Vice President of Marketing & Communications

Chicago, IL (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Coordinate marketing operations and delivery across channels, budgets, and external partners to turn strategy into executable campaigns.

  • Must-have: 8 – 10 years of marketing/communications operations experience.
  • Standout: Serve as primary connector between marketing, development, program teams, and external partners.
  • Standout: Budget and vendor management across campaigns, events, and tools.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and continuously improve marketing and communications workflows, ensuring work is planned, prioritized, tracked, and delivered efficiently.
  • Develop, document, and maintain standard operating procedures for campaigns, content development, events, approvals, and vendor engagement.
  • Manage the marketing project management system, ensuring visibility into timelines, dependencies, and resource needs.
  • Identify operational gaps, redundancies, and bottlenecks; recommend and implement process improvements to increase efficiency and quality.
  • Establish consistent intake, prioritization, and briefing processes with internal stakeholders.
  • Manage the marketing and communications budget, including forecasting, tracking spend, reconciling invoices, and reporting on budget performance.
  • Partner with leadership to allocate resources across campaigns, events, agencies, and tools to maximize impact.
  • Ensure vendors, freelancers, and agencies are onboarded, scoped, and paid efficiently and in compliance with organizational policies.
  • Track return on investment (ROI) and performance metrics to inform future budget and resource decisions.
  • Oversee the execution of integrated marketing and communications initiatives across digital, print, events, social media, and web.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Public Relations, or a related field.
  • 8 – 10 years of progressive experience in marketing and/or communications.
  • Demonstrated experience managing marketing processes, workflows, or operations.
  • Experience managing budgets, vendors, and multiple concurrent initiatives.
  • Strong project management skills with the ability to manage complexity and competing priorities.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Experience in a mission-driven, nonprofit, or purpose-led organization.
  • Familiarity with project management tools.
  • Experience working with agencies, designers, and digital vendors.
  • Comfort using data and metrics to guide decisions and improve performance.
  • Finance or real-estate background
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    Founded in 1987
    Chicago, Illinois, USA
    251 employees

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