• Lead the marketing team: Build and mentor a high-performing marketing team focused on achieving ambitious growth targets. • Drive growth by developing and prioritizing marketing strategies effectively: Develop and execute multi-channel product marketing strategies. • Optimize the cost of customer acquisition and own marketing budgeting: Collaborate across marketing to establish and manage marketing budgets for each country. • Manage Wave’s brand: Oversee brand efforts, ensuring consistent and impactful brand communications.

• Lead marketing and communications department to elevate brand awareness, advance strategic goals, engage constituencies, amplify community stories, and support CEO and Board thought leadership • Oversee department operations including budgeting, staff management, and strategic planning • Direct development of print and digital products: website, newsletter, annual reports, social media, and fundraising materials • Use data-informed strategies to grow event registrations, program enrollments, and scholarship applications • Collaborate with Development on fundraising campaigns including Giving Tuesday and year-end appeals • Support CEO and Board for speaking engagements and media interviews with talking points and briefing materials • Communicate and collaborate with senior leadership, Board, staff, vendors, and stakeholders • Create KPIs to ensure communication channels advance NMF's mission, brand awareness, and audience engagement • Develop RFPs and manage marketing vendors • Ensure brand alignment across departments

• Establish workflows to increase efficiency and productivity. • Ensure operations are scalable, repeatable, and effective at meeting business partner needs. • Manage progress across key priorities aligned to business goals, ensuring resources are allocated efficiently, teams are informed, and issues are escalated and resolved. • Oversee marketing analytics. Develop dashboards and reports for KPIs, providing visibility into marketing performance, insights, and business impact. • Collaborate with marketing leaders and key stakeholders regarding priority initiatives and processes to ensure seamless operations. • Work closely with marketing teams to track priorities aligned to business goals. • Support the broader marketing team by contributing to coordinated planning and department priorities. • Be a hands-on leader willing to dive into details and work alongside teammates to achieve goals. • Track marketing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).

• Lead client discovery calls to understand real marketing needs and business goals • Translate business objectives into clear, actionable marketing role definitions • Advise clients on the right marketing hires based on outcomes, not just job titles • Recruit, interview, and assess remote marketing professionals across: Performance Marketing, Paid Media, SEO, Content, Social Media, Email Marketing, CRM & Marketing Automation • Design and run practical, role-specific marketing skill tests • Stay ahead of modern marketing trends, tools, and AI-driven workflows • Support successful client–talent onboarding when needed