ABOUT US
The Alaska Community Foundation (the Foundation) is a nonprofit, public foundation with a mission of inspiring the spirit of giving and connecting people, organizations, and causes to strengthen Alaska’s communities now and forever. To learn more please visit our website: alaskacf.org.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Director of Communications and Marketing plays a pivotal role in shaping and executing the communication and marketing strategies of The Alaska Community Foundation that effectively convey the Foundation’s mission, values, and impact to various stakeholders. The position plays a critical role in building and maintaining positive relationships with fundholders, donors, community partners including grantees, and the wider public. This position is cross-functional working closely with all departments to understand the complexities of the organization and use that knowledge to direct communication and marketing strategies that educate, inspire, and motivate. The successful incumbent will have experience creating and implementing strategic communications plans.
YOUR IMPACT
- Lead Strategic Communications and Marketing Planning
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- Develop, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive communications and marketing strategy aligned with the Foundations’ mission, goals, and objectives
- Collaborate with the Executive Leadership Team and fellow Directors to integrate communications and marketing efforts into overall organization strategy
- Manage the Foundation’s Brand
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- Safeguard and enhance the organization’s brand identity, ensuring consistency across all materials and platforms
- Oversee development and maintenance of brand guidelines including training for Foundation staff members
- Create Content
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- Oversee the generation of high-quality, engaging content for various channels including website, social media, newsletters/blogs, press releases, and marketing materials
- Collaborate with internal teams to gather content related to Foundation activities, grants, scholarships, and impact stories
- Build and Maintain Media Relations
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- Cultivate and maintain relationships with media outlets, journalists, and influencers
- Serve as spokesperson for the organization when necessary, managing media inquiries, and interviews
- Manage Digital Presence
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- Manage the Foundation’s websites ensuring it reflects current initiatives, programs, grants, scholarships, and impact stories and is easy for stakeholders to navigate
- Ensure the Foundation’s online enterprise platform is appropriately branded and linked to the Foundation’s website including creating and maintaining fund pages
- Oversee digital marketing campaigns, including social media management and email marketing
- Engage Communities
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- Collaborate with department teams to promote events, initiatives, grant, and scholarship opportunities
- Support Affiliate community foundations and other fundholders as a communications and marketing strategy consultant
- Provide marketing support to BP Energy Center team
- Manage a Direct Report
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- Manage the Communications and Design Specialist providing leadership, guidance, coaching and support
- Foster a collaborative and creative work environment
- Manage a Budget
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- Develop and manage the communications and marketing budget, ensuring resources are allocated efficiently and effectively
WHAT YOU BRING
- Your proven results in creating and implementing strategic communications
- Your positive attitude and ability to be adaptable and
- Your strong skills in content creation
- Your excellent oral and written communication and editing skills
- Your ability to collaborate with diverse populations and interact with a wide variety of people
- Your ability to effectively and efficiently handle multiple, simultaneous, and complex tasks and projects in a fast-paced environment
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
The ideal candidate has a combination of:
- A minimum of five (5) years of experience in communications/marketing, with a track record of strategic planning and execution
- High proficiency in creative design software including Adobe Design Suite (Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop), Canva, Greenvelope
- Experience with web content management systems including WordPress, WP Engine, Squarespace, GoDaddy
- Knowledge of eMarketing platforms including MailChimp and Survey Monkey and social media content development and reporting platforms including Hootsuite, Meta, and LinkedIn
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams) and databases
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
- Knowledge of and commitment to Alaska and its
- Demonstrated interest in the nonprofit and/or philanthropic sector(s).
- Experience with back-end development of websites including knowledge of HTML, JAVA, or CSS
WHAT WE OFFER
Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience and expertise with an annual salary of $72,000 – $108,000. Benefits include, but are not limited to health, vision, dental and a retirement plan with employer participation after one year of service.
APPLICATION PROCESS
If you are comfortable with the compensation range, meet the position qualifications and are ready to bring your knowledge, skills, and abilities to our team, please apply for the Director of Communications and Marketing position. This position is open until filled. Screening interviews will begin the week of November 13.
The Alaska Community Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes a diverse pool of applicants.
WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
The work environment and physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.