Vice President, Marketing & Communications

Common Cause is seeking a 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.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Collaboratively set goals with 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

Strengthen communication strategy across the organization

• Establish and refine team structures, workflows, and cross-departmental processes to ensure seamless execution
• Build and maintain robust rapid-response systems that allow the organization to mobilize quickly around breaking news and emerging policy issues

• Oversee communications strategies for both national and state-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 State departments

• 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

• 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 distilling complex concepts for a broad audience, and to differentiate communications as needed for various audiences, including executive leadership and board members
• Innovative and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to navigate through ambiguity to achieve goals, and a resourceful approach to solve problems
• Ability to manage and meet deadlines for multiple short- and long-term priorities at once, with high attention to detail; strong organization skills, and the ability to manage your time independently
• A track record of working collaboratively with others, with the ability to build rapport, trust, and credibility with multiple stakeholders with diverse interests
• Ability to navigate organizational and power dynamics, respectfully navigate conflict while maintaining your values, and influence others to adopt changes to 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 record leading high-performing communications and/or digital teams in either the non-profit, advocacy, or private sector
• Experience leading successful marketing campaigns related to democracy and/or civil rights
• Demonstrated knowledge of key media outlets at the national and state level, and ideally you have multiple relationships at those outlets
• Demonstr…