Essential Duties
• Develops and executes impact strategy to enhance CRPE’s reputation, advance its
position with constituents, and drive broader awareness and funder support. With the
communications manager, editorial director, and other colleagues, develops
approaches to successfully implement the strategies.
• Oversees external communications operations, including product/publication promotion
and marketing. Leads program teams in identifying communications goals and
conceptualizes, and assess strategies aimed at external and internal audiences.
• Identifies new and/or underdeveloped audiences for CRPE’s work and ways to reach
them.
• Assists with developing annual strategic goals and objectives of the Center.
• Builds relationships with media and serves as CRPE representative publicly; identifies
opportunities for and successfully pitch earned media and thought leadership
commentaries.
• Plans, directs, and reviews digital strategy, including email, website, and social media.
• Defines ways to assess the impact of our work and strategies to adjust based on what’s
learned.
• Conceives and executes strategies to ensure effective funder engagement.
• Supervises communications manager.
• Translates complex ideas into succinct, impactful materials, including media kits, fact
sheets, and toolkits for partner engagement.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in a field appropriate to the area of assignment AND eight (8) years of
related administrative experience, which includes five (5) years of supervisory experience;
OR, Twelve (12) years of related administrative experience, which includes five (5) years of
supervisory experience; OR, Any equivalent combination of education and/or experience
from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.
Desired Qualifications
• Evidence of a Bachelor’s degree
• Seven or more years’ experience developing and executing impact and/or
communications strategy at a mission-driven nonprofit, communications firm, education
institution, media organization, or other setting focused on strategically disseminating
information to build engagement and achieve social impact
• Demonstrated knowledge of the structures and challenges in K-12 education and the
primary organizations and influential actors
• Demonstrated knowledge and passion for the mission and objectives of the Center on
Reinventing Public Education, specifically in improving the education system on behalf
of underserved students and communities
$140,000 - $160,000 yearly