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SUMMARY DESCRIPTION
The Ford Foundation’s Office of Communications team is hiring a Creative Director (CD) to oversee all aspects of the foundation’s brand identity, including strategic planning and creative content. Reporting to the Vice President of Global Communications, the CD builds internal and external brand standards, ensuring strategic and high-quality audience experiences on various digital and physical environments (including in Ford’s offices around the world); and bringing to fruition the systems needed to successfully help build key audiences over time.
Directly supervising a core team of creative staff and working across multiple stakeholders, the CD will serve as the senior creative leader at the Foundation and will drive the visual output of the Foundation across all platforms including print, digital, social, interior spaces, and multimedia.
A competitive candidate will have a deep understanding of brand strategy, contemporary visual culture, and a drive to do mission-driven work. In addition, they will possess strong leadership and strategic communication skills, problem-solving abilities, and an interest in managing the growth and needs of a high performing team. They will nimbly direct and translate abstract ideas into world-class campaigns, stories, and digital experiences.
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PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
This position is primarily a sedentary role. However, the person in this position may need to occasionally move about inside the office to liaise with internal staff, access files, office machinery and a copy machine/printer.
The Ford Foundation is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its programs, and operations. As part of this commitment, the Foundation will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application process, please contact talentacquisitionhr@fordfoundation.org.
SALARY: The Ford Foundation is committed to practicing salary transparency. The minimum starting salary for this position is $222,000 and the maximum starting salary is $258,000. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of this range. The final offer is determined by a candidate’s relevant experience and our commitment to internal equity. We review global compensation on a regular basis to ensure market competitiveness and equity. The hiring range for this position has been carefully crafted in alignment with the market.
LOCATION: This position is based in the foundation’s New York office. We operate in a hybrid model and require staff to be in the office three days per week.
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Equal employment opportunity and having a diverse staff are fundamental principles at The Ford Foundation, where employment and promotional opportunities are based upon individual capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation/affectional preference, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as established under law. The Ford Foundation does not discriminate against formerly incarcerated individuals.