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 design, cultural, digital marketing, and business trends, 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.
• A commitment to quality, sound judgement, and strong interpersonal skills.
• Proven record of building strong client relationships.
• Experience working with established brand guidelines.
• Extreme attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting critical deadlines.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional time management, critical thinking, and communication skills.
• Passionate about changing the work, curious, collaborative, and bold thinker.
• High-level proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud: XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat.
• Proficiency in MS Word and PowerPoint, intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Office suite.
• Ability to animate through timeline-based techniques or HTML5 coding preferred. Mac proficient

Preferred

• Experience with multi-channel fundraising campaigns across nonprofits.
• Strong sense for applying brand guidelines to fundraising creative.
• Familiarity with fundraising compliance and approval processes.

Benefits

• comprehensive healthcare
• paid holidays
• generous paid time off