Communications Associate

USA (Remote)

$70K/yr – $75K/yrEntry Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 11 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive Essential Partners communications, shaping content across channels, coordinating campaigns, and supporting donor and event communications while collaborating with program, development, and operations teams.

  • Lead content creation and multi-channel storytelling, including donor communications and materials
  • Oversee implementation of marketing and engagement strategies across platforms
  • Coordinate cross-functional collaboration to advance organizational branding and campaigns

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Draft written content such as impact stories, interviews, case studies, blog posts, press releases, and other communications materials for a variety of audiences and channels
  • Execute on the filming, editing, and production of short-form video content
  • Ensure that content on the Essential Partners website (Drupal) is accurate and up-to-date
  • Support various communication systems, including marketing automation (Salesforce Marketing Cloud) and social media accounts (Sprout Social)
  • Draft, design, and produce physical marketing and communications materials in alignment with EP’s brand standards for a variety of purposes, such as program development, fundraising campaigns, and public events
  • Support the implementation of organizational communications, marketing, and engagement strategies across platforms and media
  • Conduct research and produce reports in support of strategic communications goals
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with program, development, and operations staff to advance organizational communications and marketing strategies
  • Manage the availability of existing and new EP-branded program and marketing materials
  • Complete other communications and organizational projects as needed

Requirements

  • A minimum of 2-5 years of experience in a nonprofit communications role
  • Excellent project management and organizational skills, including proactive and independent execution of work plans and timelines; ability to manage multiple priorities; able to self-manage time, prioritizing and balancing across multiple competing demands
  • Technological aptitude with file management systems (Google Drive), project management software (Asana), and data systems (Salesforce) with knowledge of Salesforce Account Engagement or a comparable marketing automation platform highly preferred
  • Strong attention to detail as well as excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • The ability to synthesize complex information and multiple perspectives into clear, compelling narratives
  • Excellent cross-team collaboration, with a demonstrated ability to work across stakeholder groups, functional areas, geographies, and differing levels of seniority
  • Ability to work effectively with a variety of personality types and work styles
  • Skillful assertion of expertise and perspective from a supporting role
  • Personal experience with and/or demonstrated commitment to EP’s mission and services
  • A commitment to cultivating a culture that values and invites diverse identities, worldviews, and perspectives

Preferred

  • Experience editing and producing short videos is preferred

Benefits

  • sick leave, new parent leave, four weeks of PTO, paid company holidays, retirement matching after 1000 hours and one year of work, and medical and dental insurance
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Essential Partners

Founded in 1989, Essential Partners helps people build relationships across differences to address their communities’ most pressing challenges.EP’s proven approach helps people live and work better together. Through richer, healthier, more inclusive dialogue, people strengthen relationships while gaining new insight into themselves and each other as well as the problems they face together. The strength of relationships rooted in trust and mutual understanding empowers people to address the most pressing challenges—from partisan polarization and political dysfunction to interfaith conflicts and abortion access—without compromising their deepest values or identities.

Founded in 1989
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
49 employees (1 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
8.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$25.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
60.7%
Direct
30%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~49

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1 (2% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1