Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications

Responsibilities

• Marketing & Brand Strategy
• Grow Hillel's global marketing function, bringing strategic focus, creativity, and momentum to a high-growth area.
• Strengthen Hillel's brand positioning across a competitive market landscape, encompassing campus, community, students, parents, and stakeholders.
• Increase student awareness, relevance, and engagement nationally, operating effectively within a modest budget.
• Infuse creativity, innovation, and strategic thinking into marketing efforts and brand building opportunities across channels and audiences.
• Communications, Reputation & Crisis Leadership
• Serve as a senior organizational leader on communications strategy, including crisis response related to campus antisemitism, and other high-profile and sensitive topics.
• Provide sound judgment and strategic counsel on high-stakes, reputational matters.
• Anticipate how messaging will land with diverse audiences, including students, campus professionals, donors, boards, and university leaders.
• Collaborate closely with Legal, Campus Affairs, executive leadership, and external advisors to ensure coordinated, disciplined communications.
• Direct-Response Fundraising
• Ensure strong leadership, culture, and accountability while empowering experienced leaders to manage day-to-day execution.
• Align fundraising communications with enterprise brand and messaging strategy.
• Support the continued success and growth of Hillel International's grassroots movement-wide fundraising consulting services and partner with senior leadership to evaluate the future structure and evolution of the function.
• Executive Leadership & Organizational Partnership
• Lead and develop a distributed team of nearly 40 professionals across marketing, communications, and fundraising consulting.
• Oversee senior leaders who independently manage large, multi-layered teams.
• Serve as a key member of the senior leadership team, partnering closely with the CEO, CEAO, and other executives.
• Represent Hillel externally with credibility, nuance, and executive presence while thriving in a complex, high-accountability environment.
• Qualifications & Experience
• The SVP will bring:
• Senior & People Leadership: 15+ years of progressive senior leadership experience across marketing and communications, with related experience in fundraising and a strong track record of leading and developing large, multi-layered teams in complex, distributed organizations .
• Strategic Marketing & Brand Vision: Demonstrated strategic marketing acumen, including brand positioning, deep channel and audience fluency and operating effectively within resource constraints, with experience providing brand stewardship across complex, distributed organizations.
• Crisis Communications & Judgment: Significant experience navigating crisis communications, reputational risk, and high-stakes issues requiring sound judgment, speed, and discretion.
• Jewish Communal & College Campuses: Sophisticated understanding of the Jewish communal ecosystem and campus dynamics, including political nuance; candidates without direct Jewish professional experience will be considered only with significant, relevant lay leadership exposure.
• Board & Executive Presence: Comfort working closely with boards, senior lay leaders, and executive stakeholders, with the ability to influence, advise, and communicate credibly at the highest levels.
• Emotional Intelligence & Leadership Style: High emotional intell

Benefits

Additional Information

Applications submitted through the Hillel International website will NOT be considered. To apply, please submit your application through the Sandler Search website linked HERE . Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications Hillel International Role Overview Hillel International seeks a Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications (SVP, M&C) to lead an exciting, high-impact portfolio encompassing marketing, communications, and a large direct-response fundraising unit. Reporting directly to the Chief External Affairs Officer and serving as a key member of the senior leadership team, this executive will manage three direct reports and a team of nearly 40 professionals. The SVP, M&C must bring exceptional leadership, judgment, and cultural fluency with the ability to operate in a nuanced ecosystem. This leader will be a central partner in crisis communications, marketing and brand strategy, and organizational alignment, balancing urgency with long-term strategy. For more information about this important work and vision, explore Hillel's new strategic plan for 2025-2028. Location : Remote, East Coast or Central Time preferred

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