Communications and Content Manager
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Communications and Content Manager producing newsletters, blogs, social content, and thought leadership for CDI, a nonprofit serving U.S. higher education. Expanding audience reach, media coverage, and partnership-supporting marketing collateral.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the editorial calendar and owned content
- Write, build, and send CDI’s higher education newsletter
- Produce the blog and maintain a reliable publishing cadence
- Run a unified organic social calendar across brand, executive, and thought-leadership content
- Coordinate communications with Partnerships and Marketing around webinars, conferences, target segments, and pipeline impact
- Turn research into related blog posts, op-ed drafts, social posts, and newsletter features
- Draft and package thought-leadership content with subject-matter experts
- Coordinate production timelines with the Impact team and subject-matter experts
- Build and maintain press lists and draft media pitches
- Support the VP in securing media coverage
- Track CDI’s media coverage and mentions
- Build direct media relationships over time
- Produce audience-facing marketing collateral and direct external designers
- Maintain brand templates and standards
- Run the design-request intake and triage process
- Produce marketing case studies and testimonials with Demand Generation and Impact teams
Requirements:
- 5+ years in communications, content marketing, editorial, or journalism
- Portfolio of published work across newsletters, articles or blogs, social, and long-form formats
- Strong editorial operations skills, including managing calendars, cadences, and systems
- Ability to manage multiple content pieces without sacrificing quality or missing deadlines
- Experience thriving in a startup or scrappy environment
- Exceptional writing and editing skills
- Ability to produce clear, accurate, on-message content quickly
- Cross-functional collaboration with subject-matter experts, marketing, and partnerships teams
- Understanding of newsworthiness and comfort drafting media pitches
- Ability to build press relationships
- Strong visual and design judgment
- Ability to direct external designers and maintain brand templates and standards
- Political astuteness and alignment with CDI’s nonpartisan mission
- Comfort with CMS, email platforms such as HubSpot, and social schedulers
- Ability to use modern AI tools while applying human editing and judgment
- Familiarity with mission-driven, B2B, higher education, or advocacy contexts is ideal
- Direct media experience, Canva experience, and familiarity with the higher education landscape are pluses
Benefits:
- A Mission-Driven Culture characterized by intellectual humility, continuous improvement, and open-mindedness
- Remote-first work environment
- Unlimited PTO
- 13 company holidays
- Up to $500 reimbursed for home office equipment
- Up to $50/month reimbursed for home internet or cell phone expenses
- Employer-supported health, vision, and dental plans
- Subsidized parental leave
- 3% 401(k) match
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Life and AD&D insurance
- $1,000 annual professional development budget
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