Associate Director of Strategic Communications
Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Boston, Massachusetts, us, 02298
Summary:
Passion. Purpose. Impact. CJP is at the heart of Greater Boston's Jewish community, but our reach is felt around the world. Ranked by BBJ as Massachusetts’ largest non-profit organization – CJP is a philanthropic investor and mobilizer of people, resources, and skills that make a bigger difference locally and globally.
Join us to unify, elevate, and amplify CJP’s voice. CJP is at a pivotal moment. As our impact grows, so must the clarity, consistency, and resonance of how we show up to the world, especially in the moments when our community gathers and when people engage with us on digital platforms.
The Associate Director of Strategic Communications is a role for a worldclass writer and strategist who can turn complex ideas into compelling narratives, unify our voice across channels and audiences, and steward the stories that move people to care and act. This role will play a defining role in shaping the narrative the community hears—on stage, in remarks, across the full event lifecycle, and through our digital presence.
CJP is not able to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
Essential Functions: Strategic Narrative, Story & Editorial
Narrative architecture.
Define the enterprise narrative, proof points, and message frameworks that unify how CJP shows up across owned, earned, and shared channels—including web, digital campaigns, and live event moments.
Editorial excellence.
Own the editorial process from brief → draft → review → publish; set style, quality, accessibility, and SEO standards; and run an enterprise editorial calendar across channels.
Web & SEO writing
Lead the development of clear, compelling, and search optimized web content that reflects CJP’s narrative, priorities, and audiences.
Write and/or edit high impact pages including homepage and section overviews, program pages, landing pages, impact stories, and evergreen content.
Partner with Digital, Strategy & Impact, and Development teams to align content strategy with SEO best practices, audience intent, and conversion goals.
Speechwriting & event remarks
Write and/or edit speeches, event remarks, and scripts for leaders.
Shape clear, compelling onstage narratives that reflect CJP’s strategy, values, and impact.
Coordinate research, stakeholder input, and rehearsals to ensure leaders are prepared and confident for high visibility events.
Partner with Events, Development, and Executive teams to ensure narrative consistency before, during, and after events.
Donor & Stakeholder Communications
Stewardship storytelling.
Partner closely with Development to craft persuasive donor communications—letters, cases for support, event scripts, web content, and impact stories—tailored to donor segments, motivations, and moments in the relationship.
Event driven narrative strategy.
Ensure donor events tell a cohesive story, from invitations and pre-read stages through onstage remarks, digital content, and post event follow-up; reinforcing CJP’s value and momentum.
Thought leadership for donors.
Package insights and updates across web, email, and presentations that reinforce trust, relevance, and long term partnership with CJP’s most engaged supporters.
Support Leadership Communications
Strategy & platform.
Support the leadership communications strategy, aligning speeches, remarks, web presence, and written content to mission, priorities, and key moments.
Content creation.
Produce and oversee high visibility materials including keynotes, remarks, op-eds/bylines, longform presentations, LinkedIn posts, web essays, and video scripts; prepare leaders for delivery.
Message discipline.
Establish and maintain leadership message maps, ensuring consistent, values‑based communication across channels, platforms, stages, and digital touchpoints.
Audience Strategy, Segmentation & Personas
Segmentation & voice.
Define priority audiences and build a persona library (needs, barriers, motivations, tone, search intent) to guide channel, event, and web specific content and calls to action.
Testing & learning.
Introduce message testing, content pilots, and feedback loops to continuously improve resonance, engagement, and conversion.
Team Leadership & Resource Management
Lead a high‑performing team.
Manage and coach a team of writers and communications professionals; provide editorial direction, feedback, and clear performance expectations across channels.
Plan & prioritize.
Align work to organizational priorities; manage intake and resourcing; maintain SLAs, dashboards, and clear ways of working.
Budget & vendors.
Steward budgets for strategic communications; oversee SOWs, KPIs, and vendor performance.
Why This Role is Important:
Own our voice in moments that matter most.
Ensure CJP is brought to life consistently across speeches, donor communications, events, web, email, media, and social—speaking with one voice even as messages are tailored to distinct audiences and platforms.
Strengthen our digital front door.
CJP’s website is a critical entry point for donors, partners, and community members. This role ensures our web content is clear, compelling, discoverable, and aligned to our strategic narrative—so people find us, understand us, and engage deeply.
Shape the donor experience through events.
Events are a primary touchpoint for donors and community members. This role will shape the narrative donors hear from the stage—ensuring remarks and scripts clearly articulate CJP’s purpose, values, impact, and urgency in ways that build trust and inspire investment.
Champion storytelling.
Establish storytelling as a core competency—turning data and impact into narratives that inspire donors, partners, and the broader community.
Support leadership communications.
Support speechwriting and remarks that advance organizational priorities, elevate thought leadership, and ensure leaders are clear, confident, and consistent in public facing moments.
Manage and develop a team.
Direct, coach, and grow a team of writers and communications professionals to produce crisp, on‑brand content at pace and scale.
Working Conditions:
Hybrid Work Schedule: CJP staff follow a hybrid work model. On‑site work is required on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, while remote work is an option on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays with occasional in‑person meetings on those days.
Physical Requirements: This role involves remaining in a stationary position, often sitting or standing for prolonged periods, primarily working at a computer. Staff need to be able to carry a laptop and bag to and from the office.
Inclusivity: We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for individuals of all abilities and backgrounds.
Experience:
Strategic communications leadership.
5+ years’ relevant experience in strategic or executive communications, PR, editorial, or digital content leadership (agency or in‑house), including 1+ years’ experience managing writers.
World‑class writing—across stage and screen.
You are a crisp, persuasive writer and editor who can craft powerful executive remarks and clear, compelling, SEO informed web content without sacrificing voice or meaning.
Executive presence & discretion.
Comfortable advising senior leaders and preparing them for high stakes public moments; calm, precise, and trusted.
Audience fluency.
Experience building personas and tailoring narratives by segment, channel, search intent, and live event context.
Mission orientation.
A passion for CJP’s values and a commitment to representing our community with integrity and care.
Builder’s mindset.
Comfortable creating new systems, processes and standards in a dynamic, collaborative environment.
What Success Looks Like:
A codified narrative and message house adopted across major channels, leaders, events, and web properties.
A website and digital content ecosystem that clearly communicates CJP’s purpose, improves discoverability, and deepens engagement.
Donor communications—including events and digital touchpoints—that drive higher engagement, satisfaction, and momentum.
Speeches and event remarks that clearly, consistently, and compellingly articulate CJP’s impact.
A high‑performing team delivering on time, on brand, and to standard across channels.
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Join us to unify, elevate, and amplify CJP’s voice. CJP is at a pivotal moment. As our impact grows, so must the clarity, consistency, and resonance of how we show up to the world, especially in the moments when our community gathers and when people engage with us on digital platforms.
The Associate Director of Strategic Communications is a role for a worldclass writer and strategist who can turn complex ideas into compelling narratives, unify our voice across channels and audiences, and steward the stories that move people to care and act. This role will play a defining role in shaping the narrative the community hears—on stage, in remarks, across the full event lifecycle, and through our digital presence.
CJP is not able to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
Essential Functions: Strategic Narrative, Story & Editorial
Narrative architecture.
Define the enterprise narrative, proof points, and message frameworks that unify how CJP shows up across owned, earned, and shared channels—including web, digital campaigns, and live event moments.
Editorial excellence.
Own the editorial process from brief → draft → review → publish; set style, quality, accessibility, and SEO standards; and run an enterprise editorial calendar across channels.
Web & SEO writing
Lead the development of clear, compelling, and search optimized web content that reflects CJP’s narrative, priorities, and audiences.
Write and/or edit high impact pages including homepage and section overviews, program pages, landing pages, impact stories, and evergreen content.
Partner with Digital, Strategy & Impact, and Development teams to align content strategy with SEO best practices, audience intent, and conversion goals.
Speechwriting & event remarks
Write and/or edit speeches, event remarks, and scripts for leaders.
Shape clear, compelling onstage narratives that reflect CJP’s strategy, values, and impact.
Coordinate research, stakeholder input, and rehearsals to ensure leaders are prepared and confident for high visibility events.
Partner with Events, Development, and Executive teams to ensure narrative consistency before, during, and after events.
Donor & Stakeholder Communications
Stewardship storytelling.
Partner closely with Development to craft persuasive donor communications—letters, cases for support, event scripts, web content, and impact stories—tailored to donor segments, motivations, and moments in the relationship.
Event driven narrative strategy.
Ensure donor events tell a cohesive story, from invitations and pre-read stages through onstage remarks, digital content, and post event follow-up; reinforcing CJP’s value and momentum.
Thought leadership for donors.
Package insights and updates across web, email, and presentations that reinforce trust, relevance, and long term partnership with CJP’s most engaged supporters.
Support Leadership Communications
Strategy & platform.
Support the leadership communications strategy, aligning speeches, remarks, web presence, and written content to mission, priorities, and key moments.
Content creation.
Produce and oversee high visibility materials including keynotes, remarks, op-eds/bylines, longform presentations, LinkedIn posts, web essays, and video scripts; prepare leaders for delivery.
Message discipline.
Establish and maintain leadership message maps, ensuring consistent, values‑based communication across channels, platforms, stages, and digital touchpoints.
Audience Strategy, Segmentation & Personas
Segmentation & voice.
Define priority audiences and build a persona library (needs, barriers, motivations, tone, search intent) to guide channel, event, and web specific content and calls to action.
Testing & learning.
Introduce message testing, content pilots, and feedback loops to continuously improve resonance, engagement, and conversion.
Team Leadership & Resource Management
Lead a high‑performing team.
Manage and coach a team of writers and communications professionals; provide editorial direction, feedback, and clear performance expectations across channels.
Plan & prioritize.
Align work to organizational priorities; manage intake and resourcing; maintain SLAs, dashboards, and clear ways of working.
Budget & vendors.
Steward budgets for strategic communications; oversee SOWs, KPIs, and vendor performance.
Why This Role is Important:
Own our voice in moments that matter most.
Ensure CJP is brought to life consistently across speeches, donor communications, events, web, email, media, and social—speaking with one voice even as messages are tailored to distinct audiences and platforms.
Strengthen our digital front door.
CJP’s website is a critical entry point for donors, partners, and community members. This role ensures our web content is clear, compelling, discoverable, and aligned to our strategic narrative—so people find us, understand us, and engage deeply.
Shape the donor experience through events.
Events are a primary touchpoint for donors and community members. This role will shape the narrative donors hear from the stage—ensuring remarks and scripts clearly articulate CJP’s purpose, values, impact, and urgency in ways that build trust and inspire investment.
Champion storytelling.
Establish storytelling as a core competency—turning data and impact into narratives that inspire donors, partners, and the broader community.
Support leadership communications.
Support speechwriting and remarks that advance organizational priorities, elevate thought leadership, and ensure leaders are clear, confident, and consistent in public facing moments.
Manage and develop a team.
Direct, coach, and grow a team of writers and communications professionals to produce crisp, on‑brand content at pace and scale.
Working Conditions:
Hybrid Work Schedule: CJP staff follow a hybrid work model. On‑site work is required on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, while remote work is an option on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays with occasional in‑person meetings on those days.
Physical Requirements: This role involves remaining in a stationary position, often sitting or standing for prolonged periods, primarily working at a computer. Staff need to be able to carry a laptop and bag to and from the office.
Inclusivity: We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for individuals of all abilities and backgrounds.
Experience:
Strategic communications leadership.
5+ years’ relevant experience in strategic or executive communications, PR, editorial, or digital content leadership (agency or in‑house), including 1+ years’ experience managing writers.
World‑class writing—across stage and screen.
You are a crisp, persuasive writer and editor who can craft powerful executive remarks and clear, compelling, SEO informed web content without sacrificing voice or meaning.
Executive presence & discretion.
Comfortable advising senior leaders and preparing them for high stakes public moments; calm, precise, and trusted.
Audience fluency.
Experience building personas and tailoring narratives by segment, channel, search intent, and live event context.
Mission orientation.
A passion for CJP’s values and a commitment to representing our community with integrity and care.
Builder’s mindset.
Comfortable creating new systems, processes and standards in a dynamic, collaborative environment.
What Success Looks Like:
A codified narrative and message house adopted across major channels, leaders, events, and web properties.
A website and digital content ecosystem that clearly communicates CJP’s purpose, improves discoverability, and deepens engagement.
Donor communications—including events and digital touchpoints—that drive higher engagement, satisfaction, and momentum.
Speeches and event remarks that clearly, consistently, and compellingly articulate CJP’s impact.
A high‑performing team delivering on time, on brand, and to standard across channels.
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