Senior Manager, Communication Strategy and Editorial

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints•Salt Lake City, UT

About The Position

The Church Communication Department (CCD) seeks a strategic communication professional with exceptional writing capabilities to help shape, steward, and scale messaging for the global Church. This role translates enterprise priorities into clear message architecture, persuasive communication briefs, and actionable plans for departments, areas, and external partners. The role carries a second, equally central charge: stewardship of the Church Communication Guide — its content, governance, use and integration, and training — and accountability for seeing its principles implemented throughout the global Church.

Requirements

Minimum seven years of communication experience, including large-scale projects in the communication, branding, or marketing fields.
Minimum seven years of strategic planning for or within a complex organization, including working in a senior, supervising role.
Demonstrated experience developing messaging strategy for a multi-audience, multi-platform organization.
Exceptional writing experience, including the ability to draft, edit, and refine strategic messaging, executive communications, briefs, talking points, and public-facing materials for diverse audiences.
Demonstrated experience managing complex projects and external agencies or vendors from brief through delivery.
Demonstrated experience owning or governing a brand, voice, or communication standards resource for a large organization, and delivering training on standards to distributed audiences.
Bachelor’s degree in public relations, communications, business, branding, advertising, marketing, or related field (or equivalent experience); master’s degree in a related field preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain enterprise messaging frameworks and message hierarchies that unify communication across the organization.
Write and refine high-quality communication briefs, message frameworks, talking points, and narratives that give departments, areas, and vendors a clear foundation for their work.
Lead the planning and project management of enterprise communication plans — scope, timelines, milestones, approvals, and delivery — ensuring alignment with an integrated approach.
As assigned, serve as primary collaborator and point of contact for departments, area offices, and external agencies; manage vendor engagements from briefing through quality review, holding work to strategy and standards.
Define success measures with research and analytics partners; assess outcomes and translate findings into recommendations that strengthen future messaging.
Counsel leaders and colleagues on messaging implications, risks, and opportunities, and contribute to employee understanding of enterprise communication initiatives and objectives.
Contribute to the development, use, and awareness of the Church Communication Guide that includes voice, tone, and design standards for the global Church.
Understand, internalize, demonstrate, and promote the principles in the Church Communication Guide.
Prepare and provide presentations and trainings, in-person and virtually, on the Church Communication Guide.
Implement, measure, and refine awareness efforts for the Church Communication Guide.
Oversee the Guide’s content, keeping its standards accurate, current, doctrinally sound, and clearly written for a global audience.
Administer governance of the Guide — how revisions are proposed, reviewed, approved, and versioned — and serve as a resource on interpreting and applying it.
Build the Guide into enterprise briefing, creation, review, and approval processes, partnering with departments, area offices, and localization teams so its principles are implemented throughout the global Church.
Develop training curriculum and reference resources, and establish measures of awareness, adoption, and alignment that inform refinement of the Guide and its training.