Job Opportunities

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Manager of Communications

 

Role

As the Manager of Communications, you are responsible for overseeing and coordinating all of RHAP’s outward facing communications, including developing and implementing RHAP’s strategic communications plan. You ensure that RHAP’s communications are mission-aligned and amplify RHAP’s voice within and beyond the sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice movements. You also provide communications support across the organization, including RHAP’s programs, advocacy, and fundraising efforts. You are proactive, forward-thinking, and value accountability. You work quickly and collaboratively. You have a deep understanding of intersectionality and reproductive justice and bring that to your role. Throughout all of your work, you will apply the organization’s values. The Manager of Communications reports directly to the Executive Director.

 

Responsibilities:

• Communications Management
  • Oversees the development, implementation, and maintenance of the organization’s communications strategy, ensuring that all communications align with RHAP’s mission, values, and strategic plan.
• Social Media Management
  • Oversees the organization’s social media efforts, including generating creative and diverse content for Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
• Advocacy & Policy
  • Supports the Reproductive Health Access Network to draft and submit written content for advocacy efforts, including letters of support, testimony materials, and professional organizing advocacy materials.
• Ethics and Integrity
  • Uphold the Reproductive Health Access Project Code of Ethics in all facets of professional and personal work interactions.
• Relationships
  • Maintain respective and collaborative relationships with all RHAP staff, board members, external vendors, and partner organizations, including local and national reproductive health, rights, and justice groups and primary care partners.

Job Qualifications:

• Experience in: the fields of communications, marketing, public relations, social media, and/or journalism
• Knowledge: Understanding of how to leverage media to communicate and connect, especially online outlets. Understanding of common style guides (e.g., AP, APA, Chicago) and how to apply them correctly. Familiarity with WordPress, GoogleAds, Canva, Later. Understanding of and experience with social media platforms.
• Communications Skills: Strong overall written and oral presentation skills, and the ability to adopt the style, tone, and voice of our organization for various types of content; a keen sense of editorial judgment; detail-oriented; and experience writing copy including articles, press releases, op-eds, talking points, and speeches.
• Project Management: Experience in working cooperatively and collaboratively with others to plan and execute projects, research, events, or initiatives. Ability to manage others to meet deadlines and project objectives and problem-solve challenges.
• Positive Communicator: Enjoys talking to and partnering with others; is comfortable supporting people through decision making and challenges in their work. Has excellent listening skills and
  approaches relationships collaboratively and with an open mind.
• Community Familiarity: Experience working with both the reproductive health, rights, and justice communities, as well as an understanding of the dynamics between these communities.
• Self-direction: Takes initiative and motivated to figure out solutions instead of waiting for directions. Detail-oriented, patient, highly organized, and follows through on all responsibilities. Responsive and works quickly and collaboratively.
• Resilience: Able to withstand being potentially exposed to biased, anti-abortion/reproductive rights beliefs and incidents from external sources and help community members facing similar
  challenges in their own advocacy. Knows when to seek support when facing these challenges.
• Collaborative Spirit: Ability to work as integral part of a team of hard-working, energetic professionals, taking input from a variety of assertive colleagues.
• Prioritization and Detail Orientation: Ability to set and meet goals, prioritize, plan, manage, and complete work on deadline and in optimum quality. Responds to constantly shifting daily events and priorities with strategic thinking and planning and humor and enthusiasm.
• Commitment to Reproductive Justice: An understanding of and commitment to issues affecting the reproductive health/rights/justice community, as well as an understanding of racism, classism and other systems of interconnected oppressions is critical.
• Language Ability: Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing in English is required.

 

 

Please see the full, detailed job description here

 

Work hours & compensation
This is a full-time, fully remote, exempt position that involves occasional travel. Salary is $78,608. Benefit eligibility begins after 30 days of employment.

Application Instructions
Please follow this link to submit your application. Application must include a cover letter, resume, contact information for three references, and a relevant, and short writing sample. There will be a minimum of two rounds of interviews, and candidates who make it to Round 2 will be asked to complete a short assignment.

 

Volunteer Opportunities

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We are not currently recruiting for any volunteer positions. However, if you’re passionate about getting involved in the reproductive healthcare space and want to inquire about volunteering opportunities with us, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Send your inquiries to volunteer@reproductiveaccess.org

 

Internship Opportunities

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We are not currently recruiting for any intern positions.