Associate Creative Director - DickersonBakker
About The Position
DickersonBakker is seeking an Associate Creative Director (ACD) to provide senior-level creative direction and quality control across direct response fundraising, major gift, and campaign communications. This role serves as a critical layer of creative oversight, ensuring work is polished, accurate, on-brand, and strategically sound before final delivery. The Associate Creative Director role exists to take ownership of the rounds of creative review, approving or redirecting content in all stages of development so senior leaders remain focused on strategic alignment and high-level brand and quality checking. The ideal candidate is an experienced creative professional with sharp editorial judgment, strong design and copy instincts, deep familiarity with direct response fundraising, and an exceedingly high bar for detail and quality. They are confident making decisions, comfortable pushing back when needed, and motivated by elevating work from “good” to “exceptional.”
Requirements
- Experienced creative professional
- Sharp editorial judgment
- Strong design and copy instincts
- Deep familiarity with direct response fundraising
- Exceedingly high bar for detail and quality
- Confident making decisions
- Comfortable pushing back when needed
- Motivated by elevating work from “good” to “exceptional”
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary reviewer and approver for creative work in its final stages, ensuring readiness for client presentation or production.
- Apply a consistently high standard for clarity, accuracy, tone, visual execution, and alignment with strategy.
- Make informed decisions to approve, refine, or redirect creative before it reaches senior leadership.
- Ensure creative work reflects client brand, donor psychology, and direct response best practices.
- Provide hands-on creative direction across copy and design for direct mail, email, digital, video, and integrated campaigns.
- Review and refine messaging, layouts, and storytelling to strengthen donor engagement and response.
- Partner with writers, designers, and freelancers to improve work quality through clear, actionable feedback.
- Ensure creative briefs and concepts are executed faithfully and effectively.
- Write video outlines to detail concepts and then execution for video needs like CTV, digital ads, and campaign videos.
- Prep for upcoming shoots with details like schedules, shot lists, and communication.
- Draft interview questions to help guide video requests
- Catch errors, inconsistencies, or strategic misalignment before work reaches clients or production.
- Protect the organization from last-minute creative risk through disciplined review and attention to detail.
- Ensure compliance with client requirements, legal considerations, and internal standards.
- Reduce rework and escalation by resolving issues at the appropriate level.
- Collaborate closely with Creative Services leadership, Digital, Project Management, Account, and Production teams to support smooth execution.
- Serve as a reliable creative partner who understands timelines, constraints, and operational realities.
- Maintain clear communication around approvals, revisions, and decision rationale.
- Help uphold and reinforce creative standards, best practices, and brand consistency across Fundraising Solutions.
- Identify recurring creative issues or gaps and recommend improvements to workflows or guidelines.
- Stay current on trends in fundraising, marketing, and creative execution relevant to nonprofit audiences.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
