Director, Strategic Communications

Overview

Description

Raben is a public policy, strategic communications and organizational consulting firm. Our talented and passionate team champions diversity, equity, and justice as core values that ignite our mission for impactful change in corporate, nonprofit, government, and foundation work.

Our changemakers work to solve real-world problems and inspire lasting changes through our four service offerings: strategic communications, government affairs, issue campaigns, and culture, strategy, & organizational design.

We have been fueled by insightful strategy, creative tactics, and plain old hustle for over 20 years. We are people of color, women, immigrants, disabled, and LGBTQ. Spend time with us and you will quickly learn we value smarts, creativity, and audaciousness in just about all we do… and a sense of humor is a contractual must. Learn more at

We seek a Director, specifically with exeprience and relationships in Black media, to join our Strategic Communications practice support Raben's client teams and engagements. Directors have hands-on expertise, contextual knowledge, leadership abilities, and the tactical skills to advance the strategic mission and vision of Raben and further the development and success of our Strategic Communications practice group in providing excellent client services and engaging prospective clients.

Our successful candidate will have a high degree of initiative, personal resilience, attention to detail, intellectual engagement in the subject-matter at hand, and a concierge-like approach to client services.

This position is based in our DC office and follows a hybrid schedule with at least two days in-office.

• Client Relations:
  Lead or co-lead client engagements, or serve as communications strategist on multidisciplinary teams; provide vision, creativity, and strategy for clients, and ensure a high level of service delivery
• Communications Strategy:
  Create, implement, and monitor communications strategies and tactical plans on behalf of Raben clients
• Media Relations:
  Serve as a media liaison for clients, maintain relationships with reporters and columnists, ensure curation of targeted press lists of local, state and national news media outlets, as well as ethnic media, digital outlets, and relevant trade publications; work with teams to execute both broad and targeted media outreach campaigns, deploying creative pitching strategies to garner attention
• Messaging and Branding:
  Develop messaging frameworks and related collateral, manage branding initiatives, and oversee outsourced creative design
• Digital Strategy:
  Provide strategy and oversight on clients’ digital communications needs, including social media, website communications, and multimedia content
• Content Development:
  Write and/or edit op-eds, digital content, reports, memos, and other public relations content and collateral
• Project and Team Management:
  Oversee and participate in the execution of communications tactics, ensuring quality control and adjusting approaches as contexts warrant; guide and mentor other team members
• External Engagement:
  Participate in opportunities to raise the visibility of the firm and of the policy issues we prioritize, including keynotes, panel discussions, published pieces, broadcast media, etc.
• Business Development:
  Contribute to the firm’s business development efforts, to include leveraging existing relationships toward new engagements, and contributing to proposals and pitch interviews.
• Other duties as assigned.

• 6+ years experience in communications or public relations, to include prior experience in political or advocacy communications
• Strong media relations experience required; must bring a track record of success developing and executing earned media campaigns.
• Exeperience and relationships with Black media.
• Experience overseeing or executing social media campaigns.
• Strong oral and written communication skills are a non-negotiable requirement.
• A collaborative and relationship-building mindset.
• Candidates must have the demonstrable ability to quickly produce clear, concise, and compelling written collateral.
• Ability to manage shifting priorities…