Creative Communications Manager

Responsibilities

• Serve in excellence by being early and prepared for all scheduled meetings.
• Establish and foster exemplary relationships with staff, non-staff workers, church members, vendors, and the community, representing Change Church with integrity, professionalism, and warmth.
• Demonstrate a servant’s heart and a willingness to support organizational needs beyond assigned workflows when appropriate.
• Contribute to cultivating a healthy, honor-driven, growth-oriented, and spiritually strong organizational culture.
• Translate organizational priorities, ministry initiatives, sermon series, events, launches, and special projects into clear creative communication strategies.
• Determine the primary audience, communication objective, key message, call to action, communication channels, promotional cadence, creative needs, and timing for major initiatives.
• Develop integrated communication plans that connect social media, email, announcements, digital platforms, promotional assets, video, print, environmental communication, and other appropriate channels.
• Anticipate communication needs before they become urgent requests and help leaders think strategically about how and when information should be communicated.
• Bring strong personal creativity to the role by generating concepts, campaign ideas, messaging approaches, storytelling opportunities, promotional strategies, and fresh ways to communicate the vision and activity of Change Church.
• Partner with the Creative Producer on the development of creative concepts for sermon series, events, special productions, ministry moments, campaigns, and other experiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations, Creative Media, Journalism, English, or a related field preferred; equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience will be considered.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in creative communications, marketing, brand communications, content strategy, advertising, or a related field, with demonstrated experience owning projects or campaigns from concept through execution.
• Prior experience providing leadership, direction, or project oversight to creative professionals, contractors, freelancers, or cross-functional teams.
• Exceptional writing, editing, proofreading, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to develop compelling messaging and adapt voice and tone across audiences and platforms.
• Demonstrated creative ability with a portfolio or body of work reflecting strength in campaign development, writing, storytelling, content development, creative concepts, or brand communications.
• Strong understanding of integrated marketing and communications, including audience identification, messaging, channel strategy, promotional cadence, calls to action, and campaign execution.
• Demonstrated ability to translate broad vision, incomplete ideas, or leadership direction into clear communication strategies, creative briefs, project plans, and executable deliverables.
• Strong project management skills with experience managing multiple simultaneous projects, timelines, stakeholders, dependencies, approvals, and deadlines.
• Working knowledge of social media platforms, digital content strategy, email marketing, audience engagement, analytics, and current communication trends.
• Strong creative judgment with the ability to evaluate and provide direction on copy, graphic design, photography, video, digital content, and other creative work.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Paid holidays