Senior Manager, Program Communications

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute strategic communications approaches that bring policy and programmatic work to life through compelling storytelling, visuals, data, and audience-driven content, encouraging the adoption of identified best practices.
• Create written and visual assets including testimony, talking points, one-pagers, fact sheets, toolkits, presentations, briefing materials, reports, and digital content.
• Translate complex legislative language, policy proposals, research findings, and programmatic data into clear, compelling, audience-centered communications.
• Draft and edit content for a variety of audiences, including policymakers, program partners and practitioners, advocates, and the media.
• Ensure communications materials are accurate, audience-appropriate, on-brand, and aligned with organizational messaging frameworks.
• Oversee organization-wide effort to embed strength-based and equity messaging across all content, convening a cross-team working group, keeping guidelines up to date, and supporting colleagues with training and resources and reporting on progress to management.
• Participate in key program team meetings and planning discussions to stay closely connected to programmatic priorities, identify strategic communications opportunities, and ensure alignment between program activities and communications efforts.
• Coordinate with Communications colleagues across marketing, design, digital and creative teams to support integrated campaign execution.
• Maintain and organize communications resources, messaging documents, and content libraries to support internal stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred but not required.
• 5-7+ years of experience in communications, public affairs, policy communications, journalism, public policy, or a related field.
• Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills, with demonstrated experience translating complex policy, legislative, or research content into effective communications.
• Ability to identify engaging and effective ways of visualizing or presenting data, research, and policy information.
• Experience developing content for multiple audiences, including policymakers, advocates, program partners, and the media.
• Expertise in developing, reviewing, shaping, and governing content to ensure consistent application of strengths-based, culturally responsive, and equity-centered messaging across organizational communications.
• Preferred candidate has experience working on federal nutrition or benefits programs, and an understanding of public policy, advocacy and legislative processes.
• Ability to synthesize information from multiple sources and identify the most compelling narratives and messages.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Outstanding interpersonal and relationship-management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and functions.

Benefits

• COMPREHENSIVE BENEFIT PLAN: We offer a comprehensive benefits plan which currently includes, but is not limited to, health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, retirement, wellness benefits, and paid time off (vacation leave, sick leave, personal leave, holiday, parental leave, bereavement leave, military leave, and jury duty leave).