Communications Specialist
Fulfill
March 2025
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Fulfill, the FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, has been dedicated to addressing hunger in the Jersey Shore community since 1984. Our mission is to accelerate food security throughout Monmouth & Ocean Counties by leading a collaborative movement that connects people to food and related resources while also addressing systemic barriers to self-sufficiency and well-being. Fulfill proudly works with a network of nearly 300 partners, including soup kitchens, food pantries and shelters to provide 1.2 million meals per month to more than 100,000 families, children, seniors and veterans in need. Committed to more than just food distribution, Fulfill also offers connections to affordable healthcare options, Medicaid, SNAP and other services to help neighbors lead healthy lives with the food they need to thrive. Our staff is committed to embodying our values in all activities. Fulfill is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage qualified individuals from all backgrounds to apply for this position.
Fulfill is seeking a story-seeker and storyteller who can bring our mission to life through compelling asset-based communications—highlighting the resilience, strength, and dignity of the communities we serve. This role will shape Fulfill’s content across media, digital platforms, and print materials, ensuring our messaging is compelling, current, and impact-driven.
Reporting to the VP of Development and External Relations, the ideal candidate will be a curious, creative communicator who actively seeks out powerful stories and transforms them into engaging content across multiple channels. They will stay informed on the latest trends in marketing, communications, and hunger-related news, using these insights to craft messages that engage, educate, and mobilize our supporters. Whether through media outreach, social storytelling, or community engagement, this role will ensure Fulfill’s voice is powerful, relevant, and heard.
In this role, you will actively seek out, develop, and share impact stories that highlight the voices of our neighbors facing hunger, volunteers, partners, and donors, craft compelling, asset-based communications for multiple channels, work closely with Fulfill’s partners to capture authentic narratives that support fundraising and advocacy efforts and manage and grow Fulfill’s social media presence, developing engaging, mission-driven content for multiple sites.
In addition, you will develop and implement a strategic marketing and communications plan that strengthens Fulfill’s brand and engages diverse audiences, maintain a strategic marketing calendar, ensuring alignment of external messaging with donor appeals, events, and advocacy efforts, create and manage high-quality marketing materials, including brochures, information kits, annual reports, event collateral, and media assets, monitor and analyze key marketing performance metrics to optimize strategies, and oversee Fulfill’s website, ensuring content remains fresh, visually engaging, user-friendly, and aligned with storytelling best practices.
Qualified candidates will have at least 3-5 years’ experience in marketing, communications, public relations or journalism along with fluency in Spanish and the ability to translate written work to Spanish a plus; strong written and verbal communications, project management and organizational skills, excellent interpersonal skills, with demonstrated ability to work across departments and with diverse stakeholder groups, demonstrated ability to recommend, persuade and influence in communications with diverse audiences and to improve communications flow, execution and deliverables to internally and externally.
Must be a highly motivated self-starter with the ability to coordinate multiple projects/tasks simultaneously and the ability to work both independently and in a collaborative team environment. Flexible work schedule involving some nights and weekends. Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams), intermediate or better graphic design and video editing skills, and Raisers Edge a plus. Must have a valid driver’s license and reliable transportation is required for nights and weekend events. Media certification is preferred.
Qualified candidates should send a resume.