Responsibilities

• Identify compelling stories, people, businesses, and developments from across the Alliance’s membership and the broader hospitality industry.
• Create engaging written, visual, audio, and video content for the Alliance’s social media platforms, website, newsletters, advocacy campaigns, and other communications.
• Design graphics and create and edit short-form video content for social media, digital campaigns, podcast promotion, member storytelling, and other Alliance communications.
• Interview restaurant and bar owners, workers, industry leaders, policymakers, and other stakeholders.
• Understand the advocacy and political landscape and help translate policy developments, industry data, member experiences, and organizational initiatives into accessible and compelling content.
• Capture and edit photos and short-form video at member businesses, Alliance programs, press events, meetings, and industry gatherings.
• Develop recurring content concepts and recommend creative new ways to communicate the Alliance’s work.
• Support the production and promotion of the Alliance’s Hospitality & Politics podcast.
• Research prospective guests and help identify strong interview topics, personal stories, and promotional angles.
• Create short-form clips, written takeaways, social posts, graphics, and other content from each episode.

Requirements

• Approximately one to three years of relevant professional, internship, freelance, campus media, or comparable experience.
• Strong writing, editing, research, and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated interest in storytelling, digital media, social media, journalism, public affairs, hospitality, or related work.
• Ability to connect comfortably and professionally with people from a wide range of backgrounds.
• Curiosity and an instinct for recognizing what makes a person, business, issue, or moment interesting.
• Resourcefulness, sound judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to move projects forward with appropriate guidance.
• Familiarity with major social media platforms and an understanding that effective content should be adapted for different audiences and formats.
• Familiarity with email marketing and digital marketing concepts, including audience segmentation, list management, campaign performance, and engagement strategies.
• Familiarity with Mailchimp or a comparable email marketing platform.
• Experience creating and editing visual content, including graphics, photography, and short-form video, using tools such as Adobe Express, Canva, CapCut, Adobe Creative Cloud, or comparable platforms.

Preferred

• Experience with podcast, video, journalism, nonprofit, association, political, government, advocacy, or hospitality communications.
• Familiarity with content-management systems, social scheduling tools, web analytics, or other digital communications platforms.
• Knowledge of New York City’s restaurant, bar, nightlife, media, government, or small-business communities.
• Photography, videography, graphic design, audio-editing, or on-camera interviewing experience.
• Fluency in a language commonly spoken within New York City’s hospitality community.

Benefits

• Health and Dental Insurance, Simple IRA, and Paid Time Off (PTO): 15 days annually.