Director of Broadcast Communications

Summary

Join Climate Power as their Director of Broadcast Communications! This full-time, exempt role involves booking senior surrogates and spokespeople across various broadcast platforms. You will build and maintain relationships with producers and hosts, ensuring Climate Power's presence in media coverage. Responsibilities include drafting booking memos, identifying news moments to pitch surrogates, and rapidly responding to breaking news. You will also coordinate logistics for appearances and develop strategic booking plans. This position requires 7 years of communications experience, including network or political booking, and 3 years of people and project management experience. The ideal candidate possesses strong storytelling instincts, strategic and writing skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Climate Power offers a competitive compensation package with comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• 7 years of communications experience, including experience in network or political booking and working with a principal, producers and hosts
• 3 years people and project management experience
• Keen understanding of the news cycle, and how to build relationships with products and hosts
• Strong instinct for powerful storytelling combined with strong editorial and ethical judgment
• Ability to work in a fast-paced campaign environment with unpredictable hours in high-pressure situations
• Ability to work collaboratively across internal teams and with external partners
• Strong strategic and writing skills

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain relationships with producers and hosts at cable, broadcast, and new media outlets to position Climate Power and its surrogates and storytellers as resources. This includes conducting routine touchpoints with producers and hosts to ensure Climate Power is part of ongoing coverage
• Draft and send booking memos or other relevant information to shows as needed
• Stay up to date with new outlets, platforms and opportunities to expand Climate Power’s reach and elevate climate as part of their coverage
• Proactively identify moments in the national and local news cycle to pitch and book surrogates, storytellers, and other spokespeople on outlets across the broadcast spectrum, with an emphasis on new media outlets like podcasts and YouTube shows
• Rapidly respond to book Climate Power surrogates and spokespeople on breaking news coverage when relevant
• Coordinate and handle all logistics for a hit from start to finish, including drafting memos for Climate Power surrogates, and storytellers that include relevant talking points
• Develop strategic booking plans for top-tier moments or other moments as needed
• Build and maintain updated contact lists of producers
• Additional responsibilities may be assigned as need and capacity dictate

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance 100% paid for employee 50% for their dependents
• Unlimited Paid Time off, including every other Friday and extended summer, fall, and winter breaks
• 401(k) with 5% match
• Education Assistance, including student loan repayment program
• Sabbatical Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Monthly Tech Allowance
• Cell Phone Stipend
• Work From Home Stipend for home office furniture
• Employee Wellness & Treat Yourself Funds