Responsibilities

• Lead Campaign Communications and Campaign Digital Strategies
• Lead the development and execution of integrated communications and digital strategies that advance E4E’s issue advocacy campaigns across geographies
• Translate with communications staff campaign priorities into compelling narratives, messaging, and audience strategies that effectively engage educators, policymakers, coalition partners, media and the public
• Leverage strong political instincts and deep issue experience to adapt campaign messaging strategies that proactively or reactively propel our campaigns toward success
• Ensure communications and digital strategies built and managed by communications staff are fully aligned to campaign plans, legislative timelines, advocacy opportunities, and campaign peaks
• Maintain strategic oversight of earned, owned, and paid digital media efforts to ensure tactics are sequenced, integrated, and deployed for maximum campaign impact
• Ensure strong rapid response capabilities necessary for fast-moving political environments
• Ensure campaign messaging remains politically grounded, audience-specific, and aligned to E4E’s broader organizational brand, voice, and issue agenda messaging
• Strengthen Content that Drives Brand, Storytelling, and Member Engagement
• Partner with Program Leadership to strengthen E4E’s broader brand, member value proposition, and educator engagement strategies through enterprise projects to day-to-day execution, shaping content that elevate educator voice, deepen audience engagement, and reinforce E4E’s identity as an educator-led organization

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in communications, digital strategy, and/or political/issue advocacy campaigns
• Bachelor’s degree required
• At least 5 years of experience in public education advocacy organizations
• Strong background in political and/or issue advocacy campaigns
• Transportation: Often works out of the office (or home office), with ~20% travel
• Time will be divided between office meetings with staff within the organization, and self-directed execution of tasks.
• Must be able to work occasional weekends and evenings for programmatic events and other priorities.
• Must be willing to travel to meet with staff across the country.

Benefits

• Benefits & Applying Educators for Excellence (E4E) believes in providing employees with benefits to support self-care, wellness, and financial stability. We value the whole person and provide benefits such as paid time off, health insurance plans, competitive salaries that include pre-tax benefits, and cell phone reimbursements. See more information about our benefits here .
• Equal Opportunity Employer statement and non-discrimination notice (not a benefit, but part of benefits context)