Creative Director

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This is a unique opportunity to help introduce the next chapter of B&D’s brand. We’re looking for a hands‑on creative leader who will personally produce exceptional design while establishing the creative vision, standards, and systems needed to bring our evolving identity to life and strengthen the quality and consistency of creative work throughout the organization.

Open to candidates based in Washington, DC or Chicago, IL, with the ability to work on a hybrid basis.

Brailsford & Dunlavey (B&D) is a national planning, development, and program management advisory firm dedicated to bringing community to life through the places where people live, learn, work, and play. B&D partners with institutions, municipalities, and organizations to shape and deliver complex real estate and capital projects, providing strategic insight and end-to-end advisory services across the full project lifecycle.

For more than 30 years, B&D has helped clients translate bold visions into actionable plans and successful outcomes, with particular depth in higher education, K–12, public sector, and sports and entertainment environments. B&D recently joined forces with Project Management Advisors (PMA), bringing together two nationally recognized leaders in program management and real estate advisory services and expanding the capabilities we offer our clients.

This Creative Director will own the visual expression of our brand and help define creative excellence across the firm. As B&D enters its next chapter following a significant merger, this role will help translate our refreshed brand vision into a compelling, cohesive reality, and then take it further by building the systems, standards, tools, and creative practices that enable the brand to take hold across the organization and evolve over time.

This is a highly visible role with influence across external brand building, employer brand, internal communications, industry and practice group marketing, and business development enablement. The Creative Director will help transform complex ideas, research, and business insights into clear, compelling visual communications that differentiate B&D and support the firm's continued growth.

The role begins as a one‑person creative function with no direct reports, making it ideal for someone who is equally energized by setting direction and by doing the work. Over time, this person will help define how the creative function should scale with the business.

What You'll Do

• Own and advance the visual expression of the B&D brand across external and internal channels, ensuring a distinctive and cohesive brand experience.
• Partner with the marketing team to bring the new brand identity to life across the organization.
• Set creative direction for major brand, marketing, communications, and business development initiatives, connecting design decisions to firm strategy, audience needs, and business objectives.
• Serve as a trusted creative advisor who can articulate the rationale behind design recommendations, build alignment among stakeholders, and elevate expectations for creative quality.

• Personally concept, design, and produce high‑priority work across digital, print, presentation, proposal, publication, event, social media, recruiting, and internal communications channels.
• Develop sophisticated, engaging presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint, using advanced features, multimedia, and other capabilities to strengthen storytelling and audience engagement.
• Elevate proposals, qualifications, interview presentations, and other business development materials to communicate complex ideas clearly and help B&D compete more…