Senior Communications and Engagement Lead

Partnership for Large Election Jurisdictions • Washington, DC

1d • $113,890 - $136,082 • Remote

About The Position

The Partnership for Large Election Jurisdictions (PLEJ) is a national, nonpartisan community of support, best practices, and peer engagement among election offices serving the largest and most diverse populations in the U.S. PLEJ empowers election leaders to address operational challenges, communicate with clarity and transparency, and drive innovation. Through collaborative problem-solving and practical innovation, PLEJ helps build more resilient, efficient, and voter-focused election systems that improve the experience and confidence of millions of Americans. PLEJ is entering a critical phase of growth and impact—expanding its capacity, strengthening its institutional role, and positioning large jurisdictions as national leaders in election administration.

The Senior Communications & Engagement Lead (SCEL) serves as PLEJ's primary lead for member communications, organizational storytelling, stakeholder engagement, and knowledge sharing. Reporting to the Senior Director of Communications and Digital Engagement, this role is responsible for helping PLEJ connect, inform, and engage a growing national network of election leaders while memorializing and communicating the impact of PLEJ’s work. This is a writing-intensive role. As such, it requires an exceptional writer, editor, and storyteller who enjoys transforming complex information, conversations, operational insights, and member experiences into compelling communications products for members, partners, funders, and other stakeholders. The SCEL develops recurring communications products, facilitates peer exchange, manages member-facing content and resources, supports organizational storytelling efforts, and helps ensure that member insights and experiences inform PLEJ's broader work. This individual will play a central role in helping members learn from one another, strengthening engagement across the network, and communicating PLEJ’s impact in election administration. Experience with election administration is valued but not required. Candidates with backgrounds in communications, associations, nonprofits, philanthropy, public affairs, government, civic engagement, membership organizations, or other mission-driven fields are encouraged to apply.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in communications, stakeholder engagement, membership engagement, public affairs, coalition-building, organizational communications, or a related field.
• Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills, supported by a portfolio of work demonstrating the ability to communicate complex topics to diverse audiences, particularly in high-stakes environments.
• Experience developing recurring comms products such as newsletters, annual reports, impact reports, stakeholder updates, toolkits, briefs, case studies, grant reports, or funder communications.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex operational topics into clear, actionable comms products.
• Experience facilitating communities of practice, peer-learning networks, or stakeholder convenings.
• Strong relationship-building, coalition-management, project management, and organizational skills.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment, maintain confidentiality, and manage sensitive information.
• Commitment to nonpartisanship, professionalism, and public service.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with election administration, government agencies, civic institutions, membership organizations, associations, nonprofit networks, voting systems, or democracy-related issues.
• Experience managing knowledge-sharing platforms, member portals, or online communities.
• Experience working across coalitions, associations, member networks, or multi-jurisdictional initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary communications contact for PLEJ members and stakeholder groups.
• Create and maintain member communications through regular member newsletters, updates, and briefings.
• Build trusted relationships with election officials, information officers, member staff, and key stakeholders.
• Identify member needs, emerging challenges, opportunities, and areas where peer learning may be valuable.
• Maintain confidentiality and trust while surfacing field-level insights that can strengthen PLEJ’s work.
• Help ensure member perspectives inform organizational priorities and communications efforts and products.
• Support member-facing convenings, webinars, trainings, information sessions, and engagement initiatives.
• Develop compelling written content that supports member engagement and organizational goals.
• Draft newsletters, stakeholder updates, funder communications, annual reports, impact reports, case studies, issue briefs, talking points, and other organizational communications (comms) products.
• Translate complex operational, technical, and policy into clear, practical, and actionable comms products.
• Monitor member needs, field trends, public communications challenges, and emerging operational issues.
• Capture member stories, case studies, and examples that uplift members as election administration leaders.
• Articulate PLEJ's impact, value, and effects to election administration as a practical, nonpartisan field anchor.
• Curate best practices, lessons learned, and operational insights to develop compelling comms products.
• Craft public- and member-facing resources (i.e. toolkits, templates, FAQs, guides, and educational materials).
• Ensure comms resources are timely and responsive to member needs, promoting resilience and public trust.
• Manage content strategy and information architecture for PLEJ's member portal and distribution outlets.
• Support development of rapid-response resources during high-profile, sensitive, or time-sensitive moments.
• Help ensure that PLEJ’s resources uplift practical best practices that reflect the realities of large offices.
• Collaborate with leadership to communicate organizational priorities, milestones, outcomes, and impact.
• Develop recurring communications to members, funders, partners, board members, and other stakeholders.
• Develop annual reports, impact reports, organizational updates, and other strategic comms products.
• Maintain consistent messaging across member, partner, funder, and organizational communications.
• Help PLEJ Team facilitate PLEJ workgroups, communities of practice, peer-learning activities, and events.
• Translate member discussions into practical resources, comms products, and knowledge-sharing tools.
• Develop comms materials that foster meaningful dialogue and knowledge sharing among members.
• Convert conversations and emerging insights into practical resources, guidance, and comms products.
• Identify opportunities for peer learning that moves beyond dialogue to collaboration and implementation.
• Work closely with the PLEJ team to support convenings, briefings, and other member-facing programming.
• Collaborate with the PLEJ team to identify stories, resources, and examples to inform public-facing comms.
• Support organizational initiatives that strengthen member value, engagement, and overall impact.
• Contribute to a culture of professionalism, service, collaboration, confidentiality, and nonpartisanship.
• Support broader organizational efforts and collaborate across teams to meet evolving priorities, including taking on additional responsibilities as needed that contribute to PLEJ’s mission and impact.

Benefits

• Fully covered medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, and term life insurance premiums for the employee (employee’s family may be added at employee’s expense)
• Unlimited PTO
• 14 observed holidays and generous holiday schedule
• 401(k) retirement plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed