Digital Communications Officer

Digital Communications Officer

Organizational Background

The Greater New Orleans Foundation has been a trusted philanthropic leader in the 13-parish Greater New Orleans region for 100 years. Our vision is to create an economically and culturally vibrant, sustainable, and just region for all, and our mission is to champion charitable giving, strengthen nonprofits, and lead civic initiatives in the Greater New Orleans region. As a community foundation, our resources are comprised of more than 1,000 charitable funds established by individuals, businesses, and organizations with a passion for charitable giving and a deep commitment to the Greater New Orleans region. As a civic leader, we bring together passionate people from nonprofits, business, government, and philanthropy to address our region’s greatest challenges.

The Foundation is an inspiring, engaging, challenging, thought-provoking, diverse, and dynamic place to work and advance your career. We pride ourselves on investing in high quality staff members and encouraging success by allowing individuals the opportunity to both contribute and enhance their skills and talents as well as to share their unique perspective as we address community challenges. Our workplace environment nurtures a diverse team and results in a broad base of staff knowledge and talent.

Position Summary

The Digital Communications Officer plays a key role in developing and executing the brand strategy and organizational messaging for the Greater New Orleans Foundation. The Digital Communications Officer is thoughtful, collaborative, and creative and has a broad set of skills that will allow for the creation and implementation of the Foundation’s overall communication efforts. Specific skillsets may include experience in public relations, social media management and content creation, graphic design, and website development and management.

The Digital Communications Officer is a member of the Communications & Public Affairs Team and reports to the Vice President for Communication & Public Affairs.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to :

Support the daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly communication efforts of the Foundation by performing the following functions :

Overall Foundation Communication Efforts

• Assist in disseminating and implementing a general communications plan for the Foundation.
• With the support of team members, build, maintain, and enhance the Foundation’s media and stakeholder email distribution lists.
• Help ensure written content follows the Foundation’s stylistic guidelines, strategic approach to communications, and is accurate and free of grammatical errors.
• Thoughtfully plan, write, and execute segmented email communications incorporating the Foundation’s external communication and public affairs strategy.
• Utilize the Adobe Creative Suite to identify and develop future content that can be used to promote the Foundation’s efforts
• Develop the Foundation’s correspondence for digital communications.
• Build and maintain an effective database of images and video for use in multiple locations and for a variety of purposes.

Internal Communications, Marketing and Support

External Communications and Marketing

Public Affairs

Remain Flexible about Work Assignments :

Skills and Experience Requirements :

Professional Conduct :

The Digital Communications Officer will maintain high standards of professional conduct, both internally with colleagues and externally with other audiences. This includes :

Compensation & Benefits

Salary commensurate with experience; salary range starts at $65,000. This position is exempt, and the employee will be eligible for the Foundation’s competitive health and benefits plan including paid leave and employer-paid retirement.

Application Instructions and Additional Information :

The Greater New Orleans Foundation provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.