Position Summary  

NEC is seeking a full-time (32 hours /week) Communications Director to join our organization. As a team member of our worker-self directed nonprofit, this role would be situated primarily in the Communications and Membership circles. The focus of this role is to lead, implement, and maintain our communications strategy and expand our reach and engagement with NEC members, solidarity economy, and related movement spaces, the general public, and staff.

NEC’s communications team is highly collaborative – the Communications Director will work closely with the Narrative Strategy Director, and the Network Weaving  Director. The Communications Director will be a leading steward for NEC’s external communications infrastructure, ensuring that the systems, tools, and practices support effective communication are up-to-date, accessible, and aligned with our narrative and messaging.

This is a full-time (32 hrs/week), salaried position, and can be performed remotely from anywhere in the U.S. This position requires someone to be able to perform tasks on a computer for up to 8 hours a day, inclusive of paid breaks. Our work is rigorous, but we prioritize space for joy, for healing, and connection. The ideal candidate is excited to contribute significant time to maintaining our democratic workplace and moving towards a liberatory work culture. As Southerners on New Ground have said, “we’re looking for people who are looking for us.”

Responsibilities (100%)

The Communications Director will shape and implement NEC’s communications strategy across the organization, with a focus on member and network communications, organizational coordination, and communications infrastructure.

A primary focus of this role is member communications and engagement. The Communications Director will work closely with membership and program staff to ensure members receive timely updates, clear pathways for engagement, and consistent communications across the organization. This includes leading communications for Annual Member Meetings (AMMs), member calls, program and organizational updates, onboarding communications, fundraising communications, and other member-facing communications.

The Communications Director will serve as a key connector across NEC staff, helping align our communications and ensure that organizational priorities are translated into clear, coordinated communications. This includes owning the communications calendar across programs, campaigns, fundraising, and membership; coordinating communications timelines and priorities across staff; facilitating trainings and shared practices; and managing the systems and workflows that support NEC’s communications, including Action Network, listservs, shared drives, templates, archives, and website updates.

The Communications Director will also lead writing, editorial, and content production across the organization. This includes managing the editorial calendar; coordinating writing, editing, and content development across teams; contributing to the New Economy Roundup newsletter; drafting and editing organizational communications and statements; and ensuring that NEC’s communications are clear, consistent, and aligned with our overall messaging and narrative. This role will collaborate closely with the program teams to share offerings across our membership, and help NEC’s vision come to life.

Strategic & Organizational Communications (30%)

• Co-lead NEC’s overarching organizational communications strategy with the Narrative Strategy Director
• Create systems that align communications strategy, messaging, and priorities, ensuring these processes are clearly understood and implemented across staff and membership
• Attend and contribute to monthly Communications Working Group meetings
• Maintain NEC’s communications calendar across programs, campaigns, events, fundraising, and membership priorities
• Maintain and evolve NEC’s website to ensure accurate, up-to-date, and accessible organizational and program information
• Manage communications systems and workflows, including Action Network, listservs, shared drives, templates, and archives
• Track communications analytics and engagement metrics to support learning and strategy development
• Collaborate with the team to strengthen email engagement strategies for NEC’S educational series, fundraising campaigns, and list growth.

Member & Network Communications & Engagement (30%)

• Lead communications for Annual Member Meetings, Quarterly All Member Calls, and other membership-facing events

• Coordinate with Member & Network Organizing Circle to draft, edit, and distribute member updates, program updates, onboarding communications, and organizational announcements

• Help coordinate communications for fundraising campaigns, organizational updates, and membership restructuring processes

• Lead communications for new member onboarding and ongoing engagement initiatives

• Maintain and update membership-facing website content and materials

• Develop member storytelling that highlights member work, campaigns, and ecosystem developments across newsletters and social media

Editorial, Content Creation & Capacity Building (20%)

• Lead the monthly editorial calendar and coordinate editorial production across teams
• Coordinate content sourcing, research, writing, editing, and art direction with the Narrative Strategy Director
• Draft and edit organizational statements, press releases, and external communications materials
• Create and maintain slide decks, templates, messaging guides, and communications resources
• Support production and distribution of the New Economy Roundup newsletter, including sourcing, drafting, editing, and formatting
• Help oversee social media publishing and content distribution across NEC platforms
• Facilitate communications trainings and build staff capacity to use tools and systems consistently and effectively
• Maintain communications documentation, archives, and internal process guides to support institutional knowledge and continuity

Collective Governance (15%)

This is the same for all staff unless elected for a term on General Circle

• Participating in weekly staff meetings, quarterly board meetings, member meetings, and applicable circle meetings.
• Responsiveness to Slack, Loomio proposals, and topics related to our WSD model and sociocracy
• Offering to support with all-hands-on-deck projects in staff circle and other governance projects
• Ad hoc committees like hiring committees, retreat planning, program planning, etc.

Values of the Ideal Candidate

• Understanding of and commitment to solidarity economy values, such as racial, economic, and climate justice; cooperative ownership; democratic governance; and systems change.Deep commitment to anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices
• Desire to work in a Worker Self-Directed organization, including participation in collective governance and democratic decision-making, and taking on roles to support the overall health of the organization.
• Has informal experience with the solidarity economy outside of work/activism (i.e. gift economy, time banking, mutual aid)
• Self-identifies with our North Star Communities, or has organized in deep partnership with North Star Communities
• Has a clear self-defined stake in building solidarity economies
• Excited to learn from mistakes, receive feedback, and give feedback to others.
• Commitment to building a culture of self-direction, mutual accountability, liberation, respect, and joy.

Qualifications & Skills

We’re looking for a strategic systems thinker with strong communications instincts and the ability to organize complex communications infrastructure and strategy into a clear, coordinated whole. Our ideal candidate can lead communications planning in a collaborative way, bringing strong tech fluency, familiarity with analytics and trends, and experience managing content systems, calendars, and workflows across teams.

We welcome a wide range of experience, including formal education, paid work, unpaid/volunteer work, and lived experience. The following competencies are what we are looking for:

Communications Strategy

• 5+ years of experience in communications, media, organizing communications, or a related field
• Experience developing and implementing communications strategies across multiple channels and audiences.
• Strong writing, editing, and content development skills across formats (e.g., newsletters, websites, press releases, public statements, social media)
• Experience managing editorial calendars and producing consistent content across platforms
• Enjoys social media and staying up to date on news and current events around the world.
• Familiarity with digital communications tools, trends, and analytics, with the ability to assess performance and adjust strategy accordingly
• Experience developing and implementing email engagement strategies (e.g., educational series, campaigns, list growth)
• Experience supporting programmatic communications such as fundraising appeals, program announcements, and organizational messaging

Communications Systems & Technology

• Strong technical fluency and experience building and maintaining communications infrastructure
• Familiarity with email platforms, CRMs, website systems, design tools, and collaborative tools such as Action Network, Powerbase, Airtable, WordPress, Canva, Google Workspace, Slack, Asana, and Zoom.
• Experience developing and implementing email engagement strategies (e.g., educational series, campaigns, list growth)
• Basic HTML/CSS or comfort collaborating with web developers is a plus.

Coordination & Project Management

• Experience coordinating communications across teams, including shared calendars, content workflows, timelines, and collective messaging.
• Strong project management, organization, attention to detail, and follow-through.
• Ability to work collaboratively across diverse teams while also managing projects independently.

Facilitation & Relationship Building

• Experience designing and facilitating internal trainings on communications tools and best practices
• Strong relationship-building skills; listening to and taking an interest in others.
• Comfort with public speaking or facilitating communications trainings and presentations

Movement Experience

• Experience within the solidarity economy movement, deep understanding of the framework, and vision.
• Familiarity with the breadth of functions within multiracial movement organizations, including organizing, strategic planning, fundraising, budgeting, team building, culture, and human resources.
• Commitment to building a more democratic, equitable, and liberatory economy and workplace.
• Comfort working independently in a remote environment (32 hours/week)

Who is NEC?

New Economy Coalition (NEC) is a membership-based organization working to build the power and scale of the solidarity economy movement in the United States. Our network of 170+ member organizations is working to transform the extractive economy and build up community ownership and just transition solutions with a strong intersectional lens. NEC members work across regions and various solidarity economy sectors, including co-ops, community land trusts, participatory budgeting, public banks, credit unions, energy democracy, and more!

NEC adopted a worker self-directed nonprofit model in 2020. This means we operate under a peer-management and collective governance framework. We are continuing to build our tools, including sociocratic models and we are growing ways to share collective governance. Prior experience in these areas is a plus, but not a requirement. The person who fills this role should be interested in learning about and building their collective governance muscles over time!

NEC is a fully remote organization. The person in this position may be expected to travel within the United States several times a year to staff retreats or conferences. This role requires extended use of a computer & technical expertise. Working hours are flexible but everyone on staff is generally expected to be available between 12-4pm EST Monday through Thursday.

Compensation

NEC uses an Equitable Merit Compensation Policy with a self set salary. The organization empowers employees to be transparent with their needs and name them in our yearly salary setting process.At NEC, we use solidarity principles to determine some considerations for setting your salary that may include cost of living in the state in which you reside, the number of your dependents,your educational background, past leadership experiences. We believe that our Equitable Merit Compensation Policy ensures that all full-time employees receive compensation aligned with their actual needs, not constrained by traditional hierarchies, colonial-capitalistic systems or market-driven wage suppression.

At NEC, our mission-aligned goals for salary setting is to ensure that we have a compensation system that embodies a compensation system that:

• Honors lived realities and cost of living in our current societal environment
• Supports economic dignity for all staff members differentiated circumstances
• Promotes transparency, participation, and collective accountability
• Ensures the financial sustainability of the organization through planning and development of the budget with NEC’s Board of Directors on an annual basis
• Follows all applicable IRS considerations for reasonable compensation for non-profits

**Currently, our policy has a pay range of $78k – $150k**

Benefits

• Full healthcare, dental, and vision insurance – Company-paid medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Short and long term disability
• 401K Retirement fund, with automatic 3% employer contributions
• Employer-provided laptop
• $200 Home Office monthly stipend
• Time off:
  • 20 Wellness days
  • 16 Vacation days
  • 3 Floating Holidays
  • Summer and Winter office closures (in addition to federal holidays).
  • Bereavement days
  • $1,500 Professional Development yearly commitment

How to Apply

Please submit this form by December 16, 2026. Be ready to include:

• A resume (PDF) and/or CV
• A short cover letter about why you are interested in the position, your skillsets, and your stake in the solidarity economy movement (PDF)
• A link to a work sample. Examples can include: policies, presentations, proposals. (instructions in the application form)

We will begin reviewing applications in January 2027, and hope to schedule first round interviews in late-January/early-February. The projected start date is April 1, 2027.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity 

NEC aspires to build an inclusive and liberatory organization. We value having a diversity of life experiences, identities and perspectives on our staff. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, disability, gender, nationality, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by law. People of color, women, working-class, and LGBTQ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.