Responsibilities

• Strategic Communications and Brand Leadership
• Lead strategic communications planning and execution, including designing and executing a 12-month communications strategy that elevates our brand beyond individual events.
• Shape and elevate organizational brand and messaging, establishing Teach Plus PA, its teacher leaders, and its coalitions/ staff as recognized, trusted voices statewide and in key geographies
• Translate complex policy and advocacy work into compelling narratives and ensure alignment across Teach Plus PA's strategic initiatives, goals, programs, campaigns, and advocacy efforts
• Manage relationships with external communications firm(s), including direct supervision, ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery and consistent, high-quality media coverage.
• Contribute to meaningful policy wins and stronger programmatic reach through strategic communications, aligning activities to key policy and program moments, and increasing public and policymaker engagement.
• Content, Storytelling, and Audience Engagement
• Own the end-to-end production of our external and internal newsletters. You won't just "load the software"—you'll write the hook and choose the stories.
• Manage Teach Plus PA’s social media channels, creating and posting content that communicates who we are, what we do, and why it matters
• Drive social media and digital engagement strategy, strengthening audience engagement across digital platforms and newsletters
• Create audience-centered messaging and storytelling for donors, legislators, partners, and community stakeholders
• Edit and sharpen copy for grant proposals and annual appeals in collaboration with the Development Director
• Support visibility and engagement around advocacy and programmatic initiatives
• Analytics & Communications Operations
• Develop and refine Teach Plus PA’s communications function, establishing systems, processes, and approaches that increase impact over time and strengthen coordination, clarity, and impact across platforms and issues.
• Develop a system to segment contacts (donors, legislators, partners) so the right message reaches the right person at the right time.
• Track and analyze performance across media, digital, and campaign efforts