Associate Director of Strategic Communications

Summary:

Passion. Purpose. Impact. CJP is at the heart of Greater Boston's Jewish community, but our reach is felt around the world. Ranked by BBJ as Massachusetts’ largest non-profit organization – CJP is a philanthropic investor and mobilizer of people, resources, and skills that make a bigger difference locally and globally.

Join us to unify, elevate, and amplify CJP’s voice. CJP is at a pivotal moment. As our impact grows, so must the clarity, consistency, and resonance of how we show up to the world, especially in the moments when our community gathers and when people engage with us on digital platforms.

The Associate Director of Strategic Communications is a role for a worldclass writer and strategist who can turn complex ideas into compelling narratives, unify our voice across channels and audiences, and steward the stories that move people to care and act. This role will play a defining role in shaping the narrative the community hears—on stage, in remarks, across the full event lifecycle, and through our digital presence.

CJP is not able to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

• Narrative architecture. Define the enterprise narrative, proof points, and message frameworks that unify how CJP shows up across owned, earned, and shared channels—including web, digital campaigns, and live event moments.
• Editorial excellence. Own the editorial process from brief → draft → review → publish; set style, quality, accessibility, and SEO standards; and run an enterprise editorial calendar across channels.

• Lead the development of clear, compelling, and search optimized web content that reflects CJP’s narrative, priorities, and audiences.
• Write and/or edit high impact pages including homepage and section overviews, program pages, landing pages, impact stories, and evergreen content.
• Partner with Digital, Strategy & Impact, and Development teams to align content strategy with SEO best practices, audience intent, and conversion goals.

• Write and/or edit speeches, event remarks, and scripts for leaders.
• Shape clear, compelling onstage narratives that reflect CJP’s strategy, values, and impact.
• Coordinate research, stakeholder input, and rehearsals to ensure leaders are prepared and confident for high visibility events.
• Partner with Events, Development, and Executive teams to ensure narrative consistency before, during, and after events.

• Stewardship storytelling. Partner closely with Development to craft persuasive donor communications—letters, cases for support, event scripts, web content, and impact stories—tailored to donor segments, motivations, and moments in the relationship.
• Event driven narrative strategy. Ensure donor events tell a cohesive story, from invitations and pre-read stages through onstage remarks, digital content, and post event follow-up; reinforcing CJP’s value and momentum.
• Thought leadership for donors. Package insights and updates across web, email, and presentations that reinforce trust, relevance, and long term partnership with CJP’s most engaged supporters.

• Strategy & platform. Support the leadership communications strategy, aligning speeches, remarks, web presence, and written content to mission, priorities, and key moments.
• Content creation. Produce and oversee high visibility materials including keynotes, remarks, op-eds/bylines, longform presentations, Linked In posts, web essays, and video scripts; prepare leaders for delivery.
• Message discipline. Establish and maintain leadership message maps, ensuring consistent, values‑based communication across channels, platforms, stages, and digital touchpoints.

• Segmentation & voice. Define priority audiences and build a persona library (needs, barriers, motivations, tone, search intent) to guide channel, event, and web specific content and calls to action.
• Testing & learning. Introduce message testing, content pilots, and feedback loops to continuously…