Lead Content & Communications Manager

Constructive Dialogue Institute, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Constructive Dialogue Institute, Inc. (CDI) is seeking a Communications & Content Manager to lead editorial production across newsletters, blogs, social content, and thought leadership.

You will coordinate with subject-matter experts and partnerships to sustain a steady, high-quality flow of on-message content that advances CDI’s national voice in higher education. You will manage calendars, publish regularly, repurpose research, and support media outreach while maintaining brand standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in communications, content marketing, editorial, or journalism.
• Strong editorial operator with calendars, cadences, and systems.
• Exceptional writer and editor with ability to produce across formats.
• Sharp cross-functional collaborator across subject-matter experts, marketing, and partnerships.
• Media-aware with ability to draft pitches and build press relationships.
• Brand- and design-minded with ability to direct external designers and maintain templates.
• Politically astute and mission-aligned with understanding of nonpartisan contexts.
• Fluent with content tools and AI, using them to accelerate drafting while maintaining editorial judgment.

Responsibilities

• Manage the editorial calendar and owned content.
• Write, build, and send CDI's higher education newsletter and blog, maintaining a reliable cadence.
• Run a unified organic social calendar across brand, executive, and thought-leadership content.
• Collaborate with Partnerships and Marketing to align communications initiatives with webinars and conferences.
• Turn CDI's research into a family of content: posts, op-eds, social, and newsletters.
• Draft and package thought-leadership content with subject-matter experts.
• Coordinate production timelines so content ships on time.
• Build and maintain CDI’s press lists; draft pitches and support media outreach.
• Track and log media coverage and grow direct media relationships.
• Produce audience-facing marketing collateral and maintain brand templates and standards.
• Direct external designers and run intake for design requests; produce case studies.
• Support Demand Generation and Impact teams in content strategy and production.

Skills

Editorial planning

Strong writer

Cross-functional collaboration

Content marketing

Media relations

Brand & design mindset

AI tools

Tools

CMS

HubSpot

Canva

Social schedulers

Job description

Constructive Dialogue Institute, Inc. (CDI) is seeking a Communications & Content Manager to lead editorial production across newsletters, blogs, social content, and thought leadership.

You will coordinate with subject-matter experts and partnerships to sustain a steady, high-quality flow of on-message content that advances CDI’s national voice in higher education. You will manage calendars, publish regularly, repurpose research, and support media outreach while maintaining brand standards.