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Media Relations Manager

Washington, D.C.

Make a difference with us! At Alliance Defending Freedom, we believe God has brought you here for His purpose—to stand for truth and defend the God-given right to live and speak it. Together, we protect religious freedom, free speech, the sanctity of life, marriage and family, and parental rights. Review our Statement of Faith to ensure we’re a fit for you.

Location: Washington, D.C.

Team Overview

As the Media Relations Manager, you are a vital part of the Media Team, ensuring the cases, work, and mission of ADF are communicated effectively through interviews, print materials, and campaigns. You are responsible for developing and managing paid and earned media campaigns and engagement plans, and managing ADF’s media relations efforts for an assigned portfolio. You will shape ADF’s voice and impact, crafting powerful stories, engaging audiences, and amplifying our mission across media platforms. In this role, you will report to the VP of Media Relations.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage and develop strong, productive relationships with the media.
  • Ensure consistent, proactive, and responsive engagement with the media.
  • Develop, coordinate, execute, and evaluate paid and earned media engagement plans and campaigns that advance ADF’s legal strategy and advocacy objectives.
  • Manage and coordinate media events.
  • Prepare principals and clients for and staff media interviews.
  • Assist with the development of key messages, potential media questions and answers, fact sheets, news releases and Op Eds.
  • Build and strengthen relationships with media-relations counterparts from allied organizations.
  • Manage contracts that support ADF media relations, advocacy campaigns and advertising efforts.
  • Manage ADF’s rapid response efforts to breaking news that has a nexus to ADF.
  • Perform related duties or special projects as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 5+ Years of experience in Media Relations, Public Relations, or Journalism field
  • Demonstrated track record of success in media relations.
  • Proficient in writing and editing materials according to AP Style.
  • Proficient with media relations and/or public relations management applications.
  • Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Excellent organizational and administrative skills, including attention to detail.
  • Team player, ability to work effectively with cross-team counterparts on multi-aspect projects.
  • Must be responsible, flexible and work well in fast-past environments.
  • Ability to understand basic constitutional law and legal terminology.
  • Proficient with Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
  • Ability to travel for media engagements as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, or similar academic field.
  • In-depth knowledge of constitutional law and policy and experience communicating on relevant topics to ADF's work.

Pay & Benefits

At Alliance Defending Freedom, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits package to support your well-being and growth. While we do not disclose specific salary ranges, our compensation is competitive with top non-profit law firms. Our benefits include 100% covered medical and dental insurance, medical and dependent care reimbursement, paid disability, long-term care, life insurance, and a 401(k) plan with a 4% company match. We prioritize work-life balance with paid time off and 12 paid holidays each year.

Want to Know More About ADF?

This salary range is reflective of a position based in Washington, D.C. This range is a good faith estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on the candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and office location.

Washington, D.C. Salary Range

$68,164 - $85,205 USD

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Statement of Faith

Based on our adherence to the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God in Scripture, we profess with the Christian Church throughout time and around the world the faith expressed in the Apostles’ Creed:

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.
Amen.

Doctrinal Distinctives

Also, based on this confession, we are committed to honoring God by obeying the two Greatest Commandments, loving God and loving neighbor, and based on that commitment and derived from the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God in Scripture, we profess the following as necessary for living the gospel:

  • We believe in the spiritual unity and equality of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • We believe that the Lordship of Christ requires us as disciples to seek to conform our actions, thoughts, and desires in obedience to Him.
  • We believe God creates each person with an immutable biological sex — male or female — that reflects the image and likeness of God.
  • We believe God designed marriage as a unique conjugal relationship joining one man and one woman in a single, exclusive, life-long union, and God intends sexual intimacy only to occur within that relationship.
  • We believe God endows all human life with inherent dignity, and it must be respected and protected from conception to natural death.
  • We believe that God has endowed all humans with the natural, and inalienable right of religious freedom to believe, pursue truth, and live within ordered liberty such that no civil government may justly infringe upon it.
  • We believe that God, through His Son, Jesus Christ, calls all of us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him, knowing that He promises us abundant and eternal life.
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