Director of Marketing & Communications

Boston, MA (Hybrid)

$95K/yr – $110K/yrDirector/Executive5+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Lead and own the marketing and communications function, shaping strategy, campaigns, and storytelling to drive engagement, fundraising, and program enrollment.

  • Oversee strategy development, brand integrity, and multi-channel campaigns.
  • Collaborate across departments and manage a small team while measuring impact with dashboards.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the ongoing implementation and improvement of JVS’s marketing and communication strategy, with a vision rooted in JVS’s mission and strategic priorities.
  • Develop, implement, and evaluate an integrated marketing plan that incorporates market research, audience segmentation, targeted outreach, and measurable digital outcomes.
  • Support brand integrity across all JVS’s internal and external messaging, ensuring consistent voice, visual identity, and tone to strengthen brand awareness
  • Translate data, anecdotes, and other sources of information into compelling visual stories that deepen audience engagement, support fundraising efforts, and demonstrate JVS’s impact on people’s lives.
  • Oversee the planning, execution, and evaluation of marketing campaigns across owned and earned channels — including email, social media, web, fundraising appeals, and events — to increase audience growth, conversions, and program enrollments.
  • Develop processes and procedures for collaboration with program staff to support with recruitment, enrollments, and storytelling to share about programmatic impact.
  • Produce regular reports and dashboards to track engagements, conversions, and enrollments to improve marketing efforts.
  • Collaborate with the Advancement team to draft, build, and send fundraising appeal emails.
  • Oversee the creation and delivery of email marketing campaigns for donors, lapsed donors, and prospective donors to increase engagements.
  • Oversee the ideation, design, development, and print of event-specific collateral, invitations, and more.

Requirements

  • Proficient in Salesforce and Salesforce Pardot
  • Robust knowledge of the media and news landscape in Greater Boston
  • Excellent writing and editing skills
  • Proficient in graphic design tools, such as Canva and Adobe Suite
  • Excellent leadership skills
  • Project management skills
  • Website development skills, including SEO, rank math, HTML, and Wordpress experience
  • Analytical acumen and ability to translate complex data into understandable reports, visualizations, and metrics
  • Ability to collaborate effectively across teams to produce high-quality communications and marketing materials in timely fashion
  • Ability to juggle multiple competing deadlines and priorities at once

Preferred

  • Background in nonprofit marketing and experience/knowledge of JVS’s primary audiences
  • Experience building and launching new campaigns
  • Experience working in the nonprofit or workforce development sector
  • Comfort with emerging technologies, project management tools, and workflow software.
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JVS Boston

Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) was founded in 1938 during the Great Depression to assist Jewish immigrants and refugees struggling to enter the American workforce and support their families. Today, JVS is among the oldest and largest providers of adult education and workforce development services in Greater Boston, serving a diverse clientele representing over 90 nations, and speaking 50 languages, and helping people secure financial independence through educational and employment services. With over 80 years of demonstrated excellence in workforce development, JVS has a reputation for continuous innovation, building person-centered and performance-based models to improve outcomes and increase programmatic effectiveness.Last year, JVS empower 16,000 individuals, including immigrants, refugees, people with disabilities, and older workers, to build their skills, advance their education, and build meaningful careers. JVS partners with over 1,300 area employers to help fill vacancies and provide the education their employees need to ascend their career ladders.

Founded in 1938
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
263 employees (9 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
19.7K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$136.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
47.2%
Direct
42.6%
Referral
7.7%
Social
1.1%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~263

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
7 (3% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$10.3M
Last Raise
$10M
Grant, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2022
    Grant • $10M
  • Jun 2013
    Grant • $250K