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The Dream Defenders are looking for a talented leader with a proven track for advancing organizational campaigns, programs, vision and values through strategic communications and media. Interested applicants should email resume, and cover letter to: [email protected], [email protected] , and [email protected] by February 3rd at 6pm.

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Comms Director

The Dream Defenders are looking for a talented leader with a proven track for advancing organizational campaigns, programs, vision and values through strategic communications and media. Interested applicants should email resume, and cover letter to: [email protected], [email protected] , and [email protected] by February 3rd at 6pm.

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Communication Director

The Dream Defenders are looking for a talented leader with a proven track
for advancing organizational campaigns, programs, vision and values
through strategic communications and media.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Vision, Strategic Thinking and New Initiatives:
Initiate, advance and oversee branding, marketing and communication activities and ensure that
they are consistent with Dream Defenders values, organizational strategy and internal capacity

Develop and implement communications plans

Messaging
Formulate a comprehensive framework for how the organization and its work are described

Create messaging and talking points for sta and volunteers

Generate online content that engages audience segments and leads to measurable action. Decide
who, where, and when to disseminate

Put communications vehicles in place to create momentum and awareness as well as to test the
eectiveness of communications activities

Track and measure analytics of communications products within the network over time

Maintain a contact database and ensure its continued growth, accuracy and coding to support
Dream Defenders communications activities and overall organizational strategy

Media

Create targeted media strategies for the organizations sta and key leaders

Expand and diversify strategies to identify and cultivate a higher media profile

Develop and maintain relationships with the news and social media channels

Eectively exploit emerging technologies for communications and public engagement

Develop and edit high-level press releases, media advisories, reports, and other communication

Maintain and improve a dynamic website for the organization

Coordinate webpage maintenanceensure that new and consistent information (article links,
stories, and events) is posted regularly

Develop digital campaigns and create compelling content for social media and email campaigns
that align with the Dream Defenders organizing strategy

SquaDD Support
Strengthen the capacity of local leaders through training, leadership development and coaching on
communications strategy, practices, media relations and digital skills

Provide direct support to Dream Defenders local chapters to elevate their organizing work through
communications strategies

Design and Film


Create visuals, infographics and videos that can be used to advance Dream Defenders key
messaging and communications strategies

Development
Work with the Development Department to create and format fundraising collateral and messaging.

QUALIFICATIONS
The ideal candidate will possess the following attributes and competencies:
5-7 years experience in strategic communications

Experience working on political or issue-advocacy campaigns.

Experience with juvenile/criminal justice reform and/or racial justice movements

Experience with rapid response and crisis communications

Experience developing and editing high-quality written materials, including: communications plans,
fact sheets, talking points, opinion editorials, blog posts, press statements, collateral material, etc.

Experience in digital communication (blogs, online communities) and use of social networking tools
(Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc.) to promote organizational objectives

Experience with film, photography and graphic design

Project management experience for public opinion research projects.

Experience coordinating large-scale events

Exceptional writing skills

Facilitation and training skills

Familiarity with Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop and Indesign and other standard software

Relationships with national media and experience working with reporters including pitching and
placing news articles and news segment

A strategic and creative thinker with a radical imagination who dreams big and thinks outside the
box

Results driven leadership and always willing to go the extra mile

Hardworking, able to work at a campaign pace and multitask, while maintaining a keen eye for detail

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
This job will require frequent travel, setting up and facilitating trainings and workshops, attending
statewide and national conferences and meetings, the development of reports and carrying materials/
boxes (up to 20lbs.)

Interested applicants should email resume, and cover letter to:


[email protected], [email protected] , and
[email protected] by February 3rd at 6pm.
For applicants that would have to relocate to take this position, accommodations to
support the transition may be available.

ABOUT THE DREAM DEFENDERS:


The Dream Defenders are a statewide, Florida-based organization focused on building power in Black,
Latinx, immigrant and working class communities. We were founded in a whirlwind moment after the
murder of Trayvon Martin. Since 2012, our cultural and grassroots organizing has positioned us as
leaders in the fight against the police state - in Florida and around the country. We recently completed an
18-month process of community listening, reflection, analysis, and planning towards a strategy to end
youth incarceration. Today, we continue to build a powerful, deep, local, intergenerational organization
and movement. The Dream Defenders will end youth arrest in Florida by 2022.

The Communications Director is an exempt position. Exempt employees are expected to work the
appropriate and necessary time in order to complete key assignments and related tasks on schedule.
"Dream Defenders, a project of Tides Center, is an at-will and equal opportunity employer. Applicants
and employees shall not be discriminated against because of race,religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity,
age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender (including pregnancy and gender expression)
identity, color, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any other classification protected by
federal,state, or local law or ordinance. Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified
disabled applicants may participate in the application process. Please advise in writing of special needs
at the time of application.

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