Communications Manager

• Employee discounts
• Health insurance

The Communications Manager will bring a sincere passion for the health and well-being of Illinois’ children and families, and a commitment to ensure every child in Illinois grows up healthy.

Under the supervision of the Chief Operating Officer, the Communications Manager will manage all of ILCHF’s communications strategies designed to drive effective and engaging messages through a multimedia lens. The Communications Manager will amplify community voice, presence, and commitment to healthy children and families. This position will develop best practices for content development and dissemination, lead internal and external communications, ensure brand and messaging alignment, and oversee ILCHF’s website and social media presence.

In addition, the Communications Manager will work closely with the entire ILCHF team and interact with both potential and current grantee recipients and other stakeholders including funders, research partners, the ILCHF Board of Directors, etc. building and enhancing relationships that heighten the visibility of the impact made through partnerships and advances the mission of Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation.

• Implement and Annually Develop a communications plan that identifies strategic priorities, amplifies core messages, and conveys compelling content and stories through a multimedia lens.
• Enhance ILCHF’s brand to center grantee partners’ voices across various platforms and engage diverse community audiences.
• Maintain and evolve procedures, guidelines, and other marketing-related processes to ensure brand and messaging alignment internally and externally.
• Assess and evaluate ILCHF’s marketing and communication strategies periodically to ensure delivery of results.
• Monitor market trends and interpret results to inform grantmaking and communication strategies.
• Develop awareness and knowledge of inclusive language best practices and principles and implement them consistently across all communications.

• Ensure ILCHF’s website aligns with the organizational priorities, brand, tone, and messaging and is updated accordingly regarding revisions, additions to Request for Proposals (RFP) descriptions, document links, images, and content reflecting RFP opportunities.
• Design and Manage ILCHF’s social media plan and presence increasing visibility of the vital work of ILCHF’s grantee partners.
• Create communication materials across various channels, including email, web, print, presentations, and social media.
• Gather data from various sources such as website analytics, social media insights and customer relationship management (CRM) systems to help inform communications optimizations.
• Public Relations
• Cultivate and manage relationships with multimedia contacts, serve as point person for media inquiries, and act on opportunities for earned media.

• Assist and collaborate with graphic designer to prepareILCHF’s Annual Report summarizing key report findings and strategic implications for internal and external audiences.
• Provide copy editing for both internal and external ILCHF’s documents, including white papers, articles, research reports and other documents.
• Design event promotional and supporting materials, such as brochures, flyers, agendas, presentations, email campaigns, website content, and social media campaigns to effectively reach target audiences.
• Collaborate and develop all external communications including, not limited to, one-pagers, bi-monthly newsletters, briefs, presentations, closed grants report, grant initiatives reports, press releases, speeches, etc.