What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Communications Specialist - Philanthropy position at Scouting America?
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Communications Specialist to join our dynamic Office of Development team. You will have the opportunity to work across the Scouting America organization, partnering with stakeholders to create work that inspires prospective donors to support Scouting, encourage ongoing support from existing donors and Scouting alumni, and to ensure brand and message consistency. Ultimately, playing a vital role in revitalizing the iconic Scouting program and ensuring its future success as a cornerstone of American youth development.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is dedicated to advancing the organization’s goals through effective communication. Translating insights and trends into engaging communications and developing fundraising materials, you will play a pivotal role in helping drive consistent philanthropic communications in many forms of media. The Senior Communications Specialist role also involves taking on a “team lead” position to oversee and participate in the creation of creative assets, collaborating with and mentoring philanthropic engagement team peers, collaborating with the national marketing team, and guiding the initiation of process improvements. This position reports to the Manager of Philanthropic Engagement.
Responsibilities
- Serves as a senior creative member of the philanthropic engagement team, ensuring the future of an iconic American brand.
- Works closely with the team manager and peers in development services, fundraisers, writers, and partners in related departments, including marketing, publications, web, social, alumni, and more.
- Translates customer insights data and current trends into compelling work that engages audiences, builds trust, and drives them to support Scouting.
- Takes a leading role in ideation and creates/designs assets for philanthropic engagement and stewardship campaigns.
- Innovates donor and prospective donor communications by crafting design visuals for creative efforts such as proposals and proposal layouts/templates, case statements, philanthropic initiatives, and event marketing support.
- Works closely with key stakeholders to establish/adapt/expand Scouting America Foundation brand guidelines and create fundraising toolkits, templates, etc., in support of fundraising initiatives.
- Assists with the creation of a versatile library of photo and video assets for philanthropic engagement and stewardship in cooperation with the development services, Scouting America multi-media, and marketing teams.
- Partners with marketing channel leaders to implement strategic, fundraising-related visibility enhancements that both engage and perform.
- Spots departmental needs and takes initiative to assist in the creation of new processes that enhance the way we work, as well as the work itself.
- Leverages a proactive, detail-oriented mindset to gather information, integrate feedback, and keep work moving from first draft to final approval.
- Leads the effort to solicit bids, qualifications, and selection of production including printers.
- Guides the creativity of outside production partners to be on-brand, conceptually interesting, and executed at the highest levels.
- Serves as an ambassador for the National Office of Development, establishing relationships that further fundraising initiatives for Scouting.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
