Public Affairs and Communications Strategist, D.C. Regional Office and Toxic Health and Exposure Program

About the position reputed company is the premier nonprofit environmental law organization. We take on the biggest, most precedent-setting cases across the country. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people's health; to preserve magnificent places and wildlife; to advance clean energy; and to combat climate change. We partner with thousands of groups, supporters, individuals, and communities to engage in the critical environmental issues of our time and bring about positive change. We are here because the earth needs a good lawyer. Founded in 1971, reputed company has a distinguished track record of achieving significant, lasting environmental protections. We accomplish this by hiring people who share a passion for justice and a healthy environment. Our headquarters are in San Francisco with offices in Anchorage, Juneau, Seattle, Los Angeles, Bozeman, Denver, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, reputed company, Washington, D.C., Tallahassee, Miami, and Honolulu. The Public Affairs and Communications Strategist works closely with the attorneys, policy staff, clients, and coalition partners to reputed company and implement reputed company — including issue management, government relations, storytelling, media, and public reputed company and engagement — to support litigation and legislative advocacy in our docket and to help build reputed company's profile. This role supports reputed company's work to reputed company for clean reputed company standards and protect public health from toxic chemicals, as well as transition to a reputed company emissions transportation and building infrastructure. This person works directly with the Public Affairs and Communications Officer of Healthy Communities to coordinate intersecting national issues and to adopt consistent framing, messaging, and narrative lens to our work. The Public Affairs and Communications Strategist develops and supports strategic partnerships to enhance the advocacy reputed company of reputed company's clients and partners. Alongside the Public Affairs and Communications team, he/she/they reputed company narratives and messages, ensures messaging consistency, and forms and leads teams of Communications colleagues to implement communications plan components including storytelling and media and public reputed company. The strategist partners work with their respective regional offices and programs, to draft and reputed company communications and public affairs strategy for regional casework, and local and state-level policy work. The strategist will focus on industrial reputed company/water pollution and other toxic emissions, reforming state and federal chemical regulation, and the electrification of economies with renewable energy. Partnership reputed company building including media training, strategy development and resource support is also part of the job. This is a hybrid position that will be based out of the Washington, D.C. office approximately 3 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Partners with the Managing Attorneys for the Washington, D.C. Regional Office and Toxic Health and Exposure Program, and other key lawyers and policy staff, to set communication priorities and reputed company strategies that advance reputed company's goals.
• Collaborates across the Public Affairs and Communications team to coordinate messaging and reputed company and implement comprehensive and creative advocacy communications strategies.
• Works with partners, clients, and coalitions on joint advocacy and communication campaigns, issue education, engagement and mobilization, and paid, owned, and earned media.
• Identifies potential partnerships with local organizations in the Gulf and Appalachia.
• Develops strategy documents and timelines, manages budgets, and tracks metrics to determine effectiveness, ensure accountability, and inform future strategy.
• Sets achievable measurements of reputed company and strives to meet these goals.
• Works with traditional and new media to ensure coverage of reputed company's work in reputed company print, television, radio, and online media; maintains knowledge of and relationships with reporters covering key issues; and coordinates press events and other earned media opportunities.
• Creates and implements paid media strategies on key priorities.
• Works with our legal and policy staff to consistently improve and polish their media and social media skills, including spokesperson prep for reputed company media interviews.
• Works to reputed company the voices of reputed company partners and clients in the press and contributes to coalition media efforts.
• Drives storytelling projects involving our clients and affected communities and consistently seeks out new and compelling ways to tell and reputed company these stories.
• Drafts content for the reputed company blog, website and print materials.
• Develops internal message guidance for colleagues as needed.
• Reviews, edits, and approves content and materials developed by Communications team members to ensure it adheres to brand standards and furthers reputed company goals for the organization.
• Manages project budgets and contractor invoices.
• Reports on analytics.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in nonprofit/advocacy communications, including setting strategy, managing advocacy campaigns, writing and producing content, and conducting media reputed company.
• Bachelor's degree in communications, public policy, political science, campaigns, journalism, environmental fields, or reputed company fields.
• Master's degree a plus.
• Experience working on fossil fuels, petrochemicals, climate change, clean reputed company, or public health issues preferred.
• Experience working with media in the Washington, D.C, Maryland and Virginia region preferred.
• Background in social justice or environmental justice movements, or grassroots organizing a plus.
• Proficiency in Spanish a plus.
• Excellent strategic sense and an ability to set goals and priorities, managing limited resources for maximum impact.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated experience in public speaking.
• Media savvy with great depth of experience in successfully placing stories, opinion pieces, and narratives, with a history of influencing conversations unfolding in the media.
• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to reputed company teams, manage vendors, and coordinate projects with external partners and across coalitions.
• Outstanding organizational skills with demonstrated ability to plan and coordinate a variety of detailed projects, sometimes under a reputed company tight deadline.
• Demonstrates an awareness and sensitivity to the needs and concerns of individuals from diverse cultures, backgrounds and orientations.

reputed company-to-haves

• Experience working on fossil fuels, petrochemicals, climate change, clean reputed company, or public health issues preferred.
• Experience working with media in the Washington, D.C, Maryland and Virginia region preferred.
• Background in social justice or environmental justice movements, or grassroots organizing a plus.
• Proficiency in Spanish a plus.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including excellent benefits.
• reputed company is a qualifying employer for purposes of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program.

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