Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a social media strategy across platforms that grows Leading Edge’s audience through storytelling, warmth, and thought leadership, consistent with Leading Edge’s existing brand guidelines
• Lead strategy and production for video content
• Produce and schedule social content and video for campaigns, conferences, and program launches
• Own paid social advertising, including budget management, targeting, and performance reporting
• Moderate social platforms and help manage the shared communications inbox
• Track and report on organic and paid social performance
• Serve as the organization’s primary expert in AI-assisted design, including Claude Design, translating brand guidelines into consistent, dynamic, on-brand visual assets such as event signage, social graphics, and presentation materials
• Build and maintain a brand toolkit (templates, prompt guidelines, style reference) that keeps design output on brand with minimal need for major revision
• Maintain reusable template libraries (e.g., Canva) for recurring campaign types
• Manage photo, video, and file assets

Requirements

• 5-7 years of relevant experience in communications, social media, or creative content, ideally within a nonprofit or mission-driven organization
• Demonstrated experience producing video and social content that builds an engaged audience, with a portfolio to show for it
• Experience managing paid social campaigns and budgets
• Working fluency with design tools such as Canva, and a strong appetite for AI-assisted design tools
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex ideas into clear, compelling stories for diverse audiences
• Strong organizational and project management skills, including experience with tools such as Asana
• A pluralistic and inclusive approach to communications, attentive to the diversity of perspectives across the field and communities we serve
• Strong alignment with our mission and values, particularly regarding sector-wide talent, leadership, and workplace culture advancement
• U.S.-based and authorized to work in the United States
• - A visual storyteller with a strong design sense: formal graphic design training is not required, but a sharp eye for brand consistency, layout, hierarchy, and quality is essential

Benefits

• - 100% coverage for employees and 50% coverage for spouses and dependents for medical, dental, and vision
• - Retirement matching, wellness benefits, ample flex time, and a three-month paid parental leave
• - Generous professional development stipend