projectbread

projectbread

Assistant Director of Communications

East Boston, Massachusetts · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
Strategic CommunicationsExcelContract ManagementLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • The successful candidate for this role will be energized by the dynamic nature of media relations and ability to shape Project Bread's response to timely media conversations.
  • Set PR goals and budget, analyze and track press coverage, and adjust strategies to ensure goals are met.

Responsibilities

  • Manage proactive and reactive media opportunities, helping to shape Project Bread's response to and role in timely media requests.
  • Serve as a media spokesperson and Project Bread ambassador when needed and train Project Bread team members and partners in serving as spokespeople.
  • Manage Project Bread's external public relations agency and media partners, including regular meetings, budget and contract management, and project coordination.
  • Collaborate and build relationships with external vendors, press and media contacts, community organizations, people with lived experience and internal teams to ensure media placements represent diverse voices and accurately reflect the state of hunger in MA and the solutions that exist to address it.
  • This role will inform and execute the public relations strategy and support organizational goals through press, events, and other external channels.
  • We aspire to build a diverse team, including groups that are traditionally underrepresented among our sector leadership.

Requirements

  • Skilled in both proactive and reactive media relations, with a track record of securing meaningful press placements and shaping organizational narratives.
  • There are innumerable ways to learn, grow, and excel professionally. We know people gain skills through a variety of professional, personal, educational, and volunteer experiences. Project Bread recognizes this when we review applications and take a broad look at the experience of each applicant. We want to get to know you and the unique strengths you will bring to the work. This said, we are most likely to be interested in your candidacy if you can demonstrate most of the qualifications and experiences listed below.
  • Priority Competencies:
  • Strategic Communications & Media Relations: Demonstrated ability to develop and execute public relations strategies across multiple channels. Skilled in both proactive and reactive media relations, with a track record of securing meaningful press placements and shaping organizational narratives.
  • Relationship Building & Stakeholder Engagement: Ability to foster long-term relationships with media contacts, community partners, and internal colleagues across levels and departments. Committed to centering diverse voices and people with lived experience in media strategy and coverage.
  • Independent Judgment & Initiative: Self-directed and resourceful
  • able to assess the organizational landscape, set priorities, and move work forward. Brings vision and confidence to the role, identifying where and how to plug in communications work across a broad range of organizational functions.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration & Managing Up: Skilled at working across teams and supporting senior leaders with messaging development and communications counsel. Able to delegate effectively, coordinate with cross-functional colleagues, and keep multiple stakeholders aligned.
  • Additional Qualifications and Experience:
  • Proven ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder projects through to completion

Nice to have

  • 5-7 years of experience in nonprofit communications or public relations
  • experience with issues related to hunger or food insecurity preferred
  • Commitment to Project Bread's mission to connect people and communities in Massachusetts to reliable sources of food while advocating for policies that make food more accessible
  • Experience working with or managing external vendors, such as PR agencies or media consultants
  • Strong writing and editing skills across formats, including press releases, op-eds, talking points, and event remarks
  • Experience supporting executive or senior leadership with messaging, talking points, and communications strategy
  • Event management experience, particularly press events, preferred
  • Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and time-sensitive media requests

Skills

  • Inform the organization's positioning and messaging frameworks to secure media placements.

Compensation

  • $80,00-$85,000
  • The Role: The Assistant Director of Communications plays a critical role in advancing Project Bread's thought leadership and visibility within Massachusetts across a variety of subjects including policy and advocacy, federal nutrition programs, programmatic promotion, and direct services.
  • This role will inform and execute the public relations strategy and support organizational goals through press, events, and other external channels.
  • The Assistant Director is highly visible within the organization, collaborating closely with the senior leadership team, cross-functional colleagues, and the Council of Experts to support public relations activities and act as media spokespeople.
  • The successful candidate for this role will be energized by the dynamic nature of media relations and ability to shape Project Bread's response to timely media conversations.
  • Support the annual Walk for Hunger, including working as event staff the weekend of the Walk (first weekend in May), and attending pre-Walk events as assigned.

Benefits

  • We work in a fast-paced environment that values learning, innovation, and diverse perspectives.
  • Knowing its centrality to our work, Project Bread is committed to equity and inclusion.
  • Brings vision and confidence to the role, identifying where and how to plug in communications work across a broad range of organizational functions.

Company info

  • Note: We are not currently reviewing new applications for this position.
  • To assist us in meeting our mission, Project Bread - The Walk for Hunger is seeking an Assistant Director of Communications to join our team.
  • At Project Bread, we have a deep commitment to creating positive social change and recognize that hunger and racism are inextricably linked.
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