Responsibilities

• Lead and steward the Foundation’s enterprise narrative, brand, and voice, ensuring clarity, consistency, and cohesion across all programs, platforms, and the diverse audiences that make up West Orange County.
• Translate data, lived experience, and learning into actionable insight and compelling stories that inform strategy, exploration, decision-making, and opportunities for scale.
• Design and execute integrated marketing and communications strategies that drive measurable growth in awareness, engagement, and participation in Foundation initiatives.
• Lead creative strategy and content development across digital, print, video, and experiential channels - ensuring high-quality, audience-centered storytelling that advances strategic priorities.
• Drive social media performance and digital engagement, expanding reach, strengthening community connection, and converting awareness into action and adoption.
• Lead performance measurement across marketing and communications - using data to increase awareness, drive participation, expand utilization of programs, and clearly connect communications efforts to community health impact.
• Oversee internal and external communications to ensure organizational alignment, message discipline, and momentum across teams and partners.
• Oversee and optimize external agency and vendor partnerships - driving quality, efficiency, and measurable contribution to marketing and mission outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• Experience may include leadership roles in communications, marketing, brand, storytelling, or insight-driven work within foundations, nonprofits, public-sector organizations, media, or other mission-driven enterprises.
• Enterprise brand and strategic communications leadership
• Narrative strategy and mission-centered storytelling
• Integrated marketing strategy and audience engagement planning
• Media strategy and reputation management
• Data-driven decision-making, insight synthesis, and performance measurement
• Digital strategy and multi-channel campaign leadership
• Agency, vendor, and partner performance management
• People Leadership & Development: Builds trust, develops others, and creates clarity so teams can do their best work.
• Cross-Functional & Systems Leadership: Works effectively across functions and partners, understanding how work connects to broader outcomes.

Preferred

• Advanced study or training in communications, journalism, marketing, public health, public affairs, or related fields is a plus but not required.
• Experience drawing from real work, research, and community voice to shape strategy, guide decision-making, and communicate impact in clear, compelling ways.