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Senior Vice President, Community & Market Engagement

Wings Credit Union31 open roles

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$250,000 – $295,000 a year
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Apple Valley, MN, United States
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Company Description

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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