Senior Director, Strategic Communications & Public Relations

Director, Strategic Communications & Public Relations

Organization:
Our Rescue
Department:
Marketing & Communications

Reports To:

SVP of Marketing & Communications

Location:

Minneapolis–St. Paul, MN or Salt Lake City, UT preferred;
Remote considered for exceptional candidates

Employment Type:

Full-Time | Exempt

Our Rescue is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to ending sex trafficking and child sexual exploitation worldwide. We do this by partnering with law enforcement agencies domestically and internationally to identify, arrest, and prosecute traffickers, provide care for survivors and advance prevention and trainings. We mobilize communities, equip frontline responders, and drive lasting systemic change to protect the most vulnerable.

The Director, of Communications Strategy & Public Relations is a strategic, mission-driven communications leader, responsible for stewarding the voice, narrative, and public reputation of Our Rescue. This role owns the organization’s core messaging architecture, content strategy, and media engagement efforts while serving as lead for thought leadership content, reputational management, and crisis communications. Reporting to the SVP of Marketing & Communications, this role is crucial in managing both internal and external communications, enhancing the organization's reputation, and engaging key stakeholders, employees, donors, and the public.

The Director will guide a multidisciplinary communications function that integrates brand storytelling, digital content, social media, media relations, and executive visibility to advance Our Rescue’s mission, authority, and fundraising goals. This role will leverage strong connections with regional, national and international media outlets, to elevate the organization’s visibility and impact. All work in this role must be executed through a survivor-centered, trauma-informed lens ensuring that every story, message, and media engagement upholds the dignity, safety, and agency of survivors while advancing the mission with integrity.

• Maintain and evolve Our Rescue’s core messaging architecture across all external and internal communication channels.
• Ensure consistent brand voice, tone, and narrative alignment across digital platforms, campaigns, donor communications, training programs, and executive communications.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on public positioning, narrative risk, and reputational strategy.

• Lead strategic content strategy, including web, editorial, social, and donor storytelling.
• Partner closely with SVP of Marketing/Communications lead, Digital Team, Content Team, Creative Services, and Development teams to ensure content drives awareness, engagement, and revenue conversion.
• Guide SEO-aligned website and editorial strategy to maximize discoverability, authority, and donor acquisition.

• Own management of all brand content and organizational reputation across platforms, including online reputational and informational sites.
• Monitor brand sentiment, public perception, and narrative risk, responding proactively to protect organizational trust and credibility.
• Ensure governance, accuracy, and consistency across all public-facing content and profiles.

• Lead donor communication strategies to support acquisition, retention, and re-engagement through newsletters, recognition programs, and campaign communications.
• Develop and manage strategic partner communication plans in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
• Support internal communication strategies to promote transparency, engagement, and organizational alignment.

• Lead research, development, and activation of Our Rescue’s thought leadership strategy across the pillars of law enforcement support, survivor care, and Training & Prevention.
• Develop executive and subject‑matter‑expert speaker platforms for conferences, panels, media appearances, and public forums.
• Identify emerging social, technological, and…