Homeoffice Associate Vice President, Marketing & Communications (Apply By: Friday, September 13, 2024) na Jobsforthefuture

About JFF 

Jobs for the Future (JFF) drives transformation of the U.S. education and workforce systems to achieve equitable economic advancement for all. Seeing that millions of people are unfairly shut out of quality jobs and the chance for a better life, our goal is to align education, workforce, and employment change makers toward a shared North Star: By 2033, 75 million people facing systemic barriers to advancement will work in quality jobs.  

To achieve that goal, we design solutions, scale best practices, influence policy and action, and invest in innovation. With a staff of more than 300 people across the country working remotely and in offices in Boston (headquarters), Washington, DC, and Oakland, California, we operate at the national, state, and local levels, forging deep partnerships with employers, investors, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and education and workforce development providers to break down barriers and reimagine what’s possible.   

We’re on a path of ongoing growth and expanding impact. With an operating budget of $105 million, we are funded by dozens of leading government agencies, foundations, and corporations. Learn more about JFF and join us as we build a future that works—for everyone.  

DEIBW at JFF  

Diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and well-being (DEIBW) are core to JFF’s North Star and mission. We employ and build diverse teams across race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity and expression, age, and lived experiences and are constantly working toward ensuring these differences are celebrated and included. We aim to cultivate a culture that centers the overall care, well-being, and success of the employee through flexible work hours, balanced workloads, professional development, and equitable career advancement opportunities. Learn more about what DEIBW looks like in practice at JFF. 

We seek to invest in and learn from those who represent the communities we serve, particularly individuals from populations who have been explicitly or implicitly excluded from the workforce. Knowing its importance to the success of our work and the engagement of our staff members, we aspire to attract and retain a diverse team and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply to our open roles. JFF is a fair chance employer and in alignment to our North Star, we strongly encourage individuals whose highest level of education attained is less than a 4-year degree; People of Color; and people with records to apply. 

About the position:   

JFF's Marketing & Communications team elevates JFF’s visibility, impact, and reach through strategic brand and message development, media engagement, field outreach, and high-quality event and deliverable production. Our diverse team of strategists, business partners, creative and graphic designers, and event and promotion leaders support JFF’s enterprise initiatives, and our individual business units, in achieving their ambitious and innovative programmatic goals. Through the creation of strategic communications plans and integrated campaigns, the Marketing & Communications team generates engagement, and drives action, and awareness towards JFF’s impactful work and North Star goals.  

Reporting to the Chief Marketing and Communications Officer (CMCO), the Associate Vice President, Marketing Communications will serve as a strategic thought partner to the CMCO, and will be a trusted and collaborative leader of a newly established team of 9 Marketing Communications Business Partners (BPs). JFF’s Marketing & Communications BP team serve as internal consultants, informing and driving forward communications strategy and planning across JFF’s Centers and Practices, as well as for the Policy, Strategic Engagements and JFF Labs teams. Your work in this newly created role, will be essential in building and establishing an innovative and high-performing model for the BP role and team, aligning expectations, ways of working, and best practices while driving accountability across business units and team members to deliver results.  

As the AVP, you will leverage your leadership skills and subject matter expertise to coach the BP team toward high performance and long-term professional growth. You will be trusted to empower the BPs with skills and strategies to influence and activate their individual business unit teams, while building collaborative rhythms that enable BPs to learn from one another, share best practices, and problem-solve together.  Additionally, you will ensure that the appropriate staffing, systems, processes, and tools are in place to drive the delivery of program-specific strategic marketing communications efforts. As a senior leader on the Marketing Communications team, you will partner closely with business unit leaders and subject-matter experts, developing a nuanced understanding of their motivations and needs, and helping them to access and utilize the talents, expertise, and assets of their BPs and the broader Marketing Communication team in achieving their goals. 

In addition to leading the BP team, the AVP will partner closely with the CMCO and other MarComm leaders to identify innovative ways of elevating JFF’s brand, storytelling, and thought leadership across a diversity of channels contributing to the organization’s measurable growth and impact. Your work will ensure cohesion between individual business unit strategies and messaging, and JFF's enterprise communications strategy, helping to ensure that JFF’s programmatic and strategic brand messaging frameworks and objectives are mutually reinforcing. Drawing on insights from your work with BP’s and the business units they support, you will help to influence the overall strategy for the Marketing and Communications team, as well as drive the continued evolution of the broader MarComm team and how it engages with key stakeholders across JFF.  

This is an exciting opportunity for a collaborative, creative, and strategic marketing and communications leader who has led teams, projects, and processes to impactful outcomes. The ideal candidate will have proven strengths as a leader of complex, dynamic marketing and communication teams, is skilled at developing cross-functional relationships, and is comfortable acting with authority and confidence in a complex, fast-moving, and at times ambiguous context. 

What You’ll Do:  

Deliver powerful results through impactful team leadership and capacity building: 

• Determine marketing and communications resource allocations to support business units in alignment with each staff member’s skills and expertise, and program portfolio needs   

• Identify common needs, challenges, and best practices across the BP team and lead related improvement initiatives to increase effectiveness, innovation and quality of the team’s work  

• Set, track, and recognize team-wide goals, celebrate wins and successes, and build opportunities for information sharing and community, such as through retreats, team events, and informal opportunities  

• Build a community of practice within the Business Partner model, empowering business partners, and creating a culture of support and trust while centering diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and wellbeing (DEIBW)  

•  Manage client and business partner expectations, helping BPs to strategize through challenges and new ideas  

• Identify areas of misalignment across the teams, helping to strengthen role scope and improve processes  

• Lead with equity and model inclusive leadership, stewarding a team culture that celebrates the diversity of each individual and ensures that each person has equal opportunity to thrive at JFF 

Advance JFF’s mission through leadership of strategy and execution:  

• Develop and maintain common measures of progress towards marketing goals and impact of efforts within and across business units  

• Build systems for timely and accurate forecasting of marketing and comms deliverables, including events, to inform resource allocation and planning 

• Support Business Partners in scoping communications deliverables for individual project proposals, including aligning budgeting, resource planning and timelines with creative and impactful marketing and comms strategies  

• Ensure the rightsizing of program communications efforts and help Business Partners manage priorities across their portfolio 

• Keep up to date with development pipelines and partnership development in order to forecast needs and ensure that the team’s capacity and capabilities stay ahead of program needs   

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