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Partnerships are key to our success. We build long-term relationships with our education, corporate, utility and philanthropic partners by first understanding their goals and needs and providing solutions that achieve those goals while achieving real, measurable environmental benefits.\nWho are we looking for?\nWe are actively seeking an individual who is passionate about advancing climate and environmental solutions through clear, consistent, and credible communication. The successful candidate will report to the Chief of Staff and join our cross-functional team, collaborating with stakeholders across program teams, senior leadership, and external partners to contribute to BEF's mission of accelerating renewable energy and freshwater environmental outcomes. This role involves coordinating a strategic through-line across BEF's program-based communications work (Renewables, Watersheds, BWS, and CBG) without centralizing it. The Senior Communications Manager will be responsible for leading external communications and media relations, maintain and support BEF social media channels, and overseeing communications-related vendors and contractors,, and cross-program communications review and guidance.\nWhy Join Us? Our Values Are:\nPartnership:We believe we can accomplish more by working together.\nAdaptability:We evolve, adapt, and apply what we learn to improve our approaches and outcomes.\nKnowledge:We seek out and value diverse perspectives, embrace new ideas, and advance new approaches.\nInnovation:We recognize that the scope and pace of the change we need demands innovation, drawing on knowledge from the past and new information and tools.\nIntegrity:We are honest with our employees, customers, and our partners. We seek to deliver outcomes that benefit the environment and people we serve.\nPrimary Duties:\nMedia Relations, Public Visibility & Reputation Management\nServe as the central point of contact and clearinghouse for external communications requests, interview requests, speaking invitations, and media inquiries directed at BEF or its staff\nBuild and maintain a proactive and reactive media relations approach to manage BEF's growing visibility in climate, energy, business sustainability, water resource, and environmental coverage\nMonitor, track, and regularly report to leadership on media coverage and public mentions of BEF, formalizing and expanding on existing tracking practices; Flag emerging risks and opportunities\nPrepare and coordinate spokespeople (executive leadership and program staff) for interviews, panels, and public appearances, including talking points and message alignment\nManage BEF’s organizational social media presence, ensuring accuracy with brand voice and coordination with program-level social content\nIn collaboration with the Chief of Staff support development of a reputational risk and crisis communications protocol, partnering with executive leadership on sensitive or high-visibility issues\nExternal Communications Review, Brand Stewardship & Vendor Management\nServe as a central reviewer for externally facing communications requests and materials across programs, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and alignment with BEF's mission and values\nManage relationships and performance of external communications contractors and vendors (e.g., graphic design, messaging/copywriting, media training), including scoping, budgeting, and quality control\nMaintain and evolve messaging framework across print, digital, and public-facing channels\nPartner with program teams to create, review, edit, finalize key organizational materials (annual reports, impact stories, newsletters, website content) that draw on and reinforce program-level communications work\nCross-Program Communications Strategy & Alignment \nServe as the strategic connective point across BEF's program-based communications and executive functions, including Renewables, Watersheds, Business for Water Stewardship (BWS), and the Climate Business Group (CBG), coordinating messaging and priorities without asking programs to give up their embedded communications function and capacity\nBuild shared visibility across program communications work, identifying where programs are telling overlapping stories, missing opportunities to reinforce a shared BEF narrative, or working at cross-purposes externally\nEstablish light-touch shared standards and practices (voice, terminology, review norms) that let program teams retain ownership of their day-to-day communications while ensuring consistency where it matters most: external-facing, cross-program, or high-visibility work\nEnsuring high function and impact program-specific communication action and strategy that reinforce program function, direction, and development. \nConvene a program communications working group or community of practice periodically to surface priorities, share resources, and flag where cross-program collaboration would strengthen BEF's overall positioning\nAdvise program leadership on how their communications work fits within, and can draw on, the broader organizational narrative\nPartner with the Learning & Development Director to ensure all appropriate staff are trained in communications and media best practices.\nQualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Marketing, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience\nExperience in a nonprofit, environmental, or mission-driven organization, or climate, clean energy, water stewardship, or broader environmental sector\nAt least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in communications, public relations, or media relations, including experience coordinating communications across multiple teams, departments, or program areas\nExperience coordinating geographically dispersed or matrixed teams (i.e., influencing without direct authority)\nDemonstrated media relations and spokesperson-preparation experience \nExperience managing external vendors/contractors and communications budgets \nProficiency with media monitoring tools, content management systems, email marketing, and design-collaboration platforms\nDesirable:\nFamiliarity with the Pacific Northwest region\nFamiliarity with energy, water, and/or corporate sustainability issues\nManaging crisis or incident-management communications experience\nWhat’s in it for you:\nSalary Range: $90,000-$100,000 per year DOE.\n100% Employer paid Medical, Short Term and Long-Term Disability, Life insurance for employees; 75% subsidized for family/dependents.\nRetirement plan with 5% employer matching contribution.\nGenerous PTO and Vacation Policy including alternative care and self-care leave.\nFour Week paid sabbatical after first 6 years, then every 5 years thereafter\nOpportunity to grow through training and development including a generous paid professional development budget. \nHybrid work schedule.\nLocation:Hybrid, Portland, OR and surrounding areas\nOpen until filled. BEF will review applications as they are received and will interview qualified candidates as they are identified. Our goal is to have this team member start work on 1/25/27. For consideration, apply on https://beforg.bamboohr.com/careers or the company website at http://www.b-e-f.org/careers.\nBonneville Environmental Foundation is an EEO employer.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7521,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Hybrid work","Life insurance","Professional development","Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Science & Engineering","Corporate Trainings"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-30T23:51:25Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":27,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":100000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/black-career-network-senior-communications-manager-bef","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/black-career-network-senior-communications-manager-bef.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-31T19:26:45Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":30602,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-01T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2482785},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2482785"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fblack-career-network-senior-communications-manager-bef"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fblack-career-network-senior-communications-manager-bef"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fblack-career-network-senior-communications-manager-bef"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/black-career-network-senior-communications-manager-bef\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fblack-career-network-senior-communications-manager-bef"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3553814}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"blackcareernetwork.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3553814},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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