Director of Communications (Union)

Responsibilities

• Lead CCPU’s statewide communications strategy in support of bargaining, organizing, legislative campaigns, and member engagement.
• Develop and coordinate messaging across digital, earned, paid, and internal communications, ensuring alignment among local union partners and key audiences.
• Manage content planning and production for CCPU’s website, email, text messaging, newsletters, social media, press materials, fact sheets, videos, and other communications assets.
• Identify and pursue earned media opportunities; build media relationships; prepare press materials and support provider spokespeople for interviews, events, and campaigns.
• Maintain consistent use of CCPU’s brand and organizational voice while ensuring communications reflect the multilingual and multicultural workforce represented by the union.
• Lead complex, high-priority special projects and integrated campaigns in partnership with political, research, field, and other teams; track goals, timelines, budgets, and deliverables.
• Coordinate affiliate communications activities and support campaign events, lobby visits, trainings, conventions, membership outreach, and other large-scale initiatives.
• Oversee consultants, vendors, communications staff, and cross-functional collaborators; mentor and develop communicators and member leaders.
• Strengthen communications data systems and workflows to support member engagement, audience segmentation, and outreach.
• Represent CCPU with members, allies, policymakers, community organizations, media, and other external stakeholders; keep internal and external partners informed and aligned.

Requirements

• Seven or more years of experience in communications, campaign strategy, organizing, or a related field.
• Demonstrated success leading integrated communications for contract, organizing, legislative, or comparable campaigns.
• Deep knowledge of union organizing and collective bargaining.
• Strong writing, editing, messaging, media relations, and storytelling skills, including experience pitching stories and securing media coverage.
• Experience managing complex projects, competing priorities, budgets, staff or collaborators, and consultants or vendors.
• Experience working collaboratively across departments and organizations and in multilingual or multicultural settings.
• Ability to develop strategy while also executing communications deliverables directly.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Commitment to empowering California’s family child care providers and advancing racial, gender, and economic justice.
• Valid California driver’s license, current auto insurance covering business driving, and access to an automobile for business use.

Benefits

• Salary: $130,000 annually, plus excellent benefits including family medical, dental, vision, and retirement. Language differential pay is available to qualified multilingual speakers.