Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a comprehensive communications strategy that advances FoFS’s mission, research priorities, fundraising goals, and public profile
• Shape and maintain FoFS’s organizational voice and visual identity across platforms, ensuring communications are principled, clear, nonpartisan, and accessible
• Translate complex research, legal arguments, and policy debates into compelling public-facing narratives
• Develop messaging frameworks for major reports, events, campaigns, and institutional priorities
• Identify timely opportunities for FoFS scholars and leadership to contribute to public debates on free speech, democracy, and technology
• Serve as chief editor for FoFS’s public-facing content, setting standards for clarity, accuracy, tone, and mission alignment
• Set editorial strategy and content calendars for FoFS’s newsletter, blog, Substack, and other owned channels, anchored around research releases, events, and major free speech developments
• Help scholars turn research and analysis into clear, persuasive writing for general audiences
• Lead launch strategy for major reports, toolkits, summits, and public programs, integrating media outreach, digital channels, email, and partner promotion
• Review and approve key communications materials, including press releases, op-eds, statements, and major digital content; draft high-priority external and executive communications as needed