VP, Communications

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VP, Communications & Marketing

Ops-Marketing Full Time Silver Spring, MD, US

8 days ago Requisition ID: 1859

Salary Range: $145,000.00 To $170,000.00 Annually

VICE PRESIDENT, COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING

POSITIONPROSPECTUS

Vice President, Communications & Marketing

Overview

Easterseals offers a unique opportunity for a highly motivated and accomplished professional to join its team as Vice President of Communications & Marketing(VP). The ideal candidate will bea leader with exceptional strategy, communications, analysis, and listening skills.

For more than 100 years, Easterseals has been leading the world to full equity, inclusion, and access for all people through life-changing disability and community services. For children and adults with disabilities; for veterans and seniors; for children from low-income families; and for their families, caregivers, neighbors, and friends, Easterseals delivers support to enhance quality of life. We’re reducing poverty and homelessness, improving health care and employment, and empowering people of all ages and abilities to be full and equal participants in their communities.

Easterseals DC MD VA (ESDCMDVA) (www.eseal.org) is the affiliate serving Washington DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia. Our Mission is to make profound, positive differences in the daily lives of people of all ages with disabilities, special needs, military backgrounds and their families, and our Vision is to create a hopeful, inclusive community where all people realize their potential and live meaningful lives. We live these goals by providing education, healthcare, and employment services to thousands of children and adults in our area, helping them overcome barriers to well-being, regardless of race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, or any other group affiliation. More than half the individuals we serve each year are low- and moderate-income.

We deliver exceptional services through a network of 8 sites and in-home care, providing Adult Medical Day Care, Early Child Development and Education (including Head Start), Therapy, Respite, Behavioral Health Care and Workforce Development services where participants and their families find support, hope, medical care, and enjoyable activities. We are an independent 501(c)3 with a local Board of Directors focused on focused on creating a hopeful, inclusive community where all individuals realize their potential and live meaningful lives.

Our dedicated staff of approximately 225 professionals includes specialists in education, therapy, senior services, social work, assistive technology, nursing, and related professions. As part of the Easterseals international network, we draw on the resources of almost 25,000 professionals to stay at the cutting edge of service delivery.

Core Values

• Respect: We treat one another fairly. We value the uniqueness and dignity of each member of our community by honoring the choices our participants make and goals they set for themselves, as well as the ideas of our staff and volunteers. We appreciate our collective strength.
• Responsibility: We share an obligation to ensure that appropriate actions are taken to benefit the organization and its participants. We are good stewards of organizational resources and are accountable for our actions.
• Integrity: We conduct business ethically. We hold ourselves to a high moral standard and speak up when a correction is needed. We communicate openly, honestly, and directly.
• Innovation: We are willing to embrace new ideas, take measured risks, and find better ways to help more people.
• Care: We show compassion for others. We assume the best about everyone we encounter. We strive to live our mission each day.

OrganizationalLeadership and Governance

Board of Directors

ESDCMDVA’s Board has been recognized with the “Excellence in Board Leadership” Award by The Center for Nonprofit Advancement and the “Best Board in the World” Award from Easterseals, Inc. The Board, particularly the Marketing Committee, will partner closely with the VP to advance ESDCMDVA’s marketing and communications – they are actively supportive of our Strategic Planand the related Marketing Plan.

To learn more about the Board of Directors click here .

Jon Horowitch, President & CEO