Senior Communications Associate

Responsibilities

• Lead the Foundation's social media planning, implementation, and ongoing management across platforms, ensuring content supports organizational priorities, audience engagement goals, and brand standards.
• Develop and maintain social media editorial calendars, content plans, and campaign strategies that elevate Foundation priorities and rural community voices.
• Create, edit, and publish compelling written, visual, and multimedia content tailored to platform-specific audiences and goals.
• Monitor audience engagement, platform trends, emerging issues, and digital communications best practices, recommending opportunities to strengthen the Foundation's digital presence.
• Manage audience engagement and community management activities across social media channels while exercising sound judgment regarding public interactions and responses.
• Design and execute digital campaigns that support Foundation initiatives, research, publications, partnerships, events, and organizational announcements.
• Serve as an internal subject matter expert on social media and digital engagement practices, providing guidance and recommendations to Foundation staff.
• Create, edit, publish, and oversee platform-specific written, visual, and multimedia content designed to engage audiences and advance Foundation priorities.
• Collaborate with program, policy, learning, and leadership teams to identify, develop, and publish stories that demonstrate the Foundation's mission, investments, partnerships, and impact.
• Translate complex programmatic, policy, research, and organizational content into clear, compelling, and accessible communications for diverse audiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, marketing, public relations, digital media, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in communications, digital engagement, social media management, marketing, public relations, journalism, or related communications work.
• Demonstrated experience independently developing, executing, and evaluating organizational social media strategy across multiple platforms. Social media expertise is essential to success in this role.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating social media strategy, digital storytelling, excellent writing, platform fluency, audience awareness, visual judgment, and measurable engagement outcomes.
• Experience developing editorial calendars, integrated campaigns, platform-specific content, community-management practices, and social media performance reporting.
• Strong writing, editing, proofreading, and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex information and tailor content for diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to use analytics and audience insights to evaluate effectiveness, exercise judgment, and recommend improvements to communications approaches.
• Experience managing multiple projects, priorities, stakeholders, and deadlines with a high level of ownership and limited day-to-day direction.
• Working knowledge of website content management systems, email marketing platforms, social media management and analytics tools, accessibility practices, search optimization, and common communications technologies.
• Strong interpersonal skills, sound judgment, personal integrity, and a collaborative, service-oriented approach aligned with the Foundation's mission.

Benefits

• paid time off and holidays
• health and dental insurance
• health savings account
• generous retirement plan
• matching gifts program
• access to an employee assistance program
• professional development opportunities
• rejuvenation leave
• and more