Director of Communications

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $113k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🗣️ Communications

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💼 Consulting

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

Consulting • Education • Social Impact

Kairos Fellowship is designed to build the next generation of leaders of color in the fields of technology, digital campaigning, and online organizing. Through an eight-month paid Fellowship program, Kairos invests in its Fellows with essential training, mentorship, and strategic support. The program places up to 18 fellows with national and state organizations focused on issue advocacy campaigns. Upon completion, many fellows are offered permanent positions, reflecting the program's emphasis on leadership development and political education, deeply rooted in racial and gender justice.

📋 Description

• Create, oversee and evaluate Kairos’ communications strategy and implementation with the Executive and Leads teams • Identify and champion Kairos’ communications voice across channels • Develop brand standards and ensure team adherence • Identify opportunities to share Kairos’ work and Theory of Change externally • Develop communication procedures and policies for situations and crises • Monitor and analyze communications metrics • Develop and assess Communications team capacity needs • Hire, train and manage communications staff and consultants • Manage the communications budget • Develop content for the website, newsletters, talking points, speeches, presentations, social media and press releases • Manage production of reports and dispatches, including User Error and ReOrganizing • Support the Executive Director with external communications, funder talking points, speaking engagements, articles and think pieces • Monitor the news landscape and turn relevant articles into engagement opportunities • Create audience-specific content, messaging and press releases • Manage regular production of reports and dispatches • Conduct media relations, answer media questions, build reporter relationships and manage earned media plans • Create reusable communications content templates • Act as backup to team members and participate in meetings, trainings, organizational development, special working groups and projects • Manage and support staff growth and performance • Set and direct the mission and vision for the team’s work • Collaborate with senior colleagues on organizational theory of change and cross-team opportunities • Support fundraising efforts, maintain funder relationships and identify fundraising opportunities

🎯 Requirements

• Strong storyteller with proven senior-level leadership in oral and written communication • Superior writing, editing and presentation skills • Strategic mindset and ability to provide creative solutions • Ability to respond to challenging situations with discretion and in line with Kairos’ values • Strong discernment regarding Kairos’ messaging • Commitment to attending special events as a Kairos representative/spokesperson • Strong sense for brand style/standards and commitment to hold the team to those standards • Conduct quality control on all internal and external communications • Strong ability to develop collegial relationships with media and other external partners • 3-5 years working within community, grassroots or union organizing • Ability to manage complex projects, milestones and deliverables • Ability to understand and apply organizational vision, values, culture, strategy and theory of change • Ability to give and receive feedback • Anticipatory thinking, visioning and strategic thinking appropriate to a senior-level role • Ability to work independently and collaboratively • Ability to travel approximately 6-8 times each year • Prolonged sitting at a desk and working on a computer; ability to read a computer screen and utilize a phone for communication

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous vacation, including three weeks of office closures each year • Full health, dental, vision and flex benefits • 403b retirement match plan • Ongoing training opportunities • Funds for home office set-up and professional development • Organization-sponsored travel for conferences, Kairos trainings, partner meetings, and face-to-face staff approximately 6-8 times per year • Negotiation-free compensation process • Progressive compensation philosophy guiding salary increases and role promotions

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