Associate Creative Director
DickersonBakker
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Serve as the primary reviewer and approver for creative work in its final stages.
- Apply a consistently high standard for clarity, accuracy, tone, visual execution, and alignment with strategy.
- Make informed decisions to approve, refine, or redirect creative before it reaches senior leadership.
- Ensure creative work reflects client brand, donor psychology, and direct response best practices.
- Provide hands-on creative direction across copy and design for direct mail, email, digital, video, and integrated campaigns.
- Review and refine messaging, layouts, and storytelling to strengthen donor engagement and response.
- Partner with writers, designers, and freelancers to improve work quality through clear, actionable feedback.
- Catch errors, inconsistencies, or strategic misalignment before work reaches clients or production.
- Collaborate closely with Creative Services leadership, Digital, Project Management, Account, and Production teams to support smooth execution.
- Help uphold and reinforce creative standards, best practices, and brand consistency across Fundraising Solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (B.A. or B.S.) preferred.
- 7–10 years of experience in creative roles within fundraising, marketing, or agency environments.
- Prior experience serving as a senior creative contributor or informal creative lead strongly preferred.
- Experience in direct response fundraising, proposal development, or major gift/campaign communications highly desirable.
- Strong creative judgment across both copy and design, with the ability to evaluate work holistically.
- Deep familiarity with direct response fundraising, donor-centric messaging, and multi-channel campaigns.
- Exceptional attention to detail and low tolerance for errors or ambiguity.
- Ability to synthesize strategy into clear creative direction and actionable feedback.
- Confidence making final decisions without relying on consensus or escalation.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfort working with freelance and contract creatives.
- Ability to travel up to 25%.
Benefits
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Hard skills
creative directioncopywritingdesigndirect response fundraisingproposal developmentcampaign communicationsmulti-channel campaignsmessagingstorytellingerror detection
Soft skills
creative judgmentattention to detailstrategic synthesisactionable feedbackdecision makingcommunicationcollaborationleadershipfeedbackclient engagement
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree