Community Marketer

i'm hiring

at The European Correspondent we're looking for two people to join my team as growth marketer and community marketer.

growth: you cover the stranger -> engaged reader part

community: you cover the engaged reader -> paying supporter part.

if you don't want to sell software or ai workshops for the rest of your life - this is your chance to do marketing AND make Europe a better place to live.

you'll work with me (Yerbolat Bekbau), Philippe Kramer, Julius E. O. Fintelmann, Carla Allenbach, Sara Bertilsson, Emma Louisa Neugebauer, Belle de Jong and other superstars of European journalism.

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Community marketer. The European Correspondent

Look after the readers we already have and turn more of them into supporters of independent journalism.

Location: Remote, anywhere in Europe. Type: Freelance, 4 days/week. Reports to: Head of marketing. Starting date: as soon as possible.

The European Correspondent is a non-profit European media organisation. We bring Europe's most relevant stories to around 80,000 citizens from all over the continent to build a European public discourse.

About the role

You'll work closely with our Head of marketing on everything that happens after sign-up: keeping subscribers engaged with what we publish, turning them into donors, and building lasting support. You run our email campaigns, donor conversations, and retention work.

What you'll be doing

• Run our email campaigns to different subscriber and donor groups: fundraising, retention, reactivation.
• Talk to donors directly: call donors for feedback and to build stronger relationships.
• Run our donor retention work: reduce churn, grow recurring support, learn what makes our donors stay.
• Own the donor-side metrics: churn rate and LTV. Set up and maintain the tracking, run experiments, share weekly findings with the Head of marketing.

What we’re looking for

• A minimum of two years of marketing experience, ideally in media, subscriptions, fundraising, or non-profits, but we'll happily consider strong candidates from e-commerce, SaaS, or other industries.
• Email marketing experience: segmentation, automation, A/B testing, using tools like Mailchimp, Klaviyo, ActiveCampaign or analogues.
• Hands-on experience with donor tooling: Donorbox, Stripe, PayPal or analogues.
• Background in sales, hospitality, or customer support – a role where you've handled real conversations with strangers and turned them into customers.
• You're comfortable on the phone or video with strangers.
• You can write. You write clearly and you know basic direct-response copywriting frameworks like AIDA or PAS.
• You're comfortable with numbers. You read dashboards, run experiments, and understand the difference between key and vanity metrics.
• You're independent. You'll own your work without daily check-ins.
• You're a registered freelancer in an EU country or Ukraine.
• Excellent English.

Bonus points for

• Speaking one of the six other languages we publish in (German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Ukrainian) is an advantage.
• Background in subscription, membership, or recurring donor work.
• A genuine interest in journalism, democracy, and Europe.

What we offer

• Payment range: up to €2,500, depending on experience and location.
• Flexible, remote-first work culture based on trust and outcomes.
• A say in shaping an independent media start-up from the ground up.
• Significant potential to grow with the organisation as we expand fast.
• Access to a growing European network of journalists and content creators.
• A mission-driven team that values openness and experimentation.
• Location: if you're in Brussels, join us in our office, or work fully remotely from elsewhere.

Interested? Apply here, we’d love to hear from you.

Questions: team@europeancorrespondent.com. We review applications on a rolling basis, usually within two weeks from publication (5.05.26).

Diversity makes us stronger. We appreciate diverse attitudes, cultures, and identities and encourage everyone to apply. Looking at problems from different perspectives helps us to get better every day.