Senior Managing Communications Associate

Our ideal Senior Managing Communications Associate believes deeply in our mission. Beyond that: • You build trust and leverage meaningful relationships to get things done. A relationship-builder at heart, the people you work with trust that you leverage relationships to get things done in a mutually beneficial, non-transactional way. You are both warm AND demanding. You do the things you say you will do, hold others to account, and support the people you engage in the pursuit of our shared goals. • You own things, not tasks. Given a goal and a set of non-negotiables, you build the plan, run it, and come back with results rather than questions. You know the difference between a decision that needs your director in the room and one that doesn't, and you don't confuse the two. • You excel on a small, nimble team, and are happy wearing lots of hats. Working on a small, fast-paced, and quickly growing team feels not only familiar to you - you love it. You are flexible, comfortable with ambiguity, know how to roll with the punches, have a quick bounce-back time after a setback, and get energy from building the plane as you fly it. • You translate. You've sat with an expert who couldn't stop using acronyms and walked out with something a stranger could understand. This is the single most important thing you'll do here, and you're good at it. • You move fluidly from strategy to execution. You appreciate the big picture and feel inspired to set a bold vision, but you know it's all in the details. You manage projects fluidly, prioritize fiercely, and track timelines, data, and information in an organized and systematic fashion. You don't drop balls, miss deadlines, or forget to respond to someone's inquiry - and you’re not afraid to roll up your sleeves to do the work. • You’re a driver of results. You've demonstrated the ability to drive results in the pursuit of ambitious goals. You combine your exceptional strategic, analytical, and critical thinking skills with your penchant to use both data and lived experiences to drive decision-making that achieves impressive outcomes. • You are sponge-y in your constant quest for knowledge. When the work feels ambiguous and the path forward unclear, you’re quick to dive into the research to soak up everything you can re: what’s already been done, what’s working, and what the science and communities say. You’re able to distill complex information into a synthesized set of findings and recommendations, and get feedback from yo

Carbon180 is deeply committed to providing market-leading compensation and robust benefits to our employees. Our salaries are in the 70th percentile of the Washington, DC market. We employ an external firm to conduct market analyses every three years, and we are committed to safeguarding internal salary equity. For those reasons, we have a non-negotiation policy on salaries. The starting salary range for this position will be $141,080 to $162,242 with opportunities for growth up to $182,404. Carbon180 prides itself on offering benefits and perks to our employees that illustrate how we live our values, including: • 36-hour workweeks (we close at 1 pm every Friday) and dedicated no-meeting time each week. • A remote-first flexible work culture. • Four weeks of PTO, three weeks of paid org-wide breaks including one week in the summer and two weeks in the winter, four weeks of sick leave, and five floating holidays/personal days. • 100% company-covered insurance premiums for medical/dental/vision/long-term disability for you and your dependents. • A quarterly health and wellness stipend.

WHO WE ARE Carbon180 is a new breed of climate-focused NGO on a mission to rethink carbon fundamentally. We know that our climate goals can only be met by rapidly reducing emissions and removing the carbon in our atmosphere. The good news? Carbon is much more than mere waste. We work at the intersection of science, business, and policy to champion solutions transforming carbon from a liability to an asset and fostering a prosperous, carbon-conscious economy. Our team is based in Washington, D.C., with teammates who work remotely from other cities. Don’t meet every single requirement? Here at Carbon180, we believe there is no “perfect” candidate and want to encourage applying even if all the requirements listed aren’t met. Our goal is to build an authentic workplace by valuing diversity in our candidates. We are always looking to expand our growing team with dynamic and enthusiastic individuals. We look forward to receiving your application! THE OPPORTUNITY Overview Carbon180 is seeking a Senior Managing Communications Associate to build and run the content engine behind our work. This person turns what our policy, science, and program teams know into things people actually read, watch, and share. Blogs, newsletters, social, web, short-form video, and other digital properties. They will lead execution of our first sustained public education push on carbon removal, own several of our channels end to end, support our fundraising team in telling the story of our impact to donors, and help more people outside of Washington understand why removing legacy carbon matters. They will shape strategy by identifying opportunities, conducting landscape and audience analysis, tracking trends, and engaging with key partners. In this role, the Senior Managing Communications Associate will represent Carbon180 in meetings, conferences, and advocacy efforts, including participating in in-person engagements as appropriate. This is a role for someone who likes making things and deploying them. Carbon180 produces serious, technical work: policy roadmaps, federal recommendations, and the CORE Carbon Removal Framework to name a few. We need someone who can take that material and make it land with everyone else, from a congressional staffer's parents to a first-time donor to a high schooler who found us on Instagram. You will own the execution of work the Director of Communications sets the strategy for, which means real latitude over how it gets made, when it ships, and what changes once we see how it performs. This role reports to the Director of Communications. Major Roles and Responsibilities Content production and editorial pipelines Own the systems that get Carbon180's work out the door on a regular schedule, not just when a major report drops. • Write and edit blogs, explainers, one-pagers, newsletter copy, and social content across our policy areas • Manage production for our newsletters, working with program staff to source and shape content • Own the editorial calendar for our channels, including what runs, when it runs, and in what order • Work directly with policy, science, and program colleagues to pull out what's newsworthy in their work and translate it into plain language • Hold the line on voice and quality across everything we publish, maintaining and improving our style guide and internal comms hub Media and public relations support Advance Carbon180's media program in partnership with our external PR firm. • Draft press releases, statements, media advisories, and talking points • Serve as a day-to-day point of contact for media inquiries and coverage tracking, keeping the team informed on what's moving in climate and carbon removal press • Help prepare spokespeople for interviews and public appearances • Lead communications for our events, including our presence at climate conferences and convenings Development communications Partner with our development team so that donors understand our impact and hear from us consistently. • Produce fundraising emails, appeals, and campaign collateral, including design and build in our email platform • Build and run the content pipeline that moves people from first contact into our supporter base • Lead audience segmentation for donor communications in partnership with development • Support funder-facing materials, reports, and webinars alongside program colleagues • Keep donor communications consistent with the rest of our voice and visual identity Public education and campaign leadership Lead execution of Carbon180's public education campaign, an evergreen effort to explain carbon removal to a general audience. • Own the weekly production cycle: one topic, explained clearly, delivered across web, social, video, and email • Recruit and coach colleagues across the organization to contribute, on camera and on the page • Build and maintain the campaign's home on our website • Set measures of success with the Director of Communications, then track performance and adjust the plan yourself as results come in Digital channels and discoverability Own how Carbon180 shows up online and grow who finds us there. • Own Carbon180's social channels end to end, from calendar to publishing to performance, including short-form video for Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube • Produce and edit short-form video, either filmed yourself or coordinated with colleagues and partners • Lead our approach to search (SEO) and AI-generated answers (GEO), an area still being figured out across our field and one you would help us define • Maintain and update carbon180.org content, partnering directly with our design and web colleagues Analysis and organizational learning Help us understand whether our communications are working, and change course when they aren't. • Conduct landscape and audience analysis to inform where we put our communications effort • Lead a twice-yearly review of communications impact, covering what reached people, what didn't, and wh