Senior Manager, Strategic Communications & PR
The Business of HLTH Podcast
District of Columbia, USA (Remote)
$115K/yr - $130K/yrAgencyFull-timeSenior level4+ years exp.
5 hrs ago
VP, Communications
District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)
$211K/yr – $245K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time
Posted 3 months ago
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Job Summary
Drive strategic, multi-channel communications for a national civil rights coalition, guiding executive messaging and external impact at the senior level.
- Own development and execution of strategic communications plans across internal and external programs.
- Must-have: A minimum of 10 years in policy advocacy and political communications with crisis experience.
- Standout: Collaboration with SLT and external vendors to build a state-of-the-art comms operation.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Develop collaboratively and implement strategic communications plans for organizational communications, incorporating organizational goals, priorities, and, with effective framing, branding, and message discipline, to be executed by the Communications department.
- Advise the President and CEO on communications strategy and, as a part of the senior leadership team (SLT), help develop organizational priorities and direction, and provide strategic guidance on external impact and influence.
- Partner with external communication vendors to plan, develop, and execute strategic messaging initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, brand standards, and project timelines within budget parameters.
- Develop metrics and KPIs to assess impact and find areas for audience growth and increase in participation in calls-to-action (CTAs), producing regular reports for the President & CEO and Boards.
- Collaborate and partner with the leadership team to develop a long-term strategy on how the organization builds a state-of-the-art communications operation for the organizations that support critical campaigns and coalition partners.
- Innovate and develop new, cutting-edge communication models that leverage the organization’s thinking, messaging, and tools used by coalition members.
- Engage communication leaders in member and allied organizations to develop greater shared narratives, messages, and communications campaigns and activities that advance advocacy priorities of the coalition.
- Drive the development and execution of a multi-channel digital program, expand The Leadership Conference’s reputation, voice, and reach to traditional and non-traditional audiences through digital content development, email list growth, and social media engagement.
- Work with the media relations team to maintain positive working relationships with targeted online, print, and broadcast journalists, editorial writers and columnists, and other people of influence.
- Oversee effective, transparent, and impactful rapid response processes across digital platforms and mediums in collaboration with programmatic staff members, to respond in real time to issues relevant to the organization.
Requirements
- A minimum of 10 years of policy advocacy and political communications experience is required, and in nonprofits is preferred.
- A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in education and experience.
- Proven track record of modernizing communications for organizations both internally and externally.
- Excellent senior leadership experience, including staff and project oversight and supervisory experience.
- Experience in fast-paced environments, including crisis communications and rapid response.
- Proactive, innovative thinking and a strategist with strong attention to detail.
- Thoughtful listener with a keen ability for discernment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with attention to detail and the ability to bring one voice to The Leadership Conference.
- Strong interpersonal skills and collegial working style.
- Multi-tasker and strong project manager with the ability to direct high-performing teams in a fast-paced environment.
Benefits
- generous paid time off, including fifteen (15) federal holidays, as well as biweekly organization-specific holidays, medical, dental, and vision insurance, and transit benefits
- you'll also have access to professional development assistance and an Employee Assistance Program.
Leadership Conference Education Fund
Unfinished Business is a project of The Leadership Conference Education Fund and is designed to create a space for people committed to civil and human rights
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