Marketing & Creative Services Director

Bahamas Harvest Church (BHC) & Harvest in the Gardens (HITG) — Nassau, Bahamas

Build the Voice. Advance the Mission. Grow the Brand.

Bahamas Harvest Church (BHC) and Harvest in the Gardens (HITG) are seeking a strategic, creative, commercially minded, and values-driven Marketing & Creative Services Director to lead marketing, communications, branding, digital strategy, and creative services across two connected—but distinctly different—organizations.

This is not a traditional marketing role.

It requires a leader who can move comfortably between ministry and marketplace—someone who understands the responsibility of communicating on behalf of a Christian church while also possessing the commercial discipline required to help grow a hospitality and entertainment destination.

Bahamas Harvest Church is a Christian ministry committed to faith, community, service, transformation, and helping people grow in their relationship with Christ. Communication at BHC is an extension of ministry. It should connect people, support ministry participation, communicate vision, tell stories of impact, and consistently reflect the heart and values of the church.

Harvest in the Gardens is a hospitality and entertainment destination bringing together dining, entertainment, events, retail, and community experiences. HITG requires deliberate, measurable marketing that builds awareness, creates demand, drives traffic, promotes programming, strengthens individual concepts, and supports commercial growth.

The Marketing & Creative Services Director is responsible for giving both organizations the strategic focus they require—advancing the ministry voice of BHC while building the visibility, relevance, engagement, and growth engine of HITG.

About the Role

The Marketing & Creative Services Director leads the strategy and execution of:

• Marketing and communications
• Brand positioning and stewardship
• Digital and social strategy
• Campaign development
• Creative services
• Content and storytelling
• Advertising and media
• Events and programming promotion
• Audience and community engagement
• Marketing planning and performance measurement

The successful candidate must be able to protect two distinct voices without allowing either organization to become secondary.

For BHC, success means communication that is spiritually sensitive, intentional, clear, engaging, and aligned with the mission and culture of the church.

For HITG, success means marketing that creates awareness, moves people toward the destination, supports business priorities, and contributes to measurable commercial outcomes.

What You’ll Do

BHC Ministry Marketing & Communications

• Partner with pastoral, executive, and ministry leaders to understand BHC’s vision, priorities, ministries, services, conferences, outreach, events, and community initiatives.
• Translate ministry direction into clear, compelling, and timely communication.
• Develop communication and promotional plans for worship services, sermon series, ministry programmes, conferences, outreach initiatives, special events, and church-wide activities.
• Protect and strengthen BHC’s voice so that communications consistently reflect its Christian mission, values, culture, and pastoral direction.
• Develop storytelling around testimonies, ministry impact, community engagement, service, transformation, and life change.
• Strengthen BHC’s social media, website, digital communications, and community engagement.
• Maintain a coordinated ministry communications calendar and ensure creative requirements are identified early.
• Help ministry leaders clearly communicate opportunities for people to attend, connect, serve, participate, give, and engage.
• Create structure around ministry communication requests so priorities are managed intentionally rather than reactively.
• Ensure all public-facing communication represents BHC with excellence, integrity, warmth, and appropriate spiritual sensitivity.

HITG Marketing & Commercial Growth

• Serve as a strategic marketing partner to the HITG General Manager and executive leadership.
• Translate HITG business priorities into marketing activity designed to support traffic, guest acquisition, engagement, and growth.
• Work closely with the Operations Director to understand outlet priorities, launches, promotions, operational opportunities, and guest-experience initiatives.
• Partner with the Entertainment & Events Director to build awareness, excitement, attendance, and traffic around programming, activations, events, and experiences.
• Develop targeted campaigns for HITG dining concepts, retail, entertainment, events, seasonal initiatives, launches, and special experiences.
• Build strategies designed to increase:
  • Guest traffic
  • Event attendance
  • Brand awareness
  • Guest acquisition
  • Customer engagement
  • Repeat visitation
  • Revenue opportunities
• Ensure HITG maintains a strong, consistent, and relevant marketplace presence.
• Use campaign results, guest behaviour, digital insights, and business priorities to refine future marketing activity.

At HITG, the goal is not for the marketplace to ask:

“Is anything happening?”

The goal is:

“What is happening at HITG?”

Marketing Planning & PPK

• Own and continuously manage the HITG PPK as a key marketing and promotional planning framework.
• Develop annual, seasonal, monthly, and campaign-specific marketing plans.
• Connect outlet activity, events, programming, launches, holidays, and seasonal opportunities to an intentional marketing rhythm.
• Ensure major campaigns clearly define:
  • Objective
  • Target audience
  • Message
  • Channels
  • Creative requirements
  • Timing
  • Budget
  • Expected outcome
  • Measurement
• Build sufficient lead time into the process so the creative team can produce quality work without operating in constant reaction mode.
• Review campaign performance and apply lessons to future planning.

Digital Marketing & Audience Growth

• Develop distinct digital strategies for BHC and HITG based on their different audiences and objectives.
• Provide strategic direction for social media, websites, digital campaigns, content, and audience engagement.
• Ensure digital platforms remain current, relevant, active, and aligned with organizational priorities.
• Grow meaningful audience engagement rather than focusing only on posting volume.
• Monitor performance including reach, engagement, traffic, audience growth, campaign response, and other relevant indicators.
• Use data and audience insight to improve content and campaign decisions.

Brand & Creative Services Leadership

• Protect the distinct identity, positioning, tone, and visual standards of both BHC and HITG.
• Lead and prioritize creative requests across both organizations.
• Provide strategic direction to the:
  • Graphic & Brand Manager
  • Video & Production Director
  • Television & Broadcast Coordinator (future)
  • Other marketing and creative team members
• Establish clear briefs, priorities, deadlines, standards, and accountability.
• Oversee creative execution across graphics, video, voiceovers, photography, advertising, digital content, events, and other public-facing media.
• Ensure creative output serves a defined ministry or business objective—not simply content production for its own sake.

BHC Volunteer Creative & Media Team

Volunteer leadership within this position applies specifically to Bahamas Harvest Church. HITG does not utilize volunteers within this function.

• Recruit and develop BHC creative and media volunteers.
• Maintain visibility of volunteer skills, availability, readiness, and development needs.
• Coordinate volunteers supporting BHC services, conferences, productions, events, and ministry initiatives.
• Establish onboarding, training, performance standards, and clear expectations.
• Coach and develop volunteers while building a sustainable pipeline of creative and media talent.
• Help volunteers understand that their contribution is an act of service supporting the mission and ministry of BHC.
• Ensure BHC volunteers report within the BHC ministry structure and are not utilized as volunteers within HITG operations.

Budget, Advertising & Resource Stewardship

• Develop and manage the marketing and creative-services budget.
• Monitor advertising, production, digital, printing, software, promotional, and vendor expenses.
• Coordinate approved media and advertising placements, including ABC (Complete) newspaper advertisements.
• Evaluate advertising and promotional opportunities based on organizational priorities and expected outcomes.
• Manage media and vendor relationships.
• Track marketing investment and campaign performance.
• Ensure resources are appropriately allocated between BHC ministry priorities and HITG commercial needs.

What Success Looks Like

For BHC

• Clear, consistent, faith-aligned communication.
• Strong support of ministry priorities, services, programmes, events, and outreach.
• Increased awareness and participation in ministry opportunities.
• Effective digital and community engagement.
• Strong storytelling around ministry impact and life change.
• Well-trained, reliable, and engaged BHC creative and media volunteers.

For HITG

• Increased brand awareness and marketplace visibility.
• Strong digital and social engagement.
• Effective marketing for individual outlets and experiences.
• Consistent awareness of events and programming.
• Strong execution of the HITG PPK.
• Marketing activity that supports guest traffic, engagement, attendance, repeat visitation, and commercial growth.

For the Department

• Strong creative-team performance.
• Clear priorities and accountability.
• Timely campaign and project delivery.
• Reduced reactive and fragmented requests.
• Consistent brand standards.
• Effective budget and vendor management.
• Strong cross-functional relationships.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, Public Relations, Media, or related field.
• Minimum five (5) years of progressive experience in marketing, communications, brand management, or creative services.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing marketing strategies and campaigns.
• Experience leading teams and managing multiple priorities across different stakeholder groups.
• Strong understanding of digital marketing, social media, content strategy, brand development, and audience engagement.
• Experience managing budgets, vendors, and creative resources.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and relationship-management skills.
• Strong organizational and project-management ability.
• Ability to move comfortably between strategy and execution.
• Demonstrated maturity, discretion, integrity, accountability, and sound judgment.
• Genuine alignment with the Christian faith, mission, values, culture, and ministry of Bahamas Harvest Church.
• Ability to operate authentically within a Christian ministry environment while bringing strong commercial thinking and performance discipline to HITG.

Preferred

• Experience working or serving within a church, Christian ministry, faith-based organization, or similar values-driven environment.
• Experience in hospitality, tourism, entertainment, events, retail, or destination marketing.
• Experience launching or growing a brand.
• Experience leading creative teams and ministry volunteers.
• Experience supporting multiple brands or business units.
• Experience with website strategy, digital campaigns, analytics, advertising, media, video, production, and storytelling.

The Leader We’re Looking For

The right person will operate comfortably at the intersection of faith, ministry, creativity, leadership, and commercial growth.

You should be:

• Spiritually mature and aligned with the Christian environment of BHC.
• Strategic, but willing to execute.
• Creative, but commercially disciplined.
• Comfortable working with pastors and executives.
• Able to lead employees and ministry volunteers appropriately within their different environments.
• Confident enough to influence decisions and challenge thinking constructively.
• Highly organized without becoming rigid.
• Able to manage competing priorities without losing sight of what matters most.
• Curious about audiences, performance, culture, and what drives people to act.
• Accountable for outcomes—not simply activity.

Who You’ll Work With

This role sits at the center of ministry, business, operations, events, and creative execution. Strong partnership across both BHC and HITG is essential.

The Marketing & Creative Services Director will work closely with:

• Chief Operating Officer (COO) — direct reporting relationship and strategic alignment across both BHC and HITG.
• BHC Pastoral Leadership — to ensure communication reflects ministry vision, spiritual direction, church priorities, and pastoral voice.
• BHC Ministry Leaders — to plan and execute communications around ministries, services, conferences, outreach, programmes, and church-wide initiatives.
• HITG General Manager — to align marketing activity with business priorities, guest growth, commercial objectives, outlet performance, and overall destination strategy.
• HITG Operations Director — to support operational priorities, outlet launches, promotions, guest-experience initiatives, and traffic opportunities.
• HITG Entertainment & Events Director — to build awareness, excitement, attendance, and engagement around HITG programming, entertainment, activations, and events.
• HITG Executive Team — to ensure marketing supports broader organizational priorities and growth objectives.
• Graphic & Brand Manager — to translate strategy into strong visual communication and brand execution.
• Video & Production Director — to develop compelling video, storytelling, production, and media content.
• Television & Broadcast Coordinator (future) — to support broadcast, distribution, and media execution.
• BHC Creative & Media Volunteers — to recruit, train, develop, and coordinate volunteers supporting ministry communications, services, productions, and events. These volunteers serve BHC only and are not assigned to HITG operations.

Join the Team

This opportunity is for more than an experienced marketer.

It is for a leader who understands that communication can advance a mission, creativity can move people, and strategic marketing can grow a business.

At Bahamas Harvest Church, you will help communicate faith, purpose, transformation, community, and hope while supporting ministries as they reach and serve people.

At Harvest in the Gardens, you will help build a destination brand, create marketplace excitement, drive guest engagement, and contribute to the commercial growth of a new hospitality and entertainment experience.

If you are a strategic marketing and creative leader whose values align with the Christian mission of Bahamas Harvest Church—and you have the commercial discipline to help Harvest in the Gardens grow—we would love to hear from you.