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Job Title: Associate Director of Media

Reports To: Senior Director of Communications

Location: Washington, D.C. preferred, but remote opportunities available with preferences for Ohio, Florida and Georgia

Job Type: Full-Time Exempt

Salary Range: $90,000-$110,000

Position Overview:

FPL and FPLA seek a self-starting and strategic Associate Director of Media to develop and lead communication efforts that support building the organization and CEO’s profile and help execute narrative strategy for the organization. The ideal candidate will be an innovative communicator with a deep commitment to social justice, adept at driving public engagement and experienced in developing campaign messaging that mobilizes grasstops faith leaders and shifts public opinion. The position will work closely with the press secretary and report to the Senior Director of Communications.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Strategic Communications Leadership: Lead the execution of cross-channel communication strategies for education and advocacy campaigns and principals, aligning messaging with FPL and FPLA’s mission and goals.
2. Campaign Messaging: Craft clear, persuasive, and impactful messaging for public campaigns to protect and expand comprehensive reproductive health & equity and to prevent & combat political violence. Ensure messaging resonates with target audiences, including grasstops faith leaders, people of faith, policymakers, and the general public.
3. Media Relations: Cultivate relationships with media outlets, pitch stories, and secure media coverage to elevate FPL’s campaigns. Prepare grasstops spokespersons, state cohorts, national coalition members and FPL principals for interviews, press briefings, and other media engagements. Draft press releases, op-eds, and media advisories in service of FPL and FPLA’s campaigns.
4. Collaboration & Cross-Departmental Work: Work closely with campaign teams, program staff, and external partners to ensure consistent and coherent messaging across platforms and activities. Act as a liaison among communications, development, operations, and organizing teams to ensure that FPL’s voice and vision reflected in media strategy are carried through across all organizational teams.
5. Performance Measurement: Track, analyze, and report on the effectiveness of campaign communications goals using metrics such as media coverage, messaging use, message saturation and audience growth.

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, public relations, or a related field.
2. Minimum 5-7 years of experience in a communications or public relations role, ideally within an advocacy or nonprofit organization.
3. Demonstrated ability to implement successful communications strategies for education and advocacy campaigns.
4. Exceptional writing, editing, and verbal communication skills.
5. Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.
6. Familiarity with reproductive health issues and/or democracy issues, particularly within faith-based or community-based movements.
7. Commitment to FPL’s mission and values.

Preferred Skills:

1. Experience in Meltwater and EveryAction.
2. Experience in graphic design or familiarity with design tools (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite).
3. Strong relationships with media professionals and a track record of securing high-profile media coverage.
4. Experience with high-level grasstops leaders and familiarity with accompanying strategies.
5. Management experience.

Approach to the Job:

• Ownership and resilience: You care deeply about getting results. You gather information, seek input, and drive work forward to the finish line. You think 3 (or 30) steps ahead to develop solutions, anticipate problems, and course-correct when needed. You hold a high bar even when things are hectic and bounce back from setbacks by turning each hurdle into a learning opportunity.
• Initiative and ingenuity: You leverage resources creatively to solve problems and dive right in to take a concept from idea to implementation. You often consult with others, but you can also propose solutions in the best interest of the organization and get things rolling without much guidance.
• Strategist’s mind: You quickly grasp the subtleties of complex issues and identify patterns in challenges. You don’t stop at diagnosing problems, though; you come up with insightful, pragmatic, equitable, and sustainable ways to produce positive change.
• Continuous learning: There’s always more to know out there, and you’re hungry for it. You absorb information from your colleagues, your work, and from keeping up with your field. If something doesn’t make sense, you ask questions until it does, and you apply what you learn in your work.
• High volume, high efficiency: We’re pretty busy here, and your job is to make it easy for our team members to do their jobs. You maintain systems for keeping tasks from slipping through the cracks. You’re able to juggle competing demands and prioritize without sacrificing quality. You get back to people in a timely manner and take pride in providing clear, helpful information.

Benefits: We offer a generous and comprehensive benefits package including full medical, dental, and vision premium coverage, life insurance, and an FSA/DCA savings plan. Faith in Public Life provides a 401k benefit that offers a dollar-for-dollar match of up to 3% of an employee's contribution. In addition to that, Faith in Public Life offers stipends for work-related mobile phone and internet use as well as professional development. We provide four weeks of vacation paid time off, 10 paid sick days, 13 paid federal holidays, and additional paid leave, including the week between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day.

Equal Opportunity Statement: Faith in Public Life provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

To Apply: Please submit your application via our online portal at https://faithinpubliclife.bamboohr.com/careers.

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