Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership for United Way’s external engagement efforts aligned with organizational mission, vision, strategic priorities, and impact; align external brand and reputation with internal strategy and implementation.
• Identify emerging opportunities, risks, trends, and community needs while advising executive leadership on strategic responses and priorities.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, transparency, and continuous improvement across teams and organizational initiatives.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment among Education, Impact, Resource Development, Community Engagement, and Finance to advance organizational outcomes and community impact.
• Represent UWGC at community and stakeholder meetings, including representing the CEO as needed.
• Create communications strategy to influence and inform key stakeholders, including Board of Directors, donors, volunteers, media, elected officials, community members, consumers, partner agencies, and the general public.
• Operationalize communication strategy to elevate external reputation and communicate United Way’s impact.
• Collaborate with Resource Development to develop communications and messaging that support cultivation of relationships with funders, corporate partners, and donors to advance strategic initiatives and organizational sustainability.
• Develop unified voice and aligned messaging for internal and external organizational use, including community presentations, speeches, employee communications, and other key stakeholder communications.
• Oversee external communication and brand management strategy by creating and disseminating informative, educational, and positive content through all channels, including websites, social media, mainstream media, newsletters, organizational publications, intranet and video.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, public policy, nonprofit leadership, public administration, business, or related field required; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible leadership experience in nonprofit, public sector, policy, or related environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading strategic initiatives, organizational partnerships, and cross-functional teams.
• Experience overseeing or partnering closely with Marketing function.
• Experience with board governance and managing Boards, including meetings, presentations, and decision-making.
• Proven success in advocacy, public policy, systems change, and community engagement efforts.
• Strong leadership, strategic planning, operational management, and communication skills.”

Benefits

• Generous paid time off including vacation, personal, sick, and holiday time
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 403b plan with company match
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program and access to other free health programs
• Community volunteer opportunities
• Professional development and training opportunities