Responsibilities

• Attend SJLI programs, events, youth gatherings, and all community activations to document the organization’s work and capture impactful moments.
• Conduct interviews with youth participants, staff, community members, and partners to surface authentic voices and perspectives.
• Capture photography, short-form video (coordinate long-form video capturing), quotes, and observational notes that help tell the story of SJLI’s work.
• Identify compelling story opportunities across the organization’s initiatives in education equity, health in the built environment, youth leadership, and community organizing.
• Ensure that stories reflect the dignity, leadership, and lived experiences of community members and youth participants.
• Develop written stories, features, and highlights that illustrate SJLI’s programs, partnerships, and impact that can live on any platform including but not limited to social media, traditional media, SJLI website, and in multimodal communication channels.
• Draft narrative content for newsletters, website stories, campaign storytelling, and organizational publications.
• Translate programmatic work and complex initiatives into accessible and engaging narratives for public audiences.
• Support the development of story pipelines that align with communications campaigns, fundraising initiatives, and organizational priorities.
• Collaborate with the Communications & Brand Strategy Manager to ensure stories align with the organization’s broader messaging and narrative direction.
• Develop narrative content for the SJLI website including program features, youth stories, initiative highlights, and organizational updates that reflect the depth and impact of SJLI’s work.
• Capture and curate multimedia content including photos, short videos, long videos and behind-the-scenes content that support storytelling efforts of the work and the brand of the organizaiton.
• Organize and catalog visual content from programs and events to support future communications materials.
• Support the development of docu-style storytelling, interviews, and multimedia features that highlight SJLI’s work, SJLI’s team and SJLI’s community impact.
• Coordinate with the Digital Communications & Design Lead to ensure captured content can be adapted for social media, campaigns, SJLI’s multimodal communication platforms and digital storytelling.
• Work with program staff across regions to identify impactful stories that illustrate SJLI’s mission and work.
• Build relationships with staff and youth leaders to surface meaningful narratives from within SJLI’s programs.
• Maintain a running archive of stories, quotes, testimonials, and visual content that can support communications campaigns and reports.
• Support the Communications & Brand Strategy Manager in identifying story opportunities connected to strategic organizational moments.
• Identify stories and narrative moments that should be elevated through SJLI’s website and coordinate with the communications team to ensure those stories are published and maintained.