Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Supervise members of the Communications Team and lead department meetings.
• Strategic Planning: Develop, implement, and evaluate comprehensive communications plans across the organization's diverse audiences in collaboration with BLMP’s staff team, consultants, members, and partner organizations.
• Content & Narrative Strategy: Work closely with the Communications Strategist and Digital Organizer to lead the content strategy that engages audience segments, and build/implement narrative strategy in service of Black liberation, Black migrant justice, and abolition of the carceral state.
• Digital & Web Presence: Mentor and lead the communications team through website administration, coordinating with the Communications Strategist to ensure new and consistent information (article links, stories, and events) are posted regularly.
• Collateral Management: Manage development, distribution, and maintenance of all print and electronic collateral including, but not limited to, newsletters, brochures, annual reports, and website.
• Brand & Media Relations: Strengthen BLMP brand and visual identity, create/manage media contact lists, and oversee departmental budget.
• Rapid Response: Develop rapid response and crisis communication protocols.
• Movement Building: Represent BLMP in communications-specific movement spaces/coalitions, infusing BLMP’s narrative strategy into the larger movement-wide narrative strategy.

Requirements

• Experience: At least 10 years of communications experience, ideally in an “in-house” leadership role within a nonprofit structure, covering areas such as website content, newsletters, and donor communications.
• Strategy to Execution: Proven ability to take knowledge and transform it into exciting and useful messages, and disseminate it to the right audiences through the best distribution channels.
• Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to build and incorporate organizational voice across platforms, organize/clearly share information, and stay up to date with ever-changing tools and best practices.
• Leadership Style: Highly collaborative, mission-aligned relationship builder who welcomes and integrates feedback; a self-starter comfortable with a participatory leadership style.
• Organization: Highly organized with the ability to manage a variety of deadline-driven initiatives concurrently.
• Availability: Available to work nights and weekends during moments of urgent response.

Preferred

• Passionate about Black liberation, Black migrant justice, and abolition of the carceral state.
• Committed to centering and building the leadership of Black migrants and 1st generation Black people who identify as TGNCI, women, femmes, and/or who are living with disabilities.
• Bilingual.

Benefits

• Benefits: Comprehensive health (medical, dental, vision, and FSA)