Role Description

ImpactPHL is seeking a strategic, collaborative, and kind individual to join our small (but mighty!) and versatile team. The Director of Brand and Narrative is a new, full-time position and a critical role in support of ImpactPHL’s growing team, work, and opportunity to accelerate our mission.

Our organization is part of a movement to shift financial systems toward a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient local economy in the Philadelphia region. The Director of Brand and Narrative’s primary goal is to help ImpactPHL reach and engage sophisticated financial audiences, successfully get their attention, and support a shift in how they think about and invest their capital. Successful candidates for this role will not necessarily be experts in Linkedin best practices or SEO, for example, but will be able to comprehensively utilize a suite of engagement tools and tactics (ex: design, copywriting, marketing, social media) to move our target audiences to action. They will be up for the challenge of not only growing ImpactPHL’s brand (i.e. vision, mission, and programs), but contributing to the narrative of an accelerating regional and national impact investing movement.

Due to the place-based focus of our mission and work, we’re ideally seeking someone who is based in the Philadelphia region but we are open for the right candidate. Our team works remotely, with local travel as necessary for meetings and events within the region (mostly in the City of Philadelphia). This role works closely with ImpactPHL’s Executive Director and Director of Strategy, and does not have any direct reports. We offer a salary commensurate with experience and benefits. The anticipated start date is mid-late October.

• Status: Full-Time
• Location: Remote, with preference for candidates located in the Philadelphia region
• Travel: Minimal. Some travel may be required locally as needed to fulfill role responsibilities.
• Compensation: Salary & Benefits (Health, Dental, 401k, PTO)
• Anticipated Start Date: October 2022

Knowledge/Skills/Experience

• 10+ years experience with communications, design, copywriting, social media, marketing, storytelling, and/or public/media relations
• Comfort with and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, and entrepreneurial environment
• Ability to lead work from strategy through to execution (we’re a small team, so doing the little things is part of everyone’s job)
• Experience with or knowledge of mainstream investing, the financial industry, impact investing, place-based investing, and/or social impact is strongly preferred
• Experience with advocacy organizations or advocacy work is a plus, but not required
• Having strong organizational, project management, and communication skills with an eye toward detail
• A “people person” who is excited to collaborate and problem solve in partnership with various stakeholder groups
• Basic technical proficiency with the ability to work with Microsoft Office Suite, Google Documents, Hubspot, Squarespace, and newsletter clients.
• Experience with Canva.com and skill in creating content on this design platform is strongly preferred

Role Responsibilities

Strategy Support and Execution

This role is responsible for working with the Executive Director and Director of Strategy to inform how ImpactPHL strategically communicates our vision, mission and programming to our primary target audiences of investors (high net worth individuals, family offices, and foundations). This will include oversight of a comprehensive, organizational brand and narrative strategy, as well as specific strategies and campaigns for various programs and initiatives.

• Brand – manage the oversight of ImpactPHL’s brand, ensuring all visual and written elements are aligned and executed within our guidelines (colors, voice/tone, etc)
• Ongoing Editorial Calendar – Manage an organization-wide editorial calendar that tracks our ongoing and recurring communications (i.e. monthly events, monthly Perspectives content, etc), as well as more specific and targeted campaigns
• Programmatic Campaigns – In addition to ongoing communications, we have multiple flagship programs and initiatives that require specific campaigns across ImpactPHL’s channels and 3rd party partners. These could include not are not limited to our Total Impact Summit, OptImpact platform, PAGE Capital program, and more.
• Analytics – Manage the tracking of basic brand and communications-related KPIs to report our progress and efficacy to the staff and board

Content Creation

This role requires a strong design eye and copywriting skills to create all digital, material and written content needed to execute the brand and narrative strategy. This could include not is not limited to:

• Templates – Refine and create visually appealing templates to deliver our recurring and ongoing content through various channels including social media, newsletters, etc.
• Campaign Assets – Create all assets necessary to execute specific campaigns for key programs and initiatives such as our Total Impact Summit
• Slides/Decks – Using templates, support the execution of slides and decks for various purposes that range from board presentations to partnership conversations
• 1-Pagers – Using templates, support the creation of 1-pagers to communicate key programs or case studies

Channel Management & Content Distribution

This role is responsible for managing ImpactPHL’s distribution channels, optimizing those channels, and executing content distribution through those channels. Additionally, this role will serve as the manager and point person for 3rd party or partner channels that are supporting content distribution.

• Website – Manage ImpactPHL’s website, which will include a redesign/update project, recurring content support, campaign content management, and any problem solving or maintenance required.
• Email – Working with the rest of the ImpactPHL team, support our current newsletter strategy, campaign-related emails, and any additional e-mail related communications if/as needed.
• CRM – Support ImpactPHL’s internal CRM to more successfully capture data on our target audiences, segment audiences and messaging, and track outcomes
• Media – Be the point person for any media or public relations-related initiatives and relationships, distribute press release, and track media/press hits
• Social Media – Manage ImpactPHL’s social channels to ensure profiles are consistent and up-to-date, identify ways to optimize content reach and engagement, manage the distribution of all content, and respond to any engagement via social channels

How to Apply

Please apply by Sunday, September 4th by sending a brief cover letter, references, and resume to Cory Donovan at ImpactPHLapply@gmail.com. Please put your first and last name in the subject of the email and include your first and last name at the beginning of file names for resume, etc. Due to a high volume of applicants and our team’s limited capacity, we will only respond to candidates who are invited to participate in the interview process. The interview process will include a short preliminary screening call, full interview, possible follow-up interview with additional staff/board members, and reference checks.

ImpactPHL provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.