Responsibilities

• Serve as an influential creative leader, inspiring clients and agency teams with strategies, ideas, and recommendations that produce effective fundraising solutions.
• Work on large, integrated clients to ensure that all elements of a campaign work together to maximize fundraising goals.
• Be a working, “hands-on” creative director who ideates and develops concepts and designs.
• Interpret and translate input from clients, strategists, and other stakeholders into effective concepts and creative campaign executions.
• Provide clear and concise creative direction to the team throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring all work aligns and maps back to goals.
• Conceptualize and develop innovative, best-in-class creative solutions across clients.
• Combine brand and fundraising best practices to produce results-oriented creative targeted to each audience.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of cultural, digital marketing, and business trends, including the use of AI; as well as implementing innovative approaches to enhance campaign effectiveness.
• Participate in the conceptual and tactical development of campaigns, contributing to tone, voice, and positioning.
• Assist in the development of new business pitch materials; present concepts and strategies to clients and potential clients.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Advertising, English, Journalism, Creative Writing, Fine Arts, Visual Communications, Graphic Design, or related field preferred; equivalent experience considered.
• 10+ years’ experience in developing creative for direct response fundraising for nonprofits preferred (agency or in-house).
• 5+ years’ experience working on accounts for national brands preferred (for-profit, nonprofit, or both).
• Proven success supervising and developing creative staff.
• Client-facing experience required.
• Portfolio of innovative concepts with results.
• Familiarity with project management platforms: Workfront, Basecamp, Asana, a plus.
• Strong ability to translate complex concepts into clear, concise, compelling content, including design, tone, voice, and positioning.
• Deep knowledge of offer-focused, insight-driven direct response and design principles.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication and presentation skills.

Benefits

• Join the largest marketing and fundraising company in North America serving the nonprofit industry where we prioritize innovation and professional growth.
• Collaborate with industry subject matter experts with over 5,000 employees across the enterprise.
• To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including comprehensive healthcare, paid holidays and generous paid time off so you can have the time and space to recharge and pursue your other passions and be with the people you care about.