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The Vice President for Communications and Marketing of The Pontifical Missions Societies USA (TPMS) serves as a key member of TPMS’ leadership team, responsible for articulating, shaping, and amplifying TPMS’ mission to a wide array of stakeholders. This position oversees all branding, messaging, editorial, digital, and public relations efforts and ensures that TPMS maintains a unified, mission-driven voice across all platforms.
The Vice President for Communications and Marketing reports to the Chief Operating Officer and must work in either the St. Petersburg or New York City office, unless when traveling on a work-related trip. A couple of significant international trips per year is expected.
TPMS has hired Magnanimity Search to oversee the hiring process.
Interested applicants should send a cover letter, resume, and three references to tpms-search@magnanimity.us, with a CC to jobs@pontificalmissions.org.
Please write “Application for VP for Communications & Marketing” in the subject line.
Note: References will only be contacted with a candidate’s permission during the later stages of the process.
TPMS hopes to fill the position ideally by early February 2026, so we encourage interested candidates to submit their application materials as soon as possible, at a minimum by Jan. 31, 2026.
We expect finalists in the search process will participate in four rounds of interviews, with one of those being a written interview.
We also welcome nominations to the email address above.
The Pontifical Mission Societies (TPMS), known in some countries as Missio, is the name of a group of Catholic missionary societies that are under the jurisdiction of the Pope. These organizations include the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, the Society of St. Peter the Apostle, the Holy Childhood Association and the Missionary Union of Priests and Religious.
These four societies each received the title "pontifical" in 1922 to indicate their status as official instruments of the pope and of the universal Catholic Church. In most countries, the national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies heads the four societies, as is the case in the United States, and oversees the World Missions Sunday Collection, which is taken up on the third Sunday of October each year in every Catholic parish around the globe.[
The Pope specifically asks the Pontifical Mission Societies to help bring the messages of Christ to the world, especially in countries where Christianity is new, young, or poor. The societies care for and support the younger churches until they are able to be self-sufficient. The Pontifical Mission Societies have, as their primary purpose, the promotion of a universal missionary spirit - a spirit of prayer and sacrifice - among all baptized Catholics.