Director, Partnerships Communication

"If we can get one child adopted into a loving family, all our work will be worth it." -- Dave Thomas Join us as we champion our mission to dramatically increase the number of adoptions of children waiting in North America's foster care systems. We've helped to find safe, permanent homes for more than 14,000 young people across the United States and Canada, but our mission is not complete. Invest your career in making a difference and join the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption's team. We offer a supportive workplace where you can make an impact.?We are dedicated to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable work environment for Foundation staff, while advocating for measurable change toward racial equity within the child welfare system. Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for building impactful partnerships? We are seeking a Director, Partnership Communications to help shape and execute an integrated strategy that engages corporate partners, sports and entertainment organizations and public figures in raising awareness and financial support for our mission. Based in Dublin, Ohio, this externally focused role offers an exciting opportunity to collaborate across internal teams and with diverse external audiences to create compelling content and drive meaningful engagement. If you thrive off connecting to dots, offer exceptional interpersonal skills and have a passion for developing compelling content, we encourage you to learn more and apply. Key Deliverables: Partner with marketing and development team leads in engaging corporate partners, sports / entertainment organizations and other public figures interested in raising awareness of our mission; serve as a liaison, collaborating with internal teams to determine valued opportunities for partners that expand the Foundation's reach and impact Collaboratively lead the development of communications strategies to engage the employees, clients/customers and networks of corporations that have named the Foundation as its charity of choice (e.g., Wendy's® in the U.S. and Canada and Roof Maxx). Serve as the liaison to these organizations' marketing and communications teams and agency partners in ensuring awareness, paid and earned media, social, fundraising messaging and materials align with the Foundation's brand standards Oversee the manager, partnership and event communications in developing or curating content that helps corporate partners, sports teams and public figures to engage their key audiences (e.g., clients, customers, networks and/or followers) With direction from Partnership team leads, drive the creation of stewardship communications for corporate partners, sharing appreciation and evidence of impact (e.g., emails, campaign/impact reports, text campaigns and other special projects); collaborate with the Foundation's brand awareness and digital communications team leads to identify opportunities for sharing within Foundation channels (e.g., blogs, videos and social posts) Utilize data to assess the effectiveness of partnership communications and inform recommendations and priority growth areas to ensure the highest ROI. Contribute to quarterly marketing reports and scorecards for board and committee meetings What You Bring: Undergraduate degree in communications, journalism, marketing or related field 10+ years of experience in marketing and communications that support partnerships, events and/or fundraising Experience in a consulting, cause marketing or national, nonprofit organization is a plus Demonstrated experience with effective partnership and event communications strategies, leveraging print, email, video, earned media, web and social media to advance an organization's mission and goals Exceptional interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence to effectively build and earn trust with internal teams and external partners Our Benef