Public Education Communications Manager - FULLY REMOTE

If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice is a legal services and advocacy organization that represents people in crisis, reshapes the law, and builds a network of lawyers working for reproductive justice. If/When/How works to change the law so that everyone has the power to determine if, when, and how to define, create, and sustain their families with dignity, and to actualize sexual and reproductive wellbeing on their own terms.

POSITION SUMMARY:

If/When/How seeks a values-aligned and experienced Public Education Communications Manager who will help advance the organization’s public education strategies. The Public Education Communications Manager will play a key role in bringing cohesive messaging and branding to all public education materials, manage our org-wide training schedule and ensure that it aligns with our campaign work, design useful leave-behinds, and manage promotion and advertising of public education events and training. We seek a seasoned professional who has successfully created public education collateral, managed training calendars, and ensured messaging and branding consistency. The Public Education Communications Manager will lead monthly training team meetings that are collaborative across the organization. This position will add capacity to our overall communications strategy, supporting the communications team with content creation as needed.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Lead cross-program public education working group:

• Facilitate collaboration, consistency, and cohesion across the organization’s public education programming by leading a cross-program public education working group
• Draft monthly agenda, collecting agenda items from public education working group members and reporting updates in materials and messaging to program directors and the organization as needed
• Ensure decisions about organizational public education are considered and approved by the right department(s)
• Manage the training tracking tool to ensure that data entry is consistent and can track the reach and impact of our public education
• Act as a liaison to the Development team with public education data

Ensure branding and messaging consistency in public education materials

• Manage the organizational public education calendar, ensuring trainings are in line with campaigns, overall communications calendar, and programmatic needs and audiences
• Collaborate with communications team and program directors to ensure trainings and public education materials use consistent messaging about programs and main messaging
• Manage and create public education assets and materials, including one-pagers and leave behinds
• Create and maintain a library of slides for our direct services, programs, and critical issues for all organizational training
• Review training and event slides for branding and messaging consistency

Marketing

• Increase understanding of our programmatic work and critical issues with movement partners, family defense and criminal defense lawyers, and the general public by the reach of our public education
• Ensure our public education and trainings are reaching the right people, by researching audiences, and keeping abreast of criminal defense and family defense trainings
• Collaborate with digital communications to effectively market upcoming trainings

Other Duties

• Develop content and design for other communications collateral on an as-needed basis
• Participate in staff meetings, department meetings, trainings, and retreats
• Collaborate across communications team to flag opportunities for public education materials to be packaged for media, social, and movement partners

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• No minimum education requirements
• Minimum 5-7 years of public engagement, public education and communications experience, ideally in a nonprofit setting
• Proficiency in graphic and digital design for education materials required
• Experience with communications best practices in public education and training is required
• Familiarity with criminal defense, crisis communications, and attorney client privilege a plus.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Commitment to social justice and racial justice/anti-racist principles
• Familiarity with reproductive health, rights, and justice issues and frameworks
• Highly organized and proven project management capabilities
• Fluent in spoken and written English
• Adept writer and skilled communicator
• Passion for news and current events
• Ability to thrive in a remote workplace and willingness to build relationships virtually
• Demonstrated creativity and strategic thinking in a range of communications projects
• Flexible and adaptive to the changing needs of a dynamic, small team
• Collaborative team player with the ability to give and receive constructive feedback
• Demonstrated good judgment with the ability to prioritize, make decisions, predict outcomes and problem solve

ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS: Reports to the Communications Director and works closely with the communications staff and cross-program public education team. Collaborates with the Senior Training & Events Coordinator and other staff as needed.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: If/When/How maintains a virtual office and supports remote working and flexible workdays, including a 4-day work week. Reimbursements for home office equipment and supplies are available. Occasionally, employees may be expected to be available during off-hours and/or to attend events (e.g., conferences, staff retreats) on nights or weekends. Please note that this role requires the employee to be located within the United States and able to work in the United States. At this time, we are unable to consider applicants residing outside of the U. S. and/or lacking the credentials to work in the U.S.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Most work will be done on a computer (although attending conferences may require transporting materials and the ability to carry 10 lbs). Requires typing and participating in meetings (live and virtual). Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these and other essential functions.

TRAVEL: Quarterly travel within the continental U.S. may be required. Additional travel will be required to support teamwork and attend staff retreats, conferences, and professional development opportunities.