Communications and Marketing Manager

Communications and Marketing Manager

Our Village United, Inc. | Atlanta, GA (Hybrid)

Our Village United (OVU) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing small businesses and supporting entrepreneurs across 40 states. We're seeking a highly organized, systems-driven Communications and Marketing Manager to serve as the organization's lead for all messaging, content, marketing, and visibility efforts.

OVU is a small but high-performing team, and this role requires someone who can independently plan, create, manage, and evaluate all communications and marketing outputs from start to finish with precision, efficiency, and exceptional attention to detail.

The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker, strong writer, skilled marketer, and exceptional storyteller who understands the nonprofit landscape and can translate OVU's mission and impact into powerful content. This position requires someone who thrives in a small team environment, moves with urgency, builds and maintains efficient systems, and manages multiple priorities with minimal oversight.

This role functions as OVU's full communications and marketing arm. There is no assistant or communications team. The Communications and Marketing Manager independently owns all functions and brings in freelancers only when necessary.

• Develop and implement a multi-channel communications and marketing strategy aligned with OVU's mission and organizational goals
• Build and maintain essential infrastructure including brand guidelines, editorial calendars, messaging templates, email systems, and streamlined workflow processes
• Create and manage organized systems for content planning, asset management, and campaign tracking
• Track, analyze, and report on communications and marketing performance metrics to continuously inform strategy
• Establish SOPs and documentation for all recurring communications functions

• Create culturally fluent, compelling content across web, social media, email, marketing campaigns, print, and events
• Write and edit press releases, newsletters, blog posts, impact reports, and materials for donors and partners
• Lead storytelling and field content production including interviews, photography, and video content
• Develop talking points and messaging toolkits for events, leadership, and media engagements

• Manage OVU's digital presence and marketing voice across all platforms including Instagram, Linked In, Facebook, and Threads
• Design, schedule, and publish all social media and marketing content using scheduling and management tools
• Design and execute segmented email marketing campaigns with clear performance tracking
• Maintain and update the OVU website with fresh content, program updates, and SEO best practices
• Ensure all messaging aligns with brand standards and resonates with nonprofit audiences

• Maintain consistent brand identity across all materials and platforms
• Design branded collateral including social graphics, brochures, presentations, one-pagers, and print materials
• Oversee production and manage timelines when working with external designers, printers, or vendors

• Collaborate across programs, development, and operations to align messaging and gather content
• Source, manage, and maintain relationships with freelance photographers, videographers, and creative vendors
• Represent OVU at events, storytelling opportunities, and activations
• Lay the foundation for a future communications and marketing team as the organization scales

• Minimum five years of experience in communications and marketing
• Demonstrated experience in the nonprofit sector or in close partnership with nonprofit organizations
• Proven track record of independently managing communications and marketing functions without support staff
• Experience managing and executing social media content across multiple platforms, including content calendars, scheduling, publishing, and performance tracking
• Experience managing monthly newsletters from strategy and content development through design, distribution, and analytics
• Experience building and documenting templates, style guides, and reusable assets that enable team consistency and efficiency
• Experience successfully creating, launching, and measuring integrated marketing campaigns from concept through execution
• Experience managing freelancers, creative vendors, and external partners

Required Skills

• Excellent writing, editing, and storytelling abilities with strong marketing copy instincts
• Highly organized with strong project management abilities and comfort juggling multiple priorities simultaneously
• Systems-oriented mindset with the ability to build, document, and maintain efficient workflows
• Proficient in graphic design with the ability to independently create professional graphics, social media assets, branded collateral,…