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Arena · 4 days ago

Climate Cabinet Action: Senior Communications Director

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$140K/yr - $160K/yr

Climate Cabinet Action is a non-profit organization focused on climate advocacy. They are seeking a Senior Communications Director to lead their communications strategy, enhance their brand presence, and support their mission to drive climate leadership at state and local levels.

Higher Education

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Define Climate Cabinet Communications Strategy across all platforms and channels

Build and deploy communications campaigns with clear content pillars to support program work, fundraising, and positioning

Drive analysis to make strategic decisions about list management and communication channels

Position Climate Cabinet and its leaders for impact in the national landscape; drive thought leadership across organizational and individual staff channels

Define state-specific and issue-specific communications campaigns in partnership with program staff

Support the programmatic teams in producing technical policy reports as well as accessible materials for lawmaker and partner engagement

Leverage the team’s data analysis capabilities for powerful data storytelling to support communications goals

Translate program work into compelling deliverables that support fundraising and external engagement

Ensure communications strategies strengthen fundraising effectiveness and support institutional and individual donor goals

Strengthen and steward systems to support the communications function, including content calendars, messaging guidance, and processes to operationalize strategy

Train and coach staff to strengthen organization-wide narrative capacity and ensure compliance with brand and messaging guidance

Manage the Communications team, including management of staff, consultants, and budgets

Approve public materials to ensure quality, coherence, and strategic alignment

Represent Communications function on the leadership team to support organization-wide priorities, inform strategy, and define strategic organizational positioning

Qualification

Excellence in CommunicationClimate Movement ExperiencePolitical Advocacy ExperienceStrategic ThinkingOperational LeadershipCRM ProficiencyContinuous ImprovementTeam Collaboration

Required

Strategic Thinking & Positioning: Maintains a systems-level view of climate, policy, political, and organizational context; applies deep insight to position Climate Cabinet within the broader landscape

Excellence in Communication: Masterful writer and communicator; Leads compelling storytelling that resonates across diverse audiences, simplifying complex policy and governance information while retaining appropriate nuance

Operational Leadership & Team Enablement: Builds the conditions for strong execution by defining team workflows, decision boundaries, and systems; manages and coaches staff to deliver on outcomes; designs systems and rhythms that enable deep collaboration and collective ownership of results

Continuous Improvement & Innovation: Demonstrates a growth mindset—seeks feedback, iterates processes, experiments with new tools, and fosters team learning

Climate Movement & Policy Experience: Has led or significantly contributed to climate policy communications campaigns and policy reports

Political & Advocacy Experience: Has experience leading political or advocacy campaigns and nonprofit structures; has a track record of shaping communications that reflect political realities and advance strategic influence. Fully fluent in nonprofit and political structures, rules, and multi-entity compliance

CRM & Data-Driven Metrics Fluency: Proficient with CRMs and analytics for communications platforms and list management, leveraging analysis for measuring impact and honing strategy