
• Leadership Experience leading cross functional teams, ensuring smooth collaboration, accountability, and motivation.

 Qualifications  

• A mature personal Christian faith consistent with the LifeWise Academy Statement of Faith
• Proven experience as a Project Manager in a creative or marketing setting
• Strong knowledge of creative production processes (design, video, and digital media)
• Expertise in project management tools (Asana, Trello, Monday.com, or similar)
• Proficient in creative tools (Adobe Creative Suite, Affinity, etc.) (preferred)
• Proficient in Google Workspace
• Strong organizational skills with an ability to multitask and prioritize effectively
• Experience managing timelines, and creative resources

  Salary and Benefits

• From $65,000 per year
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for qualified employees
• Retirement plan, including employer match
• Generous PTO for qualified employees

If you're passionate about using your organizational and leadership skills to bring creative projects to life, and if you thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments, we’d love for you to join our team as a Creative Project Manager! Your leadership will help us share powerful stories and messages that advance the mission of LifeWise.

LifeWise Academy's hiring practices and EEO Statement are fully in compliance with both federal and state law. Federal law creates an exception to the "religion" section of employment discrimination laws for religious organizations and permits them to give employment preference to members of their own religion. LifeWise Academy is in that category.