Vice President, Marketing & Communications

The Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) seeks a Vice President, Marketing & Communications to lead the Commonwealth’s efforts to promote Virginia as a Top State for Business. This position oversees integrated marketing strategies that showcase Virginia’s competitive advantages, including digital branding, trade show engagement, and site consultant outreach. This role will interact professionally, collaboratively, and strategically with all divisions of VEDP as well as local, regional, and state partners, and site selection consultants, often engaging and leveraging resources where viable to accomplish the division’s objectives and providing relevant support to achieve VEDP’s goals and mission.

Critical to the outreach component of this role is the ongoing cultivation of VEDP’s relationships with site selection consultants, who represent companies in their search for best business destination to relocate or expand their business operations across the United States. The Vice President, Marketing & Communications is a member of VEDP’s Business Development Core Group, ultimately reporting to the Sr.

Vice President, Marketing, Communications & Research and Chief of Staff.