Content Development Associate

Responsibilities & Duties

The Associate, Content Development position supports CDP in the fulfillment of our mission through creating and updating various educational products for philanthropic donors and other funders. This role is responsible for executing content development by writing, expanding and helping improve existing products and identifying new educational collateral opportunities.

Reporting to the director of learning and partnership, this position will support the entire Strategy, Innovation and Special Projects team in fulfilling departmental goals and tasks.

Primary responsibilities include:

Content development

• Play a lead role in researching, updating and writing content for CDP’s Disaster Profiles.
• Update and develop CDP Issue Insights.
• Support the development of new content and revision of existing material for the Disaster Philanthropy Playbook.
• Write blogs and other educational products as assigned.
• Maintain a comprehensive list of disaster, philanthropy and news resources.
• Monitor grants made by CDP and other funders to ensure that promising practices are captured in the educational material.
• Conduct secondary research to find relevant data that validates CDP’s educational products.
• Work effectively across departments to produce and publish high-quality and accurate products, including Marketing and Communications, Funds Management and Coalition Building, and Development.
• Support efforts to leverage educational content to position CDP and its staff as thought leaders and trusted experts in equitable disaster giving through social media, speaking engagements and other outreach activities.

Organizational and administrative support

• Participate in team discussions concerning education and disasters.
• Conduct internal and external research to contribute to program planning.
• As requested, take notes during calls, noting key points and action items, and communicate with relevant teams as necessary.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years work experience in a professional setting required.
• Degree in a related field or equivalent experience required.
• Strong writing skills, including writing online content.
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills.
• High degree of comfort and skill using Microsoft Office, particularly Word.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and within a team.
• Ability to work remotely with minimal direct supervision and multi-task, including managing multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
• Proven analytical and critical thinking with precise attention to detail.

Preferred qualifications

• Knowledge of and/or interest in disasters, global humanitarian crises or philanthropy.
• Comfortable writing for multiple audiences.
• Demonstrate an understanding of adult education principles.
• Knowledge of AP style.
• Proven secondary research skills with knowledge of attribution methods.

Characteristics

• Commitment to the values intrinsic to CDP’s mission and strategy, including the centrality of local leadership, equity and service to marginalized and vulnerable communities.
• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Team player
• Sense of humor

The Center for Disaster Philanthropy’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 affiliations, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, and all other classifications protected by law in the locality or state in which you are working.

We welcome and encourage applicants with non-traditional career paths. If you don’t meet the qualifications outlined here, please apply and tell us how your experiences would equip you for the job.