Responsibilities:\n- Manage the Marketing, Communications, Editorial, and Digital teams (currently 12), and any vendors related to these functions.\n- In close consultation with the Executive Director and/or Deputy Executive Director, develop and drive the core marketing, communications, and digital strategies.\n- Drive a national narrative shift about clean energy - especially solar - to highlight its local benefits and popularity.\n- Uplift SUN’s profile through brand recognition, thought leadership, and impact-driven storytelling to position SUN as THE go-to NGO nationally for solar owners.\n- Cultivate relationships with institutional communications funders through meetings, event gatherings, and monthly Funder Updates.\n- In deep partnership with program areas, develop and implement marketing, communications, editorial, and digital initiatives and campaigns to help the program areas best achieve their goals.\n- Standardize communications, decision-making authority, and process while ensuring accountability for staff.\n- Develop a culture of data-driven decision-making and create space for innovation and long-term thinking.\n- Develop narrative strategies for communicating complex energy issues to build a movement of solar supporters.\n- Guide a proactive earned media approach that keeps SUN in the news locally and nationally.\n- In close collaboration with SUN’s state teams, ensure the regional communications work runs responsively and efficiently.\n- Collaborate with Development team to ensure individual fundraising tactics with Development team to ensure messaging consistently meets audiences where they are.\n- Oversee service support workflows from other departments that provide both standardization and customization.\n- Ensure SUN continues to grow and deepen engagement with its significant (1,200,000+) digital list, and mobilize this list effectively (e.g. for advocacy work and fundraising) in partnership with the other relevant SUN team members.\n- Manage operating and personnel budget for the department.\n- Ensure organizational marketing and communications alignment throughout cross-functional initiatives.\n- Provide marketing and communications training and support to staff, as needed.\n- Actively contribute to a workplace culture aligned with SUN’s values of equity, inclusion, continuous learning, action-oriented, and people-centered.\n- Show up fully for learning and planning and activities, including all-staff meetings, retreats, and strategy sessions.\n- Coordinate and work with external consultants as needed, facilitate meetings, prepare agendas, and take notes, contribute to brainstorming, developing, and executing new ideas., manage your own regular administration, including timely submission of timesheets, receipts, reimbursements, scheduling, traveling planning, and HR paperwork.