Communications Coordinator

Role Summary

The Communications Coordinator ensures that Valor Christian High School's Christ-centered mission, vision, and values are communicated clearly and consistently across all platforms. Key responsibilities include maintaining and ensuring proper usage of the school's editorial style guide, creating and editing written content, and producing the Valor Weekly newsletter by curating campus news and student stories.

Responsibilities

• Possess and Model a Growing Relationship with Christ
• Skilfully edit and create written pieces that convey the vision, mission and value of the school in a consistent voice, tone and style
• Aids and supports the development of the school’s annual content strategy in conjunction with the schoolwide communications calendar, ensuring consistent implementation by all internal stakeholders across all platforms
• Serve and support the Head of School, Cabinet team and other leaders of the school to develop their overall communication plan and key messages in each of their areas
• Oversee the production of the Valor Weekly by cultivating and curating news from around the campus while striking the right balance between featured stories, general updates, and calendar events
• Provides initial editorial review for all newsletters, social media posts, and other communications distributed by the school, ensuring consistent adherence to Valor Christian’s Editorial Style Guide across all platforms
• Inspire and support the school’s website content, ensuring accurate, Christ-centered, compelling messaging in all areas of the school, and that stories and blogs are regularly shared across various platforms
• In collaboration with the Marketing Manager, steward the annual communications operating plan and ensure the appropriate financial resources are budgeted to support the various goals and objectives
• Manage regular and special projects from concept to completion, with attention to marketing goals, deliverables, promotional schedules, deadlines, stakeholder review, budgets, vendor production, and final delivery

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in communications or a relevant field
• 7+ years of experience in communications, marketing or related experience in a similar field
• Experience in the nonprofit and/or educational sector is preferred

Skills and Software

• Excellent relational skills in team management and collaboration
• Strong communication skills, oral and written
• Strong project management, time management, and organizational skills
• Quick, self-motivated, and ability to learn new software and systems
• Proficiency with Mac computers, Microsoft Office, Google Suite (Mail, Docs, Drive, Calendar), social media channels, website content management systems and customer data systems
• Preferably some familiarity with tools such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Basecamp 3, WordPress, Shopify, social media management tools such as Buffer or HootSuite, and advertising via Facebook, Instagram and Google AdWords