Communications Director

Princeton Alliance Church • Plainsboro, NJ

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Communications Director role is a single-contributor position focused on owning the church-wide communications strategy, ensuring alignment with PAC's mission, vision, and ministry calendar. This role involves setting messaging priorities, managing the communications calendar, and creating content across various digital channels. A key aspect of the job is protecting and strengthening PAC's brand, visual identity, and voice, while also recruiting, training, and coordinating volunteers and contractors to expand the reach of communications efforts. The Director will lead communication projects from concept to completion, provide consultation to ministries, and partner with other pastors to enhance communication with guests. Performance tracking and budget management are also core responsibilities, alongside modeling PAC's staff culture.

Requirements

• Personal, growing Christian faith and full alignment with PAC's mission, beliefs, and C&MA doctrinal commitments.
• 3+ years in communications, marketing, or digital content, including ownership of an organization's public channels.
• Excellent writing and editing, with the judgment to shift voice across audiences without losing the organization's own.
• Demonstrated project management across many concurrent requests, stakeholders, and deadlines.
• Experience managing a website and digital platforms, including content updates, user experience, and basic functionality.
• Working knowledge of graphic design, video editing, and digital content creation.
• Experience recruiting, developing, and leading volunteers or contractors.
• Sound public-facing judgment, including recognizing which messages need review before publishing and which errors need a correction rather than a stealthy edit.
• Pastoral sensitivity when communicating during crisis, loss, or organizational change.
• Successful completion of a background check and PAC's child safety training prior to start.

Nice To Haves

• Degree or formal training in communications, marketing, journalism, or design, or equivalent years of relevant experience.
• Experience in a church, nonprofit, or other mission-driven organization.
• Analytics and reporting experience, including turning platform data into a recommendation someone can act on.
• Experience leading a rebrand or a significant visual identity refresh.
• Familiarity with Planning Center Online.
• Experience using AI tools responsibly in a content workflow, including knowing where they do not belong.

Responsibilities

• Own church-wide communications strategy, aligned to PAC's mission, vision, and ministry calendar.
• Set messaging priorities across ministries, events, and campaigns, and maintain the annual communications calendar and planning rhythm.
• Plan, write, edit, and publish content across social media, the website, email, YouTube, and other digital channels, including weekly email communications and the digital publishing schedule.
• Own the church website, mobile app, and digital communication platforms, maintaining content, improving user experience, implementing new pages and functionality, and managing related integrations.
• Protect and strengthen PAC's brand, visual identity, and voice.
• Maintain brand standards across ministries, and review significant or large-scale materials for clarity, accuracy, consistency, and tone.
• Recruit, train, and coordinate volunteers, contractors, and creative contributors, including photographers, videographers, writers, and designers, equipping them to deliver defined work so the function's output is larger than one person's hours.
• Oversee social media strategy and media distribution, including YouTube livestreams, sermon publishing, clips, and event video, coordinating with the Tech Director on streaming and the video archive.
• Lead communication projects from concept through completion, coordinating pastors, ministry leaders, production teams, volunteers, and contractors, and developing workflows, timelines, and standard operating procedures that make the work repeatable.
• Provide communications consultation to ministries and support leadership with clear communication during organizational change or sensitive situations.
• Partner with the Adult Ministries Pastor to strengthen communication with first-time guests and online visitors, so the digital front door and the physical one tell the same story.
• Track performance and improve on it. Monitor engagement, reach, and campaign effectiveness across platforms, and recommend changes grounded in data and ministry goals rather than in preference.
• Manage the communications budget, maintain an organized digital asset library, and evaluate and responsibly implement AI tools that improve quality, creativity, and efficiency in line with PAC's standards.
• Model and reinforce PAC's staff culture, including with the volunteers and contractors who represent PAC's voice in public.

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick, Personal, Mission Trips, Parental Leave, Personal Solitude Days)
• Health Insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA); PAC subsidizes 85% of employees' insurance premiums!
• 403(b) Retirement Plan with up to 3% employer matching contribution
• Continuing Education Benefits
• Sabbatical/Extended Rest after 5 years of service
• 10 Paid Holidays/year
• Relocation Reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree