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Ballinger | Leafblad is honored to partner with the Bush Foundation to identify its next communications officer. This role will help advance and strengthen the Foundation’s communications efforts by supporting clear, thoughtful, and mission-aligned storytelling and engagement across a wide range of audiences and platforms. The communications officer will lead and manage communications projects and campaigns, develop content and messaging, and collaborate closely with colleagues and partners to amplify the impact of the Foundation and the people and organizations it supports across the region. This opportunity comes at an important time as the Foundation continues to deepen its visibility, engagement, and community impact.

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience (at least 5 years) in a communications role within a complex organization.
• Candidates should be within commuting distance of the office to support the role’s hybrid, in-person collaboration expectations.
• Advanced project management skills, which include strong planning, delegation, budgeting and critical thinking skills, with demonstrated success leading and motivating cross-functional teams.
• Highly effective relationship manager, able to build key allies inside and outside the organization, while exercising independent judgement and communicating effectively with a broad range of partners.
• Exceptional editing and copy-editing skills, able to review materials for nuance, style and form, while ensuring accuracy and consistency.
• Adaptable writing skills, able to understand nuanced context and style and apply in different ways and in different contexts.
• Comfort operating in highly collaborative, matrixed environments with shared ownership, iterative feedback processes and evolving priorities.
• Ability to manage evolving timelines and iterative project approaches and workflows while identifying challenges and implementing effective solutions.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with CMS platforms (e.g., WordPress), social media tools and e-marketing platforms (e.g., MailChimp, Salesforce)
• Knowledge of and curiosity about emerging communications trends and related technologies.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and commitment to building relationships and understanding of people of different backgrounds and communities; able to question own biases in understanding issues and people.
• Enthusiasm for Bush’s operating values and a willingness to reflect, learn and act to do what it takes to live up to them.

Compensation: The salary for this position is $127,733 annually. More details in the full position profile.

Applications will be accepted until May 28, 2026 at noon CST. Review of materials begins immediately. We encourage early application.