DC: Communications and Policy Manager /The Secular Coalition for America

Dec 16 08:41AM -0800

The Communications and Policy Manager works with the Executive
Director and staff to further SCA’s media outreach and policy
advocacy. The Secular Coalition for America, a non-profit corporation,
is an equal opportunity employer, conveniently located on Farragut
Square in Washington DC close to metro and bus lines. www.secular.org.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
• Craft and implement a media plan (literature, web, YouTube, video,
etc.) which entices more people to become active supporters of the
secular movement, and of the Secular Coalition for America.
• Promote the Secular Coalition’s positions and activities to the
media. Get Secular Coalition for America covered in national and local
media (print and electronic).
• Promote speaking engagements of the Executive Director, Board
President, and other staff and board members as needed.
• Develop and oversee a communications and marketing plan targeting
both internal and external audiences and donors and articulate Secular
Coalition's mission, vision, programs and accomplishments.
• Frame and market ideas and issues to diverse audiences.
• Create and coordinate an action alert plan which gets our policy
efforts in front of more members of our coalition organizations, and
new audiences sympathetic to secular values.
• Research and draft well-documented, highly-persuasive public policy
talking-points, fact sheets, and position papers. Track legislation
and lobbying initiatives for use in communications.
• Research, draft, and copyedit letters-to-the-editor, op-eds, action
alerts, and press releases.
• Track and evaluate effectiveness of communications, collate
clippings for easy retrieval, and communicate relevant information to
appropriate staff for potential action.
• Coordinate communications/branding strategy with fundraising and
program efforts.
• Manage media and supporter contact files, both through database of
press contacts and Democracy in Action online advocacy package.
• Help plan and promote public events as directed by Executive
Director.
• Plan and lead outreach to sympathetic organizations that may join or
ally with SCA.
• Help plan a biennial conference focusing on policy change, serving
members of coalition organizations and sympathetic secularists.
• Lead coordination and help foster greater unity among coalition
member media, legal staff, and secular student groups.
• Coordinate and help draft quarterly newsletter to be emailed to
member organizations.
• Serve as staff’s technology lead, including website maintenance of
drupal site, and tech troubleshooting. This is not a webmaster
position, but it is the first line of tech responsibility.

Requirements:
• Proven meticulous attention to organizational detail.
• Proven excellent written communication skills, including proven
proofreading and copyediting skills.
• Proven ability to garner media attention for a cause or
organization.
• Proven ability to research and write compelling persuasion pieces.
• Proven ability to develop, launch and manage effective advocacy
campaigns that include a web component.
• Proven excellent wordsmith and marketing innovator.
• General computer and web skills, and potential to enhance those
skills with additional training.
• Commitment to advance respect of secular Americans and church-state
separation.
• Some weekend and evening work.

Plusses:
• Experience leading non-profit and for-profit companies in issue-
advocacy campaigns.
• Proven ability to research public policy issues and draft compelling
policy positions.
• Working knowledge of Democracy in Action software.
• Experience administering a Drupal (or other content management
system) website.
• Experience with CiviCRM constituent relationship software.
• HTML /.css and graphic arts experience and knowledge.
• Experience on Capitol Hill, in a legislature or campaigns.
• Initiative to discover and take on new projects.

Starting salary, depending on experience, mid-40s plus health
coverage.

To apply, email a resume, cover letter and writing sample to
applicants@secular.org.