Director of Rapid Response and Political Communications

Job Description

Your Responsibilities Include

• Develop and drive real-time rapid response communications and earned media strategy that advance the organization’s overall positioning and communications goals
• Reinforce powerful policy and political messages, storylines, and narratives, in coordination with the broader AFP communications team
• Work with AFP and AFP Action political and research teams to identify and capitalize on fast-moving opportunities to drive key messages
• Elevate AFP and AFP Action into fast-moving news cycles on priority issues
• Coordinate and work with partners across the integrated marketing and communications team and vendors to provide guidance on digital, content, research, event, and partnership needs.
• Pro-actively pitch and place stories in national, state, and local news outlets
• Cultivate relationships with key media outlets and reporters
• Work with key stakeholders to develop messages, press releases, statements, and other communications materials necessary to best position the organization

Knowledge And Skills You Bring To The Organization

• At least 10 years’ experience in strategic communications, public relations, or political campaigns
• Experience developing and driving rapid response communications and earned media strategies
• Exposure reinforcing powerful policy and political messages, storylines, and narratives
• Experience pitching and placing stories in national, state, and local news outlets while cultivating relationships with key media outlets and reporters
• Experience conceiving and leveraging strategic relationships with internal and external 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 decision-making skills and ability to weigh risk / reward in high-pressure environments
• 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

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 Principle Based Management® (PBM®). Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, PBM® 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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