Communications Program Manager

Founded in 2018, The Opportunity Trust (TOT) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring that every child in St. Louis is prepared to thrive by having access to a quality public school education. Since 2019, The Opportunity Trust has attracted and invested over $125 million to transform public education in Missouri, launching new schools, strengthening educator and leadership pipelines, and expanding access to quality public schools (both traditional district and public charter schools).

In 2023, the organization secured Missouri’s first-ever $35 million U.S. Department of Education Charter School Program award, a landmark investment to expand access to high-quality charter schools across the state.

By 2027, TOT is working to ensure that at least 30% of St. Louis’ children attend a quality public school, up from 12% when the organization launched. Through its work, The Opportunity Trust has incubated and launched nine schools and helped to expand six existing public schools in St. Louis. In addition, through policy and advocacy work, TOT has built a coalition locally and statewide and has successfully advocated for education policies to increase support of and accountability for quality public education across Missouri.

Their work in St. Louis is becoming a model for the nation through their innovative programs in Pre-K funding, reimagining high school, career-connected learning, and workforce development.

To learn more about The Opportunity Trust, visit their website here.

The Communications Program Manager is the operational engine of TOT’s communications function — a critical systems thinker who translates strategy into airtight processes, executes with relentless consistency, and then uses the margin that discipline creates to innovate, build relationships, and make the work better. This is not a coordinator role. It is an ownership role.

You will work closely with the Partner and Associate Partner for Communications and Community Coalitions, as well as senior leadership and a wide range of partner organizations — from school districts to parent advocacy groups. You will proactively review every project plan, identify your role without being asked, and drive every task to completion on time and on budget. Your reliability is what makes the team’s creativity and momentum possible.

This role has five ownership areas. In each one, your job is to make the work happen — completely, accurately, and on time — and to continuously look for ways to do it better