NJBIA Employment Application

Who we are: The New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA) is the voice for thousands of businesses in NJ and our mission is to build a more prosperous state. As the nation’s largest private statewide employer association, we provide vital information, services, and advocacy to our members. Our vision is to strengthen the NJ business landscape as the home of economic vitality, business prosperity and increase workforce excellence so that our members can not only sustain but thrive. Join us in our mission and be a part of something big!

What we offer: A work environment that embraces innovation and change with flexible work arrangements. We offer a competitive salary and robust benefits package including generous vacation, sick, personal time, nine paid holidays, a 401K plan with employer match up to 6%, medical with Health Savings Account, dental, and much more.

• Billing and Data Associate

  What you’ll do:
  You will be a critical part of our Finance team as the Billing and Data Associate. The Billing and Data Associate is a key member of the Finance team, responsible for ensuring that all financial and billing transactions are completed in a timely and accurate manner, ensuring compliance, data quality while maintaining proper internal procedures.

  Responsibilities:
  The ideal candidate will be an organized, detail-oriented, and proactive accounting professional to provide comprehensive support to the accounting department. They will perform daily operational tasks pertaining to billing and collection of customer membership renewals and other subscription-based products via various online software platforms and oversee the billing cycle for various revenue streams including partnerships, products and other miscellaneous billing as required. To ensure the integrity of our member data for financial purposes, this position will be maintaining and updating membership data on multiple platforms across the organization.

  To be successful in this position, excellent communication and customer service skills are required to support member clients for all related inquiries including data changes, billing inquiries, and providing information about participation in the various benefits we offer.

  Requirements:

  • At least 5 years related bookkeeping and general accounting experience
  • GAAP and GL experience
  • Associates degree preferred
  • Strong technical acumen
  • Experience with Woo Commerce or similar E-Commerce products strongly preferred
  • Strong proficiency with Microsoft products such as Outlook and Teams Intermediate to advanced Excel
  • A background check is required for this position.
    

• Junior Graphic Designer

  About the Role: We’re looking for a creative, detail-obsessed Junior Graphic Designer to join our in-house design team! If you geek out over type alignment, live by paragraph styles, and enjoy transforming editorial content into engaging, eye-catching layouts, this could be the role for you. You’ll be involved in producing our monthly flagship magazine plus supporting various marketing and event design initiatives, both in print and digital.

  Your responsibilities will include designing and managing editorial layouts and covers in InDesign while ensuring printer standards. You will also be overseeing the full proofing process, ripping files for print, coordinating with the magazine printer, sending files to the printer, resolving prepress issues and uploading the issue to WordPress. Join us and help enhance our storytelling and branding efforts by creating marketing materials, emails, and social posts to promote NJBIA and magazine initiatives, events and programs, while keeping all marketing assets up to date and organized.

  Cross-Team Collaboration

  · Work with Editorial to design monthly magazine covers that reflect each issue’s editorial theme.

  • Work with the Sales and Production team to create the monthly issue grid showing ad placement and update the media kit and promo materials.
  • Collaborate with Government Affairs and Membership on promotional collateral.
  • Support the Events the Communications team with creativity for upcoming programs.

  Required Technical Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design.
  • 1+ year of experience in magazine layout or editorial design.
  • Proven experience with print production, color profiles, and layout principles.
  • Strong proficiency in Adobe InDesign (fonts, paragraph styles, RGB vs CMYK, exporting).
  • Proficiency in Photoshop and using generative AI tools (color correction, image editing, retouching – print and digital).
  • Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud ( Illustrator, Acrobat, Adobe Express).
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams).
  • Familiarity with Canva for light digital or social media work.
  • Experience with email marketing tools, ie. Mailchimp.

  · Understanding of WordPress.

  · Familiarity with HTML/CSS

  · Familiarity with creating video and/or animations

  Professional Qualifications

  • Strong initiative, Self-motivated, detail-oriented, with excellent communication.
  • Independent professional with strong project management skills across teams and tight deadlines.
  • Adaptable and eager to learn new tools, with a problem-solving mindset.

  Application Instructions:

  Please submit your resume, cover letter, and link to your portfolio below. We’re especially interested in layouts, covers, or multi-page spreads.

  *Applications without a portfolio will not be considered. Qualified candidates will be asked to complete a brief layout test as part of the interview process to assess layout skills.

  Job Type: Full-time

  Pay: $45,000.00 per year

  Benefits:

  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Flexible schedule
  • Flexible spending account
  • Health insurance
  • Health savings account
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Retirement plan
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Vision insurance

  Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday

  Work Location: Hybrid remote in Trenton, NJ 08608