Public Information & Media Relations Officer

Sugar Land, TX

City of Sugar Land

Date Posted: 8/13/2026

Salary: $87,485.00 - $100,609.00 Annually

Job Type: Full-Time

Job Number: 2400331

Department: Communications and Community Engagement

Division: Communications

Opening Date: 08/12/2026

Closing Date: 8/29/2026 5:00 PM Central

The City of Sugar Land is seeking a full-time Public Information & Media Relations Officer in the Communication & Community Engagement Department.

As the Public Information & Media Relations Officer, you'll help tell Sugar Land's story, build meaningful connections with the community and media, and keep residents informed when it matters most. Bring your creativity, strategic thinking, and passion for communication to a role where your voice can make a difference!

Why Should You Join Our Team?

Our trailblazing culture focuses on our employees, our citizens and the services we provide to our community. We are a data-driven and innovative full-service municipality located approximately 20 miles southwest of downtown Houston that invests in our team and offers real opportunities for career growth. We pay our Public Information & Media Relations Officer a salary of $87,485 - $100,609, depending on experience and qualifications. We also offer great benefits and perks available on your first day of employment, including: City-subsidized health benefits; life and disability insurance; a variety of voluntary benefits; a robust pension plan with TMRS to set you up for a fulfilling retirement; a down-to-earth casual environment and dress code; and a positive team-oriented culture stemming from a long-term commitment to innovation and inclusion.

Benefits At-A-Glance:

• City-subsidized Medical and Dental Insurance with a variety of plan options;

• City-paid Basic Life Insurance @ 1x your annual salary and Long-term Disability;

• Voluntary Vision, Supplemental Life Coverage (for you and your family), Aflac indemnity plans such as Accident, Cancer, Hospitalization and Critical Illness, Short Term Disability and pre-paid legal benefits through Legal Shield;

• 9 paid holidays and up to 3 floating holidays to use at your discretion;

• A generous vacation package with accruals starting on day 1;

• Paid sick leave;

• Paid Parental Leave;

• A robust pension plan with TMRS includes your 7% contribution with 2:1 match by the City;

• You won't contribute to Social Security, but you can further your retirement income by contributing to a Deferred Compensation (457b) plan;

• Longevity pay for each month of service after your first 13 months of employment;

• On-site Wellness facilities and programming (mind, body spirit & financial preparedness); and

• Access to multiple mental health benefits and resources, including a robust EAP…

If we have your attention… Please. Continue. Reading!

Our City Mission:WE ARE TRAILBLAZERS! Relentless in Our Pursuit of Good so that Our Employees, Residents, and Businesses Can Enjoy a Life Better than They Can Even Imagine.

Our Employee Values: Our values ignite passion, drive, and a sense of purpose, fostering a thriving and successful organizational culture!

We follow the BLAZE Values:

• Bold: We encourage each other to be bold in our ideas, decisions, and actions. We embrace innovation and take risks to drive progress.

• Loyal: We are loyal to each other, the City and our Mission and Vision. We support each other to foster a cohesive and collaborative work environment. We celebrate our successes and address the challenges facing us, together.

• Adaptable: We are resilient because we adapt to changing landscapes and market dynamics. We are flexible and understand the need for work-life balance. We embrace new technologies and evolving trends.

• Zealous: We are committed to excellence in all endeavors. We encourage each other to strive for the highest standards of public service, quality, and performance. We hold ourselves, and each other, accountable for our words and actions.

• Empowered: We are empowered with the necessary resources, opportunities, and responsibilities to excel in our roles. We seek out opportunities for development and growth, and help others do the same. We are inclusive, we embrace our differences and recognize the strength that comes from different perspectives and experiences.

We are TrailBLAZErs!

About the City of Sugar Land

The City of Sugar Land, a municipality with a population of 111,026, provides the highest quality of affordable services to meet the needs of its residents. And our citizens agree—the most recent Citizen Satisfaction Survey told us that 95% of our residents love calling Sugar Land home and 10% say that nothing would make their lives better than it already is, but we look to the future and work hard to make our community and the world better than we can even imagine.

Ask yourself: Do you enjoy working with people? Are you organized and detail-oriented? Can you manage your time well and prioritize multiple tasks effectively? Do you embrace change? Do you enjoy working in a professional AND casual environment? Are you an advocate of team-work? If so, please consider applying for the Public Information & Media Relations Officer position today!

As a Public Information & Media Relations Officer, you will:

• Serve as the City's primary spokesperson and lead Public Information Officer (PIO), managing media relations and serving as the official point of contact for media inquiries.

• Develop and execute proactive communications strategies, messaging plans, media outreach, and executive communications that support City priorities, initiatives, and organizational goals.

• Provide strategic communications counsel to executive leadership, department directors, and subject matter experts on media relations, crisis communications, public messaging, and community engagement.

• Develop and maintain proactive media relationships by identifying, pitching, and coordinating news stories with departments across the City that showcase City services, initiatives, projects, accomplishments, and community impact.

• Lead crisis and emergency communications, including serving within the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), coordinating with partner agencies, and developing timely public safety messaging during critical incidents.

• Write and oversee high-quality communications materials, including news releases, speeches, talking points, website content, public notices, executive correspondence, and other public-facing communications.

• Prepare and coach City leadership and subject matter experts for media interviews, press conferences, public presentations, and community meetings while building strong relationships with media and community stakeholders.

• Monitor media coverage, digital platforms, and public sentiment to identify emerging issues, manage reputational risks, and develop proactive communications that enhance public awareness, transparency, and trust.

• Regular on-site attendance is an essential function of this position.

• Required to work as an essential employee before, during and after an emergency or disaster, whether natural or acts of war.

• Stay abreast of, and comply with, all City and departmental policies and procedures.

• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned by Assistant Director and/or their designee(s).

Formal Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Public Administration, Marketing, English, or a closely related field from an accredited college or university.

• Equivalent combinations of education and progressively responsible experience may be considered.

Related Work Experience:

• Five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in public information, media relations communications, journalism, public affairs, emergency communications, or a closely related field.

• Experience working in local government or another public sector organization is preferred.

• Experience serving as a Public Information Officer during emergencies, incidents, or crisis situations is highly desirable.

• Experience developing strategic communications plans, media strategies, executive communications, and digital communications is preferred.

Training (License and/or Certification):

• Valid Texas Driver License.

• FEMA Basic Public Information Officer Certification (or ability to obtain within one year of hire).

The citizens of Sugar Land depend on City employees before, during and after an emergency or disaster to provide or restore essential public services for the health, safety and quality of life for our community. In the event of a wide scale emergency that could impact our community, all employees must be ready to assist in managing the crisis and will be considered essential for the continuity of governmental operations.

Our success is achieved by the courage to do things differently and accept that failure will occur on the path to innovation.

The City of Sugar Land is an equal Opportunity employer.

Director of Communications

Hybrid (Chicago, IL)

Irving Harris Foundation

Date Posted: 8/13/2026

Chaloner has partnered with the Irving Harris Foundation on their search for a Director of Communications.

About Irving Harris Foundation

Irving Harris Foundation (IHF) fuels ideas, leaders and movements led by and for people most impacted by harm. We partner with those who are reimagining systems, centering equity, and shifting power and resources to eliminate racial and gender disparities among pregnant and birthing people, babies, very young children and their families so that they thrive within just and flourishing communities. To realize our vision, Irving Harris Foundation invests approximately $18 million annually in four interconnected areas: Early Childhood, Reproductive Health and Justice, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health and Jewish Values. To maximize our impact, the Foundation leverages our resources, time, knowledge and influence to further fuel the efforts of our grantee partners centering our core values of justice, courage, persistence, relationships and equity. We work side by side with our partners and foster supportive relationships rooted in trust.

Irving Harris Foundation has four primary strategies: grassroots organizing and movement building to galvanize people-driven movements; advocacy, policy and systems building to address root causes that lead to disparities and shift public and private resource allocation; innovative community centered and led model development and replication to help incubate, launch and sustain new programs, ideas and institutions; and leadership and workforce development to build the capacity of current and future generations of changemakers, especially those from communities most impacted by harm who are best positioned to lead changes rooted in community that address persistent disparities. Irving Harris Foundation is a private foundation based in Chicago and funds in Illinois, nationally and to a limited extent in Israel.

In 2024, the Foundation announced that it will be sunsetting by 2032 after 85+ years in existence. As a spend-down philanthropy working in under-resourced priority areas, IHF invests in systems, policies, capacity building efforts, and leaders so that the impact of our work may endure long after Irving Harris Foundation sunsets. As the Foundation enters the final phases of spending down our assets, we are establishing our sunset programmatic and partner engagement strategies and clarifying our legacy priorities. We seek candidates who have exceptional narrative design and storytelling experience, are detail-oriented, organized and who can contribute to our organizational culture through their lived experience and commitment to racial, gender and economic equity for all. The Foundation is committed to fostering an equitable, inclusive and diverse culture, and seeks candidates who can help the Foundation achieve this aspiration.

Position Summary

IHF seeks a Director of Communications to join its Leadership Team. While IHF has worked with communications consultants and contractors, the Director of Communications will be IHF's first full-time staff communications hire and will help shape and evolve the role. This role will support IHF in advancing its strategic work through spend down, focusing on the critical role IHF's narrative plays in advancing our legacy and philanthropic impact and using communications to leverage our partners' impact now and after we sunset. Additionally, this role will support internal communications including the Foundation team's effective reporting and engagement with the Foundation's Board of Directors.

The Director of Communications will possess a deep commitment to IHF's mission, and be able to identify and implement strategic communications activities that reflect the Foundation's legacy and contribute to change in the reproductive and birth justice, early childhood, infant mental health, and Jewish Values ecosystems through an integrated strategy. In addition, they will be considering how the Foundation's legacy could impact the philanthropic sector. The director will be excited and motivated to pursue innovative approaches and experimental thinking and know how to translate these ideas into a practical course of action.

As a member of the Leadership Team, the Director of Communications will work in collaboration across the organization to create and execute an effective communications strategy that fits the organization today and looks toward the future. The Director of Communications will maintain and elevate IHF's positioning, shape narrative and storytelling, lead projects, provide communications support to staff and when possible, external partners, and determine messaging and communications channels.

The ideal Director of Communications is a compelling storyteller, a voracious consumer of local and national media and a gifted communicator who is intellectually curious and has the facility to write and speak about complex social issues and sectors in a way that inspires action.

Key Responsibilities include:

Strategic Communications, Storytelling and Narrative Development

• Develop the vision for IHF's communications strategy, including articulating a clear internal philosophy on the role of communications and how to use IHF's assets to advance the mission. This should include:

• A roadmap for building our narrative and storytelling process

• A plan to eliminate communications silos and build an ongoing engagement strategy and feedback processes for program team engagement

• Internal communication plan for knowledge sharing and best practices

• An alignment of our language to our values

• A long-term vision for organizational sunsetting communications

• Develop and execute an organization-wide narrative that effectively works across the range of programmatic priorities and incorporates family and practitioner voices shaping the Foundation's narrative. From this narrative strategy, guide, build and counsel leadership on the following:

• Identify storytelling opportunities for the organization and its partners. Build a storytelling framework that aligns with narrative pillars, and the Foundation's principles and practices.

• Create messaging and talking points for team members to support their ability to communicate with external stakeholders in a way that ensures transparency and clarity for our grantees and other partners regarding our priorities, policies and practices as IHF sunsets.

• Write/edit communications and support thought leadership and field building opportunities, leveraging IHF's platform in alignment with the overarching communications strategy.

• Work with the Leadership Team to manage storytelling for Board meetings including building the strategy and approach to presentations and materials. Support goal setting, narrative building and content direction.

• Develop content such as newsletters, annual reports, IHF's website and other high-valuable deliverables.

• Determine analytics and success metrics for all communications work

• Work with and or hire external contractors to support successful implementation of communications tactics organization-wide.

Overall Foundation Effectiveness

• Collaborate across program areas to advance the Foundation's vision, mission, internal and external goals.

• Support updates and revisions to grantmaking processes as IHF continues to advance our commitments to Trust Based Philanthropic practices.

• Participate in full team and relevant Program team meetings.

Foundation Organizational Culture

• Contribute to building an inclusive and equitable organizational culture that is joyful, inclusive, equitable and trusting.

• Support the Foundation's commitment to live into its values of becoming an anti-racist organization.

• Engage and participate in workshops and consultation on racial equity including activities of the Culture Club

Candidate Profile

We recognize that there is a spectrum of lived and professional experience that will set candidates up for success in this role. While no one candidate will have every experience outlined in the position description, ideal candidates will display the following professional and personal qualities, skills, and characteristics:

• Passion for the mission of IHF

• A minimum of 12 years of increasingly responsible communications roles is required. At least five (5) years in a communications leadership role working in close collaboration with senior leaders

• Senior level expertise and experience in the communications field, including proven experience building or evolving a communications function in the mission-driven space

• Values alignment and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion including proven experience centering equity through strategic communications

• A creative outlook and adaptability to change, be it embracing a shift in strategy or finding new approaches to existing work

• An understanding of the philanthropic sector from experience working directly in a foundation setting or alongside as a partner or grantee is preferred

• Strategic issue-based communications experience in the mental health, reproductive justice, prenatal-to-age-3 (early childhood), multi issue grassroots organizing and movement building policy fields is a plus but not required

• Strong relationship building/relationship management skills. Proven experience working as a proactive partner to field experts, including those with limited communications experience and resources, providing communications ideas, tactics and support

• Demonstrated practice developing, executing and measuring successful and integrated communications plans using a mix of traditional and new strategies and tools. Must be a digital communications expert

• The proven ability to work in a dynamic, and relatively flat organization is essential. This position will both lead and tactically execute.

• A flexible and personable work style.

• Excellent writing skills and the ability to write compelling short and long form content for a range of internal and external audiences, IHF colleagues, grantee audiences, policy influencers, the media and the broader philanthropic community.

This position offers the opportunity to be part of a mission-driven team committed to making a difference in the lives of pregnant and birthing people, infants, young children, and families. We welcome candidates who are passionate about our work and dedicated to creating positive change. We encourage passionate and interested candidates to apply even if you do not meet every qualification.

WHY THE FOUNDATION?

The Foundation offers a competitive salary/benefits package and the opportunity to work with a small, collaborative, and dedicated team.

• Competitive Fulltime Salary – salary range $150,000 - $180,000 and commensurate with experience

• Annual bonus, 3-7%

• Professional Development Opportunities

• Tuition Reimbursement

• 401(K) contributions of 15% after 1 year (no match required)

• Generous employer paid Health, Dental and Vision package

• Vacation accrual of 18 days in year one increasing in year 2

• 10 PO PSSL days (up front) upon hire

• Bank Holidays plus 3 floating holidays

• Closed the week between Christmas and New Year

• Work week 4 ½ days per week

• One in-person collaboration day a week and access to an office at any time

The position is based in Chicago, Illinois. The Director of Communications may travel on occasion.

HOW TO APPLY

Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, resume and two-to-three-page writing sample using the application form. Chaloner will review all applicants and, upon qualification, contact you to determine next steps.

Senior Communications Advisor

Hybrid (Washington, DC)

Demand Justice

Date Posted: 8/13/2026

THE OPPORTUNITY

For decades, the right invested billions in capturing the judiciary—and succeeded. They packed the courts with extremists and anti-populist lawyers while progressives failed to mount sufficient resistance.

Today we're living with the consequences: Donald Trump enjoys criminal immunity, Roe v. Wade was overturned, the Voting Rights Act stands gutted, and research shows that federal courts overwhelmingly rule in favor of corporations over working people.

Now Trump is taking it further. Run-of-the-mill extremist nominees are no longer enough—judicial nominees must now show their loyalty to Trump above all else. He is determined not just to break the law, but to dismantle it—attacking institutions, individuals, and anyone standing in his way.

This moment requires aggressive, strategic, and disruptive opposition to the dismantling and corruption of the rule of law by Trump and his cronies.

Demand Justice is at the helm of this fight – fighting to win back our courts so that we can take back our country.

Demand Justice seeks a Senior Communications Advisor to lead a robust communications program that builds public support for a judiciary that serves the people, not the powerful.

The Senior Communications Advisor will develop and lead communications strategies that accelerate Demand Justice's objectives, expand the organization's reach and brand, and drive the national conversation around court reform.

This is an incredible opportunity to play a key role in an unapologetic, innovative organization fighting to protect our rights and democracy and make sure the courts work for all.

WHO WE ARE

Demand Justice is a bold, disruptive advocacy organization that wages advocacy and media campaigns. We use all our organizational tools — a c3, c4 and PAC — to stiffen the spines of those in power to fight for the rule of law and move the entire public discourse of the courts towards reform.

Demand Justice's Core Mission:

• Expose Trump's court takeover: Force a public reckoning about the right-wing's capture of our courts and Trump's authoritarian grip on judicial power; shock, educate, and activate a progressive base to invest in the fight for our courts.

• Hold Democrats accountable: Ensure Democrats in power and running for office stand up and fight back—rewarding them when they do and fearlessly holding them accountable when they don't.

• Build support for bold reforms: Propose and build consensus around bold reforms to the Supreme Court, lower courts, and the judicial system generally.

• Fight Trump's Court nominees, including any second-term nominees to the Supreme Court.

WHO YOU ARE

• A Politically Savvy Communications Expert. You have deep experience developing and leading communications strategies in politicized environments, whether that be on campaigns, on the Hill, or in a progressive advocacy organization. You can navigate high-level politics and complex relationships with levels of nuance.

• A Bold, Creative Strategist with Relentless Drive. You have an unyielding drive for results and a knack for boldness and creativity. You channel your energy and competitiveness into developing an abundance of strategies and ideas that are creative, strategic, and ambitious – and help move the needle.

• A Tireless Campaigner and Consumer of Media. You have a passion for justice and holding those in power accountable. You understand the strategy behind campaign communications and seek working in dynamic environments where the pace and energy feel more campaign than nonprofit. You have your pulse on the media and shifts in public opinion and are first to identify an opportunity – along with a plan for how to insert your principal's voice into breaking news.

• A Trusted Resource and Relationship Builder. You are intentional about cultivating and maintaining relationships with media and key influencers. You have a reputation for being responsive and a trusted resource for reporters.

• A Thought Partner and Collaborator. You value thought partnership to test ideas, sharpen strategies, and solve complex challenges together. You like collaborating with colleagues across teams and will utilize their research and analyses to create media opportunities and inform messaging.

• An Excellent People Manager. You actively create an environment where people feel included and supported in their work. You understand how to motivate and manage staff, vendors, and consultants to deliver high-quality, compelling work.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• In partnership with the President, develop ambitious communications goals and strategies and drive implementation across a variety of channels, including earned media, social media, and paid communications.

• Collaborate with senior leadership to ensure communications are aligned with the organization's strategic objectives.

• Identify and create opportunities to insert Demand Justice's voice and perspective into breaking news and emerging courts-related issues.

• Drive a robust earned media plan that translates strategies and concepts into well-designed, compelling pitches that lead to placements in strategic outlets.

• Distill complex legal and policy information into accessible, compelling content, ranging from paid ads to policy reports to social media graphics, that elevates the issues and Demand Justice's profile.

• Produce high-quality, timely written communications content, including press releases, media advisories, statements, reports, and talking points.

• Oversee Demand Justice's website, branding, social media, and other owned platforms.

• Manage a Press Secretary, Manager of Digital and Creative Content, website vendor, and closely collaborate with consultants.

• In partnership with the Manager of Digital and Creative Content, develop a comprehensive social media strategy to define target audiences, tone of voice, and goals for overall performance.

• Cultivate and maintain strong external relationships with media and key influencers.

• Coordinate with external partners on joint press and media strategies and activities.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

• 12+ years of communications experience in politics and/or advocacy campaigns.

• A keen understanding of complex political environments and campaign communications.

• Demonstrated experience in managing strategic communications campaigns and media relations.

• Experience in digital and media strategy, with demonstrated experience in managing multi-channel content strategies, engagement efforts, and public relations.

• A strong instinct for powerful storytelling and how language motivates and persuades audiences.

• Track record of building relationships with reporters and successfully positioning subject matter with the media to achieve high-impact placements.

• Superior communication skills, both written and oral, with the ability to tailor messaging and distill complex information into concise and compelling language and content.

• Adept in using research, legal analysis, policy, and other data-informed resources to conceptualize messaging that appeals to a diverse set of audiences.

• Superb interpersonal skills and the ability to cultivate relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including media, influencers, and coalition partners.

• Skilled in distilling high-level goals and concepts into clear direction for direct reports and vendors.

• Results-oriented with a proven ability to perform well under pressure and excellent judgment.

• Willingness and ability to respond to breaking news, often outside the workday.

• Sense of humor and positive attitude.

• Commitment to the mission of Demand Justice.

COMPENSATION, LOCATION, AND STRUCTURE

Annual compensation for this role is between $175,000-$205,000 based on experience, as well as a generous benefits package, including medical, vision, and dental insurance provided by the employer and matching 401K.

Demand Justice is a hybrid workplace, and this role is expected to be in the Washington, DC office three to four days a week.

The Senior Communications Advisor reports directly to the President.

HOW TO APPLY

Demand Justice is partnering with Grossman Solutions in this search. To apply for this role, submit a resume and a compelling cover letter at grossmansolutions.applytojob.com/apply. The cover letter should be concise, compelling, and outline the specific ways in which you would be a good fit for this position. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.

Demand Justice is dedicated to building a team of diverse individuals and committed to providing a workplace of mutual respect and inclusion. Demand Justice's work environment is safe and open to all employees and partners, respecting the full spectrum of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, and all other classifications protected by law in the locality and/or state in which you are working.

Communications Associate

Hybrid (Washington, DC)

Campaign Legal Center (CLC)

Date Posted: 8/13/2026

Salary Range: $64,787.00 To $87,654.00 Annually

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing democracy through law. CLC is seeking a Communications Associate to serve as the communications team liaison with legal and policy staff responsible for the Campaign Finance and Ethics portfolio. The Communications Associate will develop communications strategies and content in their portfolio area, working closely with programmatic colleagues to amplify CLC's work on Campaign Finance and Ethics, advance the organization's profile to policymaker and donors audiences, and elevate the organization's thought leadership on these core issues more broadly.

Please submit resume and brief cover letter that particularly includes: 1) your interest in working on campaign finance and government ethics issues and 2) how you have built and maintained positive working relationships with colleagues working on legal, policy, or other programmatic work.

Role Description

This position requires attention to detail, strong project management, excellent writing skills and a proven track record of working effectively across teams, as well as strong knowledge of the current and historic legal landscape of campaign finance and ethics. The Communications Associate role reports to the Sr. Manager, Communications and will work closely with the VP, Communications; Sr. Director, Communications and the entire Communications team. The position requires the capacity to work some nights/weekends when necessary for rapid response. Preference is for candidates in the Washington, D.C. area who can work on a hybrid schedule (in-office at least one day per week), but fully remote will be considered for exceptional candidates.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as primary point of contact from the Communications team to program staff working on Campaign Finance and Ethics and lead project manager for strategic communications plans related to Campaign Finance and Ethics

• Liaise between communications and program staff to coordinate, review and refine all written content related to Campaign Finance and Ethics

• Develop communications plans, own review processes and collaborate with colleagues to ensure timely production of all deliverables related to Campaign Finance and Ethics

• Collaborate with other communications staff as well as legal and policy colleagues to write and edit high-quality written materials including short-form blogs and updates, longer-form analysis pieces, media newsletters, quotes, press releases, case pages, fact sheets and other communications products

• Partner with communications colleagues as well as program colleagues to craft organizational positioning and messaging that respond to emerging and growing threats to government institutions

• Coordinate with program colleagues on Campaign Finance and Ethics reports, case studies or memos, contributing to the content and ensuring effective rollout

• Edit content for AP style and grammar, as well as DEI values and messaging and brand guidance

• Closely follow developments and news related to the Campaign Finance and Ethics portfolio

• Track all programmatic and policy actions at the federal, state and local levels related to Campaign Finance and Ethics and keep the communications team apprised of key developments

• Make regular updates to CLC's website and provide strategic guidance and draft copy for web, email, and social media platforms

Requirements

• At least 1-3 years of communications or journalism experience

• Strong project management skills

• Excellent writing and editing skills, including the ability to write quick and accurate content that is SEO- and GEO-optimized and draws on tested messaging

• Solid understanding of campaign finance and ethics issues and a desire to learn more, as well as the ability to quickly learn nuances in the work

• Experience understanding and explaining legal or legislative concepts

• Proven track record of building trust, building positive and respectful relationships with colleagues, and liaising and collaborating effectively within and across departments

• Stellar attention to detail and ability to juggle multiple projects at once

• An openness to new ideas and differing approaches

• Demonstrated ability to receive feedback, ensure accountability, and continually adapt, grow, learn and improve

• A commitment to CLC's mission

Compensation and Benefits

Salary Range: 64,787 - 87,654

Campaign Legal Center is committed to fostering a workplace that supports every team member's personal and professional well-being. Our compensation is competitive and placement within the posted salary range is commensurate with experience. Additionally, we provide a comprehensive and inclusive benefits package tailored to meet the diverse needs of our staff.

Some of our benefits include:

• Generous health, dental, and vision insurance with low employee premiums

• A 401(k) retirement plan with a dollar-for-dollar match up to 6%, with immediate vesting

• 20 vacation days, 12 sick days, and 3 floating holidays annually

• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave, 10 days of bereavement leave, and 8 weeks of sabbatical leave for those who qualify

• Office closures for all federal holidays, plus typically a week in late summer, and a week in the winter.

• Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts

• A $1,000 annual professional development stipend and bar membership reimbursement

• A $500 annual technology allowance

• Pre-tax metro smart benefits

• New family and family planning support, including reimbursement for travel to access legal reproductive healthcare

• An Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with free, confidential support for personal, financial, and family matters.

At CLC, we believe that caring for our team is essential to sustaining our mission. We strive to create a culture where everyone can thrive inside and outside work.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is an equal opportunity employer committed to maintaining a nondiscriminatory work environment. CLC is proud to be an inclusive organization. It does not make hiring or advancement, or other employment decisions, based on race, national origin, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, familial status or responsibilities, personal appearance, pregnancy, political affiliation, ancestry, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability, record of arrest or conviction, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, District of Columbia, or local law. This policy applies to all aspects of employment including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, job assignment, compensation, promotion, termination, benefits, and training.

Disclaimer: This description of the position summary, key responsibilities, benefits, and compensation is intended to provide an overview of this position and is not all inclusive. The incumbent in this position will be expected to perform other duties as required. Responsibilities may change over time. This description of the position summary, key responsibilities, benefits, and compensation is provided for informational purposes only and does not form the basis of a contract.

Communications Director

Hybrid (Austin, TX)

The Trail Conservancy

Date Posted: 8/10/2026

Reports to: Chief of External Affairs

Direct report: Marketing Supervisor

Classification: Full-time, exempt

Hiring range: $90,000–$95,000, depending on relevant experience

Schedule: Generally 40 hours per week, with flexibility and occasional evening and weekend work for TTC events and significant communications needs

Work location: Hybrid office and home

Benefits: Health Insurance (100% coverage for employee’s medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) eligibility + up to 2% match with vesting period

Paid leave: 120 hours of paid time off, 11 paid holidays, and TTC’s annual office closure between December 25 and New Year’s Day

About The Trail Conservancy

The Trail Conservancy’s mission is to protect, enhance, and connect the Ann and Roy Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail at Lady Bird Lake for the benefit of all.

In partnership with the City of Austin and the community, TTC cares for one of Austin’s most used and beloved public spaces. Our work includes ecological restoration, capital improvements, operations and maintenance, community programs, public events, and long-term stewardship of the Trail.

The Opportunity

The Trail Conservancy is entering an important period of growth, guided by an ambitious 2026–2031 strategic plan. The Communications Director will help shape how Austin understands TTC’s mission, impact, partnerships, and vision for the Trail.

Reporting to the Chief of External Affairs, the Director will lead TTC’s integrated communications and marketing strategy, supervise the Marketing Supervisor, and manage the systems and external partners needed to carry out the work. This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution, including advising senior leaders, overseeing content and digital channels, strengthening media and community engagement, and guiding communications during complex public issues.

Key Responsibilities

Communications Strategy and Leadership

• Develop and lead an annual communications and marketing plan aligned with TTC’s strategic plan and External Affairs priorities.

• Identify key audiences and establish clear objectives, messages, and strategies for each.

• Serve as a strategic communications adviser to the Chief of External Affairs, CEO, leadership team, and other staff.

• Partner with the Chief of External Affairs on communications related to City partnerships, public affairs, government relations, and issues affecting the Trail.

• Establish editorial, approval, and planning processes that promote accuracy, consistency, responsiveness, and appropriate executive oversight.

• Set measurable communications goals, monitor performance, and recommend adjustments based on data, community feedback, and emerging needs.

Brand, Content, and Digital Communications

• Steward TTC’s brand, voice, visual identity, and core messages across all channels.

• Lead an integrated content strategy that communicates TTC’s mission, impact, projects, programs, partnerships, and community value.

• Provide strategic oversight of TTC’s website, email, social media, digital advertising, publications, signage, direct mail, video, and other communications platforms.

• Guide the creation and editing of press materials, project communications, community updates, fundraising materials, organizational reports, and multimedia content.

• Ensure communications are accurate, accessible, inclusive, respectful, and appropriate for their intended audiences.

• Maintain clear standards for written, visual, digital, and multimedia communications.

• Manage communications consultants, photographers, and other external partners.

Media Relations and Reputation Management

• Develop productive relationships with reporters, editors, producers, community media, and other communications partners.

• Identify opportunities for earned media, interviews, public presentations, thought leadership, and community storytelling.

• Draft and coordinate press releases, media advisories, statements, responses to inquiries, interview preparation, and spokesperson materials.

• Prepare leaders to represent TTC and serve as a TTC spokesperson as needed.

• Monitor media coverage, misinformation, stakeholder concerns, and emerging issues that could affect TTC’s work or reputation.

• Maintain crisis and issues-communications plans and coordinate messaging during sensitive or rapidly changing situations in partnership with the Chief of External Affairs, CEO, and other appropriate leaders.

Organizational Partnership and Fundraising Support

• Partner with Development and other departments to plan and produce clear, compelling communications for fundraising, membership, sponsorships, donor stewardship, projects, programs, events, and community engagement.

• Coordinate donor-recognition commitments across signage, publications, the website, media materials, and digital channels.

• Translate complex projects, organizational priorities, decisions, and public issues into accessible narratives for staff and board to use in the community.

• Lead the production and execution of an annual impact report

Team and Operational Leadership

• Supervise and develop the Marketing Supervisor through clear expectations, regular feedback, coaching, workload planning, and professional-development support.

• Coordinate the work of communications interns, contractors, and agency partners.

• Develop and manage the communications portion of the External Affairs budget.

• Establish realistic project timelines, clarify responsibilities, and help departments plan communications needs in advance.

• Foster a collaborative environment in which employees can share ideas, raise concerns, and produce high-quality work.

• Attend and support selected TTC activities and events, including occasional evening and weekend commitments.

• Perform other responsibilities reasonably related to the position.

What You Will Need

• Approximately seven or more years of experience in communications, public relations, marketing, journalism, public affairs, or a related field.

• At least two years of experience supervising employees or leading the work of communications professionals, consultants, or substantial cross-functional teams.

• Demonstrated success developing and implementing an organization-wide communications strategy.

• Excellent writing, editing, presentation, and verbal communication skills.

• Experience with media relations, executive communications, reputation management, or sensitive communications issues.

• Experience managing digital communications and using data to improve results.

• Strong project-management and decision-making skills.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and respectfully with audiences from varied backgrounds and perspectives.

Relevant professional experience may have been gained through employment, consulting, freelance work, community leadership, military service, education, or other settings. A particular college degree is not required.

Experience That Would Be Helpful

• Communications experience in a nonprofit, public-sector, civic, environmental, parks, cultural, advocacy, or other public-serving organization.

• Experience communicating about government partnerships, public projects, fundraising, memberships, sponsorships, or capital initiatives.

• Familiarity with Austin’s communities, civic environment, or media landscape.

• Experience with common website, email, social media, analytics, media monitoring, design, and project management platforms.

We know that qualified candidates bring different combinations of experience. Applicants who meet many, but not every, preferred qualification are encouraged to apply.

Application Process

Applications must be submitted through TTC’s application portal by 5pm on Friday, September 4, 2026. If you have trouble with the portal, you can send your application via email to apply-ac767146ff5c@the-trail-conservancy.breezy-mail.com.

Please submit:

• A resume

• A brief cover letter or statement describing your interest and relevant experience

• Two work/ writing samples or a link to a professional portfolio

Professional references will be requested only from candidates who advance to the finalist stage and will not be contacted without notice.

To support a consistent and equitable process, please do not contact TTC employees or board members directly about the position.

Equal Employment Opportunity and Accommodations

The Trail Conservancy is an equal-opportunity employer. TTC considers applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

TTC is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during the application process and employment. Applicants who need an accommodation may contact info@thetrailconservancy.org.

Communications Strategist

Hybrid (Detroit, MI)

ACLU of Michigan

Date Posted: 8/10/2026

For over one hundred years, the ACLU has been at the forefront of every major civil liberties fight in our country’s history. The ACLU of Michigan, founded in 1959, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public interest organization dedicated to the defense and expansion of civil liberties and civil rights in Michigan. Whether it’s reducing the prison and jail population, achieving full equality for the LGBTQ community, reducing immigration detention, or ending unjust laws that strip people of their fundamental right to vote, we take up the toughest civil liberties issues to defend all individuals from government abuse and overreach. We are a passionate, highly motivated group of lawyers, public policy experts, lobbyists, community organizers, communicators, and fundraisers, and we’re looking for exceptional talent to join our team.

This is an incredibly exciting time to join the ACLU of Michigan. As an organization, we believe that our work in becoming a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace that centers a sense of belonging is a perpetual journey rather than a destination.

Position overview

The Communications Strategist works closely with colleagues across the Communications, Legal, and Political departments to create and execute media strategies and support digital strategy. This person should have a keen sense of how media relations work, expert writing skills, and a deep passion for social justice issues. This is a full-time position reporting directly to the Deputy Communication Director and based at our Detroit office.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Create and execute communications strategy in concert with program staff and across departments.

• Build an effective communications strategy that mobilizes supporters, inspires and persuades target audiences, and isolates opposition to advance advocacy goals.

• Proactively lead production of communications content, including talking points, media advisories, press releases, op-eds, letters to the editor, blogs, emails, remarks and quotes, in addition to providing digital content support.

Media Strategy and Editorial Support:

• Collaborate across departments and teams to create and execute traditional media plans for priority issue areas, litigation, legislative advocacy, reports, and special projects.

• Cultivate relationships with reporters, secure media coverage and respond to incoming media requests; develop and pitch stories.

• Respond to breaking news and lead rapid response, often requiring sensitive judgment calls in emerging civil liberties and civil rights crises, including occasionally after hours and on weekends.

• Identify opportunities for ACLU involvement and amplification through media monitoring.

• Develop messaging that is guided by ACLU values, best practices, research, and polling.

• Support spokespeople, including clients and colleagues, through media preparation and training.

• Plan, staff, and manage events with media, including press conferences, rallies, and reporter briefings.

• Draft collateral for media, including press releases and advisories.

• Draft letters to the editor and op-eds as needed.

Digital Support:

• Support the execution of digital strategy across campaigns, litigation, legislative advocacy, reports, and special projects.

• Propose and/or co-develop digital collateral, including multimedia products, blog posts, website and social media copy, reports, and one-pagers.

• Ensure the Communications Department’s digital team is aware of key moments, messages, and updates for your assigned issue areas.

• Co-lead the tracking of communications activities, including media engagement and outreach, press events, and building analytics reports.

• Identify digital opportunities and work in coordination with digital colleagues to conceptualize, script and produce content relating to civil liberties and civil rights issues.

• Help flag social media developments requiring press or social media responses for colleagues during rapid response moments.

• Support paid digital ad plans that supplement communications strategy.

Experience and Qualifications

• At least three years of media experience or related field including public relations or marketing;

• Exceptional writing and communications skills, including ability to translate complex ideas into understandable messages that inform, engage and persuade targeted audiences;

• Ability to apply political acumen in identifying target audiences for communications tactics that influence policymakers and shape policy decisions on key ACLU issues;

• Bring strong news judgment and ability to understand and stay abreast of an evolving political landscape;

• Exceptional organization skills with an ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment while managing several projects;

• A strategic, creative, and forward-looking thinker, who is nimble in their approach and able to manage shifting priorities;

• Experience using public opinion research to frame issues and develop messages a plus;

• Experience with or commitment to ethical storytelling; and

• Ability to work flexible hours and travel when necessary.

Personal Characteristics

• Committed to advancing the ACLU’s values, mission, goals and programs, with an understanding of the range of civil liberties issues and their implications;

• A commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion;

• Values the individual and respects differences of race, ethnicity, age, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ability, and socio-economic circumstance; and

• A team player that inspires collaboration, functions decisively, and aspires to grow professionally.

Compensation and Benefits

This position has a salary of $75,000 annually. Excellent benefits, including health, vision, and dental insurance and a 401(k)-retirement plan with matching contributions, an individual professional development budget, and an employee assistant program are provided. The ACLU also facilitates a wide range of nationwide employee resource groups.

The ACLU of Michigan values the flexibility of hybrid work while maintaining strong in-person collaboration. Team members are expected to work at the office one day a week and live within reasonable commuting distance to ensure they can support urgent onsite needs when necessary.

We want to hear from you

We know that not all strong candidates will have every skill we list. That’s OK. We still want to hear from you. Research shows that women, non-binary people, and people of color are less likely to apply for a position if they don’t meet every skill listed. At the ACLU of Michigan, we believe our collective differences enable us to make better decisions, drive innovation, and deliver better programmatic results. We are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable state and nation, and we know that begins with us doing the work ourselves.

How to Apply

Send a cover letter, resume, and writing sample to openpositions@aclumich.org. We will begin reviewing job applications August 27, 2026. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The ACLU of Michigan is an equal opportunity employer. We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. The ACLU encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status, or record of arrest or conviction.

Senior Account Executive

Remote

Miller Ink

Date Posted: 8/10/2026

The work

American public life is more divided than it has been in generations. A growing field of foundations, researchers, and practitioners is working to change that — building trust across lines of difference, strengthening civic institutions, and helping people find common ground with those they disagree with.

Miller Ink helps them get heard.

We’re hiring a Senior Account Executive to lead client work in this space. You’ll help position advocates, researchers, and changemakers whose work depends on being credible to audiences across the political spectrum — which makes this some of the most demanding and most interesting communications work in the field. Pitching a story that lands equally well with a progressive outlet and a conservative one is genuinely hard. If that challenge appeals to you, keep reading.

You’ll also work across Miller Ink’s broader portfolio, which spans crisis communications, public affairs, technology, real estate, and nonprofits.

What you’ll do

• Strategy. Build and execute communications strategies across earned and owned media. Track what’s working, refine what isn’t, and spot opportunities as they emerge.

• Writing. Draft and edit op-eds, pitches, press releases, talking points, blogs, and social content. Strong writing is the center of this job, not a side requirement.

• Media. Develop real relationships with reporters and build media strategies that reflect how coverage actually happens.

• Client leadership. Serve as a primary point of contact — setting expectations, managing timelines, and steering account teams toward work that exceeds what clients thought they were getting.

• Team leadership. Mentor junior colleagues, give feedback that makes them better, and coordinate designers, vendors, and outside partners on integrated campaigns.

Who we’re looking for

You have at least five years of professional experience in communications, public relations, journalism, government, political campaigns, or a related field, plus a bachelor’s degree.

• You’re an exceptional writer. This is the requirement we bend on least. We’ll ask for samples.

• You can write to people who don’t already agree with you. Much of our work only succeeds if it reaches across divides. Comfort operating outside a single political register is essential.

• You’re organized and accountable. You manage several projects at once, you hit deadlines, and details don’t slip past you.

• You’re good with people. Clients, colleagues, reporters, and junior staff all need to want to work with you.

• You’ve managed or mentored others — or you’re ready to. If you’ve supervised junior staff, great. If you’re a journalist or in-house communicator who hasn’t yet had direct reports but has the instincts and wants to build the skill, we’re interested. Tell us how you think about it.

Crisis communications experience is a plus but not required.

A note for people coming from adjacent fields

Some of our strongest colleagues arrived from newsrooms, Capitol Hill, campaigns, and nonprofit communications teams rather than from agencies. If you’ve spent years covering civic life, faith, or polarization as a reporter, or running communications inside a mission-driven organization, you may be a better fit for this role than your résumé suggests. Apply.

Why Miller Ink

• Compensation: $100,000 starting, with genuine advancement potential. We promote from within.

• Benefits: Generous medical, dental, and vision plans; retirement plan with company profit sharing; competitive paid time off.

• Hybrid: In-office time that builds real working relationships, with flexibility around it.

• Mentorship over perks: At a moment when puppies and beer pong pass for benefits, we’ve focused on what we think matters more — mentoring people, creating professional opportunities, and building a culture that delivers for clients and colleagues alike. We were named a Best Place to Work in 2022 and we’ve worked to stay one.

• Clients who matter: Our work supports organizations changing lives at real scale.

Salary

$100,000 starting, with genuine advancement potential.

How to Apply

Send a resume, a brief note on why this role interests you, and two writing samples — ideally one persuasive piece (op-ed, pitch, or advocacy writing) — to eliana@miller-ink.com.

You can also apply on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4446449261/

Manager, Strategic Communications

Hybrid (Boston, MA)

Third Sector New England (TSNE)

Date Posted: 8/10/2026

Overview

Third Sector New England, Inc. (TSNE) (tsne.org) is working to build a more just, equitable society. We do this by providing capacity building services, consulting and training services, and operational support for hundreds of nonprofits, foundations, community-based groups, and others working for social change. We are partners and colleagues working collaboratively to support areas critical for organizations, including property management, leadership development and support, finance and accounting, human resources, and organizational development. We live by our values as an organization, and are committed to identifying, including, and valuing the unique skills, perspectives and knowledge of each member of our team.

About our Values:

• Justice - A just society is one in which all people have the dignity, resources, power, and self-determination to fully thrive. We seek to create a more just world in all of our work.

• Progress - We commit our resources, expertise, and energy to delivering high quality support and services that make movement toward a more just world possible.

• Impact - We work collaboratively with others to build the capacity and sustainability of organizations who work toward social good.

Responsibilities

The Manager, Strategic Communications, plays a key leadership role in strengthening TSNE’s brand presence, managing integrated communications projects, and promoting mission-aligned services. This role leads content development and organizational storytelling strategies that elevate TSNE’s identity, engage priority audiences, and support the Advancement department’s strategic goals.

This position oversees content pipelines and manages marketing initiatives across TSNE’s core service lines, including consulting and training, fiscal sponsorship, shared services, and property services. Working closely with Strategic Communications, Advancement, and program and service teams, the Manager ensures that content is clear, values-aligned, and tailored to target audiences.

The Manager also serves as project manager for communications initiatives and as a lead collaborator across internal departments to deliver coordinated, equity-centered messaging and campaigns.

Essential Functions

Brand Stewardship & Content Leadership – 30%

• Serve as lead writer and editor for branded content across platforms, including web, email, blog, social media, and printed materials.

• Serve as the editor and manager of TSNE's email marketing strategy.

• Maintain consistent tone, voice, and brand application across all departments, campaigns, and service areas.

• Partner with program and service teams to co-create stories that elevate TSNE's consulting and training, fiscal sponsorship, shared services, property services, and advocacy work.

• Develop audience-specific messages for nonprofits, funders, partners, and internal stakeholders.

• Lead TSNE's external webinar series, highlighting TSNE's thought leadership and service lines.

• In close partnership with the Director, support implementation of internal communications strategies.

Project Management & Campaign Execution – 30%

• Serve as project manager for multichannel marketing campaigns and strategic content initiatives.

• Create and manage editorial calendars, timelines, and workflows for recurring communications projects, including the production of TSNE reports and publications.

• Coordinate cross-functional communications tasks across teams and consultants.

• Lead campaign planning and post-campaign assessments in collaboration with the Senior Director.

• Manage content briefs and intake processes for service promotions, events, and thought leadership assets.

Marketing for Programs & Services – 25%

• Lead content and campaign development to market TSNE's services, including consulting and training, fiscal sponsorship, shared services, and property services.

• Collaborate with service line leads to identify marketing goals, define audience needs, and tailor value propositions.

• In partnership with the Senior Associate, write, edit, and produce promotional materials including flyers, service guides, landing pages, video content, and client-facing messaging.

• Support Advancement team efforts to integrate service marketing with donor, policy, and sector engagement strategies.

People and Vendor Management, Project Oversight & Team Support - 15%

• Provide project-level guidance to the Senior Associate on designated communications deliverables, while formal supervision remains with the Senior Director.

• Manage consultant and vendor relationships to ensure timely deliverables, strategic alignment, and cost-effective outcomes.

• Support team workflows, project prioritization, and coordination across communications initiatives as needed.

Complete other tasks and projects related to the position, as needed.

Qualifications

Many folks who are impacted by biased professionalism standards, such as women, LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and individuals with disabilities, tend to only submit an application if they meet every requirement listed. At TSNE, we are always looking for enthusiastic candidates who are the best fit for the role, both culturally and through experience. If you believe you’d be a good addition to our team, we look forward to your application!

Required:

• At least 4 years of experience in brand strategy, communications, content marketing, project management, or a related field, with at least 2 years of supervisory experience.

• Demonstrated experience managing complex communications initiatives from concept through execution.

• Strong writing, editing, and storytelling skills across multiple formats and audiences.

• Familiarity with marketing tools, CRMs, editorial calendars, analytics tools, and design collaboration platforms.

• Experience working with or in service to nonprofits, foundations, or community-based organizations.

• Ability to adapt to dynamic organizational environments; agile, realistic, and practical when priorities shift.

• High emotional intelligence, diplomacy, and the ability to work collaboratively or independently.

• Demonstrated commitment to racial equity, social justice, and inclusive communications practices.

Preferred:

• Experience marketing consulting, training, and/or professional services.

• Background in journalism, content strategy, nonprofit marketing, or advocacy communications.

• Knowledge of audience segmentation, user-centered design, or storytelling for systems change.

You also believe in and embody our organizational values and the below core competencies:

• Communication – The ability to effectively exchange ideas, concepts, facts, and data with diverse audiences.

• High standard of integrity, ethics, and professionalism – The highest standards of integrity, ethical practices and professionalism are demonstrated in all aspects of work, including interactions with others, decision-making, and the development and delivery of work product. The ability to integrate core values, equity, integrity and accountability throughout all organizational practices.

• Relationship management – The ability to develop and nurture positive, productive relationships with others.

• Collaboration – The ability to collaborate vertically and horizontally throughout the organization and with others.

• Technologically and organizationally functional – Computer skills and demonstrates willingness to learn additional, specific platforms. Also understands and follows the policies and procedures applicable to all staff.

And a strong combination of the following qualifications:

• Soft Skills including exceptional discretion and judgment. Effective verbal and written communication skills with a wide audience. Ability to build productive and successful range of relationships and effectively serve in roles ranging from trusted advisor, teammate, subject matter expert and to coach.

• Demonstrate cultural awareness and some understanding of fostering an inclusive, culturally sensitive, environment. Willing to ask questions, learn, and constructively share and accept feedback. Must be adaptable to a range of audiences and dynamics.

• Just do good work by providing high quality work in fast-paced environment. Strong analytical skills are necessary. Must be flexible and able to manage multiple changing priorities and projects, and be organized and detail oriented. Provide excellent customer service by being on-time and accurate.

Physical Demands/Work Environment

The physical demands described for this position are that of a typical office environment. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. Ability to sit and/or stand for extended periods of time in front of a computer screen is an essential aspect of the position. There may be a need to lift and/or move materials or equipment.

Location: Work will be performed between our office located at the NonProfit Center at 89 South Street, Suite 700, Boston, MA 02111 and your home office. This position will require you to be on-site for in-person client engagements and some meetings with TSNE staff and program participants occasionally, which may take place outside of the TSNE office and may require to be on-site more regularly with advanced notice.

Schedule: This position is full-time at 37.5 hours per week and hours are flexible within reason.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation: The salary for this position is $102,900.20 annually, paid bi-weekly at $3,957.70.

Benefits: This position is eligible for a full benefits package including:

• Generous Paid-Time-Off (PTO): twelve paid holidays, three weeks of vacation, one week of personal holiday, and ability to accrue up to 487.5 hours of health leave time for benefited staff.

• 80% Employer-paid, offering some $0 deductible Health Insurance through Harvard Pilgrim along with several low-deductible plans;

• Low-cost Harvard Pilgrim/Point32Health Dental and Vision.

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) for Health and Dependent Care.

• Employer-paid Life, Long- and Short-Term Disability Insurance.

• Employer-paid Pension and Employee-paid 403b plan through TIAA.

• Up to $1,080.00 in annual commuter subsidy

• $10 monthly cell phone stipend.

• No meetings after noon on Fridays.

• ...and more!

TSNE strives to achieve excellence through a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment that embraces all of our individual and collective differences. Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Middle Eastern and North African, Bilingual and/or Bicultural candidates, and LGBTQ2SIA+ candidates are encouraged to apply. We value and honor the unique talents, learning styles, and lived experiences of each individual that enrich and strengthen our workplace culture, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Communications Director

Hybrid (Sacramento, CA)

Housing California

Date Posted: 8/10/2026

About Housing California

Since 1988, Housing California (Housing CA) has worked to create a California with homes, health, and prosperity for all in thriving, sustainable communities. We bring together a diverse, cross-sector network to prevent and end homelessness, increase the supply of safe, stable, affordable homes, and reverse the legacy of systemic racial and economic inequities by building power among the people most impacted by housing injustice in partnership with cross-sector partners, shaping the narrative, and advocating for the passage of transformative statewide policy solutions. Learn more about long term policy agenda here and explore additional information about Housing CA’s current legislative priorities on our website at www.housingca.org.

Position Summary

California's housing and homelessness crisis will not be solved by policy wins alone; it requires a fundamental shift in how the public understands who deserves a home and why. As Communications Director, the incoming leader owns Housing CA's narrative and communications strategy end-to-end: setting the organization's voice, translating policy and legislative work into public narrative that moves people, and running the media and content operation that gets that narrative into the world.

This is a senior leadership role. The Director manages a small communications team and consultants, and integrates communications work across legislative and regulatory affairs, power building, and organizational strategy. Externally, they lead media relations, rapid response, and public narrative strategy in service of Housing CA's “big tent” approach, building a shared voice across a broad and diverse constituency and centering the people most affected by housing instability and homelessness.

The position is based in Sacramento (hybrid), with regular statewide travel and occasional early-morning, evening, and weekend commitments. The right candidate is energized by the pace of a live legislative and campaign calendar, including a current statewide affordable housing bond campaign and brings the seniority and judgment to lead the function independently.

Areas of Leadership and Expertise

Strategic Communications Execution & Media Advocacy

Runs Housing CA's public-facing communications operation (media, content calendar, and campaign comms) with the rigor a live legislative and electoral calendar demands.

Responsibilities:

• Owns and executes the annual communications plan and calendar, including newsletters, e-blasts, social media, and the op-ed pipeline.

• Leads media relations and advocacy: writing, editing, and distributing op-eds, press releases, and statements, and identifying earned media opportunities.

• Leads rapid response communications, positioning Housing CA quickly and credibly as news and political developments unfold.

• Leads communications strategy for major campaigns, including the current statewide affordable housing bond campaign.

• Prioritizes competing media requests, speaking engagements, and writing opportunities, and prepares the Executive Director and other key staff for interviews and public appearances.

• Manages communications consultants, briefing them clearly and holding their work to a high standard.

• Leads communications planning for major organizational moments, including the annual conference and Advocacy Day.

• Represents Housing CA at public events, coalition spaces, and media engagements.

Key qualifications:

• Track record running a communications calendar and media relations function end-to-end.

• Experience leading rapid response communications in a fast-moving news or political environment.

• Experience managing consultants or agency partners.

• Comfortable representing an organization externally and prepping senior leaders for public-facing moments.

• Fluency with digital communications, media monitoring, email marketing, CMS, social media, and analytics tools.

• Experience supporting a live campaign — ballot measure, legislative push, or comparable — under real time pressure.

• Strong writing and editing skills across press, digital, and public-facing formats.

Narrative & Communications Strategy Leadership

Leads the development and execution of Housing CA's narrative change and communications strategy, translating policy priorities and lived experience into public narrative that shifts how people understand housing and homelessness.

Responsibilities:

• Develops and executes Housing CA's narrative change strategy, applying tested frameworks and research to shift the stories, values, and perceptions that shape public understanding.

• Owns Housing CA's strategic communications plan and style guide, maintaining a consistent, values-forward voice across every channel and audience.

• Guides the writing, editing, and production of publications, campaigns, and communications materials to a high editorial standard.

• Partners with the power-building team to elevate resident voice and develop spokespeople, keeping policy work grounded in lived experience.

• Serves as Housing CA's internal thought partner on narrative, building staff capacity to apply narrative strategy across programs and campaigns.

Key qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in strategic communications, narrative change, or advocacy communications, ideally on behalf of low-income communities and communities of color.

• Working knowledge of narrative research and tested frameworks, and fluency applying them practically.

• Demonstrated commitment to racial, economic, and housing justice reflected in prior work.

• Skilled at translating complex policy or legislative material into accessible public narrative.

Organizational & Systems Thinking

Connects communications work to Housing CA's long-term mission, integrating narrative, legislative advocacy, and power building into a coherent systems-change approach.

Responsibilities:

• Aligns communications strategy with organizational planning, budgeting, and impact tracking.

• Collaborates with the legislative/regulatory affairs and power-building teams so communications reinforces policy and organizing strategy.

• Operates with a high degree of autonomy and sound judgment as a senior organizational leader.

• Brings fresh thinking to a fast-changing coalition and legislative environment, adapting priorities as opportunities shift.

Key qualifications:

• Experience operating in advocacy, legislative, or coalition-based environments, with a well-developed communications toolkit.

• Demonstrated ability to own and manage narrative and messaging strategy at a senior level.

• Comfort holding “inside voice / outside voice” tension across public, coalition, and legislative spaces.

Team Leadership & Development

Leads, coaches, and develops a small communications team, contributing to Housing CA's senior leadership as a whole.

Responsibilities:

• Manages direct reports, coaching for growth in craft, judgment, and career development.

• Builds a collaborative, low-ego team culture that supports growth at every level.

• Contributes to organizational leadership: shaping culture, advancing equity commitments, and participating in strategic planning.

• Proposes and monitors the communications budget and supports fundraising for the program.

Key qualifications:

• Experience managing and developing communications staff, including hands-on coaching.

• Collaborative, low-ego leadership style.

• Track record as a senior leader who integrates team output into broader organizational strategy.

Our ideal candidates may have experience that doesn’t directly match the qualifications above, and we encourage people with equivalent experience to apply.

Compensation, Benefits, and Location

This is a full-time, exempt position that reports to the Deputy Director of Programs. The Director will provide leadership for a communications manager. The salary range $120,000 - $150,000 depending on experience.

Benefits package includes fully paid medical, dental, and vision for employee and 25% paid medical, dental and vision for dependents, paid parental leave, long-term disability and group life insurance coverage; commuting subsidy; cell phone/at home internet subsidy; 403(b) retirement plan with 3.5% employer contribution; generous vacation (3+ weeks, depending on tenure), sick leave (8 hours per month + employees start with 8 hours of leave), 12 paid holidays; organization-wide closure during the last week of December and a shortened workweek during the summer legislative break; training and professional development opportunities; and a hybrid work environment.

This position is based in our office in Sacramento and requires a significant in person presence in and around our office and the state capitol in downtown Sacramento. The position will have the opportunity to work remotely from their home if their presence is not needed in the office or around the capitol.

The position is expected to participate in regular travel (mostly in California) including the following engagements: twice yearly Board of Directors meetings (sometimes held in Sacramento); annual 2-3 day staff retreat; annual 3-day Housing California conference (often in Sacramento); annual 2-3-day statewide RUN summit (sometimes in Sacramento); plus various conferences or in-person partner meetings, based on need and interest.

Our Culture

Housing California is committed to creating a just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace that fosters a culture of belonging, ongoing learning and collaboration, and supports, stabilizes, and incentivizes people to join the Housing California team and stay for the long game.

We value having staff who come from communities that are most impacted by the issues we address. We especially encourage Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and people of color; people from families that have immigrated to the U.S.; people who have been unhoused or experienced housing instability; women; LGBTQIA+ people; system-impacted people; and people with disabilities to apply for these positions.

We aim for our work to be both effective and sustainable; we balance required travel during some parts of the year and the fast-paced legislative calendar with a commitment to our team’s mental and physical health.

How to Apply & Hiring Process

Please submit you resume and responses to the application questions via the BambooHr portal.

If you have questions regarding your qualifications for this position, compensation/benefits, our process or internal timeline for hiring, or suggestions for how to improve this announcement or the opportunity itself, please email Jenny Welch (jwelch@housingca.org).

Proposal Coordinator

Remote (U.S.)

Forthright Advising

Date Posted: 8/10/2026

To Apply

Filling out this form is the first step towards a partnership. (We’re a small but mighty team with a real commitment to work life balance. For this reason, filling out the form is the only way to be considered for the contract.)

Services Needed

Contract Goal: You’ll confidently manage our new business proposal process – writing proposals for potential clients and helping our team save time and win business.

Primary Point of Contact: This contractor role reports to Niki Juhasz, VP of Marketing and New Business.

Overview of Duties: You’ll lead the proposal process, from writing to submission. You’ll project manage the process by drafting proposals, scoping projects and keeping our new business submission project status tracker up to date. You’ll ensure every proposal matches the RFP requirements.

Services Overview

The ideal human for this project is self-motivated and can work independently with little to no oversight on assigned new business projects. You’ll excel at keeping track of (and constantly prioritizing!) multiple tasks at once, without dropping the ball. Our dream coordinator is proactive, enterprising and solution-oriented.

NOTE: We need a proactive coordinator who checks in daily when working on a proposal with us to maintain our new business tracker and ensure all proposals are submitted on time.

Project Management & Operations

• You’ll create a project plan for each proposal, which includes dedicating time on Forthright staff’s calendar to review and approve the proposal and scoping.

• You’ll lead business tasks (checking in during Forthright’s business hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET, Monday - Friday).

• You’ll keep our new business tracker up to date.

Proposal Coordination & Research

• Before you prepare a proposal, you’ll review notes from new business calls and discuss the project vision with the VP, as needed.

• You’ll compile new business call prep documents and conduct research to align proposals closely with client needs and RFP requirements.

• You will handle the scoping and pricing of projects using internal software tools.

Drafting & Layout

• You’ll write the first, complete draft of every new business proposal using a combination of internal AI tools, call notes, RFP requirements and your own expertise.

• You’ll lay out beautiful, easy-to-scan proposals, including crafting the cover page and creating graphics, as-needed, using plug-and-play existing tools. (You do not need to be a designer or have any design skills to succeed.)

• You’ll edit proposals based on client requests.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Ideally three or more years of experience drafting winning new business proposals and leading successful new business processes

• Proven ability to dissect complex RFPs, extract the exact deliverables needed, and ensure 100% compliance in the final proposal

• Impeccable writing and copy editing abilities

• Demonstrated experience in maintaining brand integrity through copy; must be able to use Forthright’s brand guidelines and produce/edit high-quality content using our brand voice.

• Authorized to work in the United States

• Knowledge of online calendars and scheduling tools (specific focus on Google Suite)

• Experience with and comfort using AI tools (We use Gemini for Google Workplace.)

• Comfort using plug-and-play design tools (like Canva, PowerPoint, Google Slides, or similar software) to build clean, beautiful and easy-to-scan documents

• Excellent phone, email and Slack communication skills, asking questions and clarifying details when needed

• Basic math skills for timesheets and project budgets

• Highly organized and able to multitask and work well with fast-paced directions and instructions

• Able to anticipate the needs of others in order to ensure their seamless and positive experience

• Able to manage time effectively and efficiently

• Able to organize, manage and maintain large amounts of files, tasks, schedules and information

About You

You want to make the world a better place for kids. You’re a proposal coordinator who is excited about working with a fun, smart startup team – and are passionate about simply making life (and the new business process!) easier for our team. If you get a rush from turning a blank page into a beautifully formatted proposal and never let a detail slip through the cracks, you’re exactly who we’re looking for.

You’ll thrive as a valued part of our team if:

• You eat tight deadlines for breakfast. The words “deadline in three days” don't send you into a panic; they snap you into focus. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and know how to ruthlessly prioritize when multiple tasks land on your desk at once.

• You’ve got impeccably high standards for yourself. You have an incredible attention to detail and intolerance for errors. Mistakes happen, of course, but you fail gracefully and with humor.

• Continual improvement is your jam. You’re always looking for a smarter way to do something, and you don’t make the same mistake twice. When we get feedback on a proposal, you ensure we learn and grow from every last bit of it.

• You are an expert-level cat-herder. You’re comfortable taking charge of the proposal process, which includes confidently managing up. You aren't afraid to firmly (but kindly!) ask for what you need, when you need it. You block off time on collaborators' calendars and ensure everyone hits their deadlines, so you can hit yours.

• Feedback is your favorite. You know some discussions are hard, but having a hard discussion is much better than not having one at all. You deliver and expect open, candid and respectful feedback, all day, every day.

• You are fiercely autonomous. You don't wait around for someone to tell you what to do next. You are a self-starter who excels at working independently with little to no oversight, anticipating the team's needs before they even have to ask.

• You identify with our mission. You have a love of kids and a dedication to making them successful.

Selection Process

We want to be totally transparent about how we hire, so you aren’t left guessing. Here’s exactly what happens when you apply to work with us at Forthright:

• Application Form: We leave our application open for a full month. Also, please skip the cover letter. We mean it!

• A 15-Minute Task: We'll review all of our applications on a rolling basis and reach out to the most promising candidates with a short exercise. It should take 15 minutes, tops. We’d much rather you spend the time you would have spent creating a cover letter simply showing us what you can do here. If you meet the requirements of the exercise, you officially make our interview shortlist.

• Chatting with Niki (VP of Marketing and New Business): We’ll select about 15 people from that shortlist for a “getting to know you” video call with Niki Juhasz.

• Chatting with Katie (CEO): From there, we'll narrow things down to about eight finalists who will meet with our Founder for a final conversation.

• Paid Task: We'll want to see you in action – so we'll give you a portion of a real proposal we're creating and pay you a project fee to help us create our submission. We are looking to assess the quality of your work and how quickly you can adapt to our existing process.

• Getting to Work: That’s it for the selection process! Our goal is to bring on at least four contractors, get you onboarded, and start assigning actual proposal work to you right away. (We do lead a robust onboarding process so you have what you need to succeed!)

Location

All roles at Forthright are permanently 100 percent remote, and the contractor can live anywhere in the United States. Contractors must have the availability and willingness to work during Forthright’s business hours (8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. EST).

Compensation

Hours & Rate: We typically pay $175 per proposal. On average, we spend between 3-7 hours per proposal. We have an AI tool set up to help write our proposals, in addition to a designed template! You’ll never start a proposal from complete scratch.

We consider contractors for contracts on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs and without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, age, disability, alienage or citizenship status, ancestry, marital status, creed, genetic predisposition or carrier status, sexual orientation, veteran status, familial status, status as a survivor of domestic violence, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Chief External Affairs Officer

Hybrid (Washington, DC)

Corporate Energy Buyers Association (CEBA)

Date Posted: 8/10/2026

Chaloner has partnered with the Corporate Energy Buyers Association on their search for a Chief External Affairs Officer.

About CEBA

The Corporate Energy Buyers Association (c6) is a business association with a mission to activate energy buyers and their partners to drive low-cost, reliable, carbon-free global energy systems.

The Clean Energy Buyers Institute (c3) is the affiliated public benefit charity that advances low-cost, reliable, carbon-emissions free global energy systems. The c6 and c3, collectively “CEBA,” is an inclusive community of energy buyers, clean energy providers, service providers, NGOs, philanthropies, and clean energy thought leaders.

Position Overview

The Chief External Affairs Officer (CEAO) is a C-suite executive and member of CEBA's Executive Leadership Team (ELT), reporting directly to the CEO and working alongside the Chief Business Officer, SVP for Policy, SVP for Energy Transactions, and SVP for Global Programs. The CEAO leads three interconnected functions, Communications, Government Affairs, and Development, across CEBA.

The CEAO is the architect and steward of CEBA's external voice and market position, its political strategy, and its philanthropic and corporate partnership growth. At a moment of historic opportunity, with explosive growth in energy demand placing the customer voice, represented by CEBA's 330+ member companies representing more than $40 trillion in market value, at the center of the global energy conversation, the CEAO will position CEBA to lead that conversation: shaping policy outcomes through credible bipartisan engagement, building the brand as the preeminent voice of energy buyers, and significantly growing the philanthropic and corporate partnership base that fuels CEBA's mission driven work.

The CEAO will collaborate closely with the CEO and the rest of the ELT to drive strategy, execute against short and long term objectives, and define and meet metrics of impact. The role includes substantive engagement with the c3 and c6 Boards of Directors, the key CEBA members, and the senior leadership of CEBA member companies. The CEAO will also serve as a strong people manager, building and leading a high-performing team while fostering a culture of collaboration and accountability.

The Role

The CEAO owns three interconnected functions, Communications, Government Affairs, and Development, and is personally accountable for CEBA's brand, its political capital, and its philanthropic growth trajectory. The CEAO leads a team that includes the VP for Government Affairs, the Director for Development, and senior leadership across Events, Marketing, and Communications with that structure to be finalized in consultation with the CEO and CBO. The CEAO's leadership spans the ELT and Boards, as well as each of CEBA's three functional pillars.

Executive Leadership and Organizational Stewardship

• Contribute as a full ELT member to organization-wide decisions on strategy, budget, personnel and culture, not only within External Affairs.

• Set the strategic agenda, budget, and resourcing for External Affairs, and hold the function accountable to clear metrics of political, reputational, and financial impact.

• Build, develop, and retain a high-performing leadership team across Communications, Government Affairs, and Development.

• Serve as a primary point of engagement for the c3 and c6 Boards and leader-members, ensuring they have real insight into CEBA's external posture and the political and philanthropic landscape.

The pillars below define what the CEAO will lead across the ELT, the Boards, and each of these functions.

Voice and Market Position (Communications)

• Own CEBA's brand and market position as the preeminent voice of the energy buyer, setting the strategy and overseeing the execution and delivery of the strategic priorities as it relates to the Government Affairs and Development narratives. Continue to build the CEO's external platform while establishing the CEAO as a credible, visible spokesperson for CEBA in their own right. Represent CEBA to national and trade press, at flagship convenings such as Summit and Leadership Event, and at venues like CERAWeek, NYCW, and potentially the World Economic Forum.

• Oversee the strategy for owned, earned, and paid media, digital and social presence, and member-facing communications, delegating execution to a strong communications team while retaining editorial judgment on anything with reputational or political significance.

Political Strategy and Government Affairs

• Own CEBA's political capital: relationships with federal and state legislators, Administration officials, and governors, and CEBA's overall policymaker engagement strategy, set jointly with the SVP for Policy, SVP for Energy Transactions, and SVP for Global Programs.

• Build and personally lead a credible, durable, bipartisan government affairs operation, engaging directly at the moments that matter most, including with the Administration, newly elected members of Congress, and state and local officials, while delegating day-to-day leadership and execution to the VP for Government Affairs.

• Guide and support CEBA's political engagement strategy, including collaboration with the CEBA PAC and relationships with party committees, and build coalitions with member companies and allied trade associations to advance shared policy objectives.

Philanthropic and Corporate Growth

• Hold primary accountability for the c3's philanthropic revenue trajectory, sustaining roughly 20% year-over-year growth from a current base of approximately $12M, with a goal of roughly doubling that base by year-end 2029.

• Personally cultivate and close principal-level gifts ($1M+) and partnerships across the c3 landscape including but not limited to institutional philanthropy, ultra-high-net-worth donors, and corporate philanthropy, while building the team and pipeline needed to sustain growth at scale.

• Partner with the CEO and Boards to convert their networks into warm introductions and high-leverage asks, and lead the corporate partnership growth beyond core membership dues.

• Build development team capacity beyond its current single director role, and put in place the stewardship infrastructure, donor narratives, and reporting needed to support a growing and increasingly sophisticated funder base.

What We're Looking For

• At least 20+ years of progressively senior experience across some combination of strategic communications, brand and marketing, institutional fundraising and government affairs including significant C-suite or comparable executive leadership.

• A demonstrated track record of building and leading high-performing teams across multiple disciplines, and of stepping in personally when the situation demands it.

• Substantial direct federal legislative experience, or comparable policy-driving experience off the Hill, or senior corporate government affairs or trade association leadership in the energy sector, with the credibility to lead a bipartisan government affairs operation.

• Deep expertise in at least two pillars: Communications, Government Affairs, and Development, credible judgment in the third, and a track record of hiring strong functional leaders to close any remaining gap.

• A track record of building or significantly growing a philanthropic or corporate development function, ideally including direct ownership of multi-million-dollar fundraising goals and principal-gift solicitation.

• Genuine subject matter engagement in energy, climate, sustainability, cleantech, utility engagement, corporate procurement, or related policy and markets.

• An influential, credible professional network, ideally within clean energy, climate, energy policy, or related philanthropic and corporate communities.

• Superior executive-level written and verbal communication, with the presence and credibility to represent CEBA to Members of Congress, governors, CEOs, foundation principals, and the press.

Practical Considerations

• Eligible to work in the United States.

• Ability and willingness to work nontraditional hours and travel up to 30% of the time.

• Based in the DC office at least three days per week.

Compensation and Benefits

CEBA offers competitive executive-level compensation and a comprehensive bonus and benefits package, including eligibility for CEBA's annual bonus and incentive plan based on both organizational and individual performance. The base salary range for this role is $450,000-$600,000. CEBA is committed to supporting employees in having a full life inside and outside of work.

Equal Opportunity Employer

CEBA is an equal opportunity employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, results of genetic testing, caregiver status, military service status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should apply by using the application form. Chaloner will review all applicants and, upon qualification, contact you to determine next steps.

Digital Strategy & Engagement Manager

Seattle, WA

Northwest Harvest

Date Posted: 8/10/2026

Salary Range: $35.68 To $43.71 Hourly

POSITION SUMMARY: 

The Digital Strategy & Engagement Manager plays a vital role in Northwest Harvest's mission to end hunger in Washington through strategic digital storytelling and data-driven content strategies. This position drives brand recognition, relationship building, and community engagement across our digital channels in support of fundraising, advocacy, and partnership development. Through ethical storytelling practices and measurable digital strategies, this role helps achieve our goal of cutting hunger in half by 2028.

The position leads comprehensive digital marketing strategies, oversees all social media, email marketing, and website content, and ensures communication aligns with both our strategic goals and organizational commitment to advancing systemic change. This role puts into practice our six agreements and PACI Values while amplifying community voices and driving meaningful engagement.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Digital Strategy & Ecosystem Leadership

• Lead the development and execution of integrated digital strategies that advance our mission across social media, email, and web platforms

• Define and manage cross-platform editorial direction and content frameworks, with measurable goals aligned to organizational objectives

• Drive data-informed decision-making, translating analytics and audience insights into strategic adjustments across channels

• Design and lead content testing and optimization strategies to improve engagement, conversion, and impact

• Shape compelling digital narratives and audience engagement approaches that deepen understanding of hunger’s root causes

• Establish success metrics, reporting frameworks, and performance insights to demonstrate mission advancement and inform organizational decision-making

• Ensure alignment and integration across digital channels, campaigns, and constituent journeys, in partnership with Communications, Advancement, and other teams

• Serve as a strategic partner in aligning digital engagement approaches with organizational priorities and supporting systems (e.g., Customer Relationship Management (CRM), email, web), in collaboration with cross-functional teams

Execution, Operations, and Enablement

• Determine resourcing model (in-house vs contractor vs agency) for content and production

• Oversee daily and weekly content development and channel management

• Maintain digital asset library and ensure consistent brand voice across platforms

• Lead cross-platform campaigns from conception to evaluation

• Coordinate with teams across the organization to align messaging and maximize impact

• Manage content workflow and team assignments

• Implement effective project management systems

Email:

• Lead email marketing strategy and content development

• Manage audience segmentation and CRM integration

• Define role of email within broader constituent journey strategy, including lifecycle and engagement pathways

• Optimize deliverability and engagement metrics

• Implement A/B testing and performance analysis

• Develop targeted nurture campaigns 

Social Media:

• Establish channel roles and audience strategies aligned to organizational goals

• Direct platform-specific content development and community building

• Manage paid and organic growth initiatives

• Create dynamic and engaging multi-media digital content

• Oversee content calendar, approval processes, and scheduling

• Build and maintain influencer relationships

• Monitor trends and implement emerging best practices

Website:

• Own website as a strategic platform, including information architecture and conversion strategy

• Direct regular website maintenance and capital upgrades

• Lead copywriting, graphics development, photo editing, and other website tasks as needed

• Coordinate with external web development partners on technical updates and new projects

• Lead Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and analytics tracking

• Develop and maintain impact dashboards

• Ensure integration with other digital channels

General:

• Represent Northwest Harvest's mission and values in community interactions

• Stay current with organizational priorities and initiatives

• Participate in cross-functional projects as needed

Perform other duties as assigned by the Director of Communications. 

EQUITY AND INCLUSION 

Demonstrate initiative to learn and enhance skills that promote anti-racism, cultural competency and understanding of oppression and its impact.

Participate in intentional learning efforts, including events relating to understanding and dismantling institutional racism and building cultural competency.

RELATIONSHIPS: 

Internal: Partner closely with the Communications team and other Advancement teams on strategy and execution. Collaborate across divisions to support digital communications needs and strategic objectives. Advise organizational leadership on digital opportunities, risks, and trends.

External: Manage relationships with vendors, contractors, community partners, and digital audiences. Ensure timely and professional interaction with social media communities, email subscribers, and website visitors.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: 

A combination of real-life experience, education, and training that provides an equivalent background to perform the work of this position. 

Successful completion of a background check is required.

Knowledge of:

• Digital analytics and measurement tools

• Marketing automation platforms

• Content management systems (WordPress)

• CRM systems (Salesforce)

• Social media management and advertising platforms

• Digital asset management

• Project management tools (Asana)

• SEO and web optimization practices

• HTML/CSS fundamentals

• Microsoft Office suite and organizational platforms

• Digital accessibility standards

Ability To:

• Understand individuals who have experienced poverty or food insecurity

• Support equity and inclusion for members of historically marginalized groups including racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQIA+ populations and people living with disabilities

Equity and Connectedness:

• Adopt the PACI (purpose driven, anti-racist, connected and interwoven) model and practice our Six Agreements:

• Speak our truths responsibly

• Listen to understand

• Stay engaged

• Be willing to experience discomfort and do things differently

• Expect and accept non-closure

• Honor confidentiality

• Think strategically while executing tactically

• Translate organizational goals into integrated digital strategies

• Build relationships across diverse communities

• Analyze data and translate insights into action

• Lead collaborative projects and meet deadlines

• Create compelling digital content

• Adapt quickly to emerging technologies

• Support equity and inclusion initiatives

• Manage sensitive information with discretion

• Communicate effectively across all levels

• Problem-solve independently and collaboratively

• Demonstrate cultural competency

• Work efficiently in a fast-paced environment

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

Bachelor’s degree in communications, Digital Media, Marketing, Journalism, or a related field or an equal combination of education and relevant work experience with a personal orientation as a lifelong learner.

Training in digital marketing and analytics valued

Ongoing professional development in digital communications valued

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) and community-centered communications training appreciated

EXPERIENCE: 

Minimum of 3 – 5+ years of demonstrated experience developing and executing integrated digital strategies, campaigns, and platforms for political campaigns, progressive issue advocacy, or nonprofit mission-driven organizations. Experience working cross-functionally with technical teams (CRM, web, data). Experience managing external vendors or contractors.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Nonprofit communications experience

• Community-centered storytelling expertise

• Knowledge of Washington state communities and issues

• The ability to speak additional language(s) is desired but not required

• Digital marketing and analytics is desired

• Experience with digital advocacy campaigns

DISCLAIMER: 

The information presented indicates the general nature and level of work expected of employees in this classification. It is not designed to contain, or to be interpreted as, a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications, and objectives required of employees assigned to this job. As an adaptive organization, responsibilities can and will change in alignment with greater efficiencies and mission metrics.

BENEFITS AND OTHER COMPENSATION: 

Northwest Harvest offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package this includes but is not limited to; medical/dental/ vision/ insurance, long term disability insurance, Life/AD&D insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), 401(k) retirement plan, Vacation and Sick leave, 8 paid holidays; New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, after Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day, Floating holidays for you to use should you observe a holiday not outlined in Northwest Harvests current observed holidays or at your discretion, and birthday holiday. Employees are eligible to participate in payroll deducted supplemental benefits i.e., Flexible Spending account-HRA and DCE, various AFLAC and New York Life plans.

Communications Director, Political Affairs

Hybrid (Washington, DC)

Environmental Defense Fund

Date Posted: 8/10/2026

Location

This is a hybrid position (2-3 days/week) based out of our Washington, D.C. office.

Duration

This is a one-year fixed term position with full benefits and the possibility of extension.

Application Instructions

Please include a cover letter in your application.

Overall Function

The Communications Director, Political Affairs is responsible for the design and execution of strategic communications campaigns that support and further the goals of EDF’s priority issues, particularly at the federal level.

The Communications Director will develop communications strategies and tactics for impact and manage them to completion in the necessary timeframe, including media outreach, digital strategies, online and in-person events, and message development. This role also will work in collaboration with other environmental and conservation groups to advance shared goals, facilitate strategic development amongst coalition partners, lead assessment and evaluation of the communications work of coalition partners, and oversee management of external public relations and marketing consultants.

This position requires exceptional writing skills; strong collaboration skills, organization, and diplomacy; a keen interest in political and environmental issues; and an ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously on a wide range of issues. An ideal candidate would have experience executing public affairs campaigns.

The director reports to the Associate Vice President, Communications, Political Affairs, and works closely with the Vice President, Political and Government Affairs.

Responsibilities

• In collaboration with the Political Affairs team, develops and coordinates national, regional, or localized communication plans, strategies, and goals with key messages on EDF’s highest-priority issue areas.

• Manages the tempo of specific advocacy efforts to keep and build momentum for maximum impact.

• Creates message platforms and tailors them into talking points, speeches, op-eds, news releases, blogs, media pitches, story narratives and other materials for audiences in countries where we operate.

• Develops and executes overarching strategy of a digital program to promote messaging and content, ultimately improving the performance and reach of political and policy content online.

• Manages a two-person team.

• Collaborates with brand-level digital team on political messaging and content.

• Develops and manages paid media, including digital, television and other platforms.

• Develops partnerships with media to amplify our messages and brand.

• Maintains, cultivates and owns relationships with agenda-setting media and reporters covering our topics.

• Monitors media and identifies opportunities to insert EDF messages into the news on a systematic basis, including pitching news stories, editorials, op-eds and blogs; identify opportunities to arrange desk-side and other briefings for media.

• Manages PR/communications agency support, assessing agency expertise and managing agency teams for excellence.

• Prepares program staff with training, advice and support for communications opportunities.

• Partners with the membership team to activate EDF’s online community to gain support for top priority issues.

• Partners with Community Engagement and Justice & Equity teams to ensure diversity in advocacy and storytelling.

• Works closely with the AVP, Communications, Political Affairs in cultivating a positive, diverse, and welcoming culture within a geographically dispersed team and ensuring effective staff and project coordination and leading by example.

• Participate in advancing EDF Organizational Effectiveness and Culture (OEC) goals so people from all backgrounds and experiences feel connected, included, and empowered to address the environmental and organizational challenges in ways that align with EDF values.

• Coordinates closely on communications strategy with advocacy coalition partners and other environmental organizations.

• Manages external communications consultants and vendors as needed.

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ marketing/communications experience, preferably in a political or issue advocacy context; environmental experience is a plus.

• Exceptional writing and editing skills for policymaker and civil society audiences.

• The ability to lead, manage and mentor staff and cross-functional teams.

• Excellent project, time management and organizational skills.

• Independent problem-solving and crisis communications skills.

• Proven ability to use sophisticated public affairs strategies to achieve policy goals.

• Solid record of producing media coverage in international, national, and diverse outlets.

• Extensive proficiency in strategic use of social and digital media.

• Ability to work occasional non-standard hours, across time zones with a geographically dispersed team.

• Demonstrated self-awareness, cultural competency and inclusivity, and ability to work with colleagues and stakeholders across all cultures and backgrounds.

Salary

$128,000 – $138,000 USD. We offer a strong total rewards package encompassing competitive salary, robust benefits, and professional development opportunities consistent with a modern global organization. We take into account factors such as candidate experience, skills, training, internal team equity and local norms.

How to Apply

Apply via the EDF careers portal (please include a cover letter): https://osv-edf.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/EDF_External_Careers/job/Washington-DC/Communications-Director--Political-Affairs_REQ-002571-1

Vice President of Communications

Hybrid (Saint Paul, MN)

Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative

Date Posted: 8/10/2026

Ballinger | Leafblad is honored to partner with Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative on the search for its next Vice President of Communications. Beacon is one of Minnesota's largest providers of supportive housing — homes plus services for neighbors overcoming homelessness — and a powerful movement of housing and homelessness advocates rooted in a collaborative of 100+ congregations and 3,000+ united in action across Minnesota. Its 23 properties provide 865 deeply affordable and supportive homes to more than 1,500 residents, 75% with on-site supportive services, supported by an annual operating budget of $15M.

This search comes at a pivotal moment as Beacon advances a multiyear fundraising campaign and a brand identity refresh amid an increasingly complex media and political environment. Reporting to President & CEO Chris LaTondresse, the Vice President of Communications will design and lead a newly centralized communications function, serving as chief storyteller, brand steward, and communications strategist across all internal teams and external audiences — and as a genuine peer to other senior leaders and trusted thought partner to the CEO.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of progressive experience as a communications professional, having served as the primary communications decision-maker in a complex organization.

• Background in media, journalism, or public affairs strongly preferred; experience as a reporter or broadcast media professional is a plus.

• Strong digital communications fluency across social media, email platforms, video production, and digital asset creation.

• Mission fluency, with genuine understanding of or eagerness to learn the complexities of affordable and supportive housing.

• Demonstrated experience navigating crisis communications and high-stakes external situations.

• Experience working in or alongside nonprofit, public sector, or mission-driven organizations preferred.

• BA/MA in journalism, strategic communications, or public relations welcome but not required.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The salary range for this position is $120,000–$140,000, commensurate with experience.

Compensation includes participation in a comprehensive benefits plan, including medical and dental insurance, 22 days of PTO, 9 paid holidays, 10 days of other time off, professional development, a 403(b) retirement plan, life insurance, long- and short-term disability, and employer-paid premiums for paid family medical leave (MN PFML).

View the full position profile at https://www.ballingerleafblad.com/current-searches

TO APPLY

All applicants must apply online here.

To apply, a resume and cover letter are required for consideration.

We strive for a transparent and supportive process, starting with an initial review of applications, followed by exploratory conversations with qualified candidates, in-depth interviews, and open communication throughout. There will be an immediate and ongoing review of candidates, so we encourage and appreciate early applications.

All inquiries will be handled with strict confidentiality, subject to standard recruiting practices and any applicable legal disclosure obligations.

For more details or questions, inquiries may also be directed to Jennifer Erickson, jennifer@ballingerleafblad.com.

Applications will be accepted through September 1, 2026, or until the position is filled. Review of materials begins immediately. We encourage early application.

Communications and Development Coordinator, Communications and Programs Team

Hybrid (Cambridge, MA)

The Center for Effective Philanthropy

Date Posted: 7/31/2026

Position Overview

The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) seeks a Communications and Development Coordinator to join the Communications and Programs (C&P) team. This full-time role supports two connected areas of CEP’s external-facing work: the day-to-day production and publication of CEP’s communications and marketing content — including our widely read blog, email marketing, and social media — and the operations of CEP’s development function, including drafting grant proposals, funder communications, and maintaining key development records.

This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career writer who wants hands-on experience across the full life cycle of nonprofit communications and fundraising. The Coordinator will work closely with, and take direction from, CEP’s Senior Writer, Editor, and Content Strategist on communications work and CEP’s Associate Manager, Communications and Programs on development work, and will report to the Director, Communications and Programs.

Key Responsibilities

We anticipate the balance of work to be approximately 60 percent communications, 30 percent development, and 10 percent broader team support. This balance may shift over time as priorities and team needs evolve.

Communications

• Blog production support: Working closely with the Senior Writer and Editor, manage the blog pipeline, including managing a dedicated blog inbox and responding to inquiries and submissions; communicating with guest authors to coordinate publication times and set expectations; and executing publication and distribution of finalized posts.

• Copyediting: Provide careful final copyedits on blog posts and other content, applying CEP’s style guide.

• Email marketing support: Draft marketing emails such as newsletters, programs marketing, and one-off announcements based on strategy set by the team; build emails in Mailchimp; run the QA process; finalize and send.

• Social media: Maintain and manage CEP’s posting schedule and calendar; post new blog and research content; elevate relevant partner content; and monitor accounts, engaging with and flagging comments as appropriate.

• Research dissemination support: Support launch communications for new CEP research, including media kits, launch-day email blasts, social media campaigns, and webpage content.

• Annual Report: Support drafting and production of CEP’s annual report, including drafting sections, copyediting, and coordinating content and feedback across teams.

• Analytics support: Help track blog, email, and social media performance, and support reporting on engagement trends that inform CEP’s content strategy.

Development

• Funder stewardship: Draft funder acknowledgments and thank-you letters and other stewardship communications.

• Development data management: Perform development-related data entry and maintain accurate funder and grant records in Salesforce, including gift entry, contact updates, and proposal and deadline tracking.

• Development operations: Provide additional support to the development function as needed, such as preparing materials for funder meetings and tracking upcoming deliverables.

• Grant writing support: Draft grant proposals, letters of inquiry, and funder reports in collaboration with the Associate Manager, Communications and Programs.

Team Support

• Conference and programming support: Provide coordination support for CEP’s biennial conference — a large gathering of philanthropic leaders — and other CEP programs, which may include logistics, speaker communications, and content coordination.

• Other duties: Take on new or shifting responsibilities as CEP’s communications and development needs evolve, reflecting the collaborative, all-hands nature of a small team.

The Ideal Candidate

• Considers themselves a writer and communicator first and foremost, with enthusiasm for crafting and operationalizing clear, accurate, and engaging content — and the versatility to move between a blog post, a marketing email, a social media post, and a grant proposal.

• Is a strong copyeditor with the ability to reference and apply an in-house style guide; familiarity with AP style is a plus.

• Is highly detail-oriented and organized, able to manage recurring production processes, multiple projects, and deadlines across two workstreams simultaneously.

• Is a responsive, proactive communicator who can correspond professionally with guest authors, funders, and senior leaders.

• Exercises discretion and sound judgment when handling confidential funder and donor information.

• Is an adaptive and collaborative team player who is receptive to feedback and brings a low-ego approach to the work.

• Is eager to learn about CEP’s mission, nonprofit communications, and fundraising, and to grow with the role.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree and 1–3 years of experience in a relevant role (communications, development, or related), or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Workspace.

• Our current toolkit includes WordPress, Mailchimp, Asana, and Salesforce. Familiarity with these or similar tools is a plus. Willingness to learn them is required.

Compensation and Benefits

Our nonprofit model is central to our identity: our bottom line is impact, not profit. Yet even as a nonprofit, we successfully compete for top talent across both the public and private sectors and offer competitive compensation and benefits including:

• A commitment to pay parity and salary equity. The 2026 annual salary for this position is $81,640. In addition, this role is eligible for competitive Performance Based Incentive Compensation.

• Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance plans.

• Generous paid time off plan, including three weeks of annually accrued vacation, up to 15 holidays, plus an end-of-year break.

• 401(k) plan with a 1:1 Employer Match up to 5% of total compensation.

• Generous annual personal professional development allowance.

• Flexible spending and dependent care tax-free savings plans.

• Life insurance covered 100% by the organization.

We strive to balance in-person time with flexibility and the needs of each person, their team, and the larger organization. We expect staff to be in the office at least two days per week, and more frequently during new staff introduction periods to support a robust orientation. Everyone enjoys the option to work fully remotely from anywhere four weeks per year.

Location

We have offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and San Francisco, California. This role is based in our Cambridge office. This position is not available for all-remote work.

Our Process

Our rolling process includes three interview rounds: an initial conversation with the Vice President of People and Culture, an assessment (conducted virtually), and an in-person day of interviews with members of the team. Our process also includes reference checks in final stages. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

How to Apply

Please fill out CEP’s application for employment (https://ceporg.bamboohr.com/careers) and attach a resume, writing sample, and a thoughtful cover letter, outlining how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position. If you have any questions, please contact the People and Culture department at jobs@cep.org. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

About CEP

The Center for Effective Philanthropy provides data, analysis, and insight to help individual philanthropists, foundations, and other funders improve their effectiveness. CEP’s mission is rooted in the belief that better philanthropy can be a powerful force for good. CEP is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a second office in San Francisco, California.

Senior Program Officer, Earned Media and Leadership Voice

Washington, DC or Seattle, WA

Gates Foundation

Date Posted: 7/31/2026

The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Team

The USP Communications team operates as a cross-cutting function in service of the U.S. Program division’s mission to ensure that people navigating U.S. education systems and job markets can develop the knowledge, skills, and agency needed to thrive in their communities — such that race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status are no longer predictors of educational attainment and economic mobility. The team advances this mission by shaping the public narrative, building field understanding, and expanding the messenger network around USP’s programmatic and policy priorities. In a rapidly evolving information environment — where media landscapes are fragmenting, AI tools are reshaping content production, and the demand for credible institutional voices is intensifying — the team brings together earned media, digital communications, and strategic voice capabilities to translate complex investment strategies into compelling, accessible content for policymakers, practitioners, grantees, and the broader field.

Your Role

You are responsible for leading proactive and reactive media engagement on behalf of the U.S. Program, building and sustaining relationships with reporters and influential voices across the education and technology media landscape, and developing and implementing earned media strategies that advance USP’s programmatic and policy priorities. You also serve as the primary lead for USP President voice activities — identifying and staffing conference appearances and learning trips, developing public remarks, creating written content for blogs, op-eds, and social media, and supporting leadership across the U.S. Leadership Team in their external communications. You bring mastery-level expertise in earned media, executive communications, and public affairs, with a strong understanding of the U.S. education field and the media dynamics shaping it.

What You’ll Do

• Lead proactive and reactive media engagement for USP, coordinating with the foundation’s central Communications division on media inquiries and developing pitches that advance USP’s strategic priorities across trade, political, best-in-class, and local media outlets.

• Build and sustain relationships with reporters, editors, and influential voices covering education, workforce, and technology — cultivating a media network that expands USP’s reach and credibility over time.

• Develop and implement earned media strategies for USP announcements, research releases, and field moments, translating sophisticated programmatic content into compelling narratives for diverse public audiences.

• Lead USP President voice activities, including identifying and staffing conference appearances and learning trips, developing public remarks, creating written content such as blog posts, op-eds, and social media content, and leading the editorial process for USP leadership’s public-facing communications.

• Provide voice support for the USP Chief of Staff and U.S. Leadership Team, including content development for LinkedIn channels, briefing materials, and preparation for media and public appearances.

• Provide media training and strategic communications counsel to USP colleagues preparing for interviews, public speaking engagements, or other external visibility opportunities.

• Lead media analysis work for USP, establishing earned media goals and benchmarks, tracking coverage trends, and synthesizing insights to advise communications strategy and report progress to leadership.

• Maintain and grow USP’s network of champions — working with colleagues to identify practitioners, researchers, and advocates whose voices amplify USP’s priorities — tracking engagements and identifying opportunities to deploy them strategically across media channels and public venues.

• Own the USP grantee communications inbox, monitor for potential reputational risks, and take action or escalate as appropriate in coordination with team leadership and the central Communications division.

• Own the USP daily clips process, including curation, synthesis, and distribution of relevant media coverage to USP leadership and colleagues, applying a clear and influential communication lens to make the information actionable.

• Coordinate and align with the foundation’s central Communications division to ensure USP media engagement is consistent with foundation-wide brand standards and communications strategy.

• Support inclusive culture through modeling behaviors and actions; escalate issues in a timely fashion to appropriate stakeholders.

Your Experience

• An advanced degree or equivalent proven experience.

• Significant experience in public relations, earned media, or strategic communications, with a track record of successfully placing stories and leading media relationships across a range of publication types, including trade outlets, political media, and premier national outlets.

• Significant experience developing and leading executive-level communications, including preparing public remarks, briefing materials, and staffing principals for media interviews and public appearances.

• Extensive knowledge of the U.S. education landscape, including salient policy issues, influential media storylines, and key audiences such as district and state leaders, higher education institutional leaders, and federal policymakers.

• Significant experience designing and implementing earned media strategies for complex organizations, including running proactive pitches, reactive media inquiries, and reputational risk communications.

• Experience leading communications agencies and vendors, including contract management and oversight of deliverables.

• Deep knowledge of media analysis methods and tools, including establishing benchmarks, tracking coverage trends, and translating insights into actionable communications strategy.

• Experience working in a matrixed environment and coordinating cross-functionally with internal and external partners to align on messaging, strategy, and priorities.

• Must have unrestricted work authorization in the country where this position is located. The Foundation does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.

Salary

The salary range for this role is $173,000 to $259,600 USD. The Foundation recognizes high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington, D.C., where its offices are located; the range for this role in these locations is $190,000 to $285,500 USD. New hires’ salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.

Hiring Requirements

As part of the standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

How to Apply

Apply via the Gates Foundation careers portal: https://gatesfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Gates/job/Washington-DC/Senior-Program-Officer--Earned-Media-and-Leadership-Voice_B021665

Senior Communications Manager

La Jolla, California

Climate Science Alliance

Date Posted: 7/31/2026

The Senior Communications Manager owns the day-to-day voice of the Climate Science Alliance. They keep our story visible, consistent, and compelling across every channel our community sees us in. This is a senior, high-autonomy role: the person in this seat leads our social media, newsletter, website, and internal/program communications from conception to publication. They build a foundation of content that makes all communications, including donor and fundraising campaigns, land with more impact.

The Senior Communications Manager leads and implements the organization’s day-to-day communications strategy; plans, creates, and deploys content independently from concept through measurable results; and is a trusted collaborator who brings the rest of the team along to ensure communications reflect and support programmatic work. They report to the Director of Development and partner closely with that role on unique, high-visibility campaigns, while owning full responsibility for the organization’s everyday communications output. They also work closely with the full program team to communicate the impact of our work and ignite passion for our mission in the community.

What Success Looks Like in the First 90 Days

• Has audited existing communications channels, contact lists, brand and media assets, and content calendars and presented a prioritized communications plan to leadership within the first 30 days.

• Has independently published content across Alliance channels (social, newsletter, website) with baseline metrics established for tracking growth.

• Has met with key internal partners across programs to understand current projects and identify story and content opportunities.

• Has established a consistent content calendar and publishing rhythm across Alliance channels.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

This role advances the Climate Science Alliance’s goals through four focal areas: (1) Communications Management and Content Creation; (2) Design, Branding, and Digital Platforms; (3) Program and Cross-Team Collaboration; and (4) Other.

Communications Management and Content Creation (45%)

• Own and execute the organization’s day-to-day communications: social media, newsletters, blog posts, website content, and program-related outreach materials, from planning through publication.

• Develop and maintain a detailed content calendar and publishing cadence across all channels, and report progress against it to leadership on a regular basis.

• Independently plan, execute, and analyze social media, newsletter content, and blog posts—including scheduling, performance tracking, and interaction based on results.

• Write and produce polished, consistent content for newsletters, social media, blog posts, website updates, and internal program communications.

• Develop, implement, and manage the communications function of programs, coordinating work across the team to prepare education and outreach materials.

• Stay current on organizational activities to proactively identify story opportunities and keep the organization’s public presence active and relevant.

• Attend events to lead content development and gather media (photos, video, interviews) to tell the stories of our work and our partners’ work.

Design, Branding, and Digital Platforms (25%)

• Design and produce visual materials—videos, social graphics, newsletters, signage, infographics, and promotional materials (posters, postcards, flyers, brochures).

• Ensure brand consistency across all materials and platforms, and advise leadership on public messaging.

• Oversee maintenance of public-facing websites and internal digital platforms (e.g., Notion), coordinating updates to layout and content.

• Support development of brand identity and visual elements for special projects and displays.

Program and Cross-Team Collaboration (20%)

• Act as a thought partner to leadership and program staff, proactively bringing communications expertise into organizational and programmatic decisions rather than waiting to be looped in.

• Manage, mentor, and coordinate team members, contractors, interns, or volunteers supporting communications work as needed.

• Lead the internal process for maintaining staff collaboration, creation, and awareness of communications related items.

• Collaborate consistently and visibly with the broader team to ensure day-to-day communications reflect program priorities.

• Partner with the Director of Development on high-visibility donor and fundraising campaigns, supporting messaging that is on-brand and well established through a strong, consistent foundation of content creation and publication.

• Support occasional media inquiries and press opportunities as they arise, in coordination with the Director of Development.

• Provide technical and logistical support to internal team members as assigned.

Other (10%)

• Contribute to programs and events by participating in planning and providing on-site event support as needed.

• Provide technical and logistical support to external partners as assigned.

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

This is a senior, largely self-directed role, and we are prioritizing applicants with demonstrated experience over those with general familiarity of the following qualifications. We recognize that no one person will have every skill listed below, and we welcome applicants from a variety of experiences and backgrounds to apply, including Indigenous, Black, Latine, and/or LGBTQIA+ individuals.

The minimum required qualifications include:

• A B.A./B.S. (or equivalent work experience) in communications, journalism, environmental science, or a related field.

• 5+ years of professional experience in communications, content creation, or marketing, with at least 2 years of documented experience owning day-to-day communications from end-to-end (i.e., planning and executing content that was self-developed, not developed by someone else).

• A portfolio or writing samples demonstrating strong writing and editing across at least three formats (e.g., newsletter, social copy, website content, video production, program materials).

• Direct, hands-on experience independently planning and running organic social media content, including the ability to speak to specific metrics or outcomes you drove (growth, engagement, reach, revenue, conversions).

• Demonstrated experience managing complex projects with multiple internal collaborators, including examples of leading or coordinating the work of others.

• Experience with non-profit communications that support program engagement and organization development.

• Familiarity with science communication strategies and a basic understanding of climate change and its impacts.

• Proficiency in Adobe (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro), Wix, Canva, Google Slides, and Microsoft PowerPoint, or equivalent tools.

• Ability to converse and connect with people across a variety of disciplines, cultures, and backgrounds.

• A commitment to the Climate Science Alliance mission.

Ideal candidates will also possess many of the following skills:

• Spanish language fluency.

• Experience with Notion or similar project management software.

• Experience working with or knowledge of international and Native communities.

• Prior experience mentoring or managing junior staff, interns, or contractors.

• Existing connections with San Diego or southern California media and journalism networks.

Terms

• This is a 40-hour-per-week, in-office position with normal business hours 9:00am–5:00pm Monday through Friday, unless otherwise discussed or in the case of after-hours or weekend programs and events.

• On-site position based in La Jolla, California.

• Requires additional travel dependent on funding and project needs.

• Position salary is $35–40/hour based on experience.

• This position is contingent upon funding and performance.

Working Conditions

Requires a valid US driver’s license and clean driving record. Requires occasionally lifting objects up to 40 lbs. and participating in community events in hot, dry, and sometimes wet conditions.

How to Apply

Qualified candidates must submit a resume, cover letter, and portfolio in PDF format to info@climatesciencealliance.org. Please put “[Your Name] - Senior Communications Manager” in the email subject heading.

In your cover letter, include responses to the following:

• Why do you want to work for the Climate Science Alliance?

• Briefly, what is your greatest strength that you would bring to this role?

• When can you start?

• Have you read the position pay and terms, and are you comfortable with them?

For your portfolio, please include:

• A short written response (200–300 words) describing a social media campaign you led independently, including the outcome or metrics.

• Two to three writing samples spanning different formats (e.g., newsletter, social copy, website content, short-form video, program materials).

• Any other relevant examples that would help us better assess your communications experience and writing ability.

The position will remain open until filled.

Communications Specialist

Hybrid (Boston, MA)

Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization

Date Posted: 7/31/2026

Salary: $32.00–$36.00 hourly  |  Job Type: Temporary  |  Remote: Flexible/Hybrid  |  Department: Communications & Engagement  |  Opening Date: 07/17/2026

Description

The Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) seeks a Communications Specialist to support a multimonth web content development project. This short-term position will focus on drafting, revising, organizing, and preparing public-facing web content that helps explain the MPO’s work clearly and accessibly to a wide range of audiences.

The Communications Specialist will work closely with the Manager of Communications and Engagement, who will lead the web content project. The person in this role will help convert technical and policy information into clear, plain-language content; coordinate content review with subject-matter experts; and support the preparation of website materials for publication.

Responsibilities

• Drafting, revising, and editing public-facing web content about the MPO’s programs, projects, planning processes, data resources, engagement opportunities, and related work.

• Converting technical, policy, and planning information into clear, accessible, plain-language content for public audiences.

• Coordinating with subject-matter experts across the agency to gather information, confirm accuracy, resolve questions, and incorporate feedback.

• Organizing, formatting, and preparing content for publication in the agency’s web content management system.

• Applying plain-language, accessibility, and inclusive communication principles to web content.

• Reviewing existing website content and recommending revisions to improve clarity, consistency, usability, and accessibility.

• Supporting quality assurance for assigned web content, including checking links, reviewing formatting, confirming consistency with agency style, and identifying content gaps or questions.

• Helping maintain project tracking materials related to content development, review status, approvals, and publication readiness.

• Supporting other communications tasks as needed and as time allows.

Qualifications

While the following sections describe required and desirable qualifications, candidates who believe that their particular experience and skills fulfill the requirements are encouraged to apply.

Required qualifications include the following:

• Professional experience writing and editing public-facing content for digital, web, government, nonprofit, advocacy, policy, planning, journalism, or similar communications contexts.

• Strong plain-language writing and editing skills, including the ability to make complex information clear, accurate, and useful to nontechnical audiences.

• Awareness of digital accessibility principles and an interest in creating communications that are inclusive and accessible to people with diverse needs and backgrounds.

• Ability to coordinate review processes with multiple contributors, incorporate feedback, and keep assigned work moving forward.

• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple content assignments and deadlines.

Desirable qualifications include the following:

• Experience working in a content management system.

• Experience with project tracking tools or systems.

• Experience working in the public sector, transportation, urban planning, civic engagement, public policy, or related communications.

• Familiarity with the Boston region and its transportation systems.

• Familiarity with website usability, information architecture, search engine optimization, or content strategy.

Compensation and Benefits

This is a full-time, short-term position beginning in August and continuing through October 2026, with the possibility of an extension. The compensation range is $32 to $36 per hour, contingent upon qualifications and experience.

Additional Information

The Boston Region MPO is a public agency made up of a passionate group of transportation planners, analysts, modelers, programmers, and engineers working to address the Boston region’s transportation challenges. The agency’s deep transportation knowledge is an essential asset to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), regional transit authorities, cities and towns within the region, as well as other agencies and stakeholders.

The agency has a hybrid schedule, combining time in the office with remote work. Employees must reside within a commutable distance from the Boston Region MPO office, which is located in downtown Boston, in a transit-oriented and bicycle-friendly area.

Candidates must have legal authorization to work in the United States.

The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) is the fiduciary agent and legal employer of the Boston Region MPO staff. Both organizations are Equal Employment Opportunity employers that take pride in the diversity of their workforces and encourage all qualified persons to apply. MAPC participates in the E-Verify system to confirm employment eligibility. MAPC and the Boston Region MPO may consider sponsorship on a case-by-case basis.

How to Apply

This position is open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. First consideration will be given to those applicants who apply within the first 14 days. When applying for this position, please upload both a resume and cover letter via bostonmpo.org/careers. Candidates are asked to submit three references plus three samples of relevant writing.

Vice President of External Affairs and Executive Director, Lee College Foundation

Baytown, TX

Lee College

Date Posted: 7/31/2026

Lee College is a comprehensive community college serving Baytown, Texas, and the surrounding Gulf Coast region since 1934. The institution provides academic transfer pathways, workforce training, technical education, continuing education, and community enrichment opportunities designed to meet the needs of a diverse student population. With more than 100 degree and certificate programs, Lee College is deeply committed to student success, economic mobility, and creating an educational experience that prepares learners for lifelong achievement.

What distinguishes Lee College is its close partnership with industry and its central role in one of the nation’s most significant industrial and economic corridors. Through strong connections with employers in petrochemical manufacturing, process technology, logistics, transportation, healthcare, and skilled trades, the College serves as a critical workforce development partner for the region. Lee College is a driver of economic vitality, opportunity, and community growth throughout the Gulf Coast.

The Opportunity

The Vice President, External Affairs and Executive Director, Lee College Foundation joins Lee College at an important time.

Under new presidential leadership, the institution is advancing ambitious priorities centered on strengthening industry partnerships, expanding philanthropic investment, and elevating its visibility and influence throughout the region. As a member of the President’s Cabinet, this leader will help shape the College’s external strategy and position the institution for its next era of growth and impact.

This role offers a broad and highly visible portfolio that includes institutional advancement, philanthropic development, government relations, grant development, marketing and public affairs, and community engagement. The Vice President will serve as both a transformational fundraiser and a trusted institutional ambassador, cultivating relationships with corporate leaders, elected officials, donors, alumni, foundations, and community partners.

This is an exceptional opportunity for a leader energized by building relationships, creating new opportunities, and making a lasting impact on students, families, employers, and an entire region.

Director, Communications & PR

Hybrid (New York, NY)

Gay Men's Health Crisis

Date Posted: 7/31/2026

The Director, Communications & PR is a senior communications professional responsible for strengthening GMHC’s external profile through earned media, executive visibility, thought leadership, and strategic external communications. As GMHC expands its service model to include primary care, dental care, mental health services, and comprehensive programming for LGBTQ+ communities, long-term survivors, women, trans youth, and other communities affected by HIV and health inequities, the Director helps shape how external audiences understand and engage with GMHC’s evolving mission, services, and impact.

Reporting to the Vice President, Communications & Branding, the Director develops and executes earned media and external communications strategies that advance organizational priorities. This is a hands-on role requiring strong media relationships, advanced writing and editorial skills, sound judgment, and a current understanding of traditional and emerging media platforms. The Director serves as one of GMHC’s primary day-to-day media contacts, prepares executives and subject matter experts for public engagement, and identifies opportunities to position GMHC’s work, expertise, and community impact before relevant audiences.

Essential Job Functions

Communications Strategy & Organizational Positioning

• Develop and execute earned media, external communications, and thought leadership strategies in partnership with the Vice President, Communications & Branding.

• Translate GMHC’s organizational priorities, programs, advocacy efforts, and service expansions into clear and compelling external communications.

• Develop messaging frameworks and communications materials that support GMHC’s rebrand, evolving organizational narrative, and expanding service model.

• Support external positioning for major organizational initiatives, including program launches, service expansions, campaigns, events, and institutional milestones.

• Recommend communications approaches that strengthen GMHC’s credibility, visibility, and relevance among media, partners, donors, community members, and the broader public.

Media Relations & Earned Media

• Serve as one of GMHC’s primary day-to-day contacts for media inquiries, coordinating with the Vice President and senior leadership to determine the appropriate response and spokesperson.

• Build and maintain productive relationships with journalists, editors, producers, podcast hosts, digital creators, and other media professionals across health, HIV, LGBTQ+, community, nonprofit, and mainstream outlets.

• Develop, pitch, and secure earned media opportunities across print, broadcast, digital publications, podcasts, YouTube, independent media, and other relevant platforms to advance GMHC’s mission, services, expertise, advocacy priorities, and organizational objectives.

• Draft and edit press releases, media advisories, pitches, statements, talking points, briefing documents, and other external communications materials.

• Coordinate media interviews and appearances, including scheduling, background preparation, and follow-up.

• Represent GMHC in external communications settings when authorized by the Vice President or senior leadership.

Thought Leadership & Executive Visibility

• Develop and execute thought leadership initiatives, in alignment with priorities established by the Vice President and senior leadership, that position GMHC leaders and subject matter experts as credible voices in HIV, public health, healthcare access, LGBTQ+ advocacy, community care, and related areas.

• Identify and recommend speaking engagements, panels, conferences, op-ed placements, podcast appearances, interviews, and other visibility opportunities.

• Research, draft, and edit op-eds, bylined articles, speeches, remarks, presentations, interview materials, and other executive communications that reflect GMHC’s voice, expertise, and organizational priorities.

• Prepare executives and subject matter experts for media interviews, public appearances, panels, and other external engagements.

Issues Management & Rapid Response

• Monitor emerging news, public conversations, policy developments, and reputational issues; assess their communications implications; and promptly flag significant risks, opportunities, or information gaps to the Vice President.

• Coordinate internal fact gathering and support rapid-response communications by developing draft statements, holding messages, talking points, and recommended approaches for review by the Vice President, senior leadership, and other appropriate stakeholders.

• Prepare authorized spokespeople and execute approved responses for sensitive, urgent, or high-profile media inquiries accurately and within required timelines.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Creative & Brand to ensure external communications support GMHC’s visual identity, rebrand, and organizational messaging.

• Collaborate with Digital & Social to amplify earned media coverage and align external messaging across owned channels.

• Partner with Development on earned media and external communications that support approved fundraising campaigns and donor engagement priorities.

• Work with Programs, Community Relations, Public Policy, and subject matter experts across GMHC to identify stories, verify information, and translate complex programmatic or technical content into accessible public communications.

• Ensure communications involving clients, program participants, personal stories, photographs, health information, or other sensitive content follow applicable consent, confidentiality, and approval requirements.

• Use inclusive, stigma-free, culturally responsive, and people-first storytelling that centers the dignity and lived experiences of the communities GMHC serves and avoids tokenizing, exploitative, or unnecessarily identifying narratives.

Media Landscape Strategy & Innovation

• Maintain current knowledge of changes in journalism, digital media, podcasts, video platforms, independent media, audience behavior, and public trust.

• Identify and recommend emerging media outlets, platforms, formats, and opportunities based on GMHC’s priorities and how key audiences seek information and engage with public issues.

• Test and refine pitches, messaging, media lists, and engagement strategies, and recommend practical improvements based on results, audience behavior, organizational priorities, and available resources.

Project, Resource, & Workflow Management

• Manage multiple communications projects through clear work plans, timelines, briefing materials, and approval processes, escalating resource, scheduling, approval, or reputational concerns to the Vice President in a timely manner.

• Identify and recommend consultants, contractors, vendors, platforms, and other communications resources based on approved priorities and available budgets.

• Coordinate deliverables and provide day-to-day project direction to approved contractors, consultants, vendors, interns, and temporary communications resources.

Measurement & Accountability

• Establish goals and maintain scalable systems to track media outreach, placements, coverage quality, audience reach, message alignment, sentiment, and the strategic value of communications results.

• Provide regular reports and recommendations to the Vice President, using results and stakeholder feedback to improve messaging, pitches, outlet selection, workflows, and future strategies.

• Establish and maintain organized, scalable systems for media outreach, contact management, communications materials, coverage tracking, and reporting.

Requirements

Special Skills and Knowledge — Required

• Minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible professional experience in communications, public relations, media relations, journalism, or a related field.

• Demonstrated success securing meaningful earned media coverage across traditional and emerging platforms.

• Strong knowledge of the current and evolving media landscape, combined with experience developing and executing media relations, external communications, or thought leadership strategies across traditional and emerging platforms.

• Advanced writing, editing, proofreading, and message-development skills, including the ability to translate complex health, policy, programmatic, and organizational information into clear and accessible communications.

• Experience preparing executives, organizational leaders, or subject matter experts for interviews and external appearances.

• Strong editorial judgment, discretion, and professionalism, including the ability to identify communications opportunities, reputational risks, and sensitive or time-critical issues.

• Ability to independently manage multiple projects, deadlines, and urgent requests while seeking appropriate review, approval, and guidance.

• Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to work effectively with executives, program leaders, community stakeholders, media professionals, vendors, and colleagues across departments.

• Demonstrated ability to develop inclusive, accurate, culturally responsive, stigma-free, trauma-informed, and people-first communications in partnership with LGBTQ+ communities, communities of color, people living with HIV, and other communities affected by health inequities.

Preferred

• Experience developing communications for nonprofit, healthcare, public health, HIV services, LGBTQ+ advocacy, fundraising, public education, community engagement, or social justice initiatives.

• Established relationships with journalists, editors, producers, podcast hosts, digital creators, or other media professionals relevant to GMHC’s work.

• Experience supporting an organizational rebrand, service expansion, or significant change in organizational positioning.

• Experience with crisis communications, rapid response, or reputation management.

• Experience coordinating the work of communications consultants, contractors, vendors, or interns.

Education and Certification

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations, journalism, marketing, English, public health, or a related field is preferred.

Technical Skills

• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and comparable virtual meeting, collaboration, and document-sharing platforms.

• Media databases, journalist relationship-management tools, and monitoring platforms, such as Muck Rack or Cision, including systems used to maintain media contacts, editorial calendars, outreach records, briefing materials, and coverage reports.

• Project management and workflow tools such as Asana or comparable platforms.

• Basic media analytics and reporting, including the ability to interpret coverage, reach, engagement, sentiment, and other available indicators of communications effectiveness.

• Preferred: familiarity with major social media platforms and related scheduling, listening, and analytics tools (e.g., Sprout Social); content management systems, email marketing platforms, Google Analytics or comparable tools; and basic design applications such as Canva, Adobe Express, or Adobe Creative Cloud.

Work Environment & Schedule

• Hybrid and Office Work: This is a hybrid position requiring residence within New York City or the surrounding tri-state area. The combination of in-office and remote work will be determined based on department priorities and supervisory direction, with regular on-site attendance required for meetings, media engagements, interviews, content development, agency events, and other business needs.

• Schedule Flexibility: Ability to work non-traditional hours (evenings and weekends) as needed to support events, campaigns, urgent communications needs, developing media inquiries, and time-sensitive reputational matters.

• Events: Attendance is required at designated agency events to provide communications and media relations support.

• Travel: Local travel within New York City and the surrounding area is required for community events, media opportunities, interviews, meetings, and other off-site engagements. Occasional additional travel may be required based on organizational needs.

• AIDS Walk New York: Participation in the annual AIDS Walk New York event is mandatory for all GMHC staff.

GMHC is committed to fostering a racially and gender-diverse environment that contributes to a respectful, inclusive, and welcoming atmosphere for all. Our work is grounded in serving communities that are disproportionately impacted by HIV/AIDS, systemic inequities, and barriers to care. We seek individuals who are committed to equity, inclusion, and social justice, and who approach their work with cultural humility, empathy, and a people-first mindset.

Salary

$75,000–$90,000 per year (DOE).

How to Apply

Apply online via Paylocity: https://recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/jobs/Apply/4346541