Marketing & Communications Director (HAF)

Marketing & Communications Director (HAF)

Posted on November 03, 2020

About Us

Humboldt Area Foundation (HAF) serves the residents of Humboldt, Trinity, Del Norte, and Curry counties by promoting and encouraging generosity, leadership, and inclusion to strengthen our communities. Through the generosity of local donors, HAF has awarded more than $80 million in grants and scholarships since 1972. HAF, along with its affiliate Wild Rivers Community Foundation, focuses its grantmaking and program efforts on strengthening community capacity and transforming our communities’ ability to solve problems and address the root causes of those problems.

If you are a dynamic and multitalented generalist Marketing and Communications Director, Humboldt Area Foundation, Wild Rivers Community Foundation, and affiliates need you! In this position, you will have purview over all aspects of the organizations’ marketing, communications, and brand identity efforts. You will join the team at a moment ripe for a fresh look at the organizations’ brand, along with their marketing and communications channels.

The Marketing and Communications Director will develop and oversee powerful, clear, and inspiring strategies to express and amplify the Foundation’s efforts, impact, and vision. Twin goals for this position are 1) to create and foster thought leadership on national, regional, and local issues that impact our region and the communities we serve, and 2) to drive opportunities for public engagement, event and conference participation, and audience building locally and nationally.

In this role, you will execute the marketing and communications strategy through multiple means including traditional media, graphic identity, social media, presentations and publications, storytelling, and more. Employing internal and external resources, as Marketing and Communications Director you will design persuasive and creative campaigns and materials that promote generosity and amplify giving.

Qualifications

You are a skilled collaborator and enjoy active participation with staff and board members, and proactively generate input and learning from the community. You are highly effective at annual planning, budgeting and resource management, and in the use of technology tools such as website design and analytics, CRM systems, and collaboration platforms. Crucially, you are dedicated to our organization’s racial equity commitments, and play a key role in helping the organization live into and communicate these core values.

A successful candidate is expected to have a Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations or related field. To be considered, candidates must have five years of progressively responsible work experience including planning, marketing, communications, public relations, and media, leading to the knowledge, skills, and abilities as described above. Finally, candidates must have experience supervising and mentoring staff and partners, as well as experience managing consultants, budgets, and contracts.

To Apply

Please email the following two (2) documents as well as your salary requirements in Word or PDF format to jobs@hafoundation.org :

• Resume

Humboldt Area Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and without regard to race, religion, creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local laws or ordinances. Applications submitted for this position do not constitute a promise of employment.