Creative Director

Role Summary

BGV is an NGO, dedicated to providing Black/Brown woman-identifying founders with access to community, capital, and capacity building in order to meet business milestones that lead to economic advancement through entrepreneurship.

Responsibilities

• Providing strategy and direction for marketing campaigns, concepting and moodboarding.
• Planning organization advertisements, monitoring brand campaigns, revising presentations, and shaping brand standards.
• Work with the brand team to produce new ideas for company branding, promotional campaigns, and marketing communications.
• Evaluate trends, assess new data and keep up-to-date with the latest marketing techniques.
• Create and implement tailored marketing plans based on individual client requirements.
• Direct brainstorming meetings and creative sessions.
• Shape brand standards and create procedures to ensure all products are brand appropriate.
• Supervise the department's daily workflow, assign project workload, and monitor deadlines and budgets.
• Develop exceptional and well-crafted copy that meet clients’ requirements.
• Manage the creative process from concept to completion
• Translate marketing objectives into clear creative strategies
• Lead and direct the creative team in the production of all marketing collateral
• Ensure visual communication and brand standards are met
• Oversee client pitches and proposals
• Oversee profitability, deliverables, timelines and budgets
• Meet with clients or upper management to explain campaign strategies and solutions
• Review work, troubleshoot and provide feedback to creative teams

Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Have some creative or artistic background - creativity gives you internal permission to execute
• Bachelor’s degree in design, advertising, marketing, communications or related field
• A minimum of 5 years’ digital experience, particularly with, but not limited to web, social and emerging technologies.
• Leadership skills, with steadfast resolve and personal integrity
• Understanding of business planning
• Ability to look at bigger picture
• A solid grasp of design, copy and web practices.
• Be able to diagnose problems quickly and have foresight into potential issues
• Brilliant interpersonal and communication skills.
• Have an in-depth knowledge of brand development and multichannel marketing models.
• Black Girl Ventures Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer