Vice President of Field Marketing and Communications

Berwyn, IL (Remote)

$180K/yr – $210K/yrDirector/Executive15+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own cross-organization field marketing alignment and drive collaboration across chapters to scale volunteer-driven community marketing.

  • Strategic Field Ownership: Align field and home office goals, lead territory marketing meetings, and hold field leadership accountable for targets.
  • Data-Driven Execution: Analyze enterprise-wide data to shape field plans and crisis communications as needed.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Regular interface with senior leadership for strategic planning and management of field goals and needs
  • Partners with all internal leaders and strategic marketing and communications experts to support mission delivery in communities
  • Drives communication and connectivity between home office and field leadership and marketing and communications staff
  • Analyze enterprise-wide data to inform strategic recommendations for field execution
  • Lead and manage territory marketing meetings comprised of field and home office marketing/communications staff
  • Identifies and implements opportunities for chapter marketing growth and capacity building
  • Identifies and implement opportunities for strategic marketing collaboration and partnerships across chapters and with home office marketing and communications teams
  • Working with field marketing leaders to create plans that enable field staff and volunteers to maximize community marketing through effective volunteer recruitment and engagement and developing onboarding programs for both staff and volunteers.
  • Drives the strategy and execution of a volunteer field marketing and communications model
  • Provides input in messaging, toolkits and leads trainings in support of nationwide field marketing and communications activities

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing or a related field
  • 15+ years of combined, progressive experience leading marketing / communications efforts at both the local and national level, including: leading advertising campaigns
  • implementing social marketing promotions
  • developing relationships with reporters and editors
  • consumer marketing implementation
  • project management
  • strategic planning
  • Excellent creative problem solving, communications, presentation and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to lead and motivate, especially with staff in matrix reporting relationships and influence without direct authority
  • High degree of computer literacy
  • Ability and willingness to travel up to 20%, including some overnight travel

Preferred

  • strong background in marketing, earned media, paid media and consumer campaign development at both the local and national levels
  • strong background in volunteer marketing and communications recruitment and development

Benefits

  • Employees working 24 hours/week or more are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, flex accounts, short and long-term disability, life insurance, long term care insurance, tuition reimbursement, generous Paid Time Off, 12 annual holidays and Paid Family Leave, as well as an annual Cultural & Heritage Day and Volunteer Day of their choosing. They are also eligible for our gold standard 401(k) retirement plan.
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