Director of Marketing

Charlottesville, VA (On-site)

$105K/yr – $118K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and execute marketing strategies aligned to Monticello’s mission across brand management, audience development, digital strategy, and cross‑department collaboration, while managing budget, creative oversight, and website planning.

  • Brand stewardship and messaging across channels
  • Drive visitation, memberships, and revenue through integrated digital campaigns

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support and create awareness of Monticello’s mission, vision, and values through owned, paid, and social media. Manage the creation of digital and social content in support of revenue and guest experience goals related to historic site tourism, retail sales, museum exhibitions, public programs, special events, and educational programs for classrooms and family learning.
  • Brand Management Serve as steward of the Monticello brand across all public channels. Develop and enforce brand standards and messaging to ensure consistency across the Foundation. Manage marketing vendor relationships.
  • Audience Development Develop marketing strategies to grow visitation, Memberships, donor awareness, retail customers, digital audiences, and email subscribers.
  • Digital Strategy Lead website strategy including ongoing improvement of user experience. Represent the brand across digital tactics for optimization and content discoverability strategies, email marketing, digital marketing analytics and the customer journey. Develop strategic digital media campaigns for paid media, creative development and agency assisted media buying.
  • Collaboration Partner and work closely with a multitude of departments throughout the Foundation.
  • Planning and Budget Prepare and oversee the annual marketing budget. Monitor and approve expenditures.
  • Creative Oversight Direct and manage creative and visual work flow for website, advertising, events, institutional collateral and signage including graphics, photography and videography.
  • Website Supervise marketing related content and creation and upkeep of an annual marketing plan and calendar to guide content creation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, public relations, advertising, or liberal arts required.
  • Master’s degree in marketing or public relations a plus.
  • Minimum of seven (7) years' experience in marketing and four (4) years' experience managing staff.
  • Demonstrated strategic marketing leadership. Proven track record of efficient, calendar-driven project management with knowledge of project management best practices and tools.
  • Ability to manage an array of strategic and tactical marketing projects with multiple internal and external partners.
  • Experience managing six figure marketing budget; working with project management tools (Asana) and balancing mission with revenue goals.
  • Excellent organizational skills and project prioritization.
  • Strong understanding of consumer behavior. Experience with Google Analytics and digital dashboards.
  • Proven experience leading organization-wide social media strategy.
  • Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.

Benefits

  • Excellent benefits package (including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) retirement savings plan plus 6% match, life insurance, and more!).
  • Fitness club membership discount.
  • Discount in the Monticello Cafe, gift shop, and Monticello online catalog.
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - free for employee and dependents.
  • $500 employee referral bonus.
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Thomas Jefferson Foundation

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation (formerly the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation) owns and operates Monticello, the mountaintop home of Thomas Jefferson and the only home in America on the elite World Heritage List of the United Nations.Incorporated in 1923, after the federal government waived its third opportunity to acquire Monticello for the nation, the Foundation purchased the house and land from the Levy family, stewards of the estate for 89 years. As a private, nonprofit organization, the Foundation receives no regular federal or state budget support for its twofold mission of preservation and education.Since 1923, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation has steadily expanded its role as a museum and educational institution. Its facilities now include the house and gardens on nearly 2,000 of Jefferson's original 5,000 acres; the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies next door at Kenwood, a headquarters for Jeffersonian research and teaching and home to the Jefferson Library; and the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants, which propagates heirloom varieties and makes them available to institutions and individuals. The David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center and Smith Education Center hosts state-of-the art exhibits for visitors of all ages. It serves as the gateway to Jefferson’s timeless Monticello, preparing guests for their trips to the historic mountaintop through dynamic content presenting fresh perspectives on Monticello and the enduring significance of Jefferson’s life and ideas.About a half a million people visit Monticello each year.

Founded in 1923
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
246 employees (31 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
289.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$16.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
55.4%
Direct
35.8%
Referral
6%
Social
2.2%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~246

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
15 (6% of company)
Median Tenure
18 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

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