National Director, Development Communications

Position Summary

Responsible for the formation and implementation of the Development department’s national communication strategies that reflect National Jewish Health’s strategic plans, institutional priorities, audience affinities and for brand identities through the constituency base throughout the United States. Responsible for enhancing the Development department’s visibility and reputation throughout the country by utilizing all media channels.

Essential Duties

• Manages and develops an effective staff: providing effective communication, leadership, guidance and resources.
• Determines staff qualifications and competency: recruits, interviews, selects, hires, trains, orients, mentors, evaluates, coaches, counsels, disciplines, and rewards.
• Establishes and monitors staff safety and regulatory compliance.
• Create strategic communication objectives focused on goals of major gifts, campaign, events, annual fund and planned giving areas and work with teams to develop plans to implement programs that support these goals.
• Functions hand-on for implementation of programs and provides evaluation, including changing course as needed.
• Development of all collateral support for the strategic initiatives of the Development program.
• Serves as the Development Department’s national brand leader, ensuring that the Development department’s communications are in line with institutional brand strategy and standards across the country.
• Oversees the development and production of donor/disease specific proposals and reports as required, as well as responsible for the maintenance of materials essential to creating said documents.
• Oversees the development and production of writing and reviewing grant proposals.
• Oversees the production of collateral including but not limited to letters, speeches, proposals and reports for the President and CEO, Board of Directors, faculty and staff representatives.
• Creates strategy for and oversees the production of Development Social Media and Website content.
• Collaborates with Public Affairs and Marketing Departments to share information, prevent duplication of effort and to help brand National Jewish Health with strong institutionally approved messages.

Competencies

• Accountability: Accepts full responsibility for self and contribution as a team member; displays honesty and truthfulness; confronts problems quickly; displays a strong commitment to organizational success and inspires others to commit to goals; demonstrates a commitment to National Jewish Health.
• Attention to Detail: Accomplishing tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks; being watchful over a period of time. Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.
• Building Strategic Relationships: Identifying opportunities and taking action to build strategic relationships between one’s area and other areas, teams, departments, units, or organizations to help achieve business goals.
• Collaboration/Teamwork: Cooperates with others to accomplish common goals; works with employees within and across his/her department to achieve shared goals; treats others with dignity and respect and maintains a friendly demeanor; values the contributions of others.
• Creativity and Innovation: Applies creative problem-solving skills to develop solutions to problems; recognizes and demonstrates the value in taking “smart” risks and learning from mistakes; develops multiple alternatives and understands the feasibility of each; effectively shares and implements his/her ideas. Generates innovative solutions in work situations; tries different and novel ways to deal with work problems and opportunities.
• Informing and Communicating: Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
• Managing Work and Time/Project Management: Effectively managing one’s time and resources to ensure that work is completed efficiently. Effectively manages project(s) by appropriately focusing attention on the critical few priorities; effectively creates and executes against project timelines based on priorities, resource availability, and other project requirements (i.e., budget); effectively evaluates planned approaches, determines feasibility, and makes adjustments when needed.
• Problem Solving: Uses issue identification, data relation and comparison, pattern recognition and information gathering to create analyses and make recommendations.
• Supervisory or Managerial Responsibility: Manages one to three employees.

Qualifications

• Education: Master’s Degree in journalism or other related field required.
• Work Experience: A minimum of seven (7) years of recent and related experience as professional writer required, including three (3) years management experience.
• Portfolio must include published materials reflecting experience in one (1) or more of the following areas: public relations, medical reporting, fund-raising, grant writing, marketing or persuasive writing.

Salary Range

$117,978.17 - $156,026.13

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Multiple Cigna health plans for Colorado, regional office and remote employees.
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) available to pair with some plans.
• Paid Time Off: Generous PTO accruals to use for vacation and sick days, and six paid holidays, all compliant with Colorado state sick leave regulations.
• Dental & Vision Plans: Coverage effective the first of the month after hire.
• Roth Savings: 403(b) plan with employer contributions after two years.
• Wellness Incentives: Earn up to $200 annually for preventive health activities.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Up to $5,250 annually for full-time and other employees.
• Child Care Assistance: Childcare Flex Spending Account (FSA) with annual employer contribution.
• Loan Forgiveness: Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer.
• Disability & Life Insurance: Employer-paid plans and optional buy-up choices.
• Voluntary Benefits: Full suite of coverage options such as Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Legal Plan.
• Exclusive Discounts: Savings on local services, insurance, and RTD bus passes.