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Note: Applications for this position will close on Friday, November 7, 2025, at 5 pm ET.

The Chief, Marketing and Strategic Communications (CMSC) serves as the League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS) Chief Marketing and Communications Officer and is a member of the Executive Team reporting directly to the CEO. The CMSC plays a pivotal role in shaping the public voice and philanthropic strength of the League of Women Voters, a century-strong movement advancing democracy, equity, and civic engagement. In this role, the CMSC is responsible for devising and implementing a bold, integrated strategy for communications, development, marketing, and events across LWVUS (501(c)(4)) and its sister organization, the League of Women Voters Education Fund (501(c)(3)). This position works closely with the CEO and Board to grow the League’s influence, expand its organizational footprint, and deepen its impact.

A visionary and potentially public-facing senior leader and veteran communications and marketing professional, the CMSC leads a multifaceted team focused on raising the League’s visibility, building trust and influence, and generating the financial resources necessary to advance the organization’s mission. The CMSC oversees the Communications (including Events and Marketing) and Development departments, ensuring alignment in messaging, brand positioning, narrative strategy, donor engagement, and marketing execution.

The CMSC serves as the primary architect of the League’s messaging voice, public image, and brand identity, and ensures a unified, values-driven presence across all channels, campaigns, and revenue-generating efforts. This includes leading strategic marketing initiatives, overseeing multi-channel campaigns, and ensuring brand consistency across digital, print, and event platforms. The CMSC directly supervises two senior leaders: the National Development Director and the Senior Director of Communications. The CMSC also supervises the Director of Events to align the organization's brand and messaging across major League-led events.

This position requires excellent leadership, management, interpersonal, and organizational skills, and a deep understanding of strategic communications, marketing, fundraising, and movement-building. The CMSC must bring vision, a marketing mindset, and a collaborative working style to ensure the League leads with purpose, inspires public action, and remains financially and reputationally strong for the long term.

This is a hybrid position that requires frequent attendance at events in the DC area and regular visits to the DC Headquarters, at least twice a week.

The salary for this position $200,000 annually.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategic Integration & Organizational Leadership

• Leads an integrated Communications, Events & Marketing, and Development team, each of which is a core driver of organizational impact, visibility, and sustainability through a unified messaging and marketing strategy.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive, cross-channel communications and fundraising strategy that strengthens the League’s brand, increases audience engagement, supports financial growth with compelling campaigns that increase donor support, expands media reach, and inspires civic action.
• Collaborate with the CEO and Board to align messaging, marketing, and advancement efforts with strategic goals and long-term organizational priorities.
• Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing team, set clear goals, foster cross-functional collaboration, and evaluate outcomes in line with organizational priorities.

Communications, Marketing & Public Engagement

• Oversee the League’s narrative, messaging, and brand identity across earned, paid, and digital media to ensure alignment with strategic goals and a consistent, values-driven voice.
• Lead integrated marketing and communications strategies—spanning digital, print, social, and events—to expand reach, mobilize the public, and drive measurable engagement.
• Serve as a senior spokesperson and manage high-profile media opportunities to elevate the League’s visibility and influence on the national stage.
• Supervise communications leadership to execute cohesive digital and marketing strategies, internal messaging, and high-impact public events that advance organizational priorities and unity.

Advancement & Resource Development

• Supervise and partner with the National Development Director to lead a unified story-driven fundraising strategy that integrates major gifts, grassroots giving, foundational support, and rapid response campaigns.
• Collaborate with the CEO and Board to cultivate and steward donor relationships through compelling narratives, data-informed storytelling, and brand-aligned appeals that strengthen the League’s long-term financial stability and impact.

Culture, Equity, and Team Development

• Ensure all communications, marketing, and advancement efforts reflect the League’s unwavering commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
• Promote a positive, inclusive, and collaborative team culture that supports innovation, accountability, and professional growth.
• Align team structures and workflows to support strategic priorities and foster a healthy, high-trust work environment.

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS:

· Bachelor’s degree in public relations, marketing, communications, or a related field.

· Master’s degree in communications, Marketing, Public Affairs, or Nonprofit Management is a plus.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

Strategic Thinking & Leadership

• A minimum of fifteen (15) years of experience in communications, marketing, or a closely related field with media relations, earned media, social media, and content development experience.
• At least five (5) years in a senior management role.
• Demonstrated leadership in creating and implementing innovative and cutting-edge communications, marketing, events, and development plans.
• Excellent political strategic judgment and ability to assess opportunities related to organizational priorities and apply communications and marketing strategies and tactics to advance goals.

Marketing & Brand Management Expertise

• Proven experience in brand management, including developing and maintaining a consistent brand identity across platforms and audiences.
• Expertise in designing and executing multi-channel marketing campaigns that drive engagement, visibility, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of current digital landscape and emerging marketing and communications platforms and trends, including social media, digital advertising, and audience segmentation.
• Ability to leverage marketing analytics and performance data to inform strategy and optimize campaign effectiveness.

Communication & Engagement

• Excellent communication skills; compelling writing, editing, and oral presentation across multiple platforms and audiences; flexibility and rapid response to quickly digest and draft timely content.
• A deep understanding of message strategy, DEI, and applying best practices to reach different audiences to achieve organizational goals, including internal and external media as well as funders, investors, and marginalized communities.

Collaboration & Team Building

• Skilled project manager who builds relationships, collaborating across departments to reach broader organizational goals.
• Strong leadership and management skills. Ability to build and lead a diverse, high-performing team and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to set and implement shared goals and visions.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment and make strategic decisions in complex, fast-changing environments; remain adaptable, solutions-oriented, and focused on advancing organizational priorities amid ambiguity and competing demands.

Operational & Financial Acumen

• Experience in setting and managing budgets and vendors.
• Ability to use data and performance metrics to inform strategy, measure impact, and drive continuous improvement.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The person in this position is primarily sedentary and needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access office machinery. The person must also be available to travel to offices and events. Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, computer, and computer printer.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is generally indoors and rarely exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate-to-low.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The League of Women Voters of the United States is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace based on equal opportunity. The League is committed to hiring staff that reflects this country's full range of racial, ethnic, cultural, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic identity; a workplace where true diversity is fostered, and different perspectives are valued and freely exchanged. We encourage women, minorities, and individuals from traditionally underrepresented communities to apply.

This job description will be reviewed periodically as duties and responsibilities change with business necessity. Essential and marginal job functions are subject to modification. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.