St. Mark Ministries

Director of Marketing Communications

St. Mark Ministries

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Chicago • Illinois • United States

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Salary

💰 $85,821 - $128,752 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Lead the implementation and governance of the ELCA Foundation’s refreshed brand identity, ensuring consistent application across channels, partners and materials
  • Oversee web strategy and development, including redesign and relaunch of Foundation.ELCA.org to align with brand tone, improve user experience, and serve diverse stakeholder needs
  • Lead the implementation, configuration and ongoing optimization of HubSpot Marketing Hub, ensuring integrated campaign execution, CRM alignment, marketing automation, and performance tracking to support personalized constituent journeys and data-driven strategy
  • Direct the ongoing refresh of the Foundation’s marketing materials suite, including core brochures, kits, event assets and educational resources
  • Shape and manage the Foundation’s brand voice across owned, paid and earned media
  • Develop annual marketing plans aligned with fundraising and organizational goals, integrating brand storytelling, digital growth and lead generation
  • Support perception shift efforts by elevating the Foundation’s identity as a growing, nationally competitive, fiduciary-sound fund with impact-focused results
  • Serve as internal brand steward, educating teams and partners on usage guidelines and providing creative oversight for visual and verbal expression of the brand
  • Manage agency and vendor relationships, including video production, design, digital services, and media planning
  • Collaborate with Advancement and Gift Planning teams to drive lead generation, donor engagement and stewardship initiatives
  • Track performance against KPIs, lead marketing analytics efforts and adapt strategy accordingly
  • Other duties as assigned

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business or equivalent experience
  • 7-10 years of experience developing and managing organizational marketing and communication plans
  • Experience leading brand strategy and implementation, including overseeing creative systems, brand rollout, or major marketing transformations
  • Experience in nonprofit or cause-driven organizations, with strong preference for candidates who can communicate fiduciary responsibility and spiritual impact with equal fluency
  • Proven ability to steward complex messaging across theological, financial and emotional dimensions of legacy and planned giving
  • Strong working knowledge of web platforms, content management systems and email marketing tools (experience with HubSpot a plus)
  • Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional collaboration and vendor relationships in a hybrid or distributed team environment
Benefits
  • employer paid health premiums for employees
  • health and dependent care FSA’s
  • health savings account (HSA) with an employer contribution
  • life insurance
  • substantial employer contribution to 403b retirement plan (no match required)
  • generous paid time-off policy including 17 paid holidays
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
brand strategymarketing automationperformance trackingdigital growthlead generationmarketing analyticscampaign executionuser experience designcontent managementcreative oversight
Soft Skills
cross-functional collaborationvendor managementcommunicationleadershipeducational oversightstakeholder engagementstrategic planningcreative directionteam managementrelationship building
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in marketingBachelor’s degree in communicationsBachelor’s degree in business