JONATHAN

RAMSEY

Director of Marketing & Communications

Strategy • Content • Brand

Impact for Educational & Mission-driven Organizations
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This digital CV presents my work in strategic marketing, communications leadership, integrated brand storytelling, and creative production for education, nonprofit, public-sector, and mission-driven organizations. Explore selected work, trusted partners, measurable impact, and the values that shape my approach to helping institutions communicate clearly, build trust, and move audiences toward meaningful action.

PROFESSIONAL AREAS OF

Unlocked Expertise

Management

I bridge strategy and execution as a director/producer. I acquired a certification in servant-leadership management and operate effectively in cross-functional environments—both horizontally and vertically. I build practical communications infrastructure that helps teams and stakeholders align strategy, content, brand, and measurement for meaningful, mission-aligned impact. I connect senior leadership executive goals with individual team performances, manage projects and budgets, and apply my insatiable curiosity to learn along with my skills as an innovative problem solver to deliver results.

Strategic Planning

I develop integrated marketing and communications strategies that connect institutional priorities with lifecycle audience realities. My omnichannel work includes campaign planning, audience engagement, content systems, channel strategy, and performance measurement that help organizations move from visibility to understanding, trust, and action.

In guiding creative teams to bring concept-to-completion results, I leverage my own hands-on, award-winning expertise to hone the productions.

Tech Solutions

I am a forever adopter and implementer of proven and emerging technologies. I have been sought as a technology solutions consultant by companies as notable as Sony Corp. I know from experience that tools come and go; they will compete and evolve, including these most recent AI-focused marketing automation, analytics, and campaign management solutions. I am highly skilled at and enjoy this continual implementation and testing of new software. What I find counts most is being able to vet them with discernment, to quickly learn how to use them, and to know how to integrate them into workflows toward greater efficacy.

A full array of MarTech solutions I have used would be extensive and it is ever growing. As a few examples, I am accomplished with creative production tools such as the entire Adobe Creative Suite and an assortment of video and still image production tools; a variety of AI creation solutions; web platforms like WordPress, Elementor, Squarespace, HTML coding, and droplet management; deployment and automation software such as Hubspot, and campaign solutions for email/SMS; analysis solutions like Google or Adobe Analytics; and work management systems including Microsoft Office Suite, Google Workspace, and Asana.

Brand Governance

For education and mission-driven organizations, brand is not only visibility; it is trust, clarity, consistency, and the ability to help audiences understand why the work matters.

Using applied research, collected data, experiential and creative insights, and trend awareness I create and enhance an organization’s brand identity and market positioning. My cross-platform initiatives reach local, national, and global audiences by thoughtfully encapsulating an organization's unique purpose, culture, and prowess, amplifying their visibility, and growing their reach. 

Film & Video

This is where my career began. With 15+ years of film and video production experience, my impact-oriented promotional, fundraising, educational, and documentary films have garnered awards, realized organizational growth objectives, and impacted audiences with absorbing content and meaningful, engaging stories. In the past I have held nearly every creative and technical position in the field. Today, much of my focus in film and video is as a Producer, Director, and Writer. While I still hold a camera and edit stories together, most of my efforts are in putting together and managing exceptional crews in cinematography, audio production, editing, and motion graphics. 

Graphic Design

My own award-winning print and digital graphic design productions include online content, presentations, brand resources, fundraising and sales materials, educational content, motion graphics, event provisions, and promotional items. I carry this experience with me as a marketing team leader and thoroughly enjoy working with emerging creatives to hone their craft.

Copywriting

Copywriting is an area that permeates nearly all of my creative and strategic endeavors. I work collaboratively and independently with content spanning expository, narrative, and persuasive styles in both short and medium formats. I bring a strong voice, consistent tone, and rich storytelling ability to create concise, clear, and meaningful messages. I also excel at crafting focused campaign messaging and memorable slogans.

Digital Media

I develop strategic digital materials for websites, social platforms, email, campaigns, and content systems. My approach combines audience engagement, editorial planning, channel strategy, and performance measurement so digital content supports broader organizational goals rather than simply filling channels.

TRUSTED BY WORLD-LEADING INSTITUTIONS

WC
TLC
Reds
NTW
NPS
Level 3
First Data
PB
Osmosis
New West
Marzano
KDSI
HP
Harrison Western
FEMA
AMM
YMCA
USFS
Toronto
CMC
Chipotle
BH
Sony
Rotary
Remax
PBS
National Geographic
Mines
KRMC
Balfour Beatty
ABC

PORTFOLIO SAMPLES

Explore three thematic areas of my work:

These samples reflect work across education, nonprofit, public-sector, and mission-driven settings where strategy, content, brand, and audience engagement needed to work together to produce measurable impact.

01

Impact Messaging

Nonprofit & Education
02

Organizational Growth

Commercial
03

Branding

awareness & market positioning
1280

+Clients

3880

+Projects

190

+Awards

990
%

Client Satisfaction

MY PROFESSIONAL ASPIRATIONS

Drive Impact • Produce Meaningful Content • Elevate Individuals & Organizations

PROVEN

CHARACTERISTICS

LEADERSHIP

STEWARDSHIP

RESOLUTION

  • Led internal communications and partnered cross-departmentally on high-visibility initiatives.
  • Held leadership roles in program development, client relations, and technology integration.
  • Produced and integrated strategic media projects that showcased client and corporate wins and supported new-business pursuits.
  • Entrusted to work directly with high-profile public figures and CEOs on sensitive, high-impact projects.
  • Served as a U.S. market and technical advisor to a Sony Corp Vice President.
  • Selected to teach university-level creative fluency and production courses.
  • Directed national brand recovery efforts after a PR crisis, restoring trust and ensuring business continuity.
  • Led brand strategy that differentiated a healthcare brand in a crowded market through authentic expression of ownership values and aesthetics.
  • Resolved a college-wide media management gap by selecting and implementing a new system; built templates and trained staff.
MEASURABLE

RESULTS

4X

Fundraising

Fundraising

Realized 400% increase in fundraising across multiple nonprofit campaigns.

$50m

Raise

Raise

Launched a new investment brand, scaling to $50M+ raised and achieving 14–30% IRR in under five years.

19+

Awards

Awards

Emmy • Telly • Communicator: Marketing • Paragon: College Marketing • Youth International • Aegis • Aurora • Freddie • +

$4.5m

Budget

Budget

Supervised budgets up to $4.5m

40%

Savings

Savings

Led production of international advertising, achieving 40% cost savings against LA/NY market benchmarks.

$330,000

Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding

Led a time-bound, integrated crowdfunding campaign that raised $330,000.

State legislation

Passage

Passage

Delivered a targeted advocacy video contributing to passage of state legislation.

15 Person

Int'l Team

Int'l Team

Built and led a distributed team of 15 contractors across Europe, the Middle East, and the U.S.

Community Dev

Passage

Passage

Led integrated video, web, email, and social campaign helping secure passage of new government district & funding mechanism.

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