Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor and lead a growing communications team, building capacity and structure as organizational needs evolve.
• Develop and execute a strategic communications plan that increases the visibility and brand awareness of the organizations and cultivates relationships with media and key influencers.
• Leverage existing relationships and cultivate new partnerships with media, influencers, and key stakeholders to secure beneficial coverage and elevate brand recognition.
• Oversee multi‑channel content strategy and execution across owned platforms, including websites, social media, email, and marketing collateral, ensuring consistency in voice, creative, and timing.
• Provide strategic communications support for fundraising and programmatic events, including narrative development, run‑of‑show messaging, speaker preparation, staging and design, and rapid‑turn or on‑site communications support as needed.
• Oversee and expand communications services available to candidates and elected officials, including rapid response and crisis communications support.
• Lead digital strategy and performance, overseeing website strategy and execution in partnership with internal and external resources to improve user experience, content governance, accessibility, and conversion.
• Establish performance measurement and insights, including metrics, dashboards, and reporting rhythms to track communications and marketing effectiveness and inform decision‑making.
• Drive brand and marketing strategy, prioritizing marketing collateral and brand awareness initiatives—including the annual report and other publications—and ensuring consistent brand stewardship across platforms, materials, and events.
• Serve as a primary spokesperson and senior point of contact in high‑importance media situations, in close partnership with the President & CEO.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university, or equivalent combination of education and/or experience;
• At least 10 years’ experience in media relations and communications; including experience in managing and growing a high-performing communications department;
• Demonstrated experience and leadership in managing a comprehensive communications plan, media relations, and marketing program to advance an organization’s mission and goals;
• Excellent and persuasive communicator who can connect with diverse audiences – from reporters to donors to board members;
• Ability to balance competing priorities and perform a wide variety of tasks over the course of the workday;
• Ability and willingness to work in rapid response situations where urgency is a necessity;
• Exceptional writing, proofreading and editing skills;
• Existing relationships with reporters is a major plus; and
• Interest in and knowledge of the LGBTQ movement and U.S. politics.