Communications Associate

Salary: $70,000-$75,000 with generous benefits

Reports to: Director of Strategic Communications

Location: New York City (Hybrid – minimum 1 day/week in our NYC office)

As our Communications Associate
, you manage the day-to-day public voice of JFREJ by running our social media, website, and other public-facing messaging. Your job directly supports the critical campaign work of organizing staff and the broader JFREJ membership, and allows the Communications Director to focus on long-term strategy and broader public narrative development.

If you are energized by keeping up with a fast-paced news cycle, participating in political discourse, feeling like your work directly relates to what is happening in the world around you, and you want to use your skills to win a more caring and equitable New York, we want you on our team and in our community!

In this vital role, you will build the capacity and strength of our communications across the entire organization, amplifying our message and impact and helping to bring more people into our shared work.

• Digital & Media Outreach :
  You will run the day-to-day aspects of JFREJ’s digital and public presence, from updating our website and programming email blasts to drafting and sending out media advisories.
• Social Media & Content-Creation: You will manage and expand JFREJ’s social media to maximize our presence, project our power, involve members, increase our engagement and the visibility of our organizing, advance our campaigns, represent our membership in all its breadth and depth, and highlight the irresistibility of our movement.
• Strategic Communications: You will develop strategic messaging and narrative strategy in partnership with the Communications Director to advance JFREJ’s campaigns and organizational goals.

JFREJ is deeply committed to economic and racial justice, which extends to how we hire. We recognize that traditional credentials—like university degrees or formal corporate titles—are historically gated by systemic bias.

We care about what you can do and your readiness to learn, not where you learned it. If you have gained your communication and digital skills through grassroots organizing, mutual aid, or non-traditional work histories, your real-world experience is highly valued here.

• Successful experience having run social media in the past with a consistent presence, knowledge of how to make a posting plan and how to use each platform appropriately, and creation of compelling content with comparatively good engagement depending on context.
• Strong emotional attunement skills and discretion to engage members to be featured in our social media (as appropriate), and to ensure people feel met where they are in key moments, and to craft messaging that makes people feel seen, held, and heard.
• Strong writing skills with experience writing compelling public-facing messaging, and synthesizing complex ideas and long-form writing into pithy, concise statements and talking points.
• Ability to write in JFREJ's voice, attuned for different audiences.
• Ability to quickly synthesize live events into immediate coverage on social media (for example, live-tweeting events).

Foundational knowledge and excitement about JFREJ’s work:

• Ability to be solution-oriented and strategic in moments of crisis, staying ambitious on behalf of JFREJ so that your excitement can give you momentum through the challenges of a 24-hour news cycle.
• Familiarity with the Jewish communal world, NYC politics and its major players, and grassroots movement ecosystems with an understanding and respect for organizing as a vehicle for change-making.
• Deep respect for JFREJ's place within the NYC Left,…