Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Constructive Dialogue Institute (CDI) is a non-partisan, non-profit that equips the next generation of Americans with skills to communicate and collaborate across lines of difference, particularly in higher education. The Communications and Content Manager will produce and manage newsletters, blog and social content, thought leadership, marketing collateral, and media-support activities to grow CDI's audience and strengthen its reputation.
Responsibilities
- Write, build, and send CDI's higher education newsletter, and produce the blog, maintaining a reliable publishing cadence, growing our audience over time, and holding a high bar for quality, accuracy, and on-message voice
- Run a single, unified organic social calendar across brand, executive, and thought-leadership content, coordinating contributions from across the team to grow reach and engagement
- Collaborate with Partnerships and Marketing to align communications initiatives with other key workstreams such as webinars and conferences, tailor content for target segments, and sequence content for outsized pipeline impact
- Turn CDI's research (white papers, briefs, studies) into a full family of related content, blog posts, op-ed drafts, social posts, and newsletter features, maximizing the reach of each release
- Draft and package thought-leadership content while our subject-matter experts provide the underlying substance
- Coordinate production timelines with the Impact team and our subject-matter experts so content ships on time without overloading contributors
- Help build and maintain CDI's press lists, draft pitches, and support the VP in securing media coverage
- Track and log CDI's media coverage and mentions, contributing to CDI's earned-media goals
- Build more direct media relationships over time, as your familiarity with CDI's work grows
- Produce audience-facing marketing collateral, directing external designers to a high standard and on deadline
- Maintain and steward CDI's brand templates and standards (set with the VP), and run the intake and triage process for design requests
- Produce marketing case studies and testimonials, partnering with the Demand Generation lead (who selects and secures permissions) and the Impact team (who supports research)
Skills
- * **A strong editorial operator (our top priority).** You think in calendars, cadences, and systems, and you can keep many pieces of content moving at once without dropping quality or missing deadlines. You have thrived in a startup or scrappy environment, driving execution independently while building for scale
- * **An exceptional writer and editor.** You produce clear, accurate, on-message content across many formats, and you do it fast, with a sharp editorial eye
- * **A sharp cross-functional collaborator.** You work fluidly across subject-matter experts, marketing, and partnerships colleagues, and you keep work on track without constant direction
- * **Fluent with tools, and with AI.** You are comfortable with content and marketing tools (a CMS, an email platform such as HubSpot, social schedulers), and you use modern AI tools to accelerate drafting and production while treating human editing and judgment as non-negotiable, especially on sensitive topics
- * **Schedule:** Full-time, flexible within U.S. time zones
- * **Location:** Remote, must be based in the U.S
- * **An experienced comms professional.** You bring 5+ years in communications, content marketing, editorial, or journalism, ideally in a mission-driven, B2B, higher education, or advocacy context, with a portfolio of published work across formats (newsletters, articles or blogs, social, long-form)
- * **Media-aware.** You understand what makes a story newsworthy and are comfortable drafting pitches and building press relationships. Direct media experience is a plus
- * **Brand- and design-minded.** You have a strong eye, can direct external designers, and can maintain templates and standards that keep a brand consistent. Canva experience a plus
- * **Politically astute and mission-aligned.** You have the judgment to communicate constructively and credibly across ideological lines, you understand why nonpartisan restraint matters as much as visibility, and you are genuinely motivated by CDI's mission. Familiarity with the higher education landscape is a plus
Benefits
- A mission-driven culture characterized by intellectual humility, continuous improvement, and open-mindedness
- Remote-first work arrangement
- Unlimited PTO and 13 company holidays
- Up to $500 reimbursed for home office equipment
- Up to $50/month reimbursed for home internet or cell phone expenses
- Employer-supported health, vision, and dental plans
- Subsidized parental leave
- 3% 401k match
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Life and AD&D insurance
- $1,000 annual professional development budget
- Full-time schedule flexible within U.S. time zones
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