Associate, Communications

Harlem Children's Zone; New York (NY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Employee referral bonus

No-cost health insurance

Life Insurance

Career Advancement

Wellness discounts

Job summary

Harlem Children's Zone seeks a passionate Associate, Communications to craft engaging narratives that highlight its mission in education and poverty alleviation. Join a dynamic team dedicated to promoting the organization's impact on community welfare and the journey of children toward social mobility. Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits provided.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years' experience in communications, public relations, or related fields.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Commitment to HCZ values and mission.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement communications strategies to advance key priorities.
• Draft content for intranet and newsletters, ensuring critical information dissemination.
• Coordinate review and revision of editorial products.

Skills

Communication

Writing

Editing

Project Coordination

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Mailchimp

Jostle

Job description

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Harlem Children's Zone provided pay range

This range is provided by Harlem Children's Zone. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$60,000.00/yr - $70,000.00/yr

Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ) — a world-renowned education and poverty-fighting organization based in New York — seeks a highly-driven, multi-talented Associate, Communications to build awareness and support for HCZ through compelling storytelling that centers our work, impact, and the people we serve.

The Associate, Communications will join our Communications Team at the forefront of innovation at HCZ. The successful candidate will be a skilled communicator, writer, and editor with experience crafting multi-channel written storytelling to engage diverse audiences and managing communications platforms and projects.

The individual will join HCZ during a critical phase, as we work to scale our impact and put one million children across the country on the pathway to social and economic mobility.

For more information, check out Want to Work at Harlem Children's Zone? Here's 7 Things You Need to Know.

Requirements


Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 2-3 years' experience working in communications, public relations, marketing, journalism, brand management, or related fields
• Ability to juggle multiple projects and priorities at once
• Commitment to HCZ values and mission
• Strong written and verbal communication, and editing, skills
  
  
  

Who You Are

• A curious, multi-talented communicator, writer, editor, and project coordinator
• A deadline-driven hustler who thrives in low-ego, team-oriented environments
• A strong relationship and community builder who is comfortable collaborating with staff members across a large and complex organization
  
  
  

What You'll Do

Reporting to the Associate Director, Communications, the Associate, Communications will help create and implement communications strategies to advance key priorities, including brand awareness, scholar enrollment, talent recruitment, staff culture, thought leadership, and philanthropy. Working in collaboration with the Communications Department, and stakeholders across the organization, they will do this primarily through management of our staff intranet, newsletters, and mechanisms for staff feedback; the creation of written storytelling highlighting our staff, scholars, families, and community members; and overseeing the review and revision process for stakeholder-designed editorial products. Some travel may be required.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Help develop and implement communications strategies and innovations to advance our key priorities, particularly fostering a culture of awareness and alignment among staff members
• Draft content for our "In The Zone" staff communications platforms, e.g., intranet (Jostle) and staff newsletter (Mailchimp), ensuring dissemination of critical information to staff members and gathering and reporting on performance data to optimize engagement
• As part of coordinating "In The Zone" platforms, source story ideas and draft written storytelling to highlight our organization, staff, scholars, families, and community members
• Develop and implement an approach to gather, report, and offer recommendations on staff feedback, including leveraging the intranet, staff newsletter, and survey platforms
• Facilitate the process for reviewing and revising stakeholder-designed editorial products (e.g., flyers, posters, and letters)
• Edit stakeholder-written letters to ensure quality control and messaging alignment
• Support the review and edit of communications disseminated by the organization
• Vet stakeholder requests for outside speakers by conducting research on speaker reputation
• Help manage our website, including editing and publishing written storytelling
  
  
  

Benefits

Benefits

As a member of the Harlem Children's Zone team, you will join a supportive and inclusive community dedicated to helping children, families — and our staff — thrive. We offer highly competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for growth.

Our exceptional full-time benefits include:

• Highly competitive base salaries
• Paid time off
• Employee referral bonus
• Career Advancement
• No-cost health insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short-and long-term disability
• Additional voluntary benefits
• Wellness discounts
• Commuter benefits
• Financial wellness perks
• Additional Benefits (Discounts on flights, hotels, theme parks, concert tickets, and more.)
  
  

The annual salary range for this position is $60,000-$70,000 with a comprehensive benefits package including employer-covered health insurance. To be considered, interested applicants can also submit a cover letter and resume to [e-mail]. No telephone inquiries or recruiters, please. Replies will only be sent to qualified applicants. HCZ is an EOE.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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