Associate Director for Communications/Editor

New Jersey Education Association; Trenton (NJ); On-site; USD 114,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

New Jersey Education Association seeks an Associate Director for Communications/Editor to lead the production and maintenance of member communications and platforms, including NJEA Review and njea.org.

The role requires excellent writing, editing, and strategic communication skills to inform members, engage affiliates, and advance NJEA's mission in New Jersey's public schools.

Qualifications

• A candidate should possess a high degree of intelligence and creativity.
• An excellent writer able to translate complex ideas into clear, simple prose.
• Able to edit the writing of others.
• Able to work efficiently in a fast-paced, deadline-based environment.
• Able to learn new skills quickly and enthusiastically.
• Able to adapt readily to technological change.
• Understand the mission, purpose and goals of the New Jersey Education Association.

Responsibilities

• Directly responsible to ensure that NJEA members receive timely, accurate and useful information through NJEA's official communications vehicles.
• Responsible for reporting, writing, collecting, editing and publishing news, features, announcements and other information useful to NJEA members in both their professional and advocacy roles.
• Responsible for facilitating the use of NJEA's communications vehicles to encourage and facilitate member engagement on all organizational priorities and initiatives.
• Responsible for ensuring that NJEA's communications vehicles are used to advance the interests of NJEA, its members and New Jersey's public schools, in accordance with NJEA's mission and goals.
• Responsible for training local affiliate leaders and members in the communications skills necessary for them to more effectively communicate with members at the local level.
• Responsible for assisting local associations with other communications needs, as assigned.
• Responsible for any other assignment made by the Director of Communications in order to advance the interests of NJEA and its members.

Skills

Excellent writing

Editing

Communication

Adaptability

Learning agility

Deadline-driven

Mission understanding

Job description

Associate Director for Communications/Editor

NJEA is a union of nearly 200,000 members working in the best public schools in the nation and across our community colleges.

Currently announcing a vacancy for a an associate director/editor in the Communications Division.

Job Summary

Directly responsible to the Director of the Communications Division for the production and maintenance of NJEA's primary member communication vehicles, including the New Jersey Education Association Review, njea.org and other publications or platforms as assigned that may be utilized by NJEA to communicate with members and the public.

Essential Functions

1. Responsible to ensure that NJEA members receive timely, accurate and useful information through NJEA's official communications vehicles.
2. Responsible for reporting, writing, collecting, editing and publishing news, features, announcements and other information useful to NJEA members in both their professional and advocacy roles.
3. Responsible for facilitating the use of NJEA's communications vehicles to encourage and facilitate member engagement on all organizational priorities and initiatives.
4. Responsible for ensuring that NJEA's communications vehicles are used to advance the interests of NJEA, its members and New Jersey's public schools, in accordance with NJEA's mission and goals.
5. Responsible for training local affiliate leaders and members, as assigned, in the communications skills necessary for them to more effectively communicate with members at the local level.
6. Responsible for assisting local associations with other communications needs, as assigned.
7. Responsible for any other assignment made by the Director of Communications in order to advance the interests of NJEA and its members.

Qualifications

A candidate should possess a high degree of intelligence and creativity; should be an excellent writer able to translate complex ideas into clear, simple prose; should be able to edit the writing of others; should be able to work efficiently in a fast-paced, deadline-based environment; should be able to learn new skills quickly and enthusiastically; should be able to adapt readily to technological change; and should understand the mission, purpose and goals of the New Jersey Education Association.

Salary & Benefits

Starting Salary: 126,586

NJEA offers a range of benefits, including family health (with prescription coverage), optical, dental, and life insurance, a defined benefit pension plan, long-term disability leave, and paid parental, sick, and vacation leave.

Equal Opportunity Employer

NJEA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of any kind. All aspects of employment decisions including but not limited to the application process, the decision to hire, promote, discipline or discharge without regards to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, affectional or sexual orientation, genetic information, pregnancy or breastfeeding, sex, gender identity or expression, disability or atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait of any individual, or because of the liability for service in the Armed Forces of the United States or the nationality of any individual.