Director of Communications

Organized Power In Numbers (OPIN) works at the intersection of worker power and modern digital and data-driven organizing to help our movements reach millions of people, invite them into movement, and level up campaigns that win for workers, their families, and their communities. We utilize online and offline base building and organizing strategies, comprehensive campaigns, strategic litigation and communications, and policy advocacy to win concrete demands that improve the conditions of workers’ lives and promote civic engagement at the local, state, and national levels. In addition to running our own campaigns, we act as a public utility to power the campaigns and outreach efforts of others, supporting partners with lead generation, campaign strategy, and the implementation of outreach and organizing.

The Director of Communications will drive OPIN’s narrative strategy and strategic communications work to advance our basebuilding and strategic campaign goals to a wide array of various audiences through digital channels, media, campaigns, and events. This position will work closely with and be directly supervised by OPIN’s Executive Director, work closely with the Campaigns Director and will be responsible for managing a small team and vendors supporting our organizational communications goals. OPIN is a national organization and travel is required for all employees including for remote and regional positions.

Reports to: Executive Director

Key Relationships: Executive Director, Campaigns Director, Communications Coordinator, Graphic Designer

Location: Remote, with preference given for candidates based in the Sunbelt

Compensation: $95,000 - $110,000, depending on experience

Essential Responsibilities

• Oversee, develop, and implement the organization’s brand identity and communications strategy, including long-term narrative change
• Serve as a leader in ongoing and time sensitive situations by advising leadership, planning communications strategies, building narrative, and managing staff and resources to achieve organizational communications goals
• Guide the organization’s rapid response and long term comms plans based on active tracking of news, culture, and politics
• Raise the profile of the Executive Director and other key surrogates
• Work with the Campaigns Director and regional leads to help with campaign communications efforts, interact directly with campaigns to provide resources, guidance as needed and execute public-facing organizing goals through communications.
• Manage communications department through supervising communications staff as well as executing and managing communications workplan, calendar, and budget
• Work with the Managing Director to help with fundraising efforts for OPIN and execute public-facing development goals through communications.
• Manage processes by which materials are created for the communications department including, but not limited to, social media messages, briefing materials, press releases, talking points, op-eds, etc.
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with members of legacy and new media in order to successfully pitch and place stories that advance the organization’s objectives
• Track breaking news and manage rapid response communications
• Work with coalition partners to build strong relationships and partnerships, and develop and implement public-facing communications strategies at the national, state and regional level
• Other duties as assigned
  
  

Qualifications And Skill

• 3+ years of communications experience, ideally within a campaign, corporation, union, or complex (number and variety of constituents) nonprofit entity, and covering areas such as content creation (writing, editing, graphic), social media, website, digital ad strategy, video production, and press interaction.
• Minimum 3 years staff management experience with proven track record of leading/building teams, staff supervision, and ability to manage and develop teams, evaluate projects, and budgets with attention to detail from start to finish
• Excellent interpersonal, supervisory, leadership development and training skills
• Ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, manage multiple projects; long and short-term campaign, strategic and organizational planning
• Excellent written and verbal communication, planning, analytical skills, marketing, visual arts, and research
• Ability to communicate effectively with cultural competency to diverse audiences and write quickly and in a compelling manner about multiple topics;
• Experience working with the public sector, especially governments in low and middle-income communities of color
• Experience with building coalitions through partnership development and executing communication strategy to support campaign development
  
  

Desired Qualification

• Demonstrated ability to meet multiple deadlines and able to develop and move projects forward with independence and autonomy; self-motivated and works well both independently and on team(s)
• Passion for social justice, building power in multi-racial working-class communities, decolonizing political organizing spaces, empowering grassroots leaders, and enacting impactful socio-economic policies towards long-term systemic changes
• Extensive knowledge of issues and electoral campaigns, labor/union organizing, including grassroots organizing strategies, and advocacy techniques
• Proven ability to multi-task and manage projects in a fast-paced and changeable environment; willingness to invest multiple teams and stakeholders in communications efforts
• Ability to use multiple mediums and approaches including new media to create multi-faced and effective campaigns
• Ability to take direction and constructive feedback
• High energy, enthusiasm, and a sense of humor
• Ability to work long hours and travel as needed
  
  

Equal Opportunity Employer

OPIN recruits, hires, trains, transfers, and promotes qualified candidates based on individual merit, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.