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We know that our climate goals can only be met by rapidly reducing emissions and removing the carbon in our atmosphere. The good news? Carbon is much more than mere waste. We work at the intersection of science, business, and policy to champion solutions transforming carbon from a liability to an asset and fostering a prosperous, carbon-conscious economy. Our team is based in Washington, D.C., with teammates who work remotely from other cities.\nDon’t meet every single requirement? Here at Carbon180, we believe there is no “perfect” candidate and want to encourage applying even if all the requirements listed aren’t met. Our goal is to build an authentic workplace by valuing diversity in our candidates. We are always looking to expand our growing team with dynamic and enthusiastic individuals. We look forward to receiving your application!\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\nOverview\nCarbon180 is seeking a Senior Managing Communications Associate to build and run the content engine behind our work. This person turns what our policy, science, and program teams know into things people actually read, watch, and share. Blogs, newsletters, social, web, short-form video, and other digital properties. They will lead execution of our first sustained public education push on carbon removal, own several of our channels end to end, support our fundraising team in telling the story of our impact to donors, and help more people outside of Washington understand why removing legacy carbon matters. They will shape strategy by identifying opportunities, conducting landscape and audience analysis, tracking trends, and engaging with key partners. In this role, the Senior Managing Communications Associate will represent Carbon180 in meetings, conferences, and advocacy efforts, including participating in in-person engagements as appropriate.\nThis is a role for someone who likes making things and deploying them. Carbon180 produces serious, technical work: policy roadmaps, federal recommendations, and the CORE Carbon Removal Framework to name a few. We need someone who can take that material and make it land with everyone else, from a congressional staffer's parents to a first-time donor to a high schooler who found us on Instagram. You will own the execution of work the Director of Communications sets the strategy for, which means real latitude over how it gets made, when it ships, and what changes once we see how it performs. The selected candidate must live within the DC Metro area. This role reports to the Director of Communications.\nMajor Roles and Responsibilities\nContent production and editorial pipelines\nOwn the systems that get Carbon180's work out the door on a regular schedule, not just when a major report drops.\nWrite and edit blogs, explainers, one-pagers, newsletter copy, and social content across our policy areas\nManage production for our newsletters, working with program staff to source and shape content\nOwn the editorial calendar for our channels, including what runs, when it runs, and in what order\nWork directly with policy, science, and program colleagues to pull out what's newsworthy in their work and translate it into plain language\nHold the line on voice and quality across everything we publish, maintaining and improving our style guide and internal comms hub\nMedia and public relations support\nAdvance Carbon180's media program in partnership with our external PR firm.\nDraft press releases, statements, media advisories, and talking points\nServe as a day-to-day point of contact for media inquiries and coverage tracking, keeping the team informed on what's moving in climate and carbon removal press\nHelp prepare spokespeople for interviews and public appearances\nLead communications for our events, including our presence at climate conferences and convenings\nDevelopment communications\nPartner with our development team so that donors understand our impact and hear from us consistently.\nProduce fundraising emails, appeals, and campaign collateral, including design and build in our email platform\nBuild and run the content pipeline that moves people from first contact into our supporter base\nLead audience segmentation for donor communications in partnership with development\nSupport funder-facing materials, reports, and webinars alongside program colleagues\nKeep donor communications consistent with the rest of our voice and visual identity\nPublic education and campaign leadership\nLead execution of Carbon180's public education campaign, an evergreen effort to explain carbon removal to a general audience.\nOwn the weekly production cycle: one topic, explained clearly, delivered across web, social, video, and email\nRecruit and coach colleagues across the organization to contribute, on camera and on the page\nBuild and maintain the campaign's home on our website\nSet measures of success with the Director of Communications, then track performance and adjust the plan yourself as results come in\nDigital channels and discoverability\nOwn how Carbon180 shows up online and grow who finds us there.\nOwn Carbon180's social channels end to end, from calendar to publishing to performance, including short-form video for Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube\nProduce and edit short-form video, either filmed yourself or coordinated with colleagues and partners\nLead our approach to search (SEO) and AI-generated answers (GEO), an area still being figured out across our field and one you would help us define\nMaintain and update carbon180.org content, partnering directly with our design and web colleagues\nAnalysis and organizational learning\nHelp us understand whether our communications are working, and change course when they aren't.\nConduct landscape and audience analysis to inform where we put our communications effort\nLead a twice-yearly review of communications impact, covering what reached people, what didn't, and what we should do differently\nBuild performance reporting that program, development, and leadership colleagues can actually use\nWHO YOU ARE\nOur ideal Senior Managing Communications Associate believes deeply in our mission. Beyond that:\nYou build trust and leverage meaningful relationships to get things done. A relationship-builder at heart, the people you work with trust that you leverage relationships to get things done in a mutually beneficial, non-transactional way. You are both warm AND demanding. You do the things you say you will do, hold others to account, and support the people you engage in the pursuit of our shared goals. \nYou own things, not tasks. Given a goal and a set of non-negotiables, you build the plan, run it, and come back with results rather than questions. You know the difference between a decision that needs your director in the room and one that doesn't, and you don't confuse the two.\nYou excel on a small, nimble team, and are happy wearing lots of hats. Working on a small, fast-paced, and quickly growing team feels not only familiar to you - you love it. You are flexible, comfortable with ambiguity, know how to roll with the punches, have a quick bounce-back time after a setback, and get energy from building the plane as you fly it. \nYou translate. You've sat with an expert who couldn't stop using acronyms and walked out with something a stranger could understand. This is the single most important thing you'll do here, and you're good at it. \nYou move fluidly from strategy to execution. You appreciate the big picture and feel inspired to set a bold vision, but you know it's all in the details. You manage projects fluidly, prioritize fiercely, and track timelines, data, and information in an organized and systematic fashion. You don't drop balls, miss deadlines, or forget to respond to someone's inquiry - and you’re not afraid to roll up your sleeves to do the work. \nYou’re a driver of results. You've demonstrated the ability to drive results in the pursuit of ambitious goals. You combine your exceptional strategic, analytical, and critical thinking skills with your penchant to use both data and lived experiences to drive decision-making that achieves impressive outcomes.\n You are sponge-y in your constant quest for knowledge. When the work feels ambiguous and the path forward unclear, you’re quick to dive into the research to soak up everything you can re: what’s already been done, what’s working, and what the science and communities say. You’re able to distill complex information into a synthesized set of findings and recommendations, and get feedback from your team to make them stronger. You’re constantly looking to learn, grow, and expand your skills and expertise.\nBeyond that, you have:\nSix to ten years of experience in communications, marketing, content production, journalism, or advocacy, within government, NGOs, or related fields. A focus on climate or carbon removal is very welcomed, but not required. We care much more about what you've made (and its impact) than where you made it.\nStrong writing capabilities. You should be able to move between a 1,500-word blog, a 40-word Instagram caption, and a fundraising email without losing the thread. Experience in engaging with donor audiences is welcomed. \nAbility to analyze trends and challenges in the team’s focus area and contribute to the development of strategies, research, or policy recommendations, with guidance from senior team members as needed.\nWorking knowledge of social media management and performance data, enough to know what to do differently next month. Comfort with email marketing and CRM platforms. We use Mailchimp and Salesforce. If you've used something similar, you'll be fine. Experience with Wordpress is welcomed, but not required. . \nExperience collaborating across teams, contributing to shared goals, and providing peer-level guidance to support team effectiveness and professional development.\nStrong communication skills, with experience translating complex topics for diverse audiences, contributing to the development of communications or materials, and representing the team in meetings and stakeholder engagements with support as needed.\nCommitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice (DEIBJ), with a growing track record of applying these principles in communications and public affairs work, and contributing to an inclusive team culture.\nExperience in video production and relevant tools is welcomed, but not required.\nWHAT WE OFFER\nCarbon180 is deeply committed to providing market-leading compensation and robust benefits to our employees. Our salaries are in the 70th percentile of the Washington, DC market. 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For those reasons, we have a non-negotiation policy on salaries.\nThe starting salary range for this position will be $141,080 to $162,242 with opportunities for growth up to $182,404.\nCarbon180 prides itself on offering benefits and perks to our employees that illustrate how we live our values, including:\n36-hour workweeks (we close at 1 pm every Friday) and dedicated no-meeting time each week.\nA remote-first flexible work culture.\nFour weeks of PTO, three weeks of paid org-wide breaks including one week in the summer and two weeks in the winter, four weeks of sick leave, and five floating holidays/personal days.\n100% company-covered insurance premiums for medical/dental/vision/long-term disability for you and your dependents.\nA quarterly health and wellness stipend.\nTO APPLY\nTo apply for the role of Senior Managing Communications Associate please submit an application.\nOn the application, you’ll be asked to:\nAnswer some basic questions about your background and experiences\nIn place of a cover letter, answer a few written reflection questions to help us learn more about your interest in joining our team and in this role specifically\nAttach your resume as prompted in...","description_format":"text","description_chars":14756,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible schedule","Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Environmental Science","Nonprofits & Foundations"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-02T21:47:08Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":12,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.351,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":19,"expected_fill_days":7,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":162242,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/carbon180-senior-managing-communications-associate-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/carbon180-senior-managing-communications-associate-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-20T14:19:39Z","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":16090,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00Z"}},"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":1827780},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1827780"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcarbon180-senior-managing-communications-associate-2"},{"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%2Fcarbon180-senior-managing-communications-associate-2"},{"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%2Fcarbon180-senior-managing-communications-associate-2"},{"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/carbon180-senior-managing-communications-associate-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcarbon180-senior-managing-communications-associate-2"}]}