Director of Network Communications Strategy

Responsibilities

• Co-design, alongside our partners and the NIRH campaigns team, communications campaigns around public funding for abortion coverage, Birth Justice, data privacy in reproductive health care, and other core NIRH issues. – 40%
• In collaboration with Campaigns & Partnerships Department, Policy & Research Department, and Communications Department, develop communications and narrative strategy and planning to advance overall campaign goals, and identify how best to integrate communications strategies into campaigns early to ensure field-ready and persuasive narrative work.
• Integrate communications campaigns across other organizations, including national, state, and local reproductive health, rights, and justice organizations and cross-movement partners, and develop the tools or resources necessary to help them advance policy priorities.
• This role leads partner-facing campaign messaging and ensures alignment with NIRH’s additional communications efforts by collaborating closely with the Director of Communications, who leads on organizational communications strategy and execution, and the Vice President of Communications.
• Lead Communications strategic guidance, technical assistance, and capacity building (TA) for NIRH and NIRH-AF partners – 40%
• Develop and implement a robust communications plan for NIRH’s partnerships that is driven by a strategic analysis of the communications needs and opportunities of partners and the broader reproductive health, rights, and justice movements, including a strategy for operationalizing the work within the Department and cross-departmentally. Collaborate closely with the Department of Campaigns and Partnerships to align goals and outcomes of the partner-focused communications work and the NIRH-focused communications work the NIRH communications team drives, and acting as a liaison between the departments as needed.
• Independently strategize with state and local partners to identify needs and develop plans for providing technical assistance (TA), thinking holistically about NIRH’s value add and how TA can be adapted to each partner’s unique voice and values. Develop and execute a sustainable plan for providing TA to NIRH’s partners that balances staff capacity with partner need.
• Work with the full team of the Campaigns and Partnership Department to incorporate a race equity lens into every element of NIRH’s partnership process, including providing effective and authentic TA to a diverse range of organizations and voices.
• Execute TA and/or laterally manage other executors of communications TA in the Department of Communications when appropriate.
• Work with the Department of Communications as needed on the development of collateral for partner use and to support their work that needs to be informed by NIRH’s partnerships, such as social media strategy or NIRH network emails.

Requirements

• 7+ years proven experience in messaging, press, and digital campaign experience
• An understanding of policy communications
• Excellent communication and public speaking skills.

Preferred

• Advocacy communications experience, with campaign communications experience and reproductive rights, health, or justice communications experience preferred