Community Engagement & Communications Officer
Middletown, RI (Hybrid)
Posted 2 months ago
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Job Description
You will lead Child & Family’s outward facing engagement strategy, including fundraising events, community partnerships, communications, and social media. The Manager of Community Engagement & Communications strengthens the visibility, builds trust with the community, and creates pathways for donors, sponsors, and partners to deepen their involvement with the organization.
Hybrid Role, 20% Remote Work.
Your Main Priorities
While additional responsibilities are likely to arise on the job, you will primarily:
Community Engagements & Events
- Plan and execute fundraising, stewardship, and community engagement events.
- Manage corporate sponsorships and community partnerships.
- Ensure events are aligned with donor cultivation and stewardship goals.
- Manage organizational messaging, storytelling, and brand consistency.
- Oversee social media channels and digital engagement strategy.
- Develop content calendars and coordinate impact storytelling with program staff.
- Collaborate with the Manager of Philanthropy & Stewardship to convert events and digital audiences into donors.
- Track engagement metrics and adjust strategies to improve reach and conversion.
Requirements, Skills & Abilities:
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing or related field required.
- 3-5 years of experience in communications, marketing, events, or community engagement required.
- Must be able to work a flexible schedule.
- Must have strong project management and event planning skills.
- Experience managing social media platforms and digital content required.
- Familiarity with nonprofit or human services organizations preferred.
- Strong organizational, critical thinking and time-management skills.
- Computer and database management skills required; knowledge of Microsoft Office 365.
- Ability to communicate and effectively interact with a diverse population.
- Collaboration and teamwork.
- The ideal candidate will be required to meet all background checks and medical clearances required for the position.
Operational staff:
This position involves work in an office setting. Tasks include operating a computer for extended periods, communicating with colleagues, and occasional lifting of office/department materials up to 25lbs. The role also requires the ability to sit for extended periods, bending, reaching, hearing and vision.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Child & Family will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, physical or mental disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations, genetic predisposition or genetic carrier status, or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law, nor will anyone receive special treatment for those reasons, except for reasonable accommodation as required by law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
Requirements
In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies:
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experienced by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ communities, and others.
- Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.
Child & Family strives to achieve a workforce that includes representation of qualified affirmative action group members in proportion to the qualified and available target group workforce in the community that we serve.
Child & Family
Welcome to Child & Family, where we strengthen families, their members and the communities in which they live. At Child & Family, we hold two core beliefs. That individuals and communities thrive when supported by strong families and that a community works best when it accepts responsibility for all of its members. These beliefs influence everything we do and have guided our growth since we first opened our doors in 1866.Over the last 150 years, Child & Family has become the largest and most comprehensive social service provider in Newport County and one of the largest in the State of Rhode Island. It is a center for community involvement – a place where people come together to give help, to receive help and to support the work of others. With state-of-the-art Community Centers in both Middletown and Providence, and our strategic plan in place, we have adopted 3 key pathways: Family Preservation, Best Practices and Leadership. Child & Family provides important services and programs to thousands of children, teens, families and elders throughout Rhode Island each year.VISION STATEMENT: Empowered, engaged community members who thrive.MISSION STATEMENT :To strengthen individuals, families and the communities in which they live by identifying needs and utilizing best practices.Type of OrganizationPrivate, 501(c)(3) non-profit provider of social servicesAccreditation/Memberships•Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children•The Alliance for Children and Families
