Leading Edge is hiring a
Communications Associate

Communications Associate, Leading Edge

TYPE: Full-time

LOCATION: Remote, U.S. only, East Coast preferred. Occasional travel will be required within CDC recommended health and safety guidelines.

SALARY RANGE: $57,000–$62,000

START DATE: April 24, 2023

APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 23, 2023

FAQs HERE

APPLY HERE

About Leading Edge

Leading Edge empowers Jewish organizations to improve their performance through culture and leadership. We support organizations in becoming better places to work so that they can recruit great people, keep them wanting to stay there, and develop their skills even further. We also help executives and boards lead more effectively.

Leading Edge was founded in 2014 and now has 22 employees. All team members work remotely and are located throughout the United States.

About this role

Reporting to Senior Director of Communications Seth Chalmer, and working closely with Communications Manager Marisa Diehl, you will contribute to all aspects of the communications department's work.

Core Areas of Responsibility:

•  Building and editing emails
• Building and editing webpages
• Creating social media posts and contributing to other social media engagement
• Copywriting/editing
• Some light graphic design
• Possibility of light audio and/or video editing

Qualifications:

You have at least two years of professional experience working with digital communications tools such as mass email, websites and social media, or a strongly related equivalent. (No educational degree or certificate is required.)

You are:

• A good writer (in English).
• A fast, flexible, and curious learner.
  • You are skilled at learning new information, new skills, and new software.
  • You are adept at digesting information from multiple sources, both written and verbal.
• A good collaborator.
  • You are kind, communicative, and flexible when working with others.
  • You are comfortable working on multiple time-sensitive projects at once.
  • If you need help or information, you don't hesitate to ask for it.
  • You are gracious and precise in both giving and receiving feedback.
• Appreciative of difference and diversity.
  • You value opportunities to work with and learn from people of every background and demographic.
  • You value opportunities to engage warmly and respectfully with a very broad range of beliefs and points of view—including those with which you might disagree.
  • You are committed to creating a workplace and a sector in which all people can thrive and belong.
• Emotionally intelligent.
  • You are adept at anticipating how different audiences might respond to a message and are able to craft different versions of one message to appeal to different audiences.

Familiarity with the Jewish nonprofit sector is a plus, but not required. Leading Edge is a Jewish organization, but you do not need to be Jewish (or familiar with the Jewish community) to succeed in this role. For more information about the role, please visit the FAQs.

Commitment, compensation, and benefits.

This is a full-time position with a starting salary range of $57,000 to $62,000. Leading Edge provides a best-in-class benefits package, including:

• 100% coverage for employees and 50% coverage for spouses and dependents for medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 4% retirement matching.
• Generous Time Off Policy, including paid time off for Jewish and secular holidays.
• A wellness stipend.
• Flexible spending account options.
• Ample flex time.
• Three-month paid parental leave.
• Professional development stipend.

HOW TO APPLY

Our application process requires two steps to be completed by our deadline, 11:00 pm ET on Thursday, February 23, 2023. Once the application deadline passes, we will review only completed applications.

Step 1: Submit your application on Breezy (~20 mins),

Step 2: Complete your guided 3-question interview (~40 mins) via the Spark Hire video platform.

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Leading Edge provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic predisposition or carrier status, national origin, disability condition, marital status, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran, or any other protected characteristic as established by law. We deeply value the diversity of insight, perspective, and experience brought by people from backgrounds typically underrepresented in Jewish organizations. This includes Black, Latinx, and Asian people, Black Jews, Jews of Color, Sephardi and Mizrachi Jews, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender non-conforming people, and people with disabilities. We also welcome applications from people of diverse religious, spiritual, and cultural backgrounds. In addition, the organization affirmatively seeks to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity as it applies to all policies and procedures relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment.