About the Role
Lead a website team and guide web content strategy while creating content and advising on messaging. This role requires a strategic, solutions-oriented problem solver with outstanding writing, messaging, proofreading, and fact-checking skills, thriving in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate is a thoughtful people manager with a proven track record of building and managing editorial calendars and cross-departmental relationships.
Responsibilities
- Guide the Center’s web editorial and content strategy, and lead the web team to create digestible, accurate content that advances the Center’s mission, values, and key priorities.
- Author high-impact, engaging content that supports the Center’s strategy and goals.
- Manage the factchecking and approvals process across departments for all web content.
- Approve all web content before it is published on the site.
- Analyze performance data and use learnings to optimize future editorial and content.
- Investigate ways to improve and monitor AEO, SEO and engagement.
- Advise on and apply message research and brand awareness tracking.
- Lead rapid response efforts on the website with guidance from the Director of Strategic Communications.
- Assist the Digital Director as they liaise with external developers to troubleshoot technical issues on the site and to create custom web products.
- Maintain fluency in digital content best practices and stay abreast of emerging trends.
- Build and maintain strong cross-departmental relationships that enable the web team to collaborate effectively with colleagues across the globe.
- Create a supportive team culture, and provide thoughtful, hands-on management and coaching to direct reports.
- Assist with other strategy team and communications department responsibilities as needed.
- Perform other writing and editorial duties as needed.
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant professional experience, including 6+ years of experience managing aspects of the web editorial presence for high-profile organizations or brands.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Outstanding proofing and editing abilities.
- Ability to translate complex legal and policy issues into accessible, compelling content for lay audiences.
- Strong project management skills.
- Ability to work independently, successfully manage competing priorities, and deliver high-quality deliverables in a fast-paced environment with rigorous standards.
- Proven track record as a dependable, supportive people manager.
- Fluency with web performance data; Ability to analyze data and make data-driven decisions to optimize future content and campaigns.
- High comfort level with soliciting feedback from multiple stakeholders and incorporating it into your work.
- Ability to travel.
- A resilient, solutions-oriented mindset.
- A fierce conviction that reproductive rights are human rights.
Skills
- Web editorial strategy
- Content creation
- Messaging strategy
- Writing
- Proofreading
- Fact-checking
- People management
- Editorial calendar management
- Cross-departmental relationship building
- WordPress or other web platforms
- Web performance data analysis
- SEO
- AEO
Location
- New York City, NY
- Washington, D.C.
Work Type
- Hybrid (3 days in-office, 2 days remote)
Experience Level
- Senior
- 10+ years of relevant professional experience
- 6+ years of experience managing aspects of the web editorial presence
Salary/Compensations
- $113,730
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance plan with no in-network deductible and best-in-class reproductive healthcare coverage, including infertility.
- Dental and Vision coverage.
- Mental, physical, and community well-being programs.
- Generous leave, including paid parental leave, personal days, vacation, and sick leave.
- Office closure during the last week of December.
- 7.5% employer contribution to 401(k) after the first year of employment (US and Kenya only).
About the Company
- The Center for Reproductive Rights is a global human rights organization working to ensure that reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights worldwide.
- With offices in New York City, and Washington, D.C.; Nairobi, Kenya; Bogota, Colombia; and Geneva, Switzerland, the Center is a non-profit, non-partisan organization changing law and policy throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States.
- Our 270+ diverse professionals are committed to advancing the Center’s human rights mission through game-changing litigation, legal policy, and advocacy work.
- This has powered the Center’s exceptional growth to an operating budget of over $60 million and won the respect of law firms in countries around the world.
- Our global pro bono network includes over 3,000 lawyers across 6 continents, 88 countries, and 140+ law firms.
- Last year, law firms contributed over $35 million USD in pro bono legal services.
- The Center’s Strategic Plan sets a high mark for impact: By 2030, half of the world’s population will be living under stronger protections for reproductive rights than they were in 2020.
- The Center has a record of success to back up this ambitious goal.
- Since our founding in 1992, the Center has transformed how reproductive rights are understood and applied by courts, governments, and human rights bodies worldwide on issues including maternal health, abortion, assisted reproduction, and adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights.
- We have won groundbreaking cases before national courts, U.N. Committees, and regional human rights bodies.
- The Center has also led development of historic, proactive legislation advancing robust protections for reproductive rights.
- It has built the legal capacity of women’s rights advocates in more than 65 countries and counting.
- To learn more about the Center, please go to www.reproductiverights.org
Equal Opportunity
- The Center is committed to inclusive hiring and dedicated to diversity in our work and staff. We strongly encourage people from all communities to apply.
- If you are excited about this role but unsure about whether your experience aligns with the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles.
- To learn more about the Center’s commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, please visit Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Center for Reproductive Rights.
- Applicants for employment in the U.S. must have valid work authorization that does not now and will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the U.S. by The Center for Reproductive Rights.
