Director of Communications

Silver Spring, MD (Unknown)

$100K/yr – $110K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years exp

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Lead Manna’s communications across enterprise strategy, brand management, media, government affairs, and executive messaging, partnering with teams to tell stories of impact while advancing advocacy and organizational alignment.

Own development and execution of the enterprise communications strategy
Oversee media relations, digital channels, and executive communications
Drive internal engagement and external storytelling aligned with mission

Job Description

Responsibilities

Enterprise Communications Leadership: Develop and implement Manna's enterprise communications strategy aligned with the strategic plan.
Collaborate across the organization to ensure internal and external messaging is coordinated, consistent, timely, and aligned with Manna’s mission and strategic priorities, while telling compelling stories of participants, volunteers, donors, employees, and Manna’s broader community impact.
Partner with departments on campaigns, stewardship, annual reports, grants, and major gifts communications.
Develop communications standards, editorial calendars, messaging frameworks, and measurement dashboards.
Executive Communications & Thought Leadership: Prepare CEO speeches as needed, testimony, board communications, presentations, op-eds, and executive messaging.
Position executive leadership as trusted voices on hunger, food security, nonprofit leadership, and public policy.
Coordinate speaking engagements, conferences, podcasts, and media interviews.
Organizational Communications: Strengthen interdepartmental communication and organizational alignment.
Lead change management communications and executive updates.
Support employee engagement and culture through strategic internal communications.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Communications, Marketing, Journalism, Public Relations, or related field.
7+ years of progressively responsible communications leadership.
Exceptional writing and presentation skills.
Experience with nonprofit communications, advocacy, media relations, executive communications, and digital strategy preferred.

Preferred

Experience using analytics and AI-enabled communications tools preferred.

Manna Food Center

4.1 Glassdoor

Our community can be a place where all people, at all times, have access to good food in welcoming spaces. Through food rescue, collection and distribution, education, and advocacy we work with our community to reach approximately 35,000 hungry people each year--about half of those experiencing food insecurity in Montgomery County, MD. An active participant in the MoCo Food Council and coordinator of the Community Food Rescue network, we embrace cooperation and collaboration in efforts. In addition to sharing food with approximately 3,600 families each month, Manna's innovative Smart Sacks program pairs community partners with elementary schools. The partnerships provide a bag of family-friendly food to 2,800 elementary school children each Friday during the school year at almost 60 elementary schools. Our work would not be possible without the contributions of volunteers, donors, peer agencies, and devoted staff. The service of our two dozen staff is supplemented by the equivalent of 35 full time volunteers, donating thousands of hours in a variety of activities. We seek food, funds, and friends to achieve our vision of a community where everyone is well fed and able to contribute.

Founded in 1983

Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA

85 employees (4 in marketing)

mannafood.org

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