Senior Director of Marketing and Communications

USA (Hybrid)

$120K/yr – $135K/yrSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive Cradles to Crayons\' mission by leading marketing, brand strategy, and executive communications across channels, aligning fundraising campaigns, stakeholder engagement, and growth initiatives.

  • Own marketing functions (digital, content, website, email, collateral, advertising) and brand placement.
  • Must-have: 15+ years in marketing across nonprofit, corporate, or agency settings.
  • Standout: Leadership of a 5-person team with budgeting and cross-functional partnerships.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute comprehensive marketing plans that advance Cradles to Crayons' goals in mission delivery, vision fulfillment, thought leadership, and growth.
  • Oversee marketing functions including interactive media marketing, digital content, website, email marketing, collateral, and advertising.
  • Lead strategic brand placement, strategic partnerships, national sponsorship campaign support, and national fundraising support.
  • Collaborate with the VP of Philanthropy to create an annual calendar of communications with financial stakeholders across the organization, including a synchronized end-of-calendar-year campaign, event communications, and other cross-market initiatives.
  • Conduct market research and trend analysis to inform strategy.
  • Measure, track, analyzing and communicating marketing results to inform effective decision-making.
  • Ensure brand identity, messaging, and marketing strategy are infused appropriately in organizational efforts.
  • Develop and manage an annual executive communications calendar, coordinating stakeholder engagement and content across multiple channels.
  • Draft and edit all-staff communications, ensuring coordination between internal and external messaging.
  • Develop crisis communications frameworks and messaging during major organizational change.
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CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC

Cradles to Crayons provides children from birth through age 12, living in homeless or low-income situations, with the essential items they need to thrive—at home, at school and at play. We supply these items free of charge by engaging and connecting communities that have with communities that need.

Founded in 2002
Newtonville, Massachusetts, USA
288 employees (7 in marketing)