What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Advancement and Strategic Communications position at The Chestnut Hill School?
Job Description
Job Description
The Chestnut Hill School in Chestnut Hill, MA, has engaged DovetailED to lead the search for a Director of Advancement and Strategic Communications beginning February 2025. Interested candidates should review the opportunity statement and submit a cover letter, resume, and list of references as a consolidated PDF to Lynda Hamilton-Kirk, Managing Partner at DovetailED Talent Sourcing, at lynda@dovetailedsourcing.com.
Institutional Background
The Chestnut Hill School, founded in 1860 and located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, is an independent, all-gender school for children ages 3 through grade 6. At the Chestnut Hill School, we believe childhood optimism and enduring curiosity can transform the world. Here, students find meaning and joy in a diverse community that encourages all to question, take risks, and think critically. The Chestnut Hill School offers a rigorous math and literacy program along with special subjects ranging from art and music to science, technology, and Spanish. An extended day program allows students to enjoy extracurricular activities such as karate, robotics, chess, and athletics in the same nurturing environment.
Position Summary
The Director of Advancement reports to the Head of School and is an integral member of the senior administrative team. The Director of Advancement will provide leadership, vision, and strategy for all philanthropy and engagement at CHS, including fundraising, alumni relations, marketing, communications, and board of trustees relations. This position requires a seasoned professional who can successfully engage with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders in our community.
The Director is responsible for establishing and implementing both short—and long-term marketing and development strategies while supervising and leading the School’s Advancement Team, which works collaboratively under the director's direction. This position will dedicate approximately 60% of its time to marketing and communications and 40% to development activities.
The start date for this position is January, 2025.
Essential Responsibilities
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
- Strategic development, administration, and implementation of the school’s marketing efforts to meet enrollment goals
- Ensure consistency of the CHS visual identity, branding, and messaging
- Oversee all marketing collateral (email newsletters, social media, invitations, video, school signage, etc.) and manage deployment across a variety of platforms within an annual budget
- Create and oversee a communications and social media strategy to engage current, former, and prospective families, alumni, and grandparents.
- Oversee the CHS website and updates of new content, written and graphic
- Coordinate content collection and production of annual publications such as “Hill Happenings” magazine and the giving report.
- Oversee tracking mechanisms to evaluate the results of communications initiatives.
- Demonstrate and maintain an understanding of best practices and emerging trends in the field, especially regarding integrated thoughtful communication across multiple platforms.
- Coordinate and oversee the work of marketing consultants or vendors as needed.
- Identify and promote public relations opportunities
- Ensure databases for communications (email, newsletter, etc.) are maintained
- Manage emergency and crisis communications.
- Supervise Marketing and Communications staff
DEVELOPMENT
Position Requirements :
The Chestnut Hill School Offers :
Qualified applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
The Chestnut Hill School is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, sex, disabilities, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression or family composition or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its employment, education, admission, financial aid, and other policies and programs.
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