Position Summary:

Messaging, Media, and Public Engagement

Ensuring a unified, compelling, and strategic message across HRC’s public channels.

• Develop and maintain a unified organizational message that aligns across programs, events, board meetings and stakeholder communications.
• Create and manage a message matrix, updating key messaging across HRC’s major initiatives on a quarterly basis.
• Develop a concise, impactful elevator pitch that all HRC team members can use to communicate our mission clearly and effectively.
• Analyze and elevate compelling storytelling and narratives from across the organization that can be used in media, speeches, and advocacy efforts.
• Partner with digital, policy, and advocacy teams to ensure messaging is coordinated across platforms.
• Lead proactive media relations, securing opportunities to elevate HRC’s message in national conversations.

Executive Communications: Supporting and Positioning HRC Leadership

Ensuring HRC’s leaders are well-prepared and strategically positioned to advance our mission.

• Lead messaging strategy for major HRC events, including the National Dinner, board meetings, film festivals, and advocacy summits.
• Work closely with the VP of Executive Communications to provide strategic messaging guidance for executive remarks, speeches, and media appearances.
• Ensure that HRC executives have consistent, mission-driven messaging to use in public engagements.
• Support executive booking and media opportunities, ensuring HRC leadership is well-positioned and prepared for public engagements.
• Prepare executive-level briefing materials, public remarks/talking points, and thought leadership pieces that reinforce HRC’s advocacy goals.
• Oversee high-level executive correspondence and messaging guidance for key audience

Position Qualifications:

• At least eight or more years of work experience in media relations or communications, with non-profit experience desired;
• Experience managing long-term, large scale, cross departmental projects
• Experience managing a small team and cultivating talent;
• Experience managing and supervising team members of varying experience, and be able to offer them strategic guidance, feedback and insight
• Experience working closely with organization principals
• Outstanding verbal communications skills and writing talent;
• Demonstrated experience with developing reporter relationships and placing stories
• Ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines with attention to detail;
• Comfort working in a high-volume environment and ability to closely follow the messaging of the organization on a wide variety of issues;
• Passion for non-profit programmatic work directly impacting communities;
• Background or experience with LGBTQ+ rights.

All positions at the Human Rights Campaign may require travel on a regular basis or periodically. Where the need arises for business travel, appropriate compensation as outlined by the Fair Labor Standards Act will apply.

Employer is the Human Rights Campaign, Inc., an I.R.C. 501(c)(4) non-profit entity.

No phone calls or emails, please. Due to the volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to queries about application status.

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