BRIDGES BY STARTING OVER STRONGER, INC.
Marketing Chair
About the Role
The Marketing Chair helps Bridges build visibility, credibility, and community awareness throughout Kansas City. This role brings marketing strategy to the Board and helps develop a team capable of telling the Bridges story, growing our audience, and connecting our programs and mission with the people who need to know about them.
Ideal Candidate
• Experience in marketing, communications, public relations, social media, digital strategy, branding, or a related field.
• Understands current social platforms, audience growth, content trends, short-form video, and what makes content engaging and shareable.
• Can think strategically about how a young nonprofit builds awareness, trust, and community momentum.
• Able to identify and bring together people with complementary marketing and communications skills.
Board Responsibilities
Term: One year | Time Commitment: Approximately 3–5 hours per month, including monthly Board of Directors meetings beginning January 2027, committee leadership, and occasional planning or collaboration. Additional time may be needed for special projects and events, with opportunities to contribute more during this early growth stage.
• Attend monthly Board of Directors meetings and actively participate in discussion, planning, and decision-making.
• Commit approximately one-two hours per week to planning, committee, outreach, or other Bridges activities, with opportunities to contribute additional time to launch Bridges.
• Make an annual financial contribution meaningful to you and consistent with your ability.
• Actively advocate for Bridges by sharing our mission, promoting events and initiatives, and helping expand awareness in the community.
• Use your professional experience, relationships, and community connections to help Bridges develop partnerships, identify resources, and open doors that further the mission.
Marketing Committee Responsibilities
• Help Bridges leadership build the Marketing Committee and share responsibility for welcoming, organizing, and leading committee members.
• Lead Marketing Committee meetings and help keep the team focused on practical priorities and consistent execution.
• Help develop and guide Bridges' overall marketing, communications, and social media strategy.
• Help build a small team with complementary skills such as social media, short-form video, content creation, graphic design, public relations, digital marketing, and community outreach.
• Guide the committee in promoting Bridges programs, events, fundraising efforts, educational initiatives, and community partnerships.
• Help identify creative opportunities to grow Bridges' reach and engagement across social platforms and throughout the Kansas City community.
Note: The Marketing Chair is not expected to personally create every post, video, graphic, or marketing piece. The role is to help build and guide a capable team that can execute the work together.