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    "description": "<p><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">CHILDREN'S FUNDING PROJECT</span><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\"> is a nonprofit social impact organization that helps communities, states, and Native Nations expand equitable opportunities for children and youth through strategic public financing. Through our hands-on technical assistance and collection of resources, we help advocates, policymakers, public agencies, Tribal Nations, and funders identify and align existing funding, generate new revenue, and implement strategies to administer funds in ways that maximize their impact. This growing organization is dynamic and seeks to meet the needs of the child and youth field and provide a healthy work environment. Read more about us at: </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https://www.childrensfundingproject.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://www.childrensfundingproject.org</a></span><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">About the Position</span><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">: The Vice President of Communications leads organization-wide communications strategy to elevate Children’s Funding Project’s visibility, clarify and amplify our narrative, and advance the children’s funding movement. The position will oversee executive and thought-leadership communications, media relations, digital and social media, publications, and learning-related communications, and will strengthen communications systems and capacity across the organization. The position reports to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and is a member of the Executive Team.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline\">Strategic Communications and Narrative Development</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">Steward organization’s communications strategy with defined goals, audiences, priorities, and measures of success to advance Children’s Funding Project’s visibility, legitimacy, and momentum.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">Promote a unifying national narrative about directing public funding to children that bridges policy complexity and public understanding and connects organization-level and initiative-level communications.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">Invest in and oversee executive communications, including thought-leadership support for the CEO and other key leaders.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline\">Communications Systems, Media, and Digital Engagement</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">Drive continuous improvement of communications operations, including simplified approval pathways and decision-making thresholds that enable speed without sacrificing quality. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">Shift communications capacity from process management toward proactive content production, executive visibility, and media engagement. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">Develop and implement a proactive media strategy that positions Children’s Funding Project and its leadership as national thought leaders, including message development, media training, press materials, and relationship-building with reporters and outlets.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">Oversee Children’s Funding Project’s digital presence, including website, email, and social media channels, and guide careful social media expansion for key initiatives such as the </span><a href=\"https://fundirl.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Fund IRL</span></a><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\"> social media coalition and the </span><a href=\"https://childrensfundingproject.org/our-work/native-children-and-youth-funding/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Native Children’s Funding</span></a><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\"> initiative.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline\">Movement-Building and Content</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">Ensure that major communications initiatives and campaigns support real-world action—such as policy change, ballot measures, coalition growth, and community wins—and elevate local champions and success stories.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">Oversee and contribute to organization-wide efforts to plan, produce, and disseminate Children’s Funding Project’s content and products, balancing quality, efficiency, and amplification of high-value content.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">Partner with the Communications Director and program leaders to integrate communications into the design of content, courses, and learning tools, recognizing communications as central to teaching and capacity-building for communities.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline\">Organizational Leadership and Strategic Advice</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">Serve as a key member of the Executive Team, contributing to the development and refinement of organizational strategy and goals, and ensuring communications is positioned as a shared service and strategic driver.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">Oversee the communications function and develop and maintain a broad and deep knowledge of all program areas.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">Help define and track communications-related indicators aligned with strategic plan goals, including measures of reach, engagement, adoption, and field impact.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">Represent the organization and serve as a thought leader at conferences, meetings, trainings, and other in-person and virtual events.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline\">Special Projects</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">Design, supervise, and/or lead cross-cutting communications initiatives, including narrative refreshes, brand alignment across sub-brands, and new movement-building campaigns.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">Lead or support internal change-management projects related to communications systems, processes, and roles, as well as other duties, as directed by the CEO.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline\">Skills &amp; Experience</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">A minimum of ten years of communications and staff leadership experience in a nonprofit, government, philanthropy, advocacy, or related setting, overseeing multiple projects or portfolios.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">Demonstrated experience developing and implementing organization-wide communications strategies that shift organizations from reactive to proactive communications.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">Proven ability to lead media relations and thought-leadership efforts, including strategy development, spokesperson preparation, and, when appropriate, management of external media partners.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); font-size: 12pt\">Experience with digital and social media strategy, including platform selection, content strategy, and analytics, ideally in the context of advocacy, movement-building, or policy change.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(39, 37, 30); 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We are an equal opportunity employer dedicated to hiring socially conscious individuals with diverse experiences and knowledge that deepen our organization’s impact. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. People of color, members of Tribal Nations and Native communities, LGBTQ-identified people, gender-nonconforming people, people with disabilities, veterans, and people who speak a language in addition to English are strongly encouraged to apply.</span></p>",
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