Communications Consultant at Disability Rights Fund | USA | $55/hr – $60/hr

Communications Consultant

USA (Remote)

$55/hr – $60/hrMid Level3+ years expContract

Posted 5 months ago

Job Summary

Lead external communications for a disability-rights nonprofit, aligning strategy with DRF’s mission and centering disability perspectives.

Must-have: 3–6 years in nonprofit or social-justice communications with strong writing/editing.
Standout: Ability to translate human-rights issues into accessible content for diverse audiences.
Standout: Experience managing WordPress sites and multi-channel content (social, newsletters, reports).

Job Description

Implement the organization’s communications strategy aligned with DRF's mission, programmatic priorities, and goals.
Maintain and strengthen the DRF brand, ensuring consistent, compelling, and accessible (in format and style) messaging across all platforms and materials.
Collaborate closely with program, grants, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEAL) and development teams to produce compelling, timely and accurate external facing communications, including advocacy and impact reports, knowledge products and grant updates.
Produce and edit a range of communication materials, such as newsletters, reports, white papers, press releases, blog posts, social media, and donor materials.
Center disability rights perspectives and amplify the voices of OPD partners in all storytelling and content creation.
Manage DRF 's social media presence (LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook), developing platform-specific content strategies, engaging with stakeholders through comments and messaging, and tracking engagement.
Support DRF’s ED in leveraging her LinkedIn presence to communicate about DRF.
Maintain and periodically update the DRF website (WordPress), ensuring accuracy, accessibility, and alignment with organizational priorities.
Engage as needed with journalists, media outlets, and sector-specific publications; and distribute materials and coordinate possible media opportunities.
Monitor media coverage and the broader disability rights and philanthropy communications landscape for strategic communications opportunities.
Build accessible templates and tools to support organizational communications practices.
Coordinate as needed with external communication vendors (videographers, photographers, accessibility, etc.)
Provide communications support for DRF convenings, webinars, and events, including promotional content, and post-event materials.
Support the development of targeted advocacy and awareness campaigns in coordination with staff.

Disability Rights Fund

4.3 Glassdoor

We support disability rights movements to unleash their power and celebrate diversity.Our values inform how we are in the world:We celebrate human diversity and disability pride.We value the participation, access, and inclusion of all people with disability, in the promotion of human rights.We embrace learning from success and failure as a powerful means of transformation.We bring an intersectional feminist approach to our work.We base our relationships on collaboration, solidarity, interdependence, joy, and accountability.

Founded in 2008

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

46 employees (1 in marketing)

www.disabilityrightsfund.org

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