Blue Star Families

Blue Star Families

Director, External Communications

Washington, DC · Director · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$87k-$120kDetected 9 days ago
ResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationPublic SpeakingOrganizational Skills

About the role

  • A Blue Star Family is one with an immediate family member - a spouse, parent, or child - actively serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, including the Guard and Reserves.
  • These families face unique challenges: frequent relocations, deployments, career disruption, and isolation.
  • The ideal candidate is a strategic, highly organized leader who can balance vision and execution-successfully managing multiple priorities while delivering results in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

  • Build cross-sector partnerships that get things done
  • The Director, External Communications leads Blue Star Families' external visibility efforts across media relations, earned and social media, influencer engagement, and brand partnerships to elevate the organization's national profile, expand awareness of military family issues, and strengthen brand reputation among key audiences and the general public.
  • This role develops and executes integrated communications strategies that advance organizational priorities, advocacy, programs, and fundraising initiatives.
  • Develop and execute earned media strategies that increase awareness of Blue Star Families, its programs, research, and advocacy priorities.
  • Build and maintain relationships with national, regional, military, defense, nonprofit, lifestyle, and mainstream media outlets.
  • As a senior member of the Communications team, the Director manages agency and vendor relationships, cultivates media and influencer partnerships, and drives measurable growth in awareness and engagement.
  • Attendance and participation in these in-person gatherings are necessary to support collaboration, organizational alignment, and the successful performance of essential job responsibilities.
  • Manage the organization's public relations agency and other external communications partners, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and performance expectations.
  • Develop media materials including press releases, media advisories, talking points, key messages, briefing documents, and spokesperson preparation materials.

Compensation

  • Anticipated Pay Range at Commencement of Employment:: $87,000 - $120,000
  • Each year, we support over 1.5 million military- and veteran-connected family members through a national network of 300,000+ members and local chapters in communities across the country.
  • Team members are required to travel several times per year to attend meetings, trainings, offsites, and events.

Benefits

  • Monitor news cycles and identify opportunities to proactively position Blue Star Families in relevant conversations and coverage.

Company info

  • We make military life awesome for families.
  • We listen, share, partner, and act to deliver evidence-based, data-driven solutions that work for real people.
  • We're a lifestyle organization, a friend and neighbor, and a trusted partner.
  • Our approach is collaborative, human-centered, and designed with the whole family in mind.
  • In-person community engagement is an essential function of the role and is necessary to support relationship-building, program delivery, event execution, and the successful performance of essential job responsibilities.
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