Akiba Yavneh Academy is a vibrant co-educational college preparatory Jewish day school that embraces students from the early childhood years through the 12th grade. Although the school began sixty years ago, AYA is completing the first year of a major transformation to radically improve education outcomes and cost efficiency. In many ways, AYA will be a new school with a new model and a new message to share with the Dallas Jewish community and with communities across America.

AYA is seeking a Director of Marketing & Communications who will craft and distribute the details of our new model to prospective students, their families, potential donors, and the community at large.

This role would include setting the strategy to widen the school’s reach and boosting enrollment by changing the perception of our school both internally and externally. This role goes above and beyond strategy and planning as we need a leader who can also execute the plan. Even though AYA is not a start-up we need an individual that is a self-starter and can wear multiple hats in their approach.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The leadership team member would need to align with the school’s current and future culture and exhibit the following traits:

• Be Entrepreneurial: Acts without being told what to do. Bring new ideas to the team and act on executing those ideas.
• Be a Team Player: Works well with others to establish an overall collaborative working environment.
• Be Strategic: Strategy development is a fundamental component of this role.
• Be Organized and Plan with Purpose: Plans, organizes, schedules, and budgets in an efficient, productive manner. Focuses on key priorities.
• Be a Great Communicator: Communications internally and externally are paramount to hitting our objectives and key results.
• Be Social: Create an active social media presence and effectively utilize modern communications channels.
• Be Persuasive: with the ability to convince others to pursue a course of action.
• Efficiency: Able to produce significant output with minimal wasted efforts or resources.
• Copywriter: Ability to write, draft, and edit communication pieces to effectively tell the AYA story using proper tone, information, and messaging.
• Be techy: Have comfort using Blackbaud, Finalsite, Constant Contact, Adobe Photoshop & other relevant software to effectively and efficiently complete tasks

The above stated traits should lead to the following outcomes:

• Build culture amongst departments creating unity
• Global, comprehensive strategy within the first 60 days (streamline messaging)
• Coordinating people and bringing the team together
• Develop and execute social media strategy within 90 days
• Website changes within 120 days
• Improvement of the tone and reception of all communications whether written, oral, images or electronic.

Marketing and Communications drives admissions, recruitment & donor development. Experience in these areas would be a plus:

• Student and Family Admissions: drive our pipeline for future admissions candidates who are a great match for AYA.
• Recruiting Teachers: augment the work that others are doing to recruit, train, and motivate the best teachers that will not only fit the AYA culture but will help augment the AYA culture and create the best environment for our students.
• Donor Development: develop a strategic plan to help broaden the base of financial support for the school and lead the execution of that plan.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Energized by the educational mission of the school
• Two or more years of leadership experience driving marketing and communications for a small-to-medium-sized business, nonprofit, or school
• Experience working in a fast-growth organization, preferred
• Experience with development, admissions, and/or recruitment, a plus

SALARY AND BENEFITS:

• Salary: $95,000 - $105,000 with growth potential
• Competitive Benefits Package
• Paid time off (including winter break, school religious holidays, and civic holidays)
• Retirement savings match up to 4% of annual salary
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance with substantial employer subsidy offered
• Life, LTD, and STD provided by the school
• A diverse and inclusive work environment
• Professional development opportunities
• Beautiful campus

TO APPLY:

Please visit https://akibayavnehacademy.easyapply.co/to submit your cover letter and resume.