Senior Manager, Program Communications

Since 1984, Share Our Strength® has led the fight against hunger and poverty by inspiring and organizing individuals and businesses to share their strengths. Today, through the No Kid Hungry campaign, Share Our Strength is ending childhood hunger in America by ensuring all children get the healthy food they need. No child should go hungry in America—and we're on our way to making that a reality.

The Senior Manager, Program Communications will be responsible for contributing to the strategy and development of materials that help translate and distill complex research, legislation, and programmatic impact into compelling content that advances the priorities of Share Our Strength and its No Kid Hungry campaign. Through compelling storytelling and audience-driven content strategies, this role will bring our work and impact to life, connecting key programmatic audiences to the challenges, solutions, and stories at the heart of No Kid Hungry’s mission. This role will develop messaging and assets that inform, persuade, and mobilize key audiences including policymakers, program partners, advocates, practitioners, and the media.

The ideal candidate is an exceptional writer and communicator with experience turning technical policy and research content into clear, accessible, audience-centered communications. They will also be able to effectively leverage and present research, data and best practices in a compelling, easy to understand way. They will be skilled at identifying and crafting compelling stories about our program work. They will create a wide range of content, including testimony, talking points, visualizations, toolkits, one-pagers, briefing materials, presentations, digital content, and campaign resources for both national and state-based efforts. This position reports to the Director, Program Communications.

This position can be based in Washington, DC or fully remote. The position offers a salary range of $82k-$91k. Exact compensation within the stated salary range may vary based on skills, experience, internal equity, and geographical location.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and execute strategic communications approaches that bring policy and programmatic work to life through compelling storytelling, visuals, data, and audience-driven content, encouraging the adoption of identified best practices.

• Create written and visual assets including testimony, talking points, one-pagers, fact sheets, toolkits, presentations, briefing materials, reports, and digital content.

• Translate complex legislative language, policy proposals, research findings, and programmatic data into clear, compelling, audience-centered communications.

• Draft and edit content for a variety of audiences, including policymakers, program partners and practitioners, advocates, and the media.

• Ensure communications materials are accurate, audience-appropriate, on-brand, and aligned with organizational messaging frameworks.

• Oversee organization-wide effort to embed strength-based and equity messaging across all content, convening a cross-team working group, keeping guidelines up to date, and supporting colleagues with training and resources and reporting on progress to management.

• Participate in key program team meetings and planning discussions to stay closely connected to programmatic priorities, identify strategic communications opportunities, and ensure alignment between program activities and communications efforts.

• Coordinate with Communications colleagues across marketing, design, digital and creative teams to support integrated campaign execution.

• Maintain and organize communications resources, messaging documents, and content libraries to support internal stakeholders.

SUPERVISION:

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree preferred but not required.

• 5-7+ years of experience in communications, public affairs, policy communications, journalism, public policy, or a related field.

• Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills, with demonstrated experience translating complex policy, legislative, or research content into effective communications.

• Ability to identify engaging and effective ways of visualizing or presenting data, research, and policy information.

• Experience developing content for multiple audiences, including policymakers, advocates, program partners, and the media.

• Expertise in developing, reviewing, shaping, and governing content to ensure consistent application of strengths-based, culturally responsive, and equity-centered messaging across organizational communications.

• Preferred candidate has experience working on federal nutrition or benefits programs, and an understanding of public policy, advocacy and legislative processes.

• Ability to synthesize information from multiple sources and identify the most compelling narratives and messages.

• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Outstanding interpersonal and relationship-management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and functions.

• Excellent judgment, attention to detail, and commitment to producing high-quality work.

COMPREHENSIVE BENEFIT PLAN:
We offer a comprehensive benefits plan which currently includes, but is not limited to, health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, retirement, wellness benefits, and paid time off (vacation leave, sick leave, personal leave, holiday, parental leave, bereavement leave, military leave, and jury duty leave).

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT:
Share Our Strength is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, military status, age, or any other classification protected by law.