Date Posted:
October 29, 2026
Position Title:
Vice President, Marketing & Communications
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GEEARS: Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students
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HC-13698
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Atlanta, GA
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Vice President, Marketing & Communications Hybrid: Mondays and at least one other day per week are spent working out of our office in Buckhead. Travel: Occasional overnight statewide and national travel (10% of time) is required to staff GEEARS events and attend conferences and meetings.
Responsibilities:
• Strategic Marketing & Communications Leadership
• Develop and implement a comprehensive, integrated marketing and communications strategy aligned with GEEARS’ mission, strategic plan, and organizational priorities.
• Build integrated marketing and communications plans that increase awareness of GEEARS, its initiatives, strengthen its brand, engage key audiences, attract and retain donors, and advance organizational goals.
• Serve as a strategic communications partner to GEEARS leadership and teams, helping colleagues identify the right audiences, messages, channels, and opportunities to advance their work.
• Establish clear communications priorities and a proactive editorial and campaign calendar across the organization.
• Lead crisis communications and issues management, developing protocols and response plans that enable GEEARS to respond quickly, thoughtfully, and consistently to emerging issues, reputational risks, and unexpected events. Serve as a trusted advisor to CEO and leadership on communications strategy, messaging, media response, and stakeholder engagement during times of crisis.
• Monitor trends, audience engagement, and communications performance and use data and insights to continuously improve strategy.
• Brand Development & Management
• Strengthen and steward the GEEARS brand across all communications, ensuring consistency in voice, visual identity, messaging, and positioning, including exploring the need to rebrand/rename to best achieve our mission.
• Campaigns, Advocacy & Public Engagement
• Translate complex research, policy, and advocacy work into clear, compelling communications and campaigns that motivate audiences to engage and act.
• Bring a campaign mindset to communications—connecting strategy, storytelling, audiences, creative content, media, digital channels, and calls to action.
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About GEEARS: Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students
Established in 2010 to help business, civic and government leaders maximize the economic return on the state’s investments in early care and learning, GEEARS: Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students is a nonprofit organization operating to inspire and provide leadership for a statewide movement on quality early learning and healthy development for all children ages birth through five. Through advocacy, research and innovation, communication and convening, we advance our mission to ensure that all Georgia’s children, birth to age five, thrive by championing research-backed policies and investments, fostering collaboration, and leading a statewide movement to advance public will.
Led by GEEARS, PAACT: Promise All Atlanta Children Thrive is a city-wide alliance of public and private partners collaborating to improve learning, health, and well-being outcomes for Atlanta’s youngest children and their families. We envision a city where barriers to success are eradicated and families have what they need to ensure that all children starting at birth are healthy, learning and developing, so that they enter school ready for success, thrive once in school and are prepared to reach their full potential. GEEARS serves as the backbone organization for this collective impact effort and provides governance, fiscal oversight, data management, fundraising support, and the communication strategy to ensure the initiative is effective and sustainable.
The Opportunity
GEEARS is seeking a creative, strategic, and collaborative Vice President, Marketing & Communications to lead the organization’s integrated marketing, communications, and public relations strategy. We are looking for a strategic leader who can help GEEARS and PAACT think bigger, communicate more clearly, work smarter, and build greater visibility and influence across Georgia. The right candidate will bring both the strategic perspective to shape where GEEARS goes and the practical experience to figure out how to get there.
This is an externally visible leadership role responsible for telling the GEEARS story in compelling ways that elevate our brand, deepen engagement with key audiences, build support for our work, and ultimately, inspire action to shift public systems and investments to better support improved outcomes for children from birth to age five.
As a member of the leadership team and reporting to the CEO, this person will partner with the CEO and help GEEARS build the systems, processes, team capacity, and external relationships necessary to communicate with greater clarity, consistency, creativity, and impact.
