A positive future for every child
Southwest Human Development is Arizona’s largest nonprofit dedicated to early childhood development. The first five years of life are the most critical in a child’s development. At Southwest Human Development, our services improve lives and help families by supporting young children and their caregivers during this important time.Your skills, experience, and passion are needed at one of the nation’s largest nonprofits dedicated to early childhood development. Join our team and experience a long-term career which brings joy and satisfaction in knowing you make a difference. We offer over 40 programs and services to more than 140,000 children.
Why choose us?
- You will be rewarded with benefits, including day one zero contribution health plan options, wellness programming, and generous paid time off.
- You will benefit from high-quality paid training to promote professional growth and development.
- You will enjoy a supportive and collaborative work environment.
Job title: Senior Manager, Brand + Communications
The Senior Manager, Brand + Communications reports to the Chief Development Officer and works directly with the agency’s senior leadership team including the CEO, department directors, program managers and the Board of Directors. The position supervises two full-time employees, which includes a Manager, Community Outreach and Coordinator, Brand Content + Design—as well as advertising, communications, and public relations agency partners.
In this role, you will:
- Strategizing and creating messaging and design concepts for media relations outreach, email marketing, direct mail campaigns, social media engagement, program marketing materials, and fundraising events.
- Brand management for Southwest Human Development, Easterseals Southwest Human Development, and Educare Arizona.
- Uses a vast mix of channels to increase awareness of the agency and its programs and services.
- Managing and working with marcom agency partners on projects and initiatives.
- Consulting and advising agency leaders on marcom-related efforts and activities.
- Intermediate WordPress website management.
- Sourcing and designing branded promotional materials.
- Developing strategic community outreach initiatives in partnership with agency staff.
- Monitoring news media and early childhood news and resources.
- Collaborating with Easterseals and Educare national network partners.
- Other communications work as assigned.
What it takes:
- Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations or related field.
- Five or more years of experience in communications, public relations or marketing.
- Strategic and open mindset with the capability of engaging in deep business and marketing-related discussions with senior management.
- Ability to quickly learn new marketing technologies and promotional channels to determine the best outbound marketing strategies.
- Strong leadership and people management skills with a focus on building cross functional relationships.
- Passion and ability to work well in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment and under tight deadlines.
- Demonstrated initiative, problem-solving skills, solid judgment, and accustomed to working with a sense of urgency.
- A team player, with a service mentality and a focus on “we”, not “me.”
- Ability to develop and execute a strategic communications plan.
- Excellent written, AP style preferred, verbal communications skills, and strong presentation skills.
- Knowledge of the Arizona nonprofit and business community; early childhood preferred.
Learn more!
Our core values embody Southwest Human Development’s commitment to services that uplift the lives of children, families and other care providers, and the communities in which they live. These values are intended to guide the professional development, ethical conduct, and skilled practice of all our staff, whatever their specific role within the agency. All staff are valued as making essential contributions to strengthening the foundation that Arizona’s children need for a great start in life.
Learn more about our values and benefits here.
