THE COUNCIL OF COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS 325 Clementina Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 | ccho@sfic-409.org | 415.882.0901 The Council of Community Housing Organizations (CCHO) is a coalition of 24 community-based housing developers, service providers, and tenant advocates. Beyond our policy work, the work of our member organizations has resulted in nearly 30,000 units of affordable housing. You will coordinate the Council of Community Housing Organization’s communications strategy, shape messaging, and create and edit content in support of our advocacy work for affordable housing and equitable development policy. What You Will Do: • Guide and coordinate CCHO’s overall communications strategy, including developing our yearly communications calendar and regular updates to the calendar as issues evolve • Shape CCHO’s messaging on key housing issues to advance our advocacy goals and distill complex ideas for a range of audiences • Collaboratively write and edit a range of content, including regular op-eds, longer thought pieces, blog posts, talking points, infographics, and social media posts • Cultivate regular and ongoing relationships with local media, especially the pool of local and State housing reporters, serve as a point of contact with the press along with CCHO’s co-directors, and track and grow CCHO’s earned media presence • Maintain relationships and coordinate with our CCHO member organizations, allies, and coalition partners around shared communications efforts • Produce CCHO’s monthly email newsletter and other email blasts • Manage CCHO’s social media presence, including overall strategy, analytics, and creating compelling real-time content related to campaigns, hearings, housing policies and successes • Maintain and regularly update CCHO’s web presence, including updating our Squarespace websites for both CCHO and our c4 affiliate CCHO Action • Coordinate events, including outreach and creating related content (examples: CCHO’s yearly party, SF Affordable Housing Week, educational panels/forums, and press conferences and briefings) • Contribute to writing grant proposals and reports, fundraising research, fundraising appeal letters, and other fundraising materials What You Bring: • The CCHO Comms Director should be a very proactive person, a "doer," so we are continuously generating news and media relationships • Comfort with working both collaboratively and independently. • Passion for housing justice and racial and economic equity • Must enjoy building relationships with journalists and policymakers, following up regularly and maintaining communications • Be okay with working beyond regular business hours as necessary • Skill in interpreting complicated policy issues into accessible language, as well as honing relevant housing data into relevant and easily understood data points • Knowledge of affordable housing issues, including local San Francisco politics and policies around affordable housing, land use and development, tenants’ rights, displacement, and gentrification (though this is not a requirement) • Skill in working within and expanding a narrative strategy based on housing justice, anti- displacement, and racial equity • At least two years of experience in communications, media relations, outreach, or other relevant work experience, including being able to share samples of content you’ve created and experience developing relationships with reporters • Experience with media strategies and outreach, including press releases, op- eds, and responding to media inquiries • Project management skills and keen attention to detail (including maintaining consistency with an organization’s framing and branding), with the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously, and ability to efficiently archive materials • Excellent written communication skills, including demonstrated ability in writing, strong editing skills, and a collaborative approach to writing/editing • Ability to explain complicated ideas in everyday terms and different styles to connect with a range of audiences (from general public to policymakers) • Fluency with social media tools and best practices, including working with coalitions and allies to boost our messages, as well as publication platforms such as Medium • Strong interpersonal skills, a love of relationship building, and an excitement to grow into one of the public faces of CCHO Bonus Skills: • Graphic design skills, especially related to social media images, infographics, and/or layout for policy papers, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and/or InDesign • Familiarity with WordPress and SquareSpace for website production • Experience with performing interviews Compensation: This is a full time salaried position.
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