Responsibilities

• Serve as cross-functional communications lead and creative producer, turning strategy into coordinated, high-impact communications across the Foundation.
• Lead communications projects and campaigns from concept through execution, guiding content, messaging, audience engagement, and brand efforts in partnership with colleagues, consultants, and community partners.
• Manage integrated projects, campaigns, and partnerships across multiple audiences and platforms.
• Be an exceptional editor and adaptable writer who can navigate nuance, coordinate cross-functional work, and guide communications efforts from planning through execution.
• Demonstrate strong judgment, curiosity, and a commitment to collaboration, learning, and relationship-building.

Requirements

• Significant experience (at least 5 years) in a communications role within a complex organization.
• Candidates should be within commuting distance of the office to support the role’s hybrid, in-person collaboration expectations.
• Advanced project management skills, which include strong planning, delegation, budgeting and critical thinking skills, with demonstrated success leading and motivating cross-functional teams.
• Highly effective relationship manager, able to build key allies inside and outside the organization, while exercising independent judgement and communicating effectively with a broad range of partners.
• Exceptional editing and copy-editing skills, able to review materials for nuance, style and form, while ensuring accuracy and consistency.
• Adaptable writing skills, able to understand nuanced context and style and apply in different ways and in different contexts.
• Comfort operating in highly collaborative, matrixed environments with shared ownership, iterative feedback processes and evolving priorities.
• Ability to manage evolving timelines and iterative project approaches and workflows while identifying challenges and implementing effective solutions.
• Demonstrated knowledge of CMS platforms (e.g., WordPress), social media tools and e-marketing platforms (e.g., MailChimp, Salesforce)
• Knowledge of and curiosity about emerging communications trends and related technologies.

Benefits

• Compensation includes participation in Bush’s comprehensive benefits package. More provided in the position profile here.