The Jewish Funders Network is an international organization of family foundations, public philanthropies, and individual funders dedicated to advancing the quality and growth of Jewish philanthropy. A major area of growth of the organization is Foundation Services, where JFN serves as the outsourced staff of family foundations.

Job Summary

The Communications Manager is responsible for delivering all internal and external communications needs for a major international foundation client. Based in New York, this position will be responsible for building and managing the communications function for a new foundation active in North America, the Former Soviet Union, Israel and Western Europe.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Spearhead the development of both a worldwide and regional communication strategies for the foundation.
• Work in partnership with the foundation staff team to implement communications strategies for all programmatic initiatives;
• Supervise cross group communications coordination between branch offices in the US, Israel and Russia
• Coordinate internal communications for the foundation including: helping articulate the organization's vision, values, and culture and keeping staff informed on important management decisions including, but not limited to, communications strategy
• Manage the foundation’s website content, and technology, including serving as webmaster.
• Manage development of all collateral materials for foundation initiatives;
• Serve as a communications liaison and resource between the foundation and its grantees regarding the development and execution of their respective communications strategies;
• Coordinate media outreach on behalf of the foundation
• Work with thought leaders in the field to promote the agenda of the foundation.
• Crisis communications.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years experience in external communications with an understanding and creative sense about how to use effective communications to promote a philanthropic organization.  
• Experience in developing and executing communications strategies for complex enterprises.  
• Minimum 1 – 3 years experience in internal communications  
• Experience using new media for nonprofit identity and branding including: using content and search aggregators for research and content development, familiarity with a few basic CMS’s, and a demonstrable familiarity with social media marketing theory.  
• Ability and commitment to being part of a dynamic, global, team.  
• Entrepreneurial spirit, flexibility.  
• Comfort working with wealthy individuals from diverse backgrounds  
• Personal commitment to the Jewish philanthropic enterprise  
• Willingness to travel  
• Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop and/or InDesign a plus
• Experience working cross-culturally  

To Apply

Interested candidates should submit a letter of interest to search@jfunders.org – please include “communications manager” in the subject line. Only email submissions will be accepted

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