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Alliance Defending Freedom is an alliance-building legal organization that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith. Please visit www.adflegal.org/about-us/careers to view our Statement of Faith and Doctrinal Distinctives.

Director of Social Media and Multimedia Production

Alliance Defending Freedom is looking for a highly skilled Director of Social Media and Multimedia Production to join us in our Lansdowne, VA office. As the Director of Social Media and Multimedia Productions, you are a vital part of the Communications Team. In this role, you will report to the SVP of Communications and are responsible for leading a team of social media professionals (manager, writer) and multimedia creatives (videography, graphic design, photography).

Your Essential Responsibilities:

In this position, you will:

• Oversee and lead the team of in-house and freelance resources for the creation of digital, multimedia content

• Strategize, direct, supervise, and implement social media content, creative direction, and delivery strategies, working in concert with the Marketing Team

• Ensure that projects are completed with excellence, on time, within budget, and consistent with ADF brand and messaging

• Ensure that all efforts and content are aligned with and/or complimentary to the strategic and communications objectives of the ministry

• Foster and maintain cross-team relationships to ensure strong communication, facilitate positive rapport, and meet ministry needs

• Direct and supervise the creative process and execution of multimedia projects, including collaborating with multiple teams to further ADF objectives

• Provide creative direction for social media and digital creative assets to maximize engagement and meet contemporary multimedia standards (to generate stylistically relevant materials)

• Ensure content consistently and positively represents the ADF brand

• Act as the liaison for the multimedia team to report on current projects, propose creative opportunities, and align bandwidth and needs in strategic consultation with other teams

• Ensure that the social media and multimedia teams are mobilized to respond rapidly to news developments, campaign and social media content needs, and constituent relations initiatives

As a Team Leader, you will:

• Act as a servant leader by training, encouraging, coaching, and developing your Team Members

• Demonstrate and model personal spiritual discipline and assist in the development of a collaborative team environment

• Foster a spirit of trust, innovation, and teamwork on your team

• Meet regularly with your Team Members to discuss their progress and complete performance review discussions

• Approve PTO requests, timecards, and expense reports.

Other Responsibilities (Non-Essential):

• You will be asked to perform related duties or special projects as assigned.

Skills you need to succeed:

Demonstrated proficiency in:

• Superior verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

• Excellent organizational and administrative skills and attention to detail

• Collaborating effectively with cross-team counterparts on multi-aspect projects

• Must be responsible, flexible, and work well in a fast-paced environment

• Creative strategy and content marketing

• Social media management, photography, videography, and graphic design

• Project management skills to ensure timely and proper coordination of content across teams

• Excellent problem-solving skills

• Knowledge of industry best practices for marketing visual content to optimize digital content distribution

Ability to:

• Provide strong leadership and mentorship to a diverse team of professionals

• Successfully collaborate with multiple teams with diverse talents to further objectives

• Lead strategically, cast creative vision, and motivate others to accomplish objectives through servant leadership

• Create multimedia content and assist in the development of projects from beginning to end

• Meet deadlines and oversee multiple ongoing projects

• Be organized and efficient in managing time, projects, people, and priorities

• Relate well to people from diverse backgrounds and skill sets

• Write with excellence by using correct English grammar, spelling, punctuation, and vocabulary

• Understand office practices, procedures, equipment, and software

• Travel approximately 10-20%

Education and/or experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, advertising or equivalent related experience

• 7+ years of communications, marketing, or advertising experience is required

• 7+ years of project management experience is preferred

• Writing/editing/proofreading experience required

• Project Manager Professional or Agile SCRUM credentials a plus, but not required

• Experience with Wrike (or other project management software) a plus

  To be considered for this position, please provide us with your marketing portfolio and/or video demo reel. Also, please provide us with a writing sample. For example: blog post or social media post.

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR AN ORGANIZATION WITH A COMPETITIVE

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS PACKAGE, TOO?

We have it! Alliance Defending Freedom offers team members a competitive compensation and benefits package that includes major medical insurance, dental care, medical and dependent care reimbursement, paid disability, long-term care insurance, and life insurance. We also offer a 401(k) plan with a generous company match. Work and life balance is important to the well-being of our team members. You will receive paid time off (PTO) that starts accruing from your hire date and 11 paid holidays per year.