Vice President, Marketing & Communications

Common Cause isseekinga dynamic and strategic

Vice President of Marketing and Communications to lead our national messaging, brand identity, and digital presence. Reporting directly to the Senior Vice President of External Affairs, you will serve as a key leader and connective tissue across departments, driving integrated campaigns—including our strategic priorities—that amplify our mission, mobilize supporters, and defend democracy.

This is a full-time role reporting to the Senior Vice President, External Affairs; this role is based in Washington, DC, with an expectation to come into our office at least 2 days per week. We hope our new Vice President will start in November.

• Set and drive the strategy to reach our organizational communications goals
• Define and execute a comprehensive, integrated marketing, communications, and digital strategy that expands external audience reach
• Lead Common Cause’s transition toward a fully digital-first communications model, driving measurable growth across digital platforms
• Propose and pilot innovative initiatives, testing new channels and messaging strategies to achieve core organizational goals
• Advise the Senior Vice President, External Affairs, and other senior leaders on communication opportunities, risks, and emerging developments

Manage the Marketing & Communications teams

• Manage the digital, marketing, and communication functions within the External Affairs department
• Collaboratively set goalswith direct reports, coach and develop them towards these goals and support their career progression and retention at Common Cause
• Foster an inclusive culture of accountability across the team

• Establish and refine team structures, workflows, and cross-departmental processes to ensure seamless execution
• Build andmaintainrobust rapid-response systems that allow the organization tomobilize quicklyaround breaking news and emerging policy issues
• Oversee communications strategies for both national andstate-level priority campaigns, covering media relations, messaging guidance, graphic design, social media, and content creation
• Serve as the primary communications and marketing liaison to senior internal stakeholders across Policy & Litigation, Campaigns & Organizing, and Statedepartments
• Ensure clear, proactive communication across teams so national priorities and state-specific efforts reinforce each other
• Represent Common Cause in coalition meetings to advance our communication strategy across our work

You will thrive in this role if you have:

• A strong commitment to Common Cause’s nonpartisan mission and to advancing civil rights through our pro-democracy agenda
• Ability to compel action through both written and verbal communication,including distillingcomplex concepts for a broad audience, andtodifferentiate communications as needed forvariousaudiences, including executive leadership and board members
• Innovative and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to navigate through ambiguityto achieve goals, and a resourceful approach to solve problems
• Ability to manageand meetdeadlinesformultipleshort- andlong-term priorities at once, with high attention to detail; strong organization skills, andtheability to manage your time independently
• A track recordof working collaboratively with others, with the ability tobuild rapport, trust, and credibility with multiple stakeholders with diverse interests
• Ability to navigate organizational and powerdynamics,respectfully navigate conflict whilemaintainingyour values,andinfluenceothers to adopt changesto meet common goals
• A commitment to equity in the goals of your work and in how you work with others
• Openness to feedback and awareness of your own strengths and areas for growth
• Familiarity with office productivity tools including Microsoft Office and Zoom

• Proven track recordleading high-performing communications and/or digital teams in either the non-profit, advocacy, or private sector
• Experience leadingsuccessfulmarketing campaigns related todemocracy and/or civil rights
• Demonstratedknowledge of key media outlets at the national and state level, and ideally you…