Marketing Communications Lead

Responsibilities

• Lead Strategic Communications: Develop and implement marketing and communications plans that advance diocesan priorities and support evangelization, stewardship, fundraising, vocations, and ministry initiatives.
• Tell Compelling Stories: Create engaging content, including feature stories, press releases, newsletters, speeches, executive communications, donor materials, and digital content.
• Drive Digital Engagement: Help share website content, email marketing, social media strategy, and digital audience engagement.
• Build the Diocese’s Brand : Maintain consistent messaging, visual identity, and brand standards across communication platforms.
• Strengthen Media Relations: Coordinate media outreach, respond to inquiries, support public relations, and assist with crisis communications.
• Bring Ideas to Life: Collaborate on photography, video, livestreaming, graphic design, multimedia storytelling, and integrated marketing campaigns.
• Use Data and Innovation: Evaluate campaign performance metrics against goals and benchmarks, analyze audience engagement, and explore emerging technologies and AI-assisted tools to improve communication effectiveness responsibly.
• Build Meaningful Partnerships: Work closely with diocesan departments, parishes, schools, ministries, vendors, and creative partners to deliver high-quality communications.
• Lead Projects with Purpose: Coordinate multiple initiatives, manage deadlines, adapt to changing priorities, and help ensure projects meet established goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, Journalism, Digital Media, or related field required.
• Five to eight years of progressively responsible communications, marketing, public relations, journalism, or digital engagement.
• Exceptional writing, editing, proofreading, storytelling, and verbal communication skills.
• Experience developing and executing strategic communications plans, marketing campaigns, and digital engagement initiatives.
• Experience with Microsoft 365, content management systems, email marketing platforms, Google Analytics, Canva and/or Adobe Creative Cloud.
• Working knowledge of photography, video production, livestreaming, and visual content development.
• Strong project management, organizational, problem-solving, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience collaborating with diverse stakeholders and coordinating creative projects or external partners.
• Spanish-language proficiency preferred.
• Experience in a Catholic, non-profit, educational, healthcare, or other mission-driven organization is highly desirable.

Preferred

• The Skills That Will Set You Apart
• - Communication: You communicate clearly, listen actively, and know how to tailor messages to different audiences and platforms.
• - Critical Thinking: You evaluate challenges, anticipate risks, interpret information, and develop thoughtful, effective solutions.
• - Creativity: You bring fresh perspectives, write compelling stories, and identify innovative ways to connect with key diocesan audiences.
• - Adaptability: You respond effectively to changing priorities, emerging technologies, evolving communication needs.
• - Collaboration: You will work as part of a team to build strong working relationships, value diverse perspectives, welcome feedback, and work toward shared goals.
• - Leadership and Accountability: You take initiative, exercise sound judgment, manage projects responsibly, and follow through on commitments.

Benefits

• Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, Basic Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Pension, 403(b), PTO, and select holidays