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Ent Credit Union and Wings Credit Union joined forces in January 2026. This merger means more opportunities, expanded resources, and a shared commitment to delivering exceptional member service. Together, we become more - empowering members, communities, and teams through a bold, unified future. Both organizations bring a strong legacy of member satisfaction, operational excellence, financial stability, and community impact. Recognized locally and nationally as best-in-class financial institutions and employers of choice, each is known for its commitment to financial well-being and philanthropic leadership. Join us during this transformative time and be part of shaping the future of banking! To learn more about the merger, click here.
Job Description
Job Summary
The Senior Vice President, Community & Market Engagement is a strategic enterprise leader who will shape how Wings builds relationships, strengthens its reputation, and creates meaningful community impact across its markets. Reporting to the Chief Brand & Impact Officer, this leader brings Wings’ external engagement efforts together under one clear strategy, connecting business and market growth, strategic partnerships, community impact, workplace relationships, public relations, and philanthropy.
This leader will set priorities, guide investments, build trusted relationships, and create measurable outcomes across Wings’ markets and communities. They will serve as a highly visible representative of Wings while partnering across the organization to connect external engagement with enterprise priorities, geographic growth, brand, member value, and community impact.
The ideal leader combines strategic vision with strong execution. They bring business and financial acumen, exceptional relationship-building and communication skills, and the ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and complex cross-functional work. They are equally comfortable setting enterprise strategies, engaging executives and external stakeholders, developing talent, and building the systems, governance, and measures needed to turn strategy into results.
Essential Functions
Strategic Community & Market Engagement Leadership
- Develop and lead an integrated community and market engagement strategy, including a rolling 12-to-18-month plan aligned with enterprise growth, brand, geographic, and organizational priorities.
- Establish priorities and relationship strategies for key community organizations, business partners, media, external stakeholders, and other strategic relationships.
- Partner across Advocacy, Brand & Campaign, Compliance, Finance, Legal, Retail, PMO, and other teams to align engagement strategies with enterprise priorities and drive successful outcomes.
- Establish clear goals, success measures, governance, reporting, and accountability across the portfolio.
- Use data, market insights, and performance results to evaluate investments, identify opportunities, and continuously improve strategies and programs.
- Build scalable systems, workflows, and operating practices that strengthen coordination, effectiveness, and measurable impact.
Strategic Partnerships, Sponsorships & Market Activation
- Lead the team responsible for the strategy and investment portfolio for partnerships, sponsorships, external events, and talent relationships.
- Serve as an executive liaison with key partners, developing trusted relationships that create value for Wings, its members, employees, partners, and communities.
- Establish partnership-specific objectives, success measures, and activation strategies to maximize business, brand, and community value.
- Provide executive oversight of partnership negotiations, contracts, renewals, and investment decisions.
- Develop scalable systems and strategies for building and managing high-performing partnerships.
- Support geographic growth and market-entry strategies through grand openings, in-market activations, and meaningful community engagement.
Community Impact, Financial Wellbeing & Foundation
- Guide the team responsible for Wings’ enterprise community impact strategy, including financial wellbeing, financial education and coaching, philanthropic engagement, grants, and community programs.
- Provide executive oversight of the Wings Foundation while maintaining appropriate governance and clear boundaries between the Foundation and the credit union.
- Use community, member, and stakeholder insights to guide focus areas, geographic priorities, investment levels, and participation decisions.
- Partner with internal and executive leaders to connect community impact, financial wellbeing, and philanthropic efforts to broader organizational priorities.
- Establish meaningful measures of impact and use results to inform future investment and engagement decisions.
Public & Media Relations
- Direct the team responsible for the public and media relations strategy that strengthens Wings’ reputation, visibility, and credibility across its markets.
- Guide proactive earned media and external storytelling that elevate Wings’ expertise, community presence, and impact.
- Partner with community-facing teams and leaders to coordinate Wings’ presence at key events and external opportunities.
- Oversee media readiness and public-speaking preparation for leaders representing Wings externally.
- Ensure crisis communication planning and response in partnership with executive leadership, Legal, Risk, and other key stakeholders.
- Provide strategic oversight of social media as part of Wings’ broader reputation and external engagement strategy.
Workplace Partnerships & Market Growth
- Direct the team responsible for workplace partnership strategies that build relationships with employers and create opportunities to bring the value of Wings membership to their employees.
- Partner with Business Development, Retail, Advocacy, and other teams on employer relationships, market activation, prospecting, and chamber engagement.
- Develop scalable, data-informed workplace partnership models and playbooks that increase engagement and support sustainable market growth.
- Collaborate with Technology, Digital, Brand, Financial Education, and other subject-matter experts to deepen employer and employee relationships.
- Establish measures that connect workplace engagement to meaningful member, market, and business outcomes.
Team Leadership, Talent Development & Operational Management
- Lead, develop, and align high-performing teams across business development, public relations, partnerships, and community impact.
- Establish clear priorities, decision ownership, accountability, and performance expectations across the organization.
- Build leadership capability and succession depth through coaching, development, performance management, and thoughtful organizational design.
- Create an environment that encourages collaboration, sound decision-making, professional growth, and shared accountability for outcomes.
- Manage budgets, external partners, contracts, and portfolio investments with strong financial discipline and a focus on enterprise, market, and community value.
Qualifications
Minimum Formal Qualifications for this Position:
- Bachelor's Degree Bachelor's degree in business administration, marketing, communications, community development, sports marketing or management, nonprofit management or a related field required
- Master's Degree MBA or master's degree with emphasis in business, communications, nonprofit management, sports marketing or management, public affairs, marketing or a similar discipline preferred
- 10+ Progressive leadership experience in market growth, business development, community engagement, external communications or related disciplines, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role. Required
- 7+ Demonstrated success developing and executing enterprise market engagement, business development or partnership strategies that support growth and reputation Required
- 5+ Leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing senior leaders across complex organizations to achieve enterprise business objectives Required
- 7+ Overseeing multiple disciplines such as business development, partnerships and events, sponsorships, public/media relations and community impact/philanthropy Required
- 7+ People leadership experience, including organizational design, coaching, performance management, succession planning and team and individual development Required
- Experience in financial services or other regulated, community-based organizations, including geographic expansion and nonprofit or foundation governance preferred
Technical or Specialized Knowledge/Skills:
- Deep understanding of market growth, business development and relationship-based acquisition strategies
- Strong knowledge of partnership, sponsorship and external event portfolio strategy and activation
- Advanced public and media relations, social media, crisis communications and reputation management capabilities
- Knowledge of community impact, financial wellbeing, financial education and community engagement approaches
- Knowledge of fundraising, donor engagement, grant-making and nonprofit or foundation governance principles
- Comprehensive knowledge of credit union philosophy, member-centric principles and community-based financial services
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills with the ability to measure market, partnership, reputation and community outcomes
- Ability to cultivate trusted relationships with community, business, civic and partner stakeholders
- Excellent written, verbal, public speaking and media communication skills
- Skilled in leading cross-functional teams to drive collaboration, alignment and outcomes
- Exceptional people leadership, coaching, talent development and stakeholder management skills
Certifications Required:
- None
Additional Information
PAY RANGE: $250,000 to $295,000 Annually + 35% annual target bonus and $400/pay period car allowance.
Final compensation for this position will be determined by various factors such as relevant work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, certifications, location and internal pay equity.
BENEFITS:
- Generous 401(k) match
- 401k Discretionary Profit Sharing
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short Term and Long-Term Disability
- Health Savings Account with company contribution
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Vacation, Sick, Floating Holidays and Volunteer Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Parental Leave
We anticipate this position to close on 11/23/26. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience to be considered.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.
Ent Credit Union and Wings Credit Union joined forces in January 2026. This merger means more opportunities, expanded resources, and a shared commitment to delivering exceptional member service. Together, we become more - empowering members, communities, and teams through a bold, unified future. Both organizations bring a strong legacy of member satisfaction, operational excellence, financial stability, and community impact. Recognized locally and nationally as best-in-class financial institutions and employers of choice, each is known for its commitment to financial well-being and philanthropic leadership. Join us during this transformative time and be part of shaping the future of banking! To learn more about the merger, click here.
Job Description
Job Summary
The Senior Vice President, Community & Market Engagement is a strategic enterprise leader who will shape how Wings builds relationships, strengthens its reputation, and creates meaningful community impact across its markets. Reporting to the Chief Brand & Impact Officer, this leader brings Wings’ external engagement efforts together under one clear strategy, connecting business and market growth, strategic partnerships, community impact, workplace relationships, public relations, and philanthropy.
This leader will set priorities, guide investments, build trusted relationships, and create measurable outcomes across Wings’ markets and communities. They will serve as a highly visible representative of Wings while partnering across the organization to connect external engagement with enterprise priorities, geographic growth, brand, member value, and community impact.
The ideal leader combines strategic vision with strong execution. They bring business and financial acumen, exceptional relationship-building and communication skills, and the ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and complex cross-functional work. They are equally comfortable setting enterprise strategies, engaging executives and external stakeholders, developing talent, and building the systems, governance, and measures needed to turn strategy into results.
Essential Functions
Strategic Community & Market Engagement Leadership
- Develop and lead an integrated community and market engagement strategy, including a rolling 12-to-18-month plan aligned with enterprise growth, brand, geographic, and organizational priorities.
- Establish priorities and relationship strategies for key community organizations, business partners, media, external stakeholders, and other strategic relationships.
- Partner across Advocacy, Brand & Campaign, Compliance, Finance, Legal, Retail, PMO, and other teams to align engagement strategies with enterprise priorities and drive successful outcomes.
- Establish clear goals, success measures, governance, reporting, and accountability across the portfolio.
- Use data, market insights, and performance results to evaluate investments, identify opportunities, and continuously improve strategies and programs.
- Build scalable systems, workflows, and operating practices that strengthen coordination, effectiveness, and measurable impact.
Strategic Partnerships, Sponsorships & Market Activation
- Lead the team responsible for the strategy and investment portfolio for partnerships, sponsorships, external events, and talent relationships.
- Serve as an executive liaison with key partners, developing trusted relationships that create value for Wings, its members, employees, partners, and communities.
- Establish partnership-specific objectives, success measures, and activation strategies to maximize business, brand, and community value.
- Provide executive oversight of partnership negotiations, contracts, renewals, and investment decisions.
- Develop scalable systems and strategies for building and managing high-performing partnerships.
- Support geographic growth and market-entry strategies through grand openings, in-market activations, and meaningful community engagement.
Community Impact, Financial Wellbeing & Foundation
- Guide the team responsible for Wings’ enterprise community impact strategy, including financial wellbeing, financial education and coaching, philanthropic engagement, grants, and community programs.
- Provide executive oversight of the Wings Foundation while maintaining appropriate governance and clear boundaries between the Foundation and the credit union.
- Use community, member, and stakeholder insights to guide focus areas, geographic priorities, investment levels, and participation decisions.
- Partner with internal and executive leaders to connect community impact, financial wellbeing, and philanthropic efforts to broader organizational priorities.
- Establish meaningful measures of impact and use results to inform future investment and engagement decisions.
Public & Media Relations
- Direct the team responsible for the public and media relations strategy that strengthens Wings’ reputation, visibility, and credibility across its markets.
- Guide proactive earned media and external storytelling that elevate Wings’ expertise, community presence, and impact.
- Partner with community-facing teams and leaders to coordinate Wings’ presence at key events and external opportunities.
- Oversee media readiness and public-speaking preparation for leaders representing Wings externally.
- Ensure crisis communication planning and response in partnership with executive leadership, Legal, Risk, and other key stakeholders.
- Provide strategic oversight of social media as part of Wings’ broader reputation and external engagement strategy.
Workplace Partnerships & Market Growth
- Direct the team responsible for workplace partnership strategies that build relationships with employers and create opportunities to bring the value of Wings membership to their employees.
- Partner with Business Development, Retail, Advocacy, and other teams on employer relationships, market activation, prospecting, and chamber engagement.
- Develop scalable, data-informed workplace partnership models and playbooks that increase engagement and support sustainable market growth.
- Collaborate with Technology, Digital, Brand, Financial Education, and other subject-matter experts to deepen employer and employee relationships.
- Establish measures that connect workplace engagement to meaningful member, market, and business outcomes.
Team Leadership, Talent Development & Operational Management
- Lead, develop, and align high-performing teams across business development, public relations, partnerships, and community impact.
- Establish clear priorities, decision ownership, accountability, and performance expectations across the organization.
- Build leadership capability and succession depth through coaching, development, performance management, and thoughtful organizational design.
- Create an environment that encourages collaboration, sound decision-making, professional growth, and shared accountability for outcomes.
- Manage budgets, external partners, contracts, and portfolio investments with strong financial discipline and a focus on enterprise, market, and community value.
Qualifications
Minimum Formal Qualifications for this Position:
- Bachelor's Degree Bachelor's degree in business administration, marketing, communications, community development, sports marketing or management, nonprofit management or a related field required
- Master's Degree MBA or master's degree with emphasis in business, communications, nonprofit management, sports marketing or management, public affairs, marketing or a similar discipline preferred
- 10+ Progressive leadership experience in market growth, business development, community engagement, external communications or related disciplines, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role. Required
- 7+ Demonstrated success developing and executing enterprise market engagement, business development or partnership strategies that support growth and reputation Required
- 5+ Leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing senior leaders across complex organizations to achieve enterprise business objectives Required
- 7+ Overseeing multiple disciplines such as business development, partnerships and events, sponsorships, public/media relations and community impact/philanthropy Required
- 7+ People leadership experience, including organizational design, coaching, performance management, succession planning and team and individual development Required
- Experience in financial services or other regulated, community-based organizations, including geographic expansion and nonprofit or foundation governance preferred
Technical or Specialized Knowledge/Skills:
- Deep understanding of market growth, business development and relationship-based acquisition strategies
- Strong knowledge of partnership, sponsorship and external event portfolio strategy and activation
- Advanced public and media relations, social media, crisis communications and reputation management capabilities
- Knowledge of community impact, financial wellbeing, financial education and community engagement approaches
- Knowledge of fundraising, donor engagement, grant-making and nonprofit or foundation governance principles
- Comprehensive knowledge of credit union philosophy, member-centric principles and community-based financial services
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills with the ability to measure market, partnership, reputation and community outcomes
- Ability to cultivate trusted relationships with community, business, civic and partner stakeholders
- Excellent written, verbal, public speaking and media communication skills
- Skilled in leading cross-functional teams to drive collaboration, alignment and outcomes
- Exceptional people leadership, coaching, talent development and stakeholder management skills
Certifications Required:
- None
Additional Information
PAY RANGE: $250,000 to $295,000 Annually + 35% annual target bonus and $400/pay period car allowance.
Final compensation for this position will be determined by various factors such as relevant work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, certifications, location and internal pay equity.
BENEFITS:
- Generous 401(k) match
- 401k Discretionary Profit Sharing
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short Term and Long-Term Disability
- Health Savings Account with company contribution
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Vacation, Sick, Floating Holidays and Volunteer Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Parental Leave
We anticipate this position to close on 11/23/26. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience to be considered.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in vice president of community engagement jobs.
- 7 or more years of community engagement, public affairs, or stakeholder relations leadership experience
- Demonstrated experience managing cross-sector partnerships with government, nonprofit, and corporate stakeholders
- Proven ability to design and execute large-scale community programs with measurable outcomes
- Strong public speaking and executive-level communication skills for boards and community forums
- Experience managing and developing a team of community engagement or outreach professionals
- Bachelor's degree in communications, public affairs, nonprofit management, or a related field required
Tips for Your Vice President of Community Engagement Job Search
Quantify community impact on your resume
Hiring committees for this role want numbers behind the narrative. Replace phrases like 'grew volunteer base' with the actual headcount increase, event attendance figures, or partnership revenue generated under your leadership. Vague impact statements are the most common reason strong candidates get screened out early.
Highlight cross-sector coalition experience
Vice president of community engagement roles almost always require managing relationships across government, nonprofit, and private partners simultaneously. If your resume only reflects one sector, pull examples from board service, advisory roles, or volunteer leadership to show you can operate across organizational types.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists vice president of community engagement openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Tailor your portfolio to the organization's mission
Before applying, audit the organization's most recent community report, annual giving disclosure, or strategic plan. Reframe two or three accomplishments in your cover letter using their exact language and priority areas. Generic materials signal low organizational fit at this seniority level.
Prepare a stakeholder engagement case study
Interviewers for this role routinely ask you to walk through a community initiative from concept to outcome. Have one tight example ready that covers how you built the coalition, resolved a conflict, and measured success. Candidates who can't tell a complete story rarely advance past a first-round panel.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate compensation
At this level, your direct reports, budget authority, and seat at the leadership table matter as much as pay. Before accepting an offer, clarify which departments you'll oversee, whether you have an independent budget, and how community engagement performance is weighed in executive reviews.
Vice President of Community Engagement Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most vice president of community engagements?
The companies hiring the most vice president of community engagements right now include Wings Credit Union, WesBanco Bank, and Wounded Warrior Project, with the largest share of openings in Minnesota, Maryland, and West Virginia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Healthcare systems, large universities, and corporate social responsibility divisions tend to post the most consistent volume at this level.
How many vice president of community engagement jobs are remote?
About 100% of vice president of community engagement openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though the role's relational nature means most fully remote positions still require periodic in-person presence for events and partner meetings. Strategy, communications, and program oversight functions within the role are most likely to be performed remotely.
How do you become a vice president of community engagement?
Most vice presidents of community engagement move up through director or senior manager roles in community affairs, public relations, or nonprofit program leadership. Building a record of managing multi-stakeholder initiatives, growing a team, and demonstrating measurable community outcomes is the clearest path. Supplementing with board service, public speaking engagements, and cross-sector coalition work accelerates readiness for a VP-level search.
Can I get hired as a vice president of community engagement without prior VP experience?
Yes, candidates promoted from a director-level role are regularly hired into their first VP position, particularly at mid-size nonprofits and regional healthcare systems where the title represents a step up from an existing program leadership role. What matters most is evidence you've managed a team, controlled a budget, and represented the organization externally with senior stakeholders, not whether your previous title included 'vice president.'
What does the vice president of community engagement interview process look like?
The process typically runs three to four rounds. An initial screening with HR or a talent team is followed by a panel interview with the executive leadership team, often including a chief executive, chief marketing officer, or board liaison. Finalists are frequently asked to present a community strategy or stakeholder engagement plan. Some organizations also conduct informal community listening sessions or reference calls with external partners before extending an offer.
Where can I find and apply to vice president of community engagement jobs?
You can find and apply to vice president of community engagement jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your background and apply directly to each listing without being redirected to a third-party site.
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