Senior Director, Communications

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $156k - $188.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🗣️ Communications

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KIPP Foundation

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51 - 200 employees

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all.

📋 Description

• The Senior Director of Communications leads the strategy and execution of KIPP Foundation’s communications across internal and external audiences. • This role oversees earned media, executive communications, issues management, and internal communications—ensuring clarity, consistency, and impact in how KIPP shows up nationwide. • The Senior Director partners closely with the Office of the CEO, senior leadership, and regional teams to align messaging, elevate strategic priorities, and strengthen KIPP’s brand and reputation. • This role manages one direct report and serves as a core member of the Marketing and Communications team, reporting to the VP of Marketing and Communications. • Design, lead, and execute a national earned media strategy that aligns with KIPP’s annual storytelling arc and organizational priorities —delivering high-profile national and local TV, print, and digital placements. • Provide strategic counsel to senior leadership (in Office of the CEO, Development, and One KIPP Priority Program Leads) to shape executive communications and secure high-impact speaking engagements and media placements. • Strengthen regional alignment by cultivating deep partnerships with regional communications leads and coordinating network-wide efforts to elevate local stories and reinforce national messages. • Oversee sourcing, refine, and elevate regional stories that demonstrate progress on One KIPP priorities for use in campaigns, announcements, speeches, newsletters, and social media. • Develop external communications plans to announce new KIPP Foundation initiatives and partnerships, including publishing press releases and regional press release templates. • Partner with Digital Marketing colleagues to amplify earned media, executive, and editorial content across channels, including paid media, social media, website, and email. • Serve as an on-the-record spokesperson for the KIPP network. • Monitor and shape KIPP’s media reputation, analyzing coverage trends, identifying risks and opportunities, and advising leadership and regional teams accordingly.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 8-10 years of relevant experience in marketing and communications, ideally leading Media Relations in a large-scale public service organization (e.g. a national or regional networked organization). • Access to productive media contacts at national, regional, trade and Black and Latino media outlets that can drive an organization’s evolving reputational strategy. • Experience working as a reporter or journalist a plus. • Demonstrated experience supporting C-Suite level leaders with timely decision making on communications. • Demonstrated experience collaborating with stakeholders in a demanding environment, using a combination of analysis and inner-personal skills to drive both proactive and reactive communications initiatives and campaigns. • Bachelors or equivalent experience required, Masters or equivalent experience desirable.

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+). • 100% paid parental leave • 100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family’s medical/dental/vision plans. • Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program. • Finance Security benefits including a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.