Senior Director of Strategic Communications and Engagement

Senior Director of Strategic Communications and Engagement

Benefits Data Trust (BDT) a national nonprofit organization founded in 2005, is at the beginning of a ten-year moonshot to energize and support fundamental improvements to the nation’s delivery of public assistance services to individuals and families in need. Today, despite millions of people going without the food, healthcare, access to education and digital services, and other critical resources they need to live better and get ahead, more than $80 billion in public assistance is left on the table each year. BDT believes that working together, a diverse, inclusive, and bipartisan movement of leaders and institutions, as well as public benefits recipients themselves, can solve this challenge. BDT seeks a seasoned Senior Director of Strategic Communications and Engagement to shape and execute movement-building communications and public engagement strategies driving interest, support, action across government, the business and nonprofit sectors, philanthropy, and communities.

The Senior Director of Strategic Communications and Engagement reports to the Chief Executive Officer.

BDT is a remote-first organization. Employees may work remotely or from BDT’s Philadelphia office. BDT centers diversity, equity, and inclusion in nurturing an energetic and diverse workplace and serving people from all communities and backgrounds across the United States. Candidates should bring DEI maturity and be open to continuous improvement and learning.

The Senior Director will:

• Create and execute a strategy energizing the movement for better benefits access that is grounded in BDT’s ten-year strategic framework and additive to its initial four-year strategic plan guiding the first phase of work.
• Shape, ignite, and sustain national policy and other systems change conversations across a range of subject matter and involving diverse and influential audiences.
• Provide strategic counsel and ensure the wider marketing and communications team supports revenue growth and customer and partner success.
• Translate the significance of BDT’s often highly specialized impact work into communications and audience activation efforts that can drive national change at scale.
• Lead and support the success of a small and highly skilled marketing and communications team and ensure core goals across areas such as media relations, branding, product marketing, web and social media engagement, and other areas are achieved.
• Ensure all strategic communications efforts demonstrate excellence and sophistication in diversity, equity, and inclusion, uphold the principles and values centering the best interests of public assistance clients, and ensure BDT can operate and bring leaders and institutions together across the political spectrum.
• Provide strategic communications and movement-building advice to other leaders and teams across the highly diverse and interdisciplinary organization.
  
• At least ten years of experience across strategic communications disciplines and meaningful accomplishments growing diverse, inclusive, and bipartisan social change movements, coalitions, and campaigns.
• A highly mature and sophisticated approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion and a track record integrating DEI into strategic communications initiatives.
• Strong executive and team leadership abilities.
• Sharp, creative, and refined writing acumen.
• Comfort participating in revenue growth activities, including philanthropic fundraising and supporting customer success.

Candidates should have:

• At least ten years of experience across strategic communications disciplines and meaningful accomplishments growing diverse, inclusive, and bipartisan social change movements, coalitions, and campaigns.
• A highly mature and sophisticated approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion and a track record integrating DEI into strategic communications initiatives.
• Strong executive and team leadership abilities.
• Sharp, creative, and refined writing acumen.
• Comfort participating in revenue growth activities, including philanthropic fundraising and supporting customer success.

About BDT

Benefits Data Trust (BDT) improves health and financial security by harnessing the power of data, technology, and policy to provide dignified and equitable access to assistance. Together with a national network of government agencies and partners, we efficiently connect people today to programs that pay for food, healthcare, and more while helping to modernize benefits access for tomorrow. A nonprofit since 2005, BDT has secured more than $10 billion in benefits for households across the country, helping to reduce hunger and poverty and build pathways to economic mobility. Learn more about BDT - a proud recipient of a 2021 & 2022 Top Workplaces USA Award at bdtrust.org.