Writer and Editor

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Job Title:        Writer and Editor

Department:  Communications

Job Posted On: April 18, 2014

Center Background:  Founded in 1992, the Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) is a non-profit organization that promotes women's equality worldwide by securing reproductive rights in constitutional and international human rights law. Its mission is straightforward and ambitious: to advance reproductive health and rights as fundamental rights that all governments are legally obligated to protect, respect and fulfill. The Center is unmatched as a reproductive rights organization in its expertise in U.S. constitutional law, comparative law, and international human rights law.



The Center works across the globe on issues including access to life-saving obstetrics care, contraception, abortion services, and comprehensive sexuality information. In the U.S. Legal Program, the Center's preeminent litigation team has helped millions of women and their families by securing government funding for abortions, striking down abortion bans and other access restrictions, and protecting teens' access to emergency contraception and confidential reproductive healthcare services and information. The Center's complementary legislative advocacy initiatives and strategies have helped local advocates fight restrictive abortion legislation in over 25 states as well as promote reproductive rights and access to health care for millions of women. Through our human rights advocacy, the Center has been able to promote the integration and adoption of human rights principles in the domestic sphere while systematically norm-building and elevating local reproductive health issues within international treaty monitoring bodies and partner organizations.

The Center's Global Legal Program has brought groundbreaking cases before national courts, U.N. committees, and regional human rights bodies, and has built the legal capacity of women's rights advocates in over 50 countries. Our Government Relations Program, based in Washington, DC since 2009, focuses on both U.S. domestic and foreign policy, providing leadership within the community of reproductive rights allies. In recent years, the Center has been able to dramatically expand its pro bono support from U.S. and non-U.S. based law firms, supporting not only the work of our U.S. Legal Program, but also our Government Relations Program (engaged in federal advocacy in Washington D.C.) and our Global Legal Program (engaged in advocacy and litigation before the United Nations and various regional and national bodies throughout the world).

The Writer and Editor will be joining the Center at a critical time for reproductive rights globally. As opponents of women's rights are mounting a scorched-earth campaign to turn back decades of hard-won progress, the Center is fighting back with short-, medium-, and long-term strategies, to reverse the erosion of reproductive rights protections across the U.S. and establish the right to affordable reproductive healthcare in the U.S. A key component of our strategic plan is to restore heightened protections for abortion rights, as promised to American women in the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade (1973). 

To learn more about the Center for Reproductive Rights, go to www.reproductiverights.org.

The Center seeks a Writer and Editor who will report to the Senior Content Producer.     

S/he will implement the Center's editorial direction across online and print channels, including development publications such as the annual report and donor newsletter, donor communications, institutional marketing materials, and our expanding well of online content for the half million annual visitors to our website. The position will be based in New York City and will work in a high-energy, collaborative environment as part of the Communications Department's interdisciplinary team of editorial, online advocacy and fundraising, and media staff.

 

Responsibilities:

The Writer and Editor's primary job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Writing and editing critical print publications, ensuring that they are audience-focused, strategic and consistent with the Center's established voice and tone. These will include but are not limited to the annual report, donor newsletters and communications, fact sheets, briefing papers, human rights fact-findings, advocacy toolkits, and other institutional marketing materials.

• Producing website content, including feature stories and news briefs, and pitch ideas for new online content and publication ideas.

• Brainstorming ideas for communications strategies that support the Center's five-year strategic plan.

• Working closely with our development department to develop high-level donor communications. 

• Working closely with our U.S. and global legal and government relations programs to promote the Center's cutting-edge legal advocacy in vivid, clear prose for a variety of audiences.

 

 

Qualifications: 

• Strong commitment to the Center's mission, purpose, and values.

• Strong commitment to reproductive rights and human rights.

• Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills, including familiarity with Chicago and AP style.

• Demonstrated ability to research, write, fact-check, and edit a variety of communication pieces for target audiences with a minimal amount of supervision.

• Demonstrated ability to meet tight deadlines, handle simultaneous assignments, and work within a team setting.

• Enterprising, curious, organized, and motivated.

• Brings to the job an understanding of how story can be used to engage advocates and donors, along with an ability to explain and promote the Center's legal advocacy.

• Great sense of humor.

• Strong work ethic and attention to detail.

• She/he is enterprising, curious, organized, and motivated, and brings to the job an understanding of how story can be used to engage advocates and donors.

• Have the ability to organize and drive projects to a timely completion.

• A bachelor's degree; at least three years of experience writing and editing a variety of materials, including donor-centered communications, news stories, newsletters, annual reports, brochures, speeches, and web content.

• Professional backgrounds could include journalism, media relations, advocacy, marketing, or related fields.

 

 

Compensation: The Center offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience and a comprehensive benefits program.

 

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