Responsibilities

• Strategic Communications & Messaging: Support the development and implementation of the project’s communications strategy, aligning messaging across technical assistance, research, and community engagement activities.
• Develop clear, consistent messaging that reflects project values such as partnership, local context, and community voice.
• Coordinate communications planning with project leadership to support milestones, site visits, learning events, and deliverables.
• Content Development & Storytelling: Support the development of project content, including blogs, briefs, talking points, data stories, presentations, and web‑ready materials.
• Support the creation of community‑centered data stories and case narratives that highlight implementation progress, challenges, and outcomes.
• Coordination & Collaboration: Work closely with evaluation, technical assistance, and project management staff to identify communications opportunities tied to ongoing work.
• Coordinate with partners to ensure communications are accurate, culturally responsive, and aligned with community priorities.
• Support internal alignment by coordinating review processes and incorporating feedback from multiple contributors.
• Dissemination & Engagement: Support dissemination of project products across appropriate channels (e.g., internal audiences, partners, field‑facing platforms).
• Contribute to communications planning for convenings, onboarding activities, and learning events associated with the project.
• Help ensure communications support broader goals related to sustainability, knowledge sharing, and capacity building.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, public policy, education, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience developing communications products for complex initiatives, research projects, or education‑focused programs.
• Strong writing and editing skills, with experience tailoring content for multiple audiences.
• Experience collaborating with cross‑functional teams and managing multiple inputs and deadlines.
• Experience with community‑based research, technical assistance, or education systems initiatives.
• Familiarity with data‑informed storytelling or translating research findings for practitioner or policy audiences.
• Comfort working in partnership‑driven projects involving schools, districts, community organizations, or funders.
• Experience supporting multi‑year projects with evolving communications needs.
• Disclosures: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. on a full‑time basis. Employment‑based visa sponsorship (including H‑1B sponsorship) is not available for this position. Depending on project work, qualified candidates may need to meet certain residency requirements.

Benefits

• AIR’s Total Rewards Program, is designed to reward our staff competitively and motivate them to achieve our critical mission. This position offers the anticipated annual salary as listed. Salary offers are made based on internal equity within the institution and external equity with competitive markets.