Managing Director, Communications

About Our Client

Our client builds a movement of leaders innovating today to transform tomorrow. Through its Fellowships and other innovative leadership initiatives, the hiring company spots emerging leaders and invests deeply in their success to accelerate their impact.

Who You’ll Work With

There is a front row seat to the brightest leaders with the most innovative ideas driving social progress across the world. The team is fired up about the Fellows; they are their advocates and their biggest champions.

Reporting to the Vice President, Thought Leadership, the Managing Director, Communications will be responsible for developing and implementing comprehensive communications and events strategies that amplify the hiring company's global impact, influence and enhance its branding, and engage with diverse stakeholders. Managing a dynamic team including a Director, Marketing & Communications and a Director, Events, this role ensures that the hiring company's message resonates across a global audience, driving forward the organization's vision for social change and innovation.

What You’ll Do

Leading Process

• Collaborate with department leaders to integrate communication and event strategies across the organization, ensuring cohesive messaging and brand alignment.
• Build, audit, and iterate on operational systems to improve team effectiveness and efficiency in collaboration with VP, Thought Leadership.
• Set standards and policies to streamline the department's operations, enhancing efficiency and effectiveness.
• Drive progress against key milestones by developing and maintaining integrated project plans, resource plans, and risk and issue management plans.
• Support Directors to monitor and manage departmental budgets, allocating resources strategically to support key initiatives and maximize impact.

Leading Strategy

• Partner with VP, Thought Leadership, departmental Directors, and other internal stakeholders to develop, refine, and prioritize strategies for Communications, Marketing, Thought Leadership, and Events in alignment with the organization’s strategic plan.
• Develop and execute a dynamic marketing and communication strategy that amplifies the hiring company's mission, initiatives, and impact on a global scale.
• Collaborate with VP, Programs and VP, Development in the creation of materials, talking points, and multimedia for small- and large-scale events.
• Provide strategic counsel to senior leadership regarding high-stakes public affairs opportunities and reputation management issues to mitigate risk and advance organizational goals; develop crisis communications protocols and response strategies.
• Oversee the production of high-quality, impactful content across multiple platforms, ensuring consistency with the hiring company's brand's voice and mission.
• Leverage events as a key platform for storytelling, ensuring they are strategically aligned with our communication efforts to promote the hiring company’s mission and enhance stakeholder engagement.

Leading People

• Manage, inspire, develop and encourage a team on the implementation of new strategies and initiatives critical to meeting the goals of the hiring company’s strategic plan.
• As part of the Leadership Team, provide recommendations on how to position the hiring company as a globally minded organization by translating and amplifying the insights of their work across the social innovation field.
• Build and maintain key relationships, ensuring the communications strategies effectively engage diverse stakeholders from fellows to funders and beyond.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of relevant experience, including leading and managing a distributed and layered team, experience working at a purpose-driven global or national organization, and demonstrated success building and implementing strategic communications and events to enhance and elevate a brand, especially within the context of social innovation.
• Global-minded perspective to adeptly work across multicultural contexts and in service to an international network of fellows, organizational partners, leaders, and staff.
• Experience handling media relations with an eye for opportunities and risks, as well as the ability to identify the story and generate interest and enthusiasm for the hiring company’s work.
• Unwavering attention to detail in all aspects of communication and event planning, from proofreading marketing materials to meticulous oversight of event logistics, ensuring a high-quality brand experience.
• Hands-on expertise in marketing databases & CRM tools including Salesforce, digital marketing platforms like Campaign Monitor, events management platforms like Blackthorn.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills.
• A bold collaborator with strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills who can effectively influence and engage colleagues at all levels and across lines of difference; Someone who can listen, process, and reconcile needs and demands, and who is comfortable with saying no and building consensus.
• A big-picture thinker who can take a systems view, while also bringing a willingness to “get in the weeds” to troubleshoot and, at times, provide front-line customer service to colleagues across the organization.
• An effective communicator, spokesperson, and thought partner who works successfully with people at all levels of an organization.
• Commitment to fostering a team environment characterized by collaboration, positivity, and a shared commitment to the hiring company’s mission, with a focus on professional growth and development.

Salary:

$175,000/year

Benefits

• Best-in-class health insurance which covers medical, and 100% dental and vision needs.
• Up to 27 days off per year, plus 9 paid holidays and 10 days off for winter break.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• 12 weeks paid personal sick leave.
• Monthly well-being stipend of $100/month.
• Monthly wireless stipend of $100/month.
• Professional development stipend of $1000 per fiscal year, plus an additional $350 per fiscal year to support employees’ learnings around racial equity.
• 403(b)-retirement savings plan with an employer match up to 7% of annual salary (Employer match begins after the first year of employment).