Manager, EngageKY Communications and Engagement

Position Title:

Manager, EngageKY Communications and Engagement Position Type:
Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

About the Role:

EngageKY is seeking a creative, strategic, and relationship-driven Manager of Communications and Engagement to help tell our story, grow our impact, and strengthen our connections across Kentucky. This role brings together communications, marketing, events, program strategy, and stakeholder engagement to increase awareness of EngageKY's work and create new opportunities for growth and partnership. The ideal candidate is both a big-picture thinker and a hands-on doer who can develop compelling stories and campaigns, create engaging digital and print content, lead high-quality events, build meaningful partnerships, and use data to understand what is working.

If you enjoy turning great ideas into action and want to use your skills to support programs that strengthen communities across Kentucky, we’d love to hear from you.

The Manager of Communications and Engagement provides strategic leadership for EngageKY's communications, marketing, external engagement, events, and program advancement efforts. Working closely with the Executive Director and organizational leadership, the Manager helps translate EngageKY's strategic priorities into initiatives that strengthen programs, expand partnerships, increase organizational visibility, and demonstrate impact. The position uses data, storytelling, relationship development, and strategic communications to advance EngageKY's mission and support sustainable organizational growth.

• Develop and implement a comprehensive communications and marketing strategy aligned with EngageKY's mission, programs, and growth priorities.
• Create integrated, multi-channel communications plans across web, email, social media, CRM, print, and other platforms.
• Translate organizational goals and program outcomes into compelling stories and measurable communications initiatives.
• Lead organizational messaging, storytelling, brand positioning, and content strategy.
• Manage content development and distribution across EngageKY's digital platforms and public-facing communications.
• Oversee the development, design, and distribution of annual reports, impact reports, promotional materials, presentations, and other organizational collateral.
• Create print and digital materials, including brochures, booklets, handbooks, displays, programs, posters, social media graphics, web content, and email campaigns.
• Maintain EngageKY's website content and coordinate updates and improvements as needed.
• Ensure consistent application of EngageKY's brand identity, voice, logos, graphics, and messaging across organizational materials.
• Monitor communications and engagement analytics and use results to refine strategies and increase reach and effectiveness.

• Assist in the planning and execution of EngageKY external events from initial concept through implementation, evaluation, and follow-up.
• Develop event strategies, project plans, budgets, sponsorship models, timelines, staffing plans, and promotional strategies.
• Coordinate with program and operations staff on logistics, vendors, technology, registration, accessibility, and other event needs.
• Support the planning and promotion of training events and other program-related experiences as needed.
• Oversee event communications, marketing, sponsorship visibility, participant engagement, and post-event stewardship.
• Ensure events support EngageKY’s broader programmatic, advancement, partnership, and brand objectives.
• Develop appropriate risk management and contingency plans for major events.
• Coordinate virtual, hybrid, and in-person event experiences.
• Evaluate events using financial, participation,…