Communications and Storytelling Officer

The Communications and Storytelling Officer (CSO) will play an integral role in the organization’s communications and marketing infrastructure, strengthening the organization’s communications capacity to better tell the story of Funders for LGBTQ Issues’ work. The CSO will work closely with all departments at Funders for LGBTQ Issues to develop and enhance branding, messaging, content creation, and social media campaigns and will serve as a thought partner to the Director of External Affairs.

Together with the Director of External Affairs, the CSO will support organization-wide communications and marketing goals, with a specific focus on storytelling and the use of the narrative to support the organization’s philanthropic organizing work. This position will help design and execute a strategic communications plan for Funders, coordinating communications activities that help build the organization’s brand identity for various stakeholders (e.g. institutional members, individual donors, the philanthropic sector, and LGBTQ nonprofits), better clarifying opportunities for partnership with each.

The CSO fills an essential role in Funders for LGBTQ Issues’ Department of External Affairs, which oversees the organization’s communications and development work. They will work closely with the Director of External Affairs and Membership Engagement Officer to ensure unified external messaging. The ideal candidate will be aligned with the organization’s mission and vision and will approach the work from a place of curiosity, working cross-departmentally to identify gaps and opportunities for external communications;

proactively building communications plans to fill them in line with the broader strategic communications strategy.

Funders for LGBTQ Issues is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building the leadership of people of color, women, transgender, and gender non-conforming individuals. Funders for LGBTQ Issues does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, gender, gender expression, gender identity, age, ethnicity, immigration status, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, HIV serostatus, disability, or marital status.