Responsibilities

• Drive Brand Visibility: Lead the creation and implementation of an integrated marketing plan that elevates the CBCF brand and ensures the Foundation’s research and programs are the "first-of-mind" for key policy and community stakeholders.
• Lead Digital Innovation: Direct staff in creating and overseeing an innovative engagement strategy across all digital touchpoints—including the website, newsletters, and social platforms—utilizing data-driven insights to foster deep community connection and facilitate meaningful dialogue.
• Cultivate Influence: Build and oversee a strategic PR framework that enables leadership to engage meaningfully with top-tier media and key influencers in racial justice, health, and economic sectors and other Foundation priority areas to advance the Foundation's mission.
• Manage Organizational Reputation: Function as a strategic partner to the executive team in identifying and leveraging internal and external issues and opportunities and developing rapid response communication solutions that protect and promote the Foundation’s interests.
• Presidential Advisory: Provide high-level communication counsel to the President and CEO, ensuring all executive messaging and executive-level public engagement is aligned with the Foundation’s long-term strategic vision.
• Institutional Brand Stewardship: Direct the strategic production of all flagship communications, including the Annual Report and high-impact marketing collateral. Oversee and direct the team responsible for managing the Foundation’s digital ecosystem (website and social media) while managing high-value vendor partnerships to ensure brand consistency and operational excellence.
• Chief Media Liaison: Serve as a primary organizational liaison and lead strategist for journalist and influencer engagement. Proactively position CBCF as a thought leader and authority in the media landscape to enhance institutional reputation.
• Executive Positioning & Messaging: Exercise high-level judgment to identify and prioritize media opportunities for leadership. Develop talking points, keynote speeches, and executive presentations that align with the Foundation’s mission.
• Strategy Leadership: Develop and oversee implementation of a unified "Editorial Playbook" that integrates earned, owned, and paid digital strategies. Establish a master editorial calendar to ensure synchronized messaging across all channels.
• Media Network Cultivation: Cultivate and maintain a network of top-tier press relationships; ensure consistent coverage of CBCF’s research, policy initiatives, and signature events.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, marketing, public relations, English literature, or a related field of study is required.
• An advanced degree is preferred.
• Minimum of 10-12 years of communications and writing experience and skills dealing with diverse issues, managing high-profile principals; high-performance teams; and compelling events.
• Proven track record of success in leading executive communications and managing media campaigns in a corporate agency, or nonprofit setting.
• Experience in managing high-performance teams, high-profile events and/or conferences and ensuring accountability at all levels is required.
• Knowledge: ability to manage short-term and long-term priorities; resourceful, flexible, and responsive to business needs.
• Computer and Technical Proficiencies: Proficient in Microsoft Office; experience with Meltwater, Cision, Constant Contact, Luminate, Monday.com, Smartsheet is a plus.
• Skills and Abilities: exceptional writing, editing, media relations, research, interpersonal skills; superb project and program management; ability to manage multi-phased projects.
• Physical Requirements: ability to work in a fast-paced environment with demanding deadlines, long hours, evenings and weekends during peak times; ability to travel; work well under pressure.

Preferred

• An advanced degree is preferred.

Benefits

• CBCF is an equal opportunity employer and offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits package including health, dental, vision, 403(b), paid vacation and sick time.