Press & Editorial

The Press & Editorial Coordinator owns the organization's written and earned-media output and develops the interns who produce it. This is a twelve-month developmental staff role: the coordinator spends a full year learning one department at depth while carrying real ownership of its standards, calendar, and people.

Core Duties

• Own the editorial style guide and the press materials template set; teach both during onboarding.
• Serve as final review on releases, advisories, blog posts, and the daily clips report before distribution.
• Maintain the master editorial and announcement calendar across the portfolio.
• Own the organization's media list architecture and reporter relationship records.
• Manage the daily clips report as a delivered product with a fixed delivery time.
• Escalate adverse coverage and sensitive inquiries to senior staff on defined criteria.
• Run the source-verification protocol and the annual planted-errors training exercise.
• Recruit for the portfolio's three postings and identify advancement candidates.

Role-Specific Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; prior internship or entry-level experience in press, editorial, or political communications.
• Demonstrated writing and editing ability; portfolio required.
• Judgment sufficient to decide independently what goes public and what escalates.
• Willingness to supervise, teach, and deliver written feedback on a 48-hour turnaround.
• Availability outside standard hours during announcements and events.