Director, Communications (Americans for Prosperity)

Location: Arlington, Virginia
Categories: Communications and Marketing
Req ID: 5169

Overview

Do you believe ideas have the power to change the world? Are you known for cultivating strong relationships with journalists while also strategizing and executing comprehensive media campaigns to drive change? Are you passionate about making sure the best ideas are raised to influencers and can shape the national conversation?

Are you looking for an opportunity to thrive in a challenging and fast-paced environment where your strategic communications campaigns grow into movements of millions? Then we hope you will consider a leadership role on our communications and marketing team.

As the Communications Director for Americans for Prosperity, the nation’s premiere grassroots advocacy organization with activists in all 50 states, we would count on you to develop integrated communications strategies to help solve some of the nation’s biggest policy challenges. As part of the Stand Together Community, we’d look to you to work across our priorities initiatives and teams to connect and help communicate ideas to influence a better way in communities, business, education, and government nationwide.

Your responsibilities include

• Concept, execute and measure communication strategies with a special focus on issues of economic opportunity
• Break down complex policies into powerful messages, storylines, and narratives to be driven through earned media, through leadership, and digital channel strategies
• Work with key stakeholders across the organization to develop multifaceted plans
• Coordinate and work with other members from the communications team in executing strategy, which includes digital, research, events, and partnerships
• Prepare principals for media interviews to help ensure key messages are consistently conveyed
• Develop strategies to pitch and place stories in national, state, and local news outlets
• Cultivate relationships with key media outlets and reporters and serve as an on-record spokesperson
• Develop key messages, press releases, statements, and other communications materials necessary to best position the organization
• Provide strategic guidance in a fast-paced, high profile media environment

Knowledge and skills you bring to the organization

• 8-10 years’ experience in strategic communications or public relations
• Must be passionate about communications and media relations with finger on the pulse of the latest industry trends and ability to deliver measurable results
• Must be a strategic thinker with experience conceiving and leveraging relationships
• Demonstrated strength in building, managing, and motivating high-performance teams
• Ability to build strong collaborative relationships with a diverse range of partners
• Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to influence at multiple levels of the organization
• Proven ability to think ahead, problem solve, engage proactively and take initiative
• Strong process-minded planner who can determine deadlines, logistics and operational plans for multi-dimensional programs and events
• Ability to shape and harness qualitative and quantitative research to drive good economic decision-making
• Strong analytical skill set, capable of analyzing and reacting to results-oriented data
• Excellent persuasive writing, editing and verbal communications skills, including presentation skills

Standout Candidates May Also Bring

• Experience in public affairs communications
• On-record experience

About Us

Stand Together helps social entrepreneurs supercharge their efforts to help people improve their lives. We connect them with passionate partners and the resources necessary to make a greater difference.

Through our philanthropic community, we tackle some of the nation’s biggest challenges so that every person has the opportunity to realize their extraordinary potential.

Stand Together partners with people from diverse perspectives and backgrounds-including people in education, business, community non-profits, and public policy-to accomplish more together than any of us could on our own.

Our Values

Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on a business philosophy called Market Based Management ® (MBM ® ). Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, MBM® prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.

We believe that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of color,race, religion, religious creed, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), military and veteran status, genetic information, marital or familial status, political affiliation, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.

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