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We advocate for the millions of public school students attending or hoping to attend a charter school.
Senior Vice President, Strategic Communications and Development
Location
United States
Posted
147 days ago
Salary
$200K - $240K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Vice President, Strategic Communications and Development
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
• Lead Communications Strategy • Set and execute an integrated communications strategy that advances federal and state policy objectives, legal strategies, and organizational priorities. • Direct message development, strategic communications planning, and the editorial calendar. • Ensure a consistent and credible organizational voice across all public-facing channels. • Oversee integrated PR campaign planning across earned media, owned/digital, and collateral material development to drive measurable influence. • Oversee proactive and reactive media strategy, including relationships with reporters and news outlets. • Manage rapid-response and crisis communications in a dynamic and often contentious education policy landscape. • Maintain clear escalation paths, approvals, spokesperson guidance, and high-quality executive communications and briefing materials. • Provide executive oversight for the research and data team and their portfolio of work, including helping determine which data collection to prioritize and how it will be shared publicly. • Align the data collection and research agenda to organizational priorities and ensure data is translated into actionable, accessible insights for advocacy, communications, and fundraising. • Establish quality and accuracy standards, data-use guidance, and release calendars that synchronize with communications and development needs. • Provide strategic leadership to the Development team, ensuring communications and research fuel fundraising success across foundations, individuals, government grants, corporate partnerships, dues based campaigns, and broad based giving. • Oversee narrative development and quality standards for all donor facing materials, including cases for support, proposals, pitch decks, fundraising campaigns, and donor stewardship materials. • Partner closely with the CEO and VP of Development on strategy and high stakes philanthropic moments, ensuring alignment across message, data, and organizational priorities. • Ensure Development has timely access to messaging, insights, and assets that strengthen donor engagement and deepen understanding of impact. • Lead managers, staff, and vendors across Communications, Development, and Research/Data, setting goals, managing budgets, and upholding high standards of quality, accuracy, and message discipline. • Establish an operating cadence (shared objectives, quarterly planning, regular reviews) that ensures coordination and alignment across all three teams. • Foster a culture of seizing opportunity, collaboration, accountability, and excellence. • Help anchor the organization in a shared narrative and ensure coordinated messaging for priority campaigns, policy moments, publications, and major announcements. • Provide internal and external stakeholders with timely guidance, talking points, and communications support. • Reinforce message consistency and brand discipline across all external touch points.
Job Requirements
- You are a senior communications executive with demonstrated success leading a complex work portfolio — and you bring the range, judgment, and readiness to oversee communications, development, and research/data as integrated, high performing functions.
- You bring deep expertise in strategic communications, including message development, media relations, rapid response, and crisis communications in policy or advocacy environments.
- You have meaningful experience partnering with or managing development teams: shaping donor narratives, strengthening proposals and stewardship, and aligning messaging and data to support diversified fundraising goals.
- You understand how to leverage research and data to influence opinion, strengthen policy arguments, and power organizational storytelling — and you have managed analytical or research-driven workstreams.
- You excel at distilling complex issues into compelling content for policymakers, media, funders, and the public.
- You are an leader who turns vision into executable strategies, tactics and projects; you manage budgets, set high standards, and lead managers; you coach teams and consultants to deliver consistent quality at a fast pace.
- You lead through collaboration and clarity, building cross team alignment and driving results in dynamic, high visibility contexts.
- You are a confident, polished communicator who operates effectively in high-stakes settings with senior executives, board members, donors, and press.
- You demonstrate sound judgment, discretion, and the ability to navigate complex political and advocacy environments.
- You are committed to the mission of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and passionate about expanding access to high-quality public education for all students.
Benefits
- 403(b) retirement account with up to a 6% match after 90 days of employment
- Automatic life insurance coverage, short- and long-term disability coverage, and FSA
- 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- 25 PTO days annually, plus every federal holiday and a week off at year-end
- Monthly reimbursement for internet and cellular service, plus a $500 home office setup stipend in your first 90 days
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