Mission

Our mission is to protect the world. We are building a global safety network of people protecting each other. Read more about Citizen at www.citizen.com.

Technology

The Citizen movement is powered by technology that generates instant alerts about crime and other emergencies - as they occur. Each incident on the platform creates a temporary local network of people who use the Citizen product to protect each other, broadcasting live video and communicating with others nearby.

People

Our technology is operated by a team of talented analysts who collect, process, and translate crime and emergency signals for the Citizen platform. The Citizen Central Operations Center protects New York, the SF Bay Area, and will soon launch in several other cities, providing real-time safety alerts to our users.

We're inviting qualified applicants to apply for Communications Analyst roles on our Central Operations team.

Those who qualify for and successfully complete our training program will join the team as full-time analysts. Please note that we run a 24/7 operation and new team members must have schedule flexibility to take on overnight and weekend shifts.

Qualifications

We need people who are resilient, resourceful, and mission-driven. We're a startup; things move fast. We need you to be adaptable, to think on your feet, and to be focused on the team's success, while constantly striving to improve your own abilities.

Are you our ideal candidate?

You likely have an interest or background in criminal justice, public safety, journalism, writing, or another creative field. Regardless of your background, you must be:

- English speaker
- an excellent writer with flawless grammar
- conscientious, demonstrating a high attention to detail

Many people on our team enjoy creative and analytical work, and thrive in roles that require both. You also might:

- have an interest in maps and geography
- like police scanners
- be an active user of the Citizen app

Citizen Bootcamp

Our training and evaluation program is conducted in New York City twice per week for 4 weeks. The paid learning experience is interactive, and covers all of the technical skills needed to operate our technology.

Alpha Edison is a venture capital firm investing in tech-driven industry transformations. Despite a few outsized successes, the venture capital industry has been plagued by severe and systematic errors. We are redesigning the machinery of cognition to reduce the noise that has overwhelmed most strategies and to remove cognitive biases in decision making. The result is repeatable outperformance.

We employ a proactive, multidisciplinary approach to identify new markets and build companies that unlock latent demand. Alpha Edison works with innovative data models to uncover the leading indicators of changing behavior. Our process is creative and generative, using a different set of analytical frameworks and data to help us ask better questions. It is a multi-variate problem with broad application.

The Opportunity:
Alpha Edison is a dynamic, entrepreneurial firm with a clear merit-driven culture of inclusion. This is an exceptional opportunity for a technical, creative thinker experienced in investigative writing to work in an interdisciplinary environment that encourages constructive friction.

Ideal Candidate:
Intellectually curious
Creative and comfortable with ambiguity
Clear thinker who can delineate between what they know and what they want to know
Able to seek and apply insights from other disciplines
Interested in solving large, structural problems across industries
A self-starter
Able to synthesize data into coherent and informative deliverables against clear deadlines

Experience:
Bachelor's degree in communications, English, journalism, business, or a related field
Graduate degrees respected but not required
At least 5 years working experience where writing was 95% of duties

Your Responsibilities:
Investigate key areas of change, including behavior change, corporate, product development, regulatory change
Perform research to gain sufficient subject matter expertise of AE frameworks, drivers, investments, and theses
Interview thought leadership to provide insight into industry best practices
Assess and understand audiences and their needs, identifying the appropriate type, scope and level of detail required for each piece
Clarify complex or technical content into clear information for discrete audiences
Write at least one thought piece every week
Draft internal and external written reports, briefs, and executive summaries
Participate in peer review and editing to support consistency of style, tone, and accuracy of content
Develop and maintain an editorial calendar of activities and projects

Salary:
$50,000-$80,000, DOE; full benefits

The Center for Public Integrity is undoubtedly great at investigative reporting. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, we partner with the biggest names in national media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, NBCnews.com and others.

But, unfortunately, we’re not so great — OK, we’re rotten — at selling ourselves.

To remedy this, we seek a visionary communicator to make the Center for Public Integrity’s journalism and journalists ever-more visible. This is a high-level management job that will report directly to the CEO.

Our dream candidate has boundless energy, saint-like patience and admirable social dexterity.

You talk with television and radio show producers as if they’re family.
You harbor a reservoir of ideas for videos and podcasts and promotions.
You have a superhero’s passion for righting wrongs, shining light into darkness and kicking the tails of those who abuse their power and betray the public trust.
Most importantly, you’re a conduit that helps amazing work reach diverse audiences hungry for meticulously reported, deep-dive journalism in an age when the very notion of what’s true and what’s fake is under assault.

If you’re that kind of communicator, we want to communicate with you.

Responsibilities

Understand the importance of a muscular, credible brand and help strengthen our identity as a leading investigative newsroom — whether through design, digital media or other creative channels.
Work with a booking agency to spread our experts in politics, campaign finance, environment, immigration, law enforcement, national security and government corruption all over radio and TV on major cable news networks and the Sunday shows.
Engage media writers, media critics and media thought-leaders so that they are intimately familiar with the Center for Public Integrity’s work, personalities and impact, and eager to write about it.
Help us improve our partnership strategy.
Pitch reporters for media appearance and speaking engagements.
Liaise with membership team and audience engagement editor for member-directed communications.
Develop branding and style guide for a cohesive voice for organizational communications.

Qualifications

At least five years’ experience as a communications professional, preferably in the media business.
Demonstrated ability of audience development, major media placements.
An acute appreciation for the critical role investigative media plays in society.
Experience and comfort with analytics/metrics tools and social media or a willingness to learn.
Nonprofit experience desired but not required.

Salary commensurate with experience.

The Center for Public Integrity is committed to hiring employees from diverse backgrounds. People of color, women, LGBTQ and differently abled people are strongly encouraged to apply.

Online link to full description: https://www.publicintegrity.org/about/our-organization/work-here#comms

Flip is looking for a full time writer to help us build a body of useful resources for renters. If you have experience writing about dense topics for a general audience, consider yourself to be data driven and an extremely thorough researcher then this role is right for you. You'll write:

- Short, useful blog posts (https://flip.lease/blog)
- Insanely in-depth explainers (like the best Wikipedia section you'e ever read) for our knowledge base (https://flip.lease/learn)
- Guided tutorials that make it easy for readers to accomplish a certain task

We invest a major part of our engineering and product design team's efforts on the above parts of our product, so your work will get a lot of attention both from existing users and new ones who find us through Google. If you want to know who/what we're looking to for inspiration, check out some of Stripe's content (i.e.: https://stripe.com/atlas/guides). Like these pages, we're making content that's meant to: a) look amazing b) turn very dense subject matters into actionable resources for regular people and b) integrate fully with our product (which is pretty useful, according to us!).

You'll be in charge of everything that gets researched and written within the company, so you'll be the main driver behind all of these efforts.

** Responsibilities **

On a daily basis...

- Come up with ideas on your own by putting yourself in the shoes of a renter and paying very, very close attention to what's already being surfaced on Google, how, and what should be

- Research by digging into primary sources (state laws, previous court cases) and connecting with sources like landlord-tenant attorneys in each state to write the most useful content possible

- Polish and publish your work and track it obsessively to see how quickly it's getting noticed by Google, figure out what kind of writing is doing better and why, and recreate whatever is working

** Qualifications **

You should be able to write clearly and quickly and have experience doing extremely thorough research into any kind of technical subject matter for a non technical audience.

You'll get bonus points if you have experience working closely with engineers and/or on a growth team at a technical company. This is by no means a prerequisite, but keep in mind that this is not your average writing job. You'll be a core part of our growth team and a lot will be expected from you.

** Working at Flip **

We provide each team member with the best equipment, we're generous with equity, and we pay well. Part of why we can do this is because we try to keep our team as lean as we can while growing as fast as we can in terms of users. You'll be the 12th to 15th full time employee, and you'll work closely with the founders.

Looking to join a dynamic, innovative and growing nonprofit Marketing & Communications team? JDRF, the leading global organization working to end type 1 diabetes, needs your talent, creativity and enthusiasm to drive our mission forward. As part of the national Marcom team, you will work with colleagues who spend every day curating inspiring narratives, brainstorming campaigns and finding better ways to reach more people and increase engagement with a worldwide movement that makes an impact.

The National Manager, Research Communications, occupies a strategic and senior role within the JDRF Marcom Content & Storytelling team, assuming a high volume of projects that support JDRF’s storytelling efforts with a focus on research progress. The role requires excellent writing skills, a deep knowledge of scientific subject matter, terminology and processes, as well as the discernment to identify and advocate the best opportunities for research communications across a wide spectrum of JDRF-owned and third-party channels. The National Manager has significant responsibility to liaise between Research and Marcom Departments to facilitate collaboration and flow of information between the two groups.

Reporting to the Director, Content & Storytelling, the National Manager, Research Communications will:
Drive engagement with major research initiatives by conceptualizing, launching and managing campaigns across variety of assets and channels.
Create framework for JDRF scientific narrative and create communications strategy that injects scientific progress story throughout appropriate JDRF assets and channels.
Interview and collaborate with external scientific community to capture compelling narratives and promote the work that JDRF funds to a broad audience.
Translate scientific information, including research proposals, progress reports and publications, into compelling content for non-scientific audiences for use in fundraising and marketing assets.
Participate actively in all Research Department and Research Committee meetings to act as a voice for Research support within and outside Marcom. Includes fielding questions and requests for messaging and resources from senior leadership, development and the field.
Develop strong relationships with Research staff and volunteer leadership to act as trusted adviser.
Liaise with Leadership Giving team to translate research progress into compelling cases for support for major gifts.
Manage more junior team members and peers on projects, as needed.
Plan, produce and measure reliable stream of research-themed blog posts on JDRF.org.

Qualifications
10+ years of experience writing in a nonprofit, academic, journalism or similar organization.
Expertise in scientific research, especially biological sciences, and ability to translate progress into lay-friendly messages.
Demonstrated passion for storytelling and ability to use personal narratives to tell an organizational story.
Experience interviewing research scientists, including preparation and follow up.
Excellent project management, organizational and time-management skills.
Impeccable proofreading and editing skills.
Bachelor's degree in English, journalism, biological sciences or a related field. Master’s degree or equivalent experience preferred.

The officer (editorial and fiscal research) works with the research and content team to track and analyze 50-state fiscal, economic, and demographic trends for policymakers, the media, and the public. The position entails both editorial and research responsibilities primarily for Pew's Fiscal 50 tool, a regularly updated online resource that is a trusted source of nonpartisan data and analysis. The officer leads regularly updated analyses of specific fiscal and economic trends. In addition, working with the project director, the officer critically reviews and edits content created by team members and manages all editorial processes leading to publication, including overseeing contracts with data providers or experts. The officer leads the team in conceptualizing, researching, writing, and producing new content that provides further insights into states' fiscal conditions; conceives data visualizations; contributes ideas and expertise to new research concepts; helps shape strategic plans for upgrading the Fiscal 50 tool; and serves as a public spokesperson for the team's research.
This position, based in Pew's Washington, DC, office, reports to the project director, research and content, and has a set time frame that could be extended based on the success of the program, funding sources, and board decisions on continued support.
Responsibilities

• Regularly analyze data on specific fiscal and economic trends featured in Fiscal 50, working from spreadsheets. Incorporate new insights into clear and concise written findings that explain why the trend is relevant.
• Help conceive and lead creation of additional, original analyses and graphics that tie together multiple trends, provide a big-picture examination of states' fiscal conditions or challenges, or dive deeper into a specific trend.
• Work closely with the project director to ensure that all Fiscal 50 content is written and presented in a clear, concise, and accessible manner and meets the highest standards of editorial excellence. This includes editing analyses, graphics, social media and other content; coaching others on writing skills; and strictly adhering to Pew fact-checking, editing, and copy-editing processes.
• Manage all aspects of the project's editorial calendar and production schedule, closely coordinating with other researchers and Pew's graphics, digital, and communications staff to ensure timely production and dissemination of Fiscal 50 updates. Work with operations staff to oversee and manage contracts with data providers and experts.
• Conceptualize new data visualizations and interactive functions to update the Fiscal 50 platform.
• Present findings internally and externally with policymakers, the media, and other stakeholders.
• Contribute content and ideas to the project's communications strategy, including drafting or editing tweets and newsletter content.
• Cultivate and maintain a broad knowledge of public policy discussions, state-relevant fiscal and economic research, and state budget news. Participate in conferences, webinars, and other professional development activities to keep current and develop growing expertise in areas of focus.

Requirements
• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in journalism or public policy research and writing, including demonstrated experience in analyzing state and/or federal fiscal or economic issues. Knowledge of a range of state and/or national fiscal and economic issues preferred.
• Excellent grammar and proficiency in AP style required. Editing experience is a plus.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills, including demonstrated ability to translate complex concepts clearly and effectively. Effective public speaking ability, with experience conducting media interviews or public presentations a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze data, focus quickly on the essence of findings, and explain the big-picture relevance and significance of those findings. Familiarity with analyzing datasets in Microsoft Excel highly preferred.
• Aptitude for conceiving data visualizations. Experience with presenting data online is a plus.
• Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to juggle multiple competing priorities, adjust to changing circumstances, and organize time efficiently. Project management a plus.
• Ability to independently deliver high-quality products while also operating as a team player.
• Acute political awareness and nonpartisan perspective and approach.
Travel
Domestic travel for meetings and conferences as needed.
Total Rewards
We offer a competitive salary and benefit program, including: comprehensive, affordable health care through medical, dental and vision coverage; financial security with life and disability insurance; opportunities to save using health savings and flexible spending accounts; retirement benefits to help prepare for the future; and work/life benefits to maintain a good balance.
The Pew Charitable Trusts is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Pew considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to age, sex, ethnicity, religion, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or gender identity, military/veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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The DOC seeks to recruit a Communications Specialist for the Public Information Unit. The selected candidate will work closely with senior executives, the internal communications specialist will help establish organizational messages and keep staff informed of developments. The Communications Specialist's responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:

• Develop formal and informal communications, using a variety of channels and tools.
• Work with stakeholders to assess communication needs, determine timing and delivery, andtailor messages for specific audiences.
• Help prepare newsletters, proposals, presentations, training, and other communication materials.
• Be able to juggle and prioritize multiple projects at once.
• Help establish an internal short-term and long-term communications strategy in conjunction with senior managers.
• Ensure communication strategy is consistent and reflects the organization’s strategic vision.
• Ensure department initiatives and projects are successfully communicated to employees and stakeholders.
• Plan, edit and write content for a variety of internal communications mediums, such as a staff intranet, monthly magazine or regular email bulletin. You may also be require to work on the layout of content.
• Draft messages or talking points for senior executives.

Minimum Requirements

1. Six months of full-time satisfactory experience operating two-way radio equipment involving the extensive receiving, logging and sending or radio transmissions in English (Citizen Band radio experience is not acceptable); or

2. Six months of full-time satisfactory experience as a telephone dispatcher involving the extensive receiving, logging and sending of messages in English (telephone operator experience is not acceptable).

Special Note

To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level II, individuals must have at least two years of experience in Assignment Level I.

Preferred Skills

• Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college with 24 credits in English, journalism or public relations, plus three (3) years of full-time paid experience in public relations, journalism or advertising, or a combination of education and/or experience which is equivalent. Graduate study in English, journalism, or public relations may be substituted for up to one year of required experience
• 3 -5 years’ experience in external/internal writing business communications
• Ability to problem solve and appropriately customize messages in a professional writing manner
• Excellent writing, editing and proofreading skills as well as the journalistic ability to source stories from employees.
• Good interpersonal and relationship-building skills in order to work with communications.
• Creative ability to devise communication strategies digital skills: familiarity with information technology, especially digital and video means of communication, is essential.
• Two (2) years of administrative, supervisory, or consultative experience in public relations, journalism or advertising.

Additional Information

Candidates for interview will be required to provide a writing sample.

As Director of Correspondence, you will be accountable for…
Executive Office Communications Strategy (10-15%)
Work directly with the CEO, Chief of Staff and Sr. Executive Assistant on the development of a proactive and reactive strategic outreach and communication strategy for the CEO in alignment with related travel schedules, organizational strategy needs/inflection points, etc.
Work directly with the CEO, Chief of Staff, Creative Director and Management team to support the development of communications strategy for the Executive Office, focused on CEO related external facing communications with a focus on relationship building, partnership cultivation and stakeholder engagement.
Collaborate with the Creative Director and Director, Partnerships to identify opportunities for “think pieces” to highlight the organization through leveraging the CEO’s voice and related content strategy and development.

Correspondence Content Drafting & Management (60-70%)
Create a correspondence system to monitor, categorize, prioritize, draft and manage internal and external communication streams for the CEO, including inbound and outbound written communication and follow-ups (email and handwritten, as appropriate), organization-wide memos/updates, social media presence, etc.
Liaise with function owners to understand which CEO-related external communications need to be launched on behalf of the CEO, and support content creation with the CEO voice in mind.
Meet with the CEO consistently to identify and prioritize communication needs; action needs, as appropriate with a high sense of urgency.
Take and/or process CEO dictations/memos to draft content for organization-wide and personal communications from the voice of the CEO.
Work with the CEO to hone and develop written communication voice and tone to ensure the ability to effectively curate drafts. Work at a high-pace to take dictation, turn around drafts and meet other highly sensitive related deadlines.
In collaboration with the Executive Assistant, monitor communication flows and tweak systems, as appropriate.
Leverage organizational content knowledge experts to curate content with the appropriate information and detail based on stakeholder interests and needs; maintain relationships with organization-wide stakeholders to improve information flow from teams/content knowledge experts into CEO-related communications.
Meet and exceed communication related goals (set daily); work collaboratively with the Chief of Staff and Executive Assistant to manage communication deadlines and receive input on drafts to finalize communications rapidly.

Special Projects & Administration (10-20%)
Provide in-house copywriting broadly in support of marketing materials, bespoke one-page overviews, decks, and other similar assets.
Provide strategic support on internal communications platform design and systems to enhance internal communication efficiencies and communications (e.g. Slack).
We're looking for someone who...
Is an experienced writer and editor who has proven success distilling, synthesizing, and producing clear, compelling content across email, publications, etc.
Is detail-oriented and has proofreading skills in grammar, spelling, and style that are absolutely second nature.
Is an impeccably organized and can write in different styles across media such as emails, marketing materials, etc.
Is extremely skilled in the nuances of relationships, especially in management and administration.
Is extremely conscientious of sensitive information and has proven experience in roles that require high levels of confidentiality.
Is a creative thinker who is skilled at crafting ideas, taking a generally vague note and boiling it down to its essence to propose a more specific message or direction.
Believes in the power of leveraging voice to build and play a key part of a brand identity.
Ideal candidates may have a professional background as...
A copywriter, speechwriter, or similar role that has the skills and interest to master someone else's voice to make a compelling pitch or launch a new product.
A skilled writer who has had ghostwriting experience on behalf of a CEO or other externally-facing executive leaders.
A journalist, or have other communications experience that they would like to apply to the social impact space.
There are many backgrounds, industries, and life experiences that give rise to leaders who can manage effectively. Backgrounds in science, business, technology, engineering, government, media, and design - or hybrids thereof - may all yield the right experiences for this role.

The Future Laboratories team is based in New York City, at our new HQ located on Union Square West.

The DOC seeks to recruit a Communications Specialist for the Public Information Unit. The selected candidate will work closely with senior executives, the internal communications specialist will help establish organizational messages and keep staff informed of developments. The Communications Specialist's responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:
• Develop formal and informal communications, using a variety of channels and tools.
• Work with stakeholders to assess communication needs, determine timing and delivery, and tailor messages for specific audiences.
• Help prepare newsletters, proposals, presentations, training, and other communication materials.
• Be able to juggle and prioritize multiple projects at once.
• Help establish an internal short-term and long-term communications strategy in conjunction with senior managers.
• Ensure communication strategy is consistent and reflects the organization’s strategic vision.
• Ensure department initiatives and projects are successfully communicated to employees and stakeholders.
• Plan, edit and write content for a variety of internal communications mediums, such as a staff intranet, monthly magazine or regular email bulletin. You may also be require to work on the layout of content.
• Draft messages or talking points for senior executives.

The DOC seeks to recruit a Press Officer. The candidate will work closely with the Deputy Commissioner of Public Information and will be responsible for handling all inquiries from the press. The incumbent will be required to handle high volume inquiries from reporters, members of the public, stakeholders, and is responsible for communicating complex, confidential and nuanced issues with clarity and accuracy. The Press Officer job duties and responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
• Serve as the lead contacts for the NYC Department of Correction in responding to calls from the press;
• Actively pitch positive news stories to reporters from local and citywide publications and websites;
• Compose press releases, advisories, speeches, talking points, related presentations, and information;
• Prepare senior leaders for media interviews and public events;
• Maintain and expand an extensive list of media contacts, build relationships with reporters and media outlet to ensure accurate coverage of DOC initiatives;
• Help to plan and manage frequent events for staff and stakeholders;
• Participating in on-call weekly rotation on nights and weekends responding to press inquiries;
• Write and edit content for in-house communication tools including websites, social media platforms, publications and newsletters;
• Respond to a variety of public information inquiries;
• Effectively communicate to internal and external parties;
• Perform related work and special projects

Minimum Requirements

1. A Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college with 24 credits in English, journalism or public relations, plus five (5) years of full-time paid experience in public relations, journalism or advertising, including two (2) years in an administrative, supervisory or consultative capacity; or
2. A combination of education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" above. Graduate study in English, journalism, or public relations may be substituted for up to one year of required experience. However, all candidates must have at least two (2) years of administrative, supervisory, or consultative experience in public relations, journalism or advertising

Preferred Skills

• Possess experience as a journalist or as a communications specialist in handling calls from the press;
• Be a self-directed individual with the proven ability to take initiative as a problem solver;
• Be capable of multi-tasking and handling high-stress crisis communications situations;
• Possess the ability to operate in a high-volume, deadline driven environment;
• Understand and communicate information about sensitive criminal justice issues.
• Familiarity with shooting and editing video.