Communications Manager
Description
Job Title: Communications Manager
Location: Remote
Terms: Full Time 37.5 Hours Per Week
Reports to: Senior Director of Communications
About Us
The American Forest Foundation (AFF) unlocks the power of family forests as a climate solution while helping thousands of landowners care for their land and improve forest health. Through its Family Forest Carbon Program, AFF expands access to the voluntary carbon market for family forest owners from all walks of life while producing high quality forest carbon credits to help companies reach their net zero goals. The organization’s strategic direction seeks to enable family forests to capture and store one billion tonnes of carbon by 2050.
We do not do this alone. AFF works across a broad coalition of conservation partners, corporations, and policymakers to equip family forest owners with financial and technical support to implement sustainable forest management practices on their lands and activate their forests as a critical tool in the fight against climate change.
AFF is in a mode of complex problem solving and rapid iteration. All teams at AFF are working to discover solutions to the planet’s most pressing climate issues through developing and iterating viable and scalable models for impact. AFF is driven by values of our shared purpose, measurable and verifiable results, and learning for continuous improvement to tackle big conservation challenges.
About The Role
Reporting to the Senior Director of Communications, the Communications Manager will support the organizational strategy in increasing the recognition and influence of AFF among the climate and conservation communities. The manager will work in partnership with the senior director to develop, implement, and iterate communications strategies that establish our experts as thought leaders across key subjects including standard setting in the voluntary carbon market, domestic and international policy for natural climate solutions, and promoting our Family Forest Carbon Program as well as our work in wildfire mitigation in the American West. The manager will work with members across the policy, funding, and supply teams, as well as support executive team members’ thought leadership.
Requirements
Responsibilities:
We know there are great candidates who may not check all these boxes, and we also know you might bring important skills that we haven’t considered. If that applies to you, don’t hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.
https://www.forestfoundation.org/who-we-are/careers/
We are committed to creating a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other basis protected by law.
Job Title: Communications Manager
Location: Remote
Terms: Full Time 37.5 Hours Per Week
Reports to: Senior Director of Communications
About Us
The American Forest Foundation (AFF) unlocks the power of family forests as a climate solution while helping thousands of landowners care for their land and improve forest health. Through its Family Forest Carbon Program, AFF expands access to the voluntary carbon market for family forest owners from all walks of life while producing high quality forest carbon credits to help companies reach their net zero goals. The organization’s strategic direction seeks to enable family forests to capture and store one billion tonnes of carbon by 2050.
We do not do this alone. AFF works across a broad coalition of conservation partners, corporations, and policymakers to equip family forest owners with financial and technical support to implement sustainable forest management practices on their lands and activate their forests as a critical tool in the fight against climate change.
AFF is in a mode of complex problem solving and rapid iteration. All teams at AFF are working to discover solutions to the planet’s most pressing climate issues through developing and iterating viable and scalable models for impact. AFF is driven by values of our shared purpose, measurable and verifiable results, and learning for continuous improvement to tackle big conservation challenges.
About The Role
Reporting to the Senior Director of Communications, the Communications Manager will support the organizational strategy in increasing the recognition and influence of AFF among the climate and conservation communities. The manager will work in partnership with the senior director to develop, implement, and iterate communications strategies that establish our experts as thought leaders across key subjects including standard setting in the voluntary carbon market, domestic and international policy for natural climate solutions, and promoting our Family Forest Carbon Program as well as our work in wildfire mitigation in the American West. The manager will work with members across the policy, funding, and supply teams, as well as support executive team members’ thought leadership.
Requirements
Responsibilities:
- Manage the implementation of a proactive communications strategy for our Wildfire Mitigation product, working collaboratively with members across the policy, funding, and programmatic teams. This includes developing foundational educational content about AFF’s work in the wildfire space, as well as developing and executing tactics to repurpose and redistribute the content to most effectively reach the team’s target audiences.
- Support incoming communications needs from AFF’s policy and advocacy team, including writing and distributing press releases, one-pagers, blogs, and social content around federal and state policy developments.
- Manage AFF’s landowner story bank, including taking lead on identifying, interviewing, and writing new stories on landowners engaged with AFF’s programs, including the Family Forest Carbon Program and our Wildfire Mitigation work.
- Work closely with the senior director of communications to conduct proactive and reactive media engagement to reach target audiences with AFF’s message roadmap, developing and maintaining a robust outreach strategy and monitoring mechanism.
- Support senior director of communications with events strategies and support, incoming communications requests from program staff, strategic planning around specific topics (e.g. wildfire, policy priorities, public funding opportunities, etc.), website management, and social engagement.
- Participate and help manage the administration of the Marketing & Communications chapter, fostering collaboration and coordination of all communications efforts throughout the organization.
- Experience in the voluntary carbon market and/or the forest conservation space required
- Experience in policy communications or public affairs highly preferred
- Excellent writing skills, including long and short form content
- Experience engaging with and communicating about rural American communities
- Experience in media relations, including drafting and sending pitches and releases, building relationships with reporters, and identifying new angles to establish AFF and its experts as thought leaders
- Experience with Canva or graphic design in general
- Experience in social media content generation and distribution and editorial calendar management
- Demonstrated ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Ability to identify, track, and iterate upon key metrics of success within multi-faceted strategies.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Agility – Thriving in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environments by anticipating and responding to changes with swift, focused and flexible actions.
- Collaborating with Others – Working together with others in a cooperative and supportive manner to achieve shared goals.
- Ensuring Accountability – Holding yourself and others to high standards of accountability, creating an infrastructure and transparent organization culture that supports and measures personal and organizational responsibility and accountability.
- Problem Solving – Identifying problems and the solutions to them. Your contributions and leadership will be appreciated. Our staff is passionate, dedicated and good at what they do, and will be deeply grateful for your efforts to create and preserve an environment that is both fun and fair.
- Content Marketing - Developing content strategies, programs, and tools in line with the organization's marketing framework and objectives.
- Integrated Marketing Communications - Developing and implementing marketing messages and strategies that optimize the communication of the organization's brand to target markets.
- Media and Public Relations - Manages communication and other activities to create and sustain a positive public image of the company.
- Writing - Communicating ideas and information in writing, ensuring that messages are clear and have the desired impact.
- You have the unique and exciting opportunity to work with amazing colleagues, partners and landowners to help connect forest landowners with technical and financial assistance to better steward their land and achieve vital landscape-scale conservation impacts.
- Your contributions and leadership will be appreciated. Our staff is passionate, dedicated and good at what they do, and will be deeply grateful for your efforts to create and preserve an environment that is both fun and fair.
- We offer a flexible work environment that respects your life outside of work.
- Salary is commensurate with experience.
- AFF offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package.
We know there are great candidates who may not check all these boxes, and we also know you might bring important skills that we haven’t considered. If that applies to you, don’t hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.
https://www.forestfoundation.org/who-we-are/careers/
We are committed to creating a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other basis protected by law.