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How to Apply for CCEFN Campaign Communications Director

at Child Care For Every Family - A New Venture Fund Project

🏢 About Child Care For Every Family - A New Venture Fund Project

Child Care For Every Family is a New Venture Fund project uniquely focused on building a racial and gender justice-centered child care infrastructure, directly accountable to parents, providers, and advocates most harmed by underfunded systems. This organization stands out for its movement-building approach that centers lived experience and political advocacy to transform child care policy nationally.

About This Role

As CCEFN Campaign Communications Director, you'll shape the national narrative around universal child care by developing strategic communications frameworks, creating earned media moments, and elevating child care as a defining political issue. This role is impactful because you'll directly influence how millions of Americans understand and engage with child care policy through narrative strategy, media coordination, and political communications.

💡 A Day in the Life

A typical day might involve coordinating with campaign partners to align messaging around a national day of action, developing explainer content about the Vision Bill for different audiences, and pitching stories to political reporters while ensuring all communications maintain 501(c)4 compliance. You'll balance strategic narrative development with tactical media outreach to keep child care at the forefront of political conversations.

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🎯 Who Child Care For Every Family - A New Venture Fund Project Is Looking For

  • Has 5+ years specifically in campaign communications or political communications with demonstrated success developing messaging frameworks for movements (not just corporate PR)
  • Possesses practical experience with 501(c)4 compliance and understands the boundaries between advocacy and political messaging
  • Has established relationships with political reporters and proven ability to pitch stories that advance policy campaigns
  • Can point to specific examples of earned media strategies that elevated an issue to national political significance

📝 Tips for Applying to Child Care For Every Family - A New Venture Fund Project

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Highlight specific campaigns where you developed narrative frameworks that anchored external communications, not just general communications experience

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Include concrete examples of 501(c)4 compliant messaging you've created or political communications tools you've developed

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Demonstrate your understanding of racial and gender justice frameworks by explaining how you've centered these in previous communications work

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Show how you've coordinated earned media with digital strategies during national days of action or similar campaign moments

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Reference the 'Vision Bill' specifically in your application materials to show you've researched CCEFN's current priorities

✉️ What to Emphasize in Your Cover Letter

['Your experience developing shared narrative frameworks for campaigns or movements (not just organizations)', 'Specific examples of earned media strategies that elevated policy issues to political significance', "How you've navigated 501(c)4 compliance boundaries in previous political communications work", 'Your understanding of racial and gender justice-centered approaches to communications']

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🔍 Research Before Applying

To stand out, make sure you've researched:

  • → The New Venture Fund's structure and how it supports projects like CCEFN
  • → Current child care policy landscape and existing universal child care proposals
  • → CCEFN's Vision Bill and their specific policy framework
  • → Recent media coverage of child care issues and which reporters are covering this beat
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💬 Prepare for These Interview Topics

Based on this role, you may be asked about:

1 Walk us through how you would develop a national narrative framework for universal child care that centers racial and gender justice
2 Describe a time you coordinated earned media and digital strategies during a national day of action or similar campaign moment
3 How have you ensured 501(c)4 compliance while creating effective political messaging tools?
4 What strategies would you use to socialize a complex policy proposal like the Vision Bill to diverse audiences?
5 How do you build relationships with reporters covering social justice and political issues?
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⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid

  • Focusing only on corporate or nonprofit communications experience without campaign/political communications examples
  • Not demonstrating understanding of 501(c)4 compliance boundaries in your application materials
  • Using generic diversity language without showing how you've centered racial and gender justice in actual communications work

📅 Application Timeline

This position is open until filled. However, we recommend applying as soon as possible as roles at mission-driven organizations tend to fill quickly.

Typical hiring timeline:

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Application Review

1-2 weeks

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Initial Screening

Phone call or written assessment

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Interviews

1-2 rounds, usually virtual

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