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.

Preferred

• Experience creating communications for nonprofit, philanthropic, rural, community-based, or public-interest organizations preferred.

Benefits

• Our excellent benefit package includes 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.
• A generous relocation package is available for candidates who need to relocate to meet the residency requirement.