Marketing and Communications Coordinator

Foundation for Community Impact Overview:

The Foundation for Community Impact & Healthy Equity is a nonprofit 501(c)3 designated organization based in Ridgeway, SC. Our mission is to transform policies, systems, and practices to create equitable health outcomes in rural underserved communities. We work to build capacity in communities and offer project management, training, and strategy to improve health outcomes. Our organization has vast expertise in the following public health areas: chronic disease prevention and management, nutrition and food access, minority health and health equity and maternal and child health.

We are engaged with local communities and work with them to create relevant and sustainable solutions focused on addressing the social determinants of health. We service the entire state with special focus in the Midlands and Pee Dee areas.

The Foundation seeks a Marketing & Communications Coordinator who will oversee all communications involving the organization including the development and implementation of a communications strategy. This includes a broad and diverse range of channels that portray the Foundation’s mission and values, deepen our community engagement, and tell our story. They are responsible for establishing relationships with media outlets, developing strategic marketing plans, and handling public relations issues that arise internally or externally for several health-focused local and federally funded projects.

This is a remote position with travel to various locations within the State of South Carolina.

• Serve as a media relations expert, responsible for protecting the reputation and telling our story through timely, proactive strategic communications that highlights positive impact of the Foundation’s various initiatives*
• Strategically implement a wide range of communications and outreach initiatives through social media, the Foundation’s website, news media outlets, and online publications.*
• Implements strategic communications initiatives and directives to support the mission, goals, and objectives of the organization while fostering internal communications, public awareness, and community engagement;*
• Creates a process for and implements strategies for the use of content of the Foundations’ social media, website print material and other means of communication, outreach, and engagement for both internal and external communications.*
• Develop an editorial/social media calendar that identifies inflection points and proactive outreach opportunities*
• Lead planning for certain high-profile media events and campaigns, including by identifying media to pitch, preparing leadership with talking points, and generating appropriate material (press releases, media advisories, talking points, etc.) in a timely and organized manner*
• Leverage relationships with journalists from media outlets that reach a variety of different key audiences*
• Responsible for analyzing and communicating with senior leadership about media trends that impact the organization
• Attend, organize, and/or facilitate project meetings, internally and externally.
• Contribute to the development of grant proposals and reports to funders.
• Including attend, organize, and/or facilitate project meetings, internal and external.
• Perform other duties as required.

The ideal candidate will possess many of the following professional and personal abilities, attributes, and experiences:

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations, marketing, journalism, or related field. Multiple years of experience in communications, public relations, or marketing.
• Natural storyteller with excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills, strong judgement,…