Director of Communications on behalf of client Pacific Community Ventures

Are you a driven individual who is passionate about building a more equitable society? If so, please join Pacific Community Ventures, a nonprofit mission-driven organization invested in inclusive entrepreneurship and economic mobility, the core of the American Dream. We are seeking a Director of Communications to join our team and lead PCV’s storytelling, brand, policy and community engagement. Over the past decade, our research projects and client engagements have helped define and build the field of impact investing; we have become a leading statewide community development financial institution (CDFI) in California; and scaled a nationwide mentorship platform for underinvested small business owners, and good jobs programs for working Americans. Our audiences and clients include small business owners across America, volunteer business experts; leading foundations and impact investors; other CDFIs; and policymakers at the state and local level.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• 8+ years of relevant professional experience leading a marketing or communications function, including some annual strategy and budget
• Proven track record of demand/lead generation, digital marketing, branding, and/or content marketing
• A talent for big-picture thinking and managing all of the moving parts of a cross-functional marketing and communications group at a growing organization
• Demonstrated experience developing campaigns for social media, email marketing, and thought leadership/content creation
• Experience managing a team preferred; help build and promote organizational culture at all levels
• Prior experience with, or interest in, entrepreneurship and small business a plus (but not required)
• Prior experience with PR, earned media, or pitching and publishing thought leadership articles a plus (but not required)
• Policy advocacy communications experience desired
• Prior experience with a mix of Google Analytics, Google AdWords, Canva, WordPress, Hootsuite (or other social media tools), and Campaign Monitor (or other email marketing tools) a plus
• Flexibility and comfort with a mission-driven environment, ambiguity, and a small and growing organization
• Fast learner, who demonstrates humility, openness, transparency, and empathy as consistent with PCV values
• Bilingual skills (especially in Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin) highly desirable

Why You’re Needed

Three years ago, PCV launched our new strategy centering restorative capital, driven by themes of democratizing access to affordable capital and mentorship, stewarding climate opportunities, and being restorative in underinvested communities. You will play an integral role in embodying this strategy and vision across all we do, and who we are to our stakeholders – in the storytelling of our small business owners as local changemakers in their communities, and the local and national community organizations we partner with to serve them. You’ll bring creativity, strong project management, strategic thinking, people and communication skills (oral and written), adaptability, and most of all – a passion and lived experience in racial, economic or climate justice, inclusive entrepreneurship. You’re willing to learn on the job – often fast-paced, dynamic; always with integrity.