Alliance Defending Freedom is hiring: Director of Social Media and Multimedia Pr

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Alliance Defending Freedom is an alliance-building legal organization that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith. Please visit www.adflegal.org/about-us/careers to view our Statement of Faith and Doctrinal Distinctives.

Director of Social Media and Multimedia Production

Alliance Defending Freedom is looking for a highly skilled Director of Social Media and Multimedia Production to join us in our Lansdowne, VA office. As the Director of Social Media and Multimedia Productions, you are a vital part of the Communications Team. In this role, you will report to the SVP of Communications and are responsible for leading a team of social media professionals (manager, writer) and multimedia creatives (videography, graphic design, photography).

Your Essential Responsibilities:

In this position, you will:

• Oversee and lead the team of in-house and freelance resources for the creation of digital, multimedia content

• Strategize, direct, supervise, and implement social media content, creative direction, and delivery strategies, working in concert with the Marketing Team

• Ensure that projects are completed with excellence, on time, within budget, and consistent with ADF brand and messaging

• Ensure that all efforts and content are aligned with and/or complimentary to the strategic and communications objectives of the ministry

• Foster and maintain cross-team relationships to ensure strong communication, facilitate positive rapport, and meet ministry needs

• Direct and supervise the creative process and execution of multimedia projects, including collaborating with multiple teams to further ADF objectives

• Provide creative direction for social media and digital creative assets to maximize engagement and meet contemporary multimedia standards (to generate stylistically relevant materials)

• Ensure content consistently and positively represents the ADF brand

• Act as the liaison for the multimedia team to report on current projects, propose creative opportunities, and align bandwidth and needs in strategic consultation with other teams

• Ensure that the social media and multimedia teams are mobilized to respond rapidly to news developments, campaign and social media content needs, and constituent relations initiatives

As a Team Leader, you will:

• Act as a servant leader by training, encouraging, coaching, and developing your Team Members

• Demonstrate and model personal spiritual discipline and assist in the development of a collaborative team environment

• Foster a spirit of trust, innovation, and teamwork on your team

• Meet regularly with your Team Members to discuss their progress and complete performance review discussions

• Approve PTO requests, timecards, and expense reports.

Other Responsibilities (Non-Essential):

• You will be asked to perform related duties or special projects as assigned.

Skills you need to succeed:

Demonstrated proficiency in:

• Superior verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

• Excellent organizational and administrative skills and attention to detail

• Collaborating effectively with cross-team counterparts on multi-aspect projects

• Must be responsible, flexible, and work well in a fast-paced environment

• Creative strategy and content marketing

• Social media management, photography, videography, and graphic design

• Project management skills to ensure timely and proper coordination of content across teams

• Excellent problem-solving skills

• Knowledge of industry best practices for marketing visual content to optimize digital content distribution

Ability to:

• Provide strong leadership and mentorship to a diverse team of professionals

• Successfully collaborate with multiple teams with diverse talents to further objectives

• Lead strategically, cast creative vision, and motivate others to accomplish objectives through servant leadership

• Create multimedia content and assist in the development of projects from beginning to end

• Meet deadlines and oversee multiple ongoing projects

• Be organized and efficient in managing time, projects, people, and priorities

• Relate well to people from diverse backgrounds and skill sets

• Write with excellence by using correct English grammar, spelling, punctuation, and vocabulary

• Understand office practices, procedures, equipment, and software

• Travel approximately 10-20%

Education and/or experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, advertising or equivalent related experience

• 7+ years of communications, marketing, or advertising experience is required

• 7+ years of project management experience is preferred

• Writing/editing/proofreading experience required

• Project Manager Professional or Agile SCRUM credentials a plus, but not required

• Experience with Wrike (or other project management software) a plus

To be considered for this position, please provide us with your marketing portfolio and/or video demo reel. Also, please provide us with a writing sample. For example: blog post or social media post.

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR AN ORGANIZATION WITH A COMPETITIVE

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS PACKAGE, TOO?

We have it! Alliance Defending Freedom offers team members a competitive compensation and benefits package that includes major medical insurance, dental care, medical and dependent care reimbursement, paid disability, long-term care insurance, and life insurance. We also offer a 401(k) plan with a generous company match. Work and life balance is important to the well-being of our team members. You will receive paid time off (PTO) that starts accruing from your hire date and 11 paid holidays per year. Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Paid maternity, Paid paternity, Disability insurance