Communications Manager

Overview

Movement Law Lab seeks an agile, creative, and practical Communications Manager. This person will execute MLL’s new communications strategy and branding across multiple digital channels, as well as print contexts. The successful candidate will be committed to elevating Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color as the true drivers of social movements. This person must also be adept at narratively and graphically situating lawyers as integral partners of those movements.

WHO WE ARE
Movement Law Lab’s purpose is to organize lawyers, decolonize the law, and grow social-movement power — to win a just world. We cultivate new ways of understanding and using the law, in the US and transnationally, to defend human dignity, multi-racial democracy, and ecological harmony. We are firmly rooted in seven core values of adaptability, interdependence, creativity, dignity, radical politics, integrity, and sustainability.

WHO YOU ARE
You will thrive in this role if you are this kind of person:

• You’re a digital native who loves rapidly creating and putting out narrative and graphic content;
• You’re a brave builder excited about shaping this new role and function in our organization;
• You’re a positive team player, with the ability to be a constructive and creative force for communications growth with our leadership team and the entire staff.
• You’re emphatically values-centered, including an established commitment to racial, gender, and sexual-orientation equity. See MLL’s full statement of values for a sense of where we are seeking alignment.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Communications production & coordination

• Collaborate with MLL leadership team to establish new goals and metrics for MLL’s communications strategy; and then regularly track and report on those goals and metrics;
• Collaborate with Program Directors to identify communications goals for various projects, make recommendations for content and roll-out plans, and bottom-line the production of deliverables;
• Train and support MLL staff in sharing aspects of communications planning and execution;
• Produce MLL’s outgoing communications including newsletters, mass emails, donor updates, reports, digital campaigns, animations, and possible podcasts;
• Manage MLL’s social-media platforms;
• Project manage the redesign of MLL’s website; update and monitor the website as needed;
• Propose, find, vet, and manage consultants or vendors needed to support MLL’s digital communications work; and
• Manage communications-related budget and resource needs.

Digital organizing

• Analyze and segment MLL’s existing contact lists and high-priority potential audiences for long-term growth, engagement, and activation; and
• Create and strategically sequence content for MLL’s email lists, website, social media channels, and other venues.

External media engagement

• Monitor, and report to MLL leadership team about, online conversations, high-profile events, and narrative trends that provide opportunities to build organization visibility and thought leadership;
• Promote thoughtful coverage of our work and issues by creating and maintaining a press list, and developing relationships with reporters and other influencers; and
• Support MLL staff experts in writing, editing, and placing op-eds and commentaries for publication to advance and promote the organization’s programs, strategic initiatives, and expertise.