Communications Director

2 weeks ago


Washington, United States Brightmode Full time

**Company**: Community-based non-profit
**Title**:Communications Director — Confidential Position
**Position type**:Full-time
**Location**:Washington, D.C. metro area (District of Columbia, Maryland, or Virginia) on a hybrid basis. The staff is in-office 3 days per week. Some weekend work and travel may be required
**Salary**: $120,000-$150,000, commensurate with experience.

**ABOUT THIS ROLE**

This is an opportunity for someone with deep communications experience to continue to build a growing team of communicators and lead communications for a values-driven organization that is a pillar of its local community and serves thousands nationally. This person will work hand-in-hand with the organization's top leadership and will lead, create, manage and scale key communications initiatives and priorities.

**ACCOUNTABILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS**
- Oversee all internal and external communication:

- Build and maintain relationships with various stakeholders at all levels (i.e., members, elected officials, local government officials and the community) in order to drive the overall awareness of the organization
- Collaborate with leadership to identify, understand, and engage key audiences and potential partners of the organization to develop and implement strategic communications plans
- Create systems and processes to improve efficiency
- Serve as the point of contact for all media:

- Develop and manage public initiatives for major projects (i.e., building expansion, property acquisition, and issues related to community relations, parking, noise levels and events)
- Editorial strategic planning:

- Ensure consistent and relevant messaging and positioning across all external and internal communications
- Oversee the strategic planning of social content across platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others
- Work across multiple channels to represent and convey the organization's message through print, web, and multimedia in the organization's style guide
- Review all publications, including weekly e-blasts to members and other materials

**Essential skills**:

- 5-7 years of communications experience—PR agency, non-profit, advocacy, government, think tank or a corporate public relations office
- Previous experience working with nonprofit organizations preferred
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited school
- Proven track record of media relations experience
- Strong and proactive organizational, problem-solving and time-management abilities
- Ability to create and execute a successful content communication strategy
- Background knowledge with digital platforms, such as: Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Experience writing press releases, annual reports, articles, advertisements and speeches
- Ability to confidently communicate clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing, with varying levels of staff, clients, the media and is comfortable thinking on their feet
- Ability to condense complex information from various sources into concise and user-friendly formats
- Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to lead a team and a personal commitment to effective management
- Experience managing multiple priorities, developing processes and systems and utilizing a metrics-based approach to marketing communications
- Familiarity with fundraising (i.e., creating communication materials for capital campaigns)

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**About Brightmode Talent**

This search is supported by Brightmode. Brightmode is part of Orchestra, the first communications company built for today's media landscape. Since early 2022, it has grown into a network of eight strategic communications and marketing agencies including BerlinRosen, Derris, Glen Echo Group, Inkhouse, M18, Message Lab, Onward and Brightmode.



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