Managing Director, Marketing, Communications and Engagement

The Commit Partnership is the nation’s largest education-focused collective impact organization, uniting over 200 partners—including school districts, higher education institutions, nonprofits, businesses, and government leaders—to advance economic mobility through education. Powered by both local and national philanthropy, Commit has spent the past 13 years helping to transform education outcomes in Dallas County and across Texas driving towards a North Star goal that by 2040, all 25-34-year-old Dallas County residents earn at least a living wage.

Key to Commit’s success is a robust, strategic marketing, communication, and stakeholder engagement effort developing content, activating, and influencing stakeholders, and continuously building partnerships and momentum around the impact of public education systems change.

Commit seeks an experienced marketing and communications leader to join our leadership team as the Managing Director of Marketing, Communications, and Engagement to play a pivotal role overseeing all marketing, branding, events/convenings, and communication functions.

This is a unique opportunity for a strategic, ambitious leader who thrives at the intersection of storytelling, data, and impact. You will serve as a chief architect of Commit’s public narrative, helping to elevate the region’s collective efforts while building and executing strategic events and engagement to activate external stakeholders, to ensure every young person—regardless of race, income, or background—has the opportunity to earn a living wage.

Salary Range: $150,000-$182,000

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1. Strategic Leadership and Vision

• In partnership with the Executive Leadership Team, establish and execute a long-term vision and multi-year strategic stakeholder engagement and communications plan to increase awareness, influence, and impact across diverse audiences (educators, policymakers, funders, community partners, and the public).
• Align marketing, engagement, and communication strategies with Commit’s priority educational systems—Effective Talent, Academic Readiness, and Postsecondary Access & Success—to ensure narrative coherence and measurable results.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to the CEO, President, COO, and senior leadership, providing counsel on messaging, brand reputation, public relations, and external stakeholder engagement.
• Drive strategic framing and influence across internal and external audiences, synthesizing data, values, and stories to build understanding and inspire action.

2. External Partnership, Relationship Development and Management

• Lead multi-year comprehensive campaigns in collaboration with numerous external partners to increase regional and statewide outcomes focused on effective educator talent, instructional systems and quality, college and career-readiness, postsecondary access and success, and others as identified.
• Serve as a Marketing and Communications consultant for Education is Freedom, dedicating approximately 25% of time to developing and executing strategic marketing and communication plans that advance shared impact goals.
• Build and manage a network of strategic partners and vendors (media, PR, creative agencies, researchers, etc) to amplify storytelling and extend capacity.
• Develop and cultivate relationships with media partners, school district communication leaders, and other marketing, communication, and engagement peers across the ecosystem.
• Build and leverage a Marketing and Communications Advisory Committee providing additional expertise and capacity.

3. Team and Organizational Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of 6 professionals, fostering a culture of ownership, creativity, high-expectations, and continuous learning.
• Serve on the Executive Leadership team providing marketing, communications, and activation expertise and guidance while representing the Marketing, Communications, and Engagement Team.
• Build systems and processes that support effective execution, cross-team collaboration, and alignment with organizational goals.
• Model inclusive, trust-based leadership that reinforces Commit’s culture of joy, integrity, and shared accountability.
• Support staff across the organization building internal brand ambassadors, ensuring access to relevant information, tools, and resources that enhance clarity and cohesion in messaging.

4. Execution and Measurement

• Manage the full communications and marketing portfolio—including earned media, narrative change, digital engagement, design, events, and internal communications—to achieve measurable outcomes.
• Establish and track clear KPIs that measure audience reach, engagement, and impact across all channels (social, web, podcast, earned media, newsletters, and events).
• Ensure high-quality, timely execution across projects by setting clear standards, anticipating barriers, and coordinating with cross-functional teams.
• Lead the development of a stakeholder engagement scorecard that tracks reach, engagement, and perception, ensuring data-driven continuous improvement.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in marketing, communications, journalism, or public or governmental affairs; nonprofit, education, public policy sector experience preferred.
• Experience developing and executing messaging aligned with public policy initiatives highly preferred.
• Demonstrated success in leading complex, multi-channel campaigns and growing brand awareness.
• Demonstrated experience executing small- and large-scale events driving audiences to take desired actions.
• Strong data fluency—able to design and interpret KPIs and use insights for decision-making.
• Experience with Salesforce and Marketing Cloud Account Engagement preferred.
• Proven ability to lead and inspire teams, directly manage others towards outcomes and high-performance and establish team operating systems.
• Secure and manage vendors, and build partnerships across diverse audiences.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Deep commitment to equity, inclusion, and the mission of The Commit Partnership.

Language Skills

• Ability to understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate.
• Ability to communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
• Ability to describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to read and write in Standard English.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with others.
• Ability to interact with persons of various social, cultural, economic, and educational backgrounds.
• Ability to listen perceptively and convey awareness.
• Ability to interact diplomatically with the public in a continuous public contact setting.
• Ability to work as part of a team and in a team environment.
• Ability to maintain level-headedness in the face of resistance and contrary opinions.

Work Environment

The Managing Director generally works in an office environment but may occasionally be required to perform job duties outside of the typical office setting. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. The employee is not exposed to any adverse environmental conditions.

About The Commit Partnership:

Our Mission

We believe that through our collective actions, Dallas County—which educates 10% of Texas and 1% of the nation—can become an inclusive and prosperous region where economic opportunity is shared fairly. That’s why our True North Goal is that by 2040, at least half of all Dallas County residents ages 25–34, irrespective of race, will have the opportunity to earn a living wage.

To increase living wage attainment, we must equitably increase educational success aligned with high-demand, well-paying jobs—maximizing the cumulative impact from early education through college, career, and military readiness to strong postsecondary completion. Our team aligns community stakeholders around this shared roadmap for the future, using data to surface strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding. Together, we work to address the systemic root causes that hinder progress and strengthen our community’s capacity to serve every student effectively.

Our Story

Founded in 2012, the Commit Partnership has grown into the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization, uniting more than 70 backbone team members and over 200 partners across Dallas County and Texas—all working together to address the systemic education challenges facing our region and state. Our team brings community stakeholders together around a shared roadmap for the future, using data and practitioner insights to inform effective policy solutions that accelerate progress toward our goals and strengthen our collective capacity to serve every student well.

Together, we advocate for an excellent public education that ensures all students—regardless of race, place, or socioeconomic status—can shape their own futures, earn a living wage, and share in the prosperity of the world’s eighth-largest economy. We pursue this mission through several key initiatives, including Early Matters Dallas, Dallas County Promise, the Texas Urban Council, and the Texas Impact Network.

True North Traits

Our True North Traits creates a mission-driven environment and champions us to do our best work each day.

Systemic Impact: You understand the barriers and lived experiences that our students face and are skilled at delivering systemic solutions at scale that address these needs. You achieve significant, sustainable results that increase equitable outcomes through your work (including the reallocation or improvement in public funding), and you recognize the difference between activity and impact.

Judgment: You exhibit a relentless “students first” focus by thinking strategically about what data must be collected, analyzed, visualized, and activated (and what steps must be taken, in what order) to cause resources to be reallocated and actions to be taken to systemically overcome the root causes hindering achievement of the Partnership's mission.

Communication: By listening to understand before seeking to be understood, you’re able to build trust and facilitate collaboration across lines of difference, recognizing that both are essential to our success. You are also able to find common ground with diverse stakeholders and can tailor the organization's message to different audiences as needed to influence meaningful change.

Innovation: You can create or meaningfully contribute to the design and execution of a systemic and transformational strategic plan to solve complex problems, often at scale, that improves organizational effectiveness and/or closes equity gaps for our students and families.

Equity and Inclusion: You intentionally create spaces where relevant stakeholders have a seat or voice at the table, ensuring that each person at the table's thoughts and perspectives are shared, valued by all others at the table, and reflected in our work. You're excited to help build and/or contribute to teams where everyone feels welcomed, respected, valued, and highly supported.

Joy: You recognize that people are central to our work, striking a balance between people and process, and you inspire others with your optimism and thirst for substantive change in service to the mission.

Integrity: You admit mistakes openly, share learnings widely, and elevate bad news quickly, also capable of making difficult decisions in all situations to ensure the success of the organization.

The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion, all employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Commit does not sponsor visas of any kind.

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