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Communications Manager

Employer
Breast Cancer Action
Location
San Francisco, California
Salary
The Communications Manager is a fulltime position and salary is commensurate with experience.
Closing date
May 25, 2019

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Focus Areas
Education, Environment, Healthcare
Job Function
Marketing / Communications
Position Type
Full Time

Job Details

Communications Manager

 

Breast Cancer Action (BCAction), a national education and activist organization, seeks to hire a Communications Manager. Our fiercely independent, health justice organization is looking for an individual who thrives in a collaborative work environment and is passionate about BCAction’s mission and current strategic plan, including ensuring that all work is grounded in a vision of health justice for all women at risk of and living with breast cancer. The Communications Manager is a core member of the team and is responsible for maintaining the organization’s brand integrity, managing content production and distribution across all communication channels, supporting program and development staff with communications strategy and implementation, and managing the communications department’s resources. The Communications Manager reports to the Executive Director.

 

Applicants should demonstrate a dedication to social and health justice; and an understanding of and commitment to women’s health issues from a feminist perspective. They should be a talented writer, communicator and facilitator and able to engage a diverse network of members, partners, and other stakeholders around BCAction’s mission and programs. The successful applicant is self-motivated, an excellent multi-tasker, skilled facilitator, and enthusiastically embraces the mission and work of BCAction. 

 

BCAction is a national education and activist non-profit whose mission is to achieve health justice for all women at risk of and living with breast cancer. BCAction focuses on systemic interventions that address the root causes of the disease and produce broad public health benefits. As the watchdog of the breast cancer movement, we educate, organize and take action for systemic change in three priority issue areas: 1) Breast Cancer Screening, Diagnosis & Treatment, 2) Root Causes of Breast Cancer and 3) Pink Ribbon Marketing and Culture. For more information, please visit www.bcaction.org and www.thinkbeforeyoupink.org.  BCAction is located in San Francisco, CA.

 

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES 

Primary responsibilities, including but not limited to:

 

Content Production 

• Manage email strategy and production; write emails; work with staff to edit emails so they are compelling, effective, and brand-consistent

• Cultivate and expand the brand reach of BCAction through social media channels via regular (daily/weekly) content production and distribution

• Manage and maintain all aspects of the organization’s websites, ensuring that all content is current, brand standards are consistent, and that the site functions smoothly and effectively

• Work with executive director to produce and place op-eds and letters to the editor

• Produce three online newsletters per year

• Produce organization’s annual report

• Work with development staff to produce fundraising appeals and campaigns

 

Brand Strategy and Stewardship

• Review and edit all external content to ensure brand integrity and mission-driven language in all communications shared with the public

• Advise and support staff in communications strategy for fundraising, educational, and activist programs

• Ensure new staff, Board members, and volunteers are trained in BCAction brand and voice and provide mentorship as needed to existing staff

• Manage 30 year anniversary branding, graphic design, and collateral production

 

Media Relations

• Write and distribute press releases and media advisories

• Respond to telephone, voicemail and email media requests within 24 hrs. and schedule interviews with executive director or appropriate person

• Maintain media contact list in Meltwater Media, a monitoring and communication platform, and follow/engage as appropriate on social media

 

Other Duties

• Prepare annual communications expense budget and manage approved communications spending to keep within budget

• Oversee website contractor, other contractors, and interns as appropriate

• Track and report on communication metrics to evaluate impact of various strategies, as appropriate

• Contribute to strategic planning process

 

Qualifications and Experience

• Excellent writing and editing skills, including speedy yet accurate turn-around and ability to translate complicated policy and scientific issues into compelling, understandable, and accessible language 

• Commitment and ability to fiercely protect the organization’s unique and strong brand

• Experience with managing social media accounts, websites and CRMs

• Resourceful and proactive; ability to be self-directed and produce results with a lean budget and minimal supervision

• A team player who is a skilled communicator and able to work with many types of people and personalities

• Ability to handle a work environment that is sometimes stressful and fast-paced, with grace and a good sense of humor 

• Strong and demonstrated commitment to feminism and social justice

• Ability to juggle and prioritize multiple competing duties and to balance thinking about the strategic big picture while also attending to the details of day-to-day work

• Capable of writing in diverse media (fundraising appeals, blog, op-eds, etc.), to different audiences, and on different subjects 

• Strong critical thinking skills

• Attunement to daily and weekly news cycle and ability to craft communications that are relevant and timely, while also proactively asserting a branding strategy

• Good judgment about what to problem solve on your own and when to get input/feedback from other staff

• Ability to juggle competing feedback to create content that is coherent, targeted, and brand-consistent (not watered down by multiple rounds of editing)

• Experience with producing visual graphics for use in social change campaigns

 Proficiency in Wordpress, MS Office, and mass e-mail tools. A basic knowledge of Photoshop essential. Knowledge of Salesforce and InDesign a plus.

 

COMPENSATION

This is a full-time position. Salary range is $52,000 - $60,000 commensurate with experience. Benefits include full medical coverage, vision and dental insurance, three weeks paid vacation (increases to four weeks after two years of employment). Additionally, after five years, staff are eligible for a paid sabbatical. Work schedule may include occasional weekend or evening work as well as occasional travel.

 

About BCAction

Breast Cancer Action is not your average breast cancer organization. We’re fiercely independent and refuse corporate funding from any company that profits from or contributes to breast cancer. That means we can ALWAYS put women’s health first.

We’re focused on achieving health justice for all women living with and at risk of breast cancer. Radical and compassionate, we never shy away from the hard truths. We tell it like it is about breast cancer: 40,000 women die of this devastating disease every year, and we don’t have nearly enough to show for the billions of dollars raised in the name of breast cancer.

BCAction was founded in 1990 by a handful of women who were living with and dying from breast cancer and who demanded answers about their disease. Today, BCAction is a national grassroots organization with members across the country. Together we’re challenging the status quo and working to address and end the breast cancer epidemic. For more information please visit www.bcaction.org.

Breast Cancer Action is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Breast Cancer Action does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability, parental status, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable laws. We encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply.

 

How to Apply

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis and position will remain open until filled. Please email your resumé and a detailed cover letter, highlighting relevant experience to info@bcaction.org using the subject line “Communications Manager.” Please include a writing sample that provides evidence of your ability to clearly communicate complex information in an accessible way (no longer than 4 pages). No phone calls please

Company

Mission

Breast Cancer Action’s mission is to achieve health justice for all women at risk of and living with breast cancer.

Core Values

We believe in:

  • Health justice as a human right
  • Honesty, fearlessness and truth-telling about the breast cancer epidemic
  • Honoring women’s diverse voices and lived experiences
  • People’s health and well-being over corporate profits
  • Transparency and accountability for ourselves and others
  • Integrity and freedom from conflict of interest
  • Collective action that changes the world for the better

 

  Vision

A world where lives and communities aren’t threatened by breast cancer.

Our Commitment to Social Justice

Breast Cancer Action recognizes that the breast cancer epidemic is a social justice issue. Breast cancer is a widespread health crisis that predominantly effects women in a male-dominated and profit-driven society, and addressing and ending the breast cancer epidemic requires profound changes at every level of our society.

In mainstream U.S. culture, breasts are linked to femininity, sexuality, and attractiveness. As a result, breast cancer is a highly sexualized and gendered disease. As a health justice organization with roots in the women’s health movement, we challenge the narrow definitions of femininity, womanhood, and sexuality that mainstream narratives about breast cancer impose on people at risk of and living with the disease. We recognize and honor the many ways people express their gender identity, including outside of the either/or of man/woman. We work to challenge mainstream assumptions about gender and sexuality as it relates to breast cancer risk, diagnosis, and treatment in order to make room for people of all gender identities in the breast cancer movement.

In our work for health justice, we strive to practice principled allyship by using the power and privilege we hold as an organization to build solidarity with communities who currently and/or traditionally have had less access to power, information, and resources.

The current breast cancer epidemic impacts communities unequally and leads to unacceptable differences in who develops breast cancer and when it develops, who gets high quality and timely treatment, and who dies from breast cancer. In order to address and end the breast cancer epidemic, we must tackle the root causes of these health inequalities, which are the result of a complex interplay of culture, power, economics, racism, and sexism.

Achieving health justice requires that each of us be free from oppressions that prevent all of us from living healthy lives in healthy communities. We believe that no single injustice can be effectively addressed in isolation, and we recognize that injustices in our society reinforce each other in many ways and at many levels.

Our Commitment to Being the Watchdog

We will work tirelessly and fearlessly to address and end the current breast cancer epidemic:

  • Until no community bears a disproportionate burden of the disease
  • Until fewer people are exposed to toxins that increase their risk of breast cancer
  • Until everyone affected by breast cancer has access to unbiased information about the disease
  •  Until quality healthcare, and more effective and less toxic breast cancer treatments, are available and accessible to all who need it
  •  Until fewer women experience the harms of overdiagnosis and overtreatment
  •  Until people everywhere have access to the resources and opportunities they need so they can fully engage in decisions about their healthcare and overall well-being according to their values and priorities
  •  Until people’s health comes before corporate profits
  •  Until fewer people develop and/or die from this disease in the first place.
Company info
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Telephone
415.243.9301
Location
548 Market St
PMB 17179
San Francisco
CA
94104-5401
US

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