Responsibilities

• Political and Organizational Leadership (15%)
• Contribute to developing politically grounded assessments, proposals, and strategic priorities
• Help build alliance-wide coherence and alignment with both staff and members around strategy and priorities
• Reflect a commitment to praxis
• Staff Development and Support (20%)
• Assess staff development needs for supervisees
• Orient to supervision as an ongoing practice, identifying areas for growth and development
• Be an accessible resource for staff with grounded solutions and organizational context
• Model effective, principled communication and grounded responses to conflict mediation
• Work Planning (10%)
• Align the communications work plan with the Homes for All campaign and the Alliance’s long-term strategy
• Finalize work area work plans
• Plan for team meetings
• Share reports directly from team & supervision meetings
• Surface cross-team or cross-department issues to bring to the leadership team
• Communications Team (5%)
• Lead the agenda development and facilitation of Communications Team meetings, and co-lead Organizing Department meetings with other Associate Directors
• Co-lead the RTTC Communications Committee
• Manage and provide leadership to the Senior Organizer and National Organizer of Communications to execute the work plan

Alliance-wide Narrative Strategy & Organizational Branding

• Lead the development and implementation of a cohesive, Alliance-wide narrative strategy that advances tenant power, housing justice, and campaign priorities.
• Collaborate with leadership, RTTC member organizations, and the Organizing Department to ensure messaging aligns across programs, platforms, and public engagement efforts.
• Analyze media, political, and cultural trends to inform narrative opportunities and refine messaging for maximum impact.
• Train and support spokespeople, member organizations, and staff to consistently communicate the organization’s core narratives across campaigns, media, and digital channels.
• Develop and refine organizational branding, and ensure that branding is adopted across all facets of the Alliance’s work
• Bottomline the website’s consistency with both our narrative strategy and organizational branding

The Homes for All Campaign Communications

• Develop and execute communications strategies that advance the national Homes for All campaign and elevate its visibility.
• Collaborate closely with Campaign and Member Engagement teams to amplify tenant voices and build a mass renter movement.
• Craft messaging, digital content, and media outreach that highlight campaign priorities, including rent control and social housing.
• Monitor and respond to public and media narratives to ensure the campaign’s goals are clearly represented and strategically advanced.

Membership Communications

• Oversee communications to RTTC Alliance member organizations via newsletters, email campaigns, social media updates, and WhatsApp member threads to ensure a coherent and compelling narrative across RTTC Membership Communications channels
• Collaborate with the Membership Engagement Team to create a coordinated and coherent approach to member communications to deepen RTTC members understanding and ownership over alliance-wide campaigns & interventions.