Note: This position is considered critical by the Office of External Relations and is exempt from the hiring freeze.

Main Work Location: Stanford historic campus

Schedule: Hybrid (at least 2 days per week on site)

About Us

The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability strives to create a future when humans and nature thrive. The school is made up of a three-part structure to drive global impact: Our academic departments and programs educate students and create new knowledge across areas of research that are crucial for advancing the long-term prosperity of the planet and people; Institutes bridge scholarship at Stanford and beyond, bringing multiple viewpoints to bear on urgent challenges; The Sustainability Accelerator drives new policy and technology solutions through a worldwide network of partners who work with our teams to develop solutions at a global scale. The school is dedicated to creating solutions that benefit all people, particularly those most affected by environmental damage and climate change.

For more information on the school, click here.

Position Summary:

The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability (SDSS) seeks a Director of Marketing to oversee and direct internal and external marketing efforts for a complex school with multiple stakeholders and audiences. Leading a team and working with staff colleagues and faculty leadership, you will create and implement integrated strategies to disseminate and amplify the vision, knowledge, and bold aspirations of the school to inspire and inform prospective students, alumni, donors/prospects, media and global leaders across public and private sectors.

This position reports to the Chief Communications and Marketing Officer. The ideal candidate will have a passion for higher education and the expertise necessary to multiply the school's impact through world-class marketing strategies. You will possess deep experience launching successful campaigns, programs and brands, and be a hands-on expert and contributor in creative design, branding, photography and videography.

The ideal candidate must be flexible and agile; able to handle a large volume of projects; possess a high EQ; successful experience working with senior leaders; and have at least 15 years of experience managing a full-service creative agency or an in-house marketing team. You will consistently nurture innovation and creativity, and will mentor, motivate, and develop our talented staff. This candidate will exhibit professional presence and unwavering integrity, and a commitment to strategic leadership and collaboration.

In this role you will:

• Work closely with the CCMO and SDSS leadership to translate the school's vision and team's OKRs into actionable and quantitative marketing plans and strategies to build the SDSS brand globally as a trusted, respected sustainability institute.
• Design and drive the visual and multimedia brand strategy and brand personality for SDSS and its events.
  
  • Design and manage all visual touch points: theme, taglines, presentations, reports, collateral and digital properties.
• Hands-on creative including design, photography, videography, podcast and editing expertise from concept to completion.
  
  • Produce top-tier work moving between print, video, audio production and web design workflows.
  • Expert proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, Audition and Logic Pro
  • Lead art direction on all new video assets, graphics, etc. in support of larger goals
  • Manage and roll out identity and marketing editorial guidelines
  • Oversee video and photography strategy to ensure high quality, alignment on brand guidelines
• Build and oversee strategy and growth plan for social media presence.
• Working with the Director of Communications, create campaign themes and designs based on editorial and event calendar.
• Redesign Intranet homepage
  
  • • Roll out new visual identity on Intranet
    • Provide video tutorials
• Redesign website, manage and maintain.
  
  • • Ensure ADA compliance
    • SEO optimized
    • Create and manage new website governance structure
    • Work with Editorial team to identify featured content on website
• Create and manage new channels, including and not limited to:
  
  • Additional social outlets
  • Podcasts
• Responsibility for department operations including the recruitment, management, development, and retention of staff.
• Select and oversee the department vendor relationships.