Senior Member Communications Lead
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Partnership for Large Election JurisdictionsElection Administration
This role must be located and performed within the United States and be online and available between the hours of 9a and 5p ET, regardless of where candidate lives., 9a-5p ETFull-TimeSenior
Salary113,890 - 136,082 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Required Skills
- WritingRelationship managementEditing
Requirements
- 7+ years of direct experience supporting public communications in elections, public administration, public information, civic engagement, or similarly high-stakes operational environment.
- Strong understanding of election administration, including the operational pressures, timelines, public scrutiny, and communications needs of local election offices.
- Excellent writing, editing, facilitation, and relationship-building skills.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex operational topics into clear, practical, nonpartisan resources.
- Ability to build trust with election officials, member staff, partners, and internal colleagues.
- Ability to manage sensitive information, maintain confidentiality, and exercise sound judgment.
- Ability to navigate election environments while maintaining neutrality, accuracy, and credibility.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a primary communications contact for PLEJ members and member communications staff.
- Build trusted relationships with election officials, public information officers, and other member jurisdictions.
- Support and help facilitate PLEJ’s Communications Workgroup in partnership with comms/program teams.
- Develop publicly available, nonpartisan templates, toolkits, FAQs, explainers, and other practical resources.
- Monitor member needs, field trends, public communications challenges, and emerging operational issues.
- Draft member updates, newsletters, social media and digital posts, briefings, meeting materials, and announcements.
- Collaborate with the team to develop accessible, visually clear resources for members and public audiences.
- Help ensure members are prepped for media opportunities, public briefings, convenings, webinars, and peer presentations.
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