Career Opportunities

Content and Communications Manager

Full-time, hybrid position

Open to remote with a strong preference to candidates who live in or are willing to relocate to Washington D.C./Baltimore area

About the Role

We’re looking for a Content and Communications Manager to support the vision and mission of a growing new nonprofit. The Center for Christianity and Public Life is a nonpartisan institution, based in Washington, D.C. The Center’s mission is to contend for the credibility of Christian resources in public life, for the public good. We advance this mission through two parallel streams of work: Public Imagination–we explain Christianity to the public, and advance Christian resources for the good of the public; and Christian Civic Formation–we grow, resource, convene and represent the community of Christians who are convinced that spiritual formation is central to civic renewal.

This is a pivotal moment for public-facing communications at the intersection of faith and American life. Religion, and Christianity in particular, has reemerged as a central force shaping political imagination, civic identity, and public debate, even as religious affiliation and institutional trust decline. Public leaders, media institutions, and cultural influencers increasingly recognize that the future of American democracy is bound up with how Christianity is understood, represented, and practiced in public life. At the same time, Christianity is often reduced to a caricature: either dismissed as irrelevant or instrumentalized for political ends, with real harms obscuring its potential contributions to the common good. This contested landscape creates an urgent and generative communications challenge—one that calls for clarity, creativity, and credibility. It is an unusually consequential moment to tell a different story: to articulate a compelling vision of Christian faith that is serious, joyful, intellectually credible, and oriented toward pluralism and public responsibility. The Content and Communications Manager will play a central role in shaping how this vision is expressed, shared, and heard at a moment when imagination, trust, and formation are once again at stake.

The Content and Communications Manager is an early hire who is integral to the success of the team and the overall organization. The position is designed for someone who combines strong executional skills with emerging strategic capacity and who is eager to grow into a future director-level role with team leadership over time. The ideal candidate for this role is invigorated by the vision of the organization and will effectively tell the story of CCPL, our leaders, and our programs to a growing audience. Reporting directly to the Chief of Staff, this is the sole communications execution role on the team. 

Cross-department collaboration will be central to this role, including coordination regarding research, events, and our Christian Civic Formation programs. The successful candidate is someone who can bring thoughtful, imaginative ideas to any discussion and demonstrates from the outset an ability to be both strategic and hands-on, driving results across multiple programs/initiatives. They will design and carry out strategic communications and marketing plans that advance programmatic goals and growth, shape public opinion, and attract new supporters, partners, and allies. They are excited to both do the work and shape how the work gets done, learning alongside senior leadership while steadily taking on greater ownership and responsibility.