Careers and Opportunities at Visit Alexandria
Updated March 12, 2025
Visit Alexandria is the nonprofit tourism marketing organization for Alexandria, Virginia, promoting the city as a premier destination for leisure and business travel. The organization has 450 members, a $5 million budget and 15 employees. Visit Alexandria has built a strong staff and key partnerships with peer organizations and City departments to accomplish its mission. It is guided by a board of 15, representing a diverse range of industry sectors, expertise, race, age, gender and neighborhood.
Current Openings
Director of Communications
A strategic leader in Visit Alexandria’s award-winning Marketing & Communications (MarComm) Department, the Director of Communications develops and leads communications and content strategies and serves as a project manager across numerous organization-wide initiatives. Works closely with members of the MarComm team and the senior leadership team, and supports an integrated approach across paid, earned and owned channels. Manages communications team members and external media relations and visitor guide agency. Serves as day-to-day media relations and communications strategy lead. Creates messaging and targeting strategies to communicate key messages to our key audiences of leisure visitors, meeting and event planners, conference attendees, and travel trade – domestically and internationally.
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To Apply: Please send a cover letter and resume to [email protected] with “Director of Communications” in the subject line. Please include how you learned about this job posting.
Manager, Digital Marketing & CRM
Visit Alexandria is seeking a marketing professional with an enthusiasm for data, inherent curiosity, and a drive to optimize and improve marketing effectiveness. An integral staff person in the organization’s award-winning Marketing & Communications (MarComm) Department, the Manager, Digital Marketing and CRM is responsible for tracking and optimizing Visit Alexandria’s integrated marketing activities across all digital channels. This position manages website maintenance, performance and user experience as well as the e-mail marketing program. The Manager is also responsible for managing Visit Alexandria’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) database system, working to harness the full power of it by championing usage internally and facilitating enhancements that create a more robust system. They work to understand and use data contained within to help power decision making across the organization. This position reports to the VP of Marketing & Research.
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To Apply: Please send a cover letter and resume to [email protected] with “Manager, Digital Marketing and CRM” in the subject line. Please include how you learned about this job posting.
Destination Sales Manager
Visit Alexandria is seeking a dynamic and results-driven destination sales professional with a passion for business development, relationship building and teamwork to attract and service group sales in Alexandria’s vibrant market. The Destination Sales Manager enhances Alexandria’s position in the competitive tourism landscape by capturing both group meetings and travel trade opportunities for Alexandria. Our Destination Sales team accomplish this goal by cultivating leads and connecting Visit Alexandria members (hotels, restaurants, activities, and transportation) with meeting and group planners and the travel trade. The Sales team consists of a director, two sales managers, and a supporting sales coordinator. The team collectively covers key vertical markets, including association, corporate, S.M.E.R.F. (social, military, education, religious, fraternal), government, sports, and tour & travel. The team cultivates key industry relationships, providing rapid response to inbound leads, prospecting in high-potential markets, and convening select high-value events with customer groups.
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To Apply: Please send a cover letter and resume to [email protected] with “Destination Sales Manager” in the subject line. Please include how you learned about this job posting.
Request For Proposal (RFP) Opportunities
There are no RFP opportunities at this time.
