Associate, Communications

Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) — a world-renowned education and poverty-fighting organization based in New York — seeks a highly-driven, multi-talented Associate, Communications to build awareness and support for HCZ through compelling storytelling that centers our work, impact, and the people we serve.​

The Associate, Communications will join our Communications Team at the forefront of innovation at HCZ. The successful candidate will be a skilled communicator, writer, and editor with experience crafting multi-channel written storytelling to engage diverse audiences and managing communications platforms and projects.

The individual will join HCZ during a critical phase, as we work to scale our impact and put one million children across the country on the pathway to social and economic mobility.

For more information, check out Want to Work at Harlem Children’s Zone? Here’s 7 Things You Need to Know.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 2-3 years’ experience working in communications, public relations, marketing, journalism, brand management, or related fields
• Ability to juggle multiple projects and priorities at once
• Commitment to HCZ values and mission

• Strong written and verbal communication, and editing, skills

Who You Are

• A curious, multi-talented communicator, writer, editor, and project coordinator
• A deadline-driven hustler who thrives in low-ego, team-oriented environments
• A strong relationship and community builder who is comfortable collaborating with staff members across a large and complex organization

What You’ll Do

Reporting to the Associate Director, Communications, the Associate, Communications will help create and implement communications strategies to advance key priorities, including brand awareness, scholar enrollment, talent recruitment, staff culture, thought leadership, and philanthropy. Working in collaboration with the Communications Department, and stakeholders across the organization, they will do this primarily through management of our staff intranet, newsletters, and mechanisms for staff feedback; the creation of written storytelling highlighting our staff, scholars, families, and community members; and overseeing the review and revision process for stakeholder-designed editorial products. Some travel may be required.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Help develop and implement communications strategies and innovations to advance our key priorities, particularly fostering a culture of awareness and alignment among staff members
• Draft content for our “In The Zone” staff communications platforms, e.g., intranet (Jostle) and staff newsletter (Mailchimp), ensuring dissemination of critical information to staff members and gathering and reporting on performance data to optimize engagement
• As part of coordinating “In The Zone” platforms, source story ideas and draft written storytelling to highlight our organization, staff, scholars, families, and community members
• Develop and implement an approach to gather, report, and offer recommendations on staff feedback, including leveraging the intranet, staff newsletter, and survey platforms
• Facilitate the process for reviewing and revising stakeholder-designed editorial products (e.g., flyers, posters, and letters)
• Edit stakeholder-written letters to ensure quality control and messaging alignment
• Support the review and edit of communications disseminated by the organization
• Vet stakeholder requests for outside speakers by conducting research on speaker reputation

• Help manage our website, including editing and publishing written storytelling

Benefits

As a member of the Harlem Children’s Zone team, you will join a supportive and inclusive community dedicated to helping children, families — and our staff — thrive. We offer highly competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for growth.

Our exceptional full-time benefits include:

• Highly competitive base salaries
• Paid time off
• Employee referral bonus
• Career Advancement
• No-cost health insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short-and long-term disability
• Additional voluntary benefits
• Wellness discounts
• Commuter benefits
• Financial wellness perks
• Additional Benefits (Discounts on flights, hotels, theme parks, concert tickets, and more.)

The annual salary range for this position is $60,000-$70,000 with a comprehensive benefits package including employer-covered health insurance. To be considered, interested applicants can also submit a cover letter and resume to hczcareers@hcz.org. No telephone inquiries or recruiters, please. Replies will only be sent to qualified applicants. HCZ is an EOE.