Responsibilities

• Meet the Story Where It Lives
• Identify which platforms move which audiences toward which behaviors, and build coverage strategies that match.
• Hunt for and land earned media wherever it serves the mission — legacy print and broadcast, digital-native publications, the podcast ecosystem, YouTube and creator channels, talk radio, newsletters with real subscriber loyalty, Reddit and Discord communities where the conversation is already happening, and the next platform none of us has heard of yet.
• Build a real, working press list — not a database but a relationship-base. Know reporters, producers, hosts, and creators by beat, by deadline pressure, by what they're chasing. Be the call they take.
• Identify the news pegs and cultural moments where RAINN's expertise is the missing piece, and move fast enough to be in the story while it's still the story.
• Place op-eds, ghostwrite for leadership, and pitch original story ideas that journalists actually want to write about sexual violence, its challenges, and our solutions in prevention, justice and healing.
• Build the Entertainment Strategy in Team Partnership
• Translate the VP of Communications' entertainment vision into clear strategic objectives — annual priorities, quarterly targets, signature moments — and partner with the Entertainment Partnerships Manager to build the execution roadmap that gets us there.
• Support the higher-level tactical work alongside the VP: helping shape the asks to top-tier partners, sitting in on the meetings where the Director's presence sharpens the strategy, and making sure earned media muscle is ready to amplify whatever the partnership produces.
• Consult closely with the Entertainment Partnerships Manager on the day-to-day execution — strategy refinement, message alignment, navigating tricky moments, evaluating cross-departmental talent requests, and providing the air cover and guardrails that let them build a program with real autonomy.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive communications experience with a demonstrable record of placed coverage — not impressions, not reach decks. Stories that ran, in places that matter, because of you.
• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Marketing, Political Science, English, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Existing, active relationships with reporters, producers, podcast hosts, and editors.
• A reputation in the room before you walk in.
• Experience managing PR firms and getting more out of them than the SOW promised.
• Fluency across the full earned-media surface area: legacy print and broadcast, of course, but also podcasts (where the long, smart conversations happen), YouTube and creator channels, Substack and independent journalism, TikTok and short-form, and the talk-show, late-night, and streaming entertainment ecosystem.
• A point of view on which platforms move which audiences, and the judgment to know when Pod Save America matters more than the Today show — and when it doesn't.
• Experience cultivating partnerships with celebrities, athletes, musicians, creators, or entertainment industry professionals — or a track record that makes clear you would be exceptional at it.
• Comfort working with publicists, agents, managers, and talent, and the discretion and judgment to be trusted in those rooms.
• Outstanding writing across formats — pitches that get opened, op-eds that get placed, press statements that journalists quote, talking points that survive contact with a hostile interview.

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• life insurance
• employee assistance
• a 403(b) retirement savings plan
• paid vacation
• sick leave
• paid holidays, including a bonus week
• free access to the building's fitness center. RAINN is based in Washington, D.C.