Communications Director

Organization

Stand Together

Location

Arlington, VA

Job Description

Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems, from education to the economy, broken communities, and toxic division, among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding, thought leadership, a network of peers, and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society. 
As a Communications Director on Stand Together’s Marketing Strategy and Communications team, you will lead the development and implementation of external communication strategies that amplify the organization’s voice and advance brand and business objectives for critical issue areas like Constitutionally Limited Government and Healthcare. This role requires a strong leader who combines strategic thinking, entrepreneurship, and creativity to craft compelling strategies and narratives that engage target audiences and effectively position the organization (and its partners) as a thought leader working to uphold America’s promise of a diverse, dynamic, and free people.

What You Will Do

  • Strategic Development: Collaborate with portfolio leaders, external partners, and MarComms capability teams to create and execute integrated communication strategies, identify key messaging opportunities and partnerships, and conduct audience research to maximize impact and align with organizational goals.
  • Content Creation: Develop and deliver consistent, impactful messaging across internal and external communication channels, ensuring quality products that advance organizational goals while coordinating, reviewing, and editing storytelling content to reflect the community’s principles and vision through various formats, such as press releases, blogs, social posts, speeches, and op-eds.
  • Media Relations: Prepare principals for media interviews to ensure consistent messaging, cultivate relationships with key media professionals to secure targeted placements, and monitor media coverage to identify outreach opportunities and inform stakeholders of emerging trends.
  • Measurement and Reporting: Establish portfolio communications objectives and KPIs to measure strategy effectiveness, monitor performance, and provide strategic progress reports with recommendations for improvements or adjustments to senior leaders.
  • Leadership: Manage PR agency and media partner relationships, mentor junior staff, collaborate with internal teams (government affairs, policy, development, and legal) to align communications with organizational priorities, and advise on crisis management and brand reputation opportunities.

What you will bring

  • 8+ years’ experience in strategic communications, public relations, or public affairs.
  • Experience in policy communications with a focus on constitutional law, regulatory reform, free speech, or public safety.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
  • Proven track record of developing and executing impactful communications strategies and storytelling that deliver measurable results, including top tier media placements and key message penetration.
  • Strategic thinking with demonstrated success of building and leveraging collaborative relationships with diverse internal and external partners to support shared business priorities.
  • Ability to challenge ideas, content, or messages with a solutions-oriented approach that improves the quality of a product or an overall outcome.
  • Adept in navigating and driving outcomes in complex and matrixed organizational structures.
  • Experience working with external PR agencies.
  • Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect.

Our Values: Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. Our culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment. PBM® empowers our employees to be entrepreneurial, to innovate, and to continually drive transformation.   
 
We believe diversity fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success, and that is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity.