Head of Communications at Israel Policy Forum | New York City, NY | $210K/yr – $230K/yr

Head of Communications

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$210K/yr – $230K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

Job Summary

Own the organization’s public narrative and multi-channel strategy to elevate IPF as a leading policy voice, coordinating leadership messaging, media relationships, and cross-functional alignment to influence policy audiences.

Integrated communications: drive strategy across channels and stakeholders to maximize impact.
Policy storytelling: translate complex policy into accessible narratives for diverse audiences.
Leadership visibility: develop tailored exposure for CEOs, policy experts, and spokespeople.

Job Description

Lead Strategic Communications: Build and execute a top-tier, integrated communications strategy that positions IPF among the leading policy organizations in the country, leveraging a cohesive, multi-channel approach to enhance its reputation among key stakeholders.
Define Messaging & Positioning: Clarify organizational voices across audiences and issues in collaboration with leadership, policy experts, and other external-facing team members.
Proactive & Responsive Strategy: Generate long-term strategy that aligns communications efforts with institutional goals and policy objectives while implementing well defined rapid response strategy.
Serve as Strategic Partner: Provide direction, focus, and discipline to senior leadership, acting as a collaborative thought partner in shaping organizational priorities and external positioning.
Drive Organizational Alignment: Ensure consistency and coordination across all communications channels and function, working cross-functionally to integrate perspectives and maintain cohesion.
Drive Media and Content Reach: Increase visibility and impact of content across platforms including TV, op-ed placement, podcasts, newsletters, Koplow column readership, policy papers, and social media, as part of a deliberate, multi-channel strategy to expand reach and influence.
Elevate Leadership Profiles: Build visibility and positioning for key spokespeople with individualized strategies for CEO, policy experts, and all external-facing team members.
Cultivate Media Relationships: Expand, build, and maintain strong relationships with major news outlets, journalists, and other strategic partners.
Shape Public Narrative: Position the organization as a go-to voice on all key issues related to policy that effects Israel and, especially, in moments of heightened attention, in close coordination with internal stakeholders and subject matter experts.
Implement Audience Strategy: Align messaging to distinct stakeholder groups; implement segmented audience strategy (policy, Hill, Jewish community, philanthropy, broader audiences), ensuring a coordinated, cross-channel and multi-platform approach.

Israel Policy Forum

Israel Policy Forum’s mission is to build support for a secure, Jewish, democratic Israel and constructive U.S. policies that help to advance a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on two states. We do that by elevating the public discourse and advancing pragmatic U.S. policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, U.S.-Israel relations, and regional diplomacy among policymakers and community leaders.

Founded in 1993

New York, New York, USA

45 employees (8 in marketing)

www.israelpolicyforum.org