Communications Manager

Bridges Baltimore is a Baltimore-based non-profit organization committed to the long-term success of Baltimore City youth and to providing life-changing opportunities to independent school students. Bridges programs currently serve over 900 participants per year - 530 Baltimore City students ages 9-23 and 400 independent school students across four locations
-with continued expansion plans over the coming decade.

Bridges Baltimore is seeking a proactive, highly organized, and relationship oriented full-time Communications Manager for our non-profit organization. This role is built for a communications generalist and multimedia storyteller interested in bringing Bridges' communications strategy to life through compelling written, visual, and digital content.

• Leading communications projects, content development, and design for newsletters, website, social media, impact report, decks, and marketing materials.
• Coordinating the Bridges News Team to surface stories and gather content from across the organization, programs, and locations.
• Managing, monitoring, and enhancing Bridges' content calendar, digital communications, brand, and multimedia assets.
• Maintaining Bridges' brand, visual identity, templates, and communications platforms and tools, including Meta Business Suite, Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud/InDesign, and photography/video equipment.
• Maintaining an organized, accessible archive of photography, video, design files, templates, and completed collateral.
• Capturing and editing high-quality photography and video at key programs, events, and activities for use across Bridges' communications.
• Coordinating external vendors and freelancers, as needed, for photography, video, design, printing, and other production needs.
• Supporting the editing, design, and production of fundraising communications materials as requested.

• 5-8 years of professional communications experience, with demonstrated success managing projects and producing content across channels within an existing strategy.
• Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills, with a strong understanding of audience, and who can be consistent and create content that reaches diverse audiences effectively.
• Strong project-management, planning, and organizational skills, with the ability and desire to collaborate effectively and manage multiple projects with varying deadlines.
• A proactive mindset, sound judgment, and the ability / willingness to recognize and act on strategic opportunities, develop ideas, seek feedback, and learn quickly.
• Strong interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence, who will build trust across a diverse set of relationships within our organization and community.
• Experience managing social media and digital content, with proficiency in or the ability to quickly learn tools such as Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud/InDesign, and photography/video equipment.
• Pays attention to changes in the communications landscape and thinks about ways to better reach constituents in an increasingly cluttered digital communications environment.
• Strong photography and videography skills, including experience capturing and editing engaging visual content.
• Experience in nonprofit, education, youth development, or other mission-driven communications preferred.
• Compensation:
  The salary for this full-time 12-month role is $70,000 - $80,000, commensurate with experience.
• Benefits:
  Full-time employees are eligible to participate in Bridges Baltimore's comprehensive benefits program which includes, but is not limited to, medical, dental, vision, disability, 403(b) with employer matching; FSA options; paid vacation, sick, & holiday time; auxiliary insurance; meal benefit; etc.
• Start Date:
  
  This role will start in the Fall of 2026.
• Supervision:
  This role reports to the Senior Director of External Affairs.
• Location:
  
  The Communications Manager role is based at Bridges Baltimore's central office (Baltimore, MD) and will come with some hybrid flexibility.
• Hours:
  
  This 40-hour-per-week role will typically follow traditional business hours. It may include occasional evenings and weekends.

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