Managing Director, Marketing, Communications and Engagement

Position Overview

The Commit Partnership is the nation’s largest education-focused collective impact organization, uniting over 200 partners—including school districts, higher educational institutions, nonprofits, businesses, and government leaders—to advance economic mobility through education. Powered by both local and national philanthropy, Commit has spent the past 13 years helping to transform education outcomes in Dallas County and across Texas, driving toward a North Star goal that by 2040, all 25‑34‑year‑old Dallas County residents earn at least a living wage.

Key to Commit’s success is a robust, strategic marketing, communication, and stakeholder engagement effort developing content, activating, and influencing stakeholders, and continuously building partnerships and momentum around the impact of public education systems change.

Commit seeks an experienced marketing and communications leader to join our leadership team as the Managing Director of Marketing, Communications, and Engagement to play a pivotal role overseeing all marketing, branding, events/convenings, and communication functions.

This is a unique opportunity for a strategic, ambitious leader who thrives at the intersection of storytelling, data, and impact. You will serve as a chief architect of Commit’s public narrative, helping to elevate the region’s collective efforts while building and executing strategic events and engagement to activate external stakeholders, to ensure every young person—regardless of race, income, or background—has the opportunity to earn a living wage.

Salary Range: $150,000‑$182,000 + a bonus of up to 20%.

• In partnership with the Executive Leadership Team, establish and execute a long‑term vision and multi‑year strategic stakeholder engagement and communications plan to increase awareness, influence, and impact across diverse audiences (educators, policymakers, funders, community partners, and the public).
• Align marketing, engagement, and communication strategies with Commit’s priority educational systems—Effective Talent, Academic Readiness, and Postsecondary Access & Success—to ensure narrative coherence and measurable results.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to the CEO, President, COO, and senior leadership, providing counsel on messaging, brand reputation, public relations, and external stakeholder engagement.
• Drive strategic framing and influence across internal and external audiences, synthesizing data, values, and stories to build understanding and inspire action.

• Lead multi‑year comprehensive campaigns in collaboration with numerous external partners to increase regional and statewide outcomes focused on effective educator talent, instructional systems and quality, college and career‑readiness, postsecondary access and success, and others as identified.
• Serve as a Marketing and Communications consultant for Education is Freedom, dedicating approximately 25% of time to developing and executing strategic marketing and communication plans that advance shared impact goals.
• Build and manage a network of strategic partners and vendors (media, PR, creative agencies, researchers, etc.) to amplify storytelling and extend capacity.
• Develop and cultivate relationships with media partners, school district communication leaders, and other marketing, communication, and engagement peers across the ecosystem.
• Build and leverage a Marketing and Communications Advisory Committee providing additional expertise and capacity.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of six professionals, fostering a culture of ownership, creativity, high expectations, and continuous learning.
• Serve on the Executive Leadership team providing marketing, communications, and activation expertise and guidance while representing the Marketing, Communications, and Engagement Team.
• Build systems and processes that support effective execution, cross‑team collaboration, and alignment with organizational goals.
• Model inclusive, trust‑based leadership that reinforces Commit’s culture of joy,…