[Hiring] Director of Narrative Strategy @HEALTH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA

Role Description

The Director of Narrative Strategy leads Home Grown's national narrative strategy, developing and implementing a narrative framework grounded in Home Grown's strategic approach across its pillars:

• Building grassroots power
• Disrupting policies and systems
• Shifting the narrative so that HBCC is visible, valued, and well-resourced

This leader ensures that HBCC providers' voices, needs, and solutions are centered in a narrative strategy that shifts public and policy-maker perceptions and beliefs about HBCC, and that this strategy is built in alignment with Home Grown's broader mission and goals.

This role is responsible for setting the strategy and systems behind Home Grown's narrative work. The Director builds the team, partnerships, and processes that allow Home Grown to communicate with one voice across audiences, and ensures that narrative work reflects and reinforces the priorities of the organization.

As a member of the management team, the Director of Narrative Strategy contributes to organization-wide strategy and decision-making, partners closely with peer directors to align messaging, and steward Home Grown's resources, culture, and values.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in communications, marketing, public relations, public policy, early childhood education, government, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in communications, narrative strategy, advocacy communications, or a related field, including experience leading a team or function.
• Demonstrated success building, documenting, and managing systems and processes that allow a team to plan, produce, and deliver high-quality work consistently.
• Strong people management skills, including supervision, coaching, performance feedback, and conflict resolution.
• Demonstrated ability to translate organizational goals into a clear functional narrative strategy and workplan.
• Experience managing budgets and making resource recommendations that align with strategic priorities.
• Proven ability to build and manage relationships with media, partners, contractors, and vendors.
• Commitment to advancing equity and valuing diverse lived experiences, and to promoting integrity and trust across the organization and field.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to give clear direction and feedback to a communications team.
• Comfort working mostly remotely with a high level of independence and the ability to operate effectively in a low to moderate structure environment.

Requirements

• Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish (preferred).
• Familiarity with early childhood policy or similar issue areas (preferred).
• Experience working in or with Capitol Hill, government, or advocacy settings strongly preferred.
• Experience working with diverse communities and acting on insights from proximate experts (preferred).

Benefits

• Medical with vision benefits
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life, AD&D Insurance
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• 403(b) Retirement Plan, with a company contribution
• Paid time off including vacation, sick, personal and holiday
• Employee Assistance Program