Manager, EngageKY Communications and Engagement

NKU Beta Gamma Sigma•Highland Heights, KY

6d•$42,549

About The Position

EngageKY is seeking a creative, strategic, and relationship-driven Manager of Communications and Engagement to help tell our story, grow our impact, and strengthen our connections across Kentucky. This role brings together communications, marketing, events, program strategy, and stakeholder engagement to increase awareness of EngageKY’s work and create new opportunities for growth and partnership. The ideal candidate is both a big-picture thinker and a hands-on doer who can develop compelling stories and campaigns, create engaging digital and print content, lead high-quality events, build meaningful partnerships, and use data to understand what is working. If you enjoy turning great ideas into action and want to use your skills to support programs that strengthen communities across Kentucky, we’d love to hear from you. The Manager of Communications and Engagement provides strategic leadership for EngageKY’s communications, marketing, external engagement, events, and program advancement efforts. Working closely with the Executive Director and organizational leadership, the Manager helps translate EngageKY’s strategic priorities into initiatives that strengthen programs, expand partnerships, increase organizational visibility, and demonstrate impact. The position uses data, storytelling, relationship development, and strategic communications to advance EngageKY’s mission and support sustainable organizational growth.

Requirements

Creative, strategic, and relationship-driven
Big-picture thinker and a hands-on doer
Ability to develop compelling stories and campaigns
Ability to create engaging digital and print content
Ability to lead high-quality events
Ability to build meaningful partnerships
Ability to use data to understand what is working
Strategic leadership for communications, marketing, external engagement, events, and program advancement
Ability to translate strategic priorities into initiatives
Ability to use data, storytelling, relationship development, and strategic communications
Experience with web, email, social media, CRM, print, and other platforms
Experience managing content development and distribution
Experience overseeing the development, design, and distribution of reports, promotional materials, presentations, and other organizational collateral
Experience creating print and digital materials
Experience maintaining website content and coordinating updates
Experience ensuring consistent application of brand identity, voice, logos, graphics, and messaging
Experience monitoring communications and engagement analytics
Experience in event planning and execution
Experience developing event strategies, project plans, budgets, sponsorship models, timelines, staffing plans, and promotional strategies
Experience coordinating with program and operations staff on logistics, vendors, technology, registration, accessibility, and other event needs
Experience supporting the planning and promotion of training events and other program-related experiences
Experience overseeing event communications, marketing, sponsorship visibility, participant engagement, and post-event stewardship
Experience developing risk management and contingency plans for major events
Experience coordinating virtual, hybrid, and in-person event experiences
Experience evaluating events
Experience coordinating organizational representation and messaging
Experience managing newsletter and social media channels
Experience serving as a connector across programs

Responsibilities

Develop and implement a comprehensive communications and marketing strategy aligned with EngageKY’s mission, programs, and growth priorities.
Create integrated, multi-channel communications plans across web, email, social media, CRM, print, and other platforms.
Translate organizational goals and program outcomes into compelling stories and measurable communications initiatives.
Lead organizational messaging, storytelling, brand positioning, and content strategy.
Manage content development and distribution across EngageKY’s digital platforms and public-facing communications.
Oversee the development, design, and distribution of annual reports, impact reports, promotional materials, presentations, and other organizational collateral.
Create print and digital materials, including brochures, booklets, handbooks, displays, programs, posters, social media graphics, web content, and email campaigns.
Maintain EngageKY’s website content and coordinate updates and improvements as needed.
Ensure consistent application of EngageKY’s brand identity, voice, logos, graphics, and messaging across organizational materials.
Monitor communications and engagement analytics and use results to refine strategies and increase reach and effectiveness.
Assist in the planning and execution of EngageKY external events from initial concept through implementation, evaluation, and follow-up.
Develop event strategies, project plans, budgets, sponsorship models, timelines, staffing plans, and promotional strategies.
Coordinate with program and operations staff on logistics, vendors, technology, registration, accessibility, and other event needs.
Support the planning and promotion of training events and other program-related experiences as needed.
Oversee event communications, marketing, sponsorship visibility, participant engagement, and post-event stewardship.
Ensure events support EngageKY’s broader programmatic, advancement, partnership, and brand objectives.
Develop appropriate risk management and contingency plans for major events.
Coordinate virtual, hybrid, and in-person event experiences.
Evaluate events using financial, participation, engagement, partnership, and relationship-based measures of success.
Coordinate organizational representation and messaging to ensure EngageKY presents a consistent and compelling public presence.
Manage newsletter and social media channels to connect with stakeholders.
Serve as a connector across programs to identify opportunities for shared communications, partnerships, events, and organizational storytelling.
Performs other duties as assigned and contributes to a collaborative organizational culture focused on service, innovation, accountability, and measurable community impact.