Director of Communications, Digital Strategy

Job Description:

• Teach Plus Pennsylvania seeks a communications leader who can think strategically and execute strong day-to-day communications.
• You will help shape how Teach Plus Pennsylvania tells its story, builds its public presence, and communicates with educators, partners, donors, policymakers, and community members.
• You will create clear, engaging messaging that helps people understand our mission, priorities, and impact in order to advance our strategy and policy priorities.
• As the Director of Communications & Digital Strategy, reporting to the Executive Director, you will lead communications planning and brand positioning, manage content and storytelling across multiple platforms, and strengthen the systems and tools that support engagement and outreach.
• This includes overseeing digital communications, newsletters, social media, audience engagement strategies, and communications infrastructure such as CRM systems and contact segmentation.

Requirements:

• Experience developing communication strategies and managing multi-channel communications, including newsletters, email campaigns, social media, and digital engagement.
• Exceptional writing, editing, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging for a variety of audiences and stakeholders.
• Ability to translate complex ideas, policy issues, advocacy efforts, and programmatic work into clear, compelling stories and communications that resonate with educators, donors, policymakers, partners, and community members.
• Strong media instincts and understanding of how to engage target audiences.
• Experience creating digital content, including social media and visual assets.
• Strong project management and collaboration skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, communicate proactively, and keep work moving across teams and timelines.
• Ability to work independently and strategically in a fast-paced environment, with flexibility, initiative, and a strong focus on execution.
• Experience using communications systems and tools, including CRM platforms such as Salesforce, to support audience engagement, segmentation, and relationship management.
• Familiarity with Pennsylvania's education, advocacy, media, and/or political landscape, particularly in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg, is a plus.

Benefits:

• generous paid time off
• shared summer and winter breaks
• Summer Half-Day Fridays
• comprehensive health coverage
• retirement contributions with immediate vesting
• paid parental leave for all caregivers
• four-week paid sabbatical after five years of service