Manager, Communications & Marketing

About Prevent Blindness

Founded in 1908, Prevent Blindness is the nation’s leading not-for-profit, voluntary eye health and safety organization dedicated to fighting blindness and saving sight. Focused on promoting a continuum of vision care through all life stages, Prevent Blindness touches the lives of millions of people each year by promoting eye health, safety, early detection and treatment. As we continue our sight saving mission into the next 100 years, we are fulfilling our vision of prevention through focused attention on our core public health competencies of early detection, patient support, systems enhancement, public policy, research, public awareness, and health education.

The Role

The Manager, Communications & Marketing role at Prevent Blindness works to increase awareness, engagement, and visibility around vision and eye health, while ensuring alignment with organizational priorities. Reporting to the Vice President, Marketing, this full-time role requires the implementation of compelling communications across digital and social media platforms as well as support of the Prevent Blindness graphic design department.

This position is hybrid, requiring 1-2 days per week on-site in our Chicago office, along with occasional travel.

Key Responsibilities

• Develops and implements integrated communications and social media marketing efforts, including:
• Strategizing and managing social media communications channels and campaigns.
• Creating and posting social media content across Prevent Blindness channels including Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn and TikTok.
• Managing paid content, invoicing, and payment processing.
• Producing monthly monitoring reports for social media platforms across all PB channels and establishing goals, key performance indicators, and performance metrics.
• Overseeing Influencer strategies and programs – managing contracts, timelines, deliverables, budgets, and approvals for all projects.
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