Specific Duties

• Act as a communications consultant, providing strategic advice, communications support, and rapid response guidance;

• Oversee nationwide campaign communications, including pitching and working with national reporters interested in our campaigns, thereby uplifting our endorsed candidates nationally;

Design and implement process for communications team to serve the campaigns department;

• Manage the campaigns communications team that will interface with federal, gubernatorial, and state and local races;

• Collaborate with communications team and organization leadership to craft responses in a timely manner;

• Serve as a leader in time sensitive situations by advising leadership, planning communications strategies, and managing staff and resources to achieve organizational goals;

• Craft and manage the maintenance of campaign communications plan and calendars for all campaign-related initiatives, events, roll outs;

• Help manage process by which materials are created for the communications department including, but not limited to, briefing materials, press releases, talking points, op-eds, etc.;

• Be an aggressive and quick-thinking originator of stories to pitch on behalf of EMILY’s List and our endorsed candidates;

• Draft and deliver talking points for EMILY’s List staff and candidates; assist with media training and candidate prep, as needed;

• Serve as on-record spokesperson for the organization as needed;

• Assist with booking and pitching for the organization and our candidates, as needed;

• Perform other duties as assigned.