Director Of Marketing And Communications

Description

When you join Forman, you become part of a community that believes every student deserves an education built around how they learn best. Forman School is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory school for boarding and day students with identified learning differences, founded in 1930 and located in Litchfield, Connecticut. Our faculty and staff help students become educated, confident self-advocates who carry that confidence well beyond graduation.

Forman offers a competitive salary and benefits package, a collaborative and mission-driven work environment, and the chance to help tell one of the most compelling stories in independent education: how Forman transforms the lives of students who learn differently.

12-month Position
· Annually Renewable Administrative Contract

Reporting to the Director of Advancement, the Director of Marketing and Communications is a strategic leader who shapes and elevates Forman School’s brand, reputation, and voice. As the leader of a two-person marketing and communications team, the Director serves as a trusted advisor to the Head of School, Associate Head of School, and senior leadership, and partners closely with the Admission, Advancement, and Academic teams to build integrated marketing and communications strategies that advance the School’s mission and strategic priorities.

Forman seeks an innovative, collaborative, and entrepreneurial communications leader who combines visionary strategy with skilled storytelling, someone who can translate the School’s distinctive strengths into compelling narratives that inspire prospective families, engage alumni and donors, strengthen community pride, and position Forman as the nation’s leading school for students who learn differently. The successful candidate will pair creativity with data-informed decision-making, ensuring that every communication reinforces Forman’s mission, supports enrollment and philanthropy, and builds a cohesive, authentic, forward-looking institutional brand.

This includes elevating original, research-based work coming out of Forman’s Cognition and Learning Center, such as the Quinn Assessment Center at Forman and Executive Function (EF) the Forman Way, for audiences well beyond our current families.

Forman's mission is to transform the lives of students who learn differently, helping them discover strengths that too often go unseen elsewhere. Forman develops the whole student, based on each individual's learning profile, so that all graduates become educated, confident self-advocates throughout life.

Forman is committed to sustaining an inclusive environment that fosters a deeper understanding of differences in race, gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, geographical origin, physical ability, and family structure.

We believe society is bettered when we learn from and embrace those with different experiences and perspectives from our own. Our community values truth, respect, and kindness.

Across the areas below, the Director's work should consistently reinforce Forman’s central story: how the School transforms the lives of students who learn differently by helping them become educated, confident self-advocates. Every strategy, publication, campaign, and channel should be built to carry that narrative to the audience that needs to hear it.

• Translate the Head of School's and senior leadership's strategic messaging direction into actionable editorial, content, and engagement strategies that reinforce Forman's mission of…