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Rapid Response 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.

Locations: Washington, D.C.

Team Overview

As the Rapid Response Manager, you are responsible for ensuring the organization responds swiftly and strategically to breaking news, emerging issues, and high-priority national and world news relevant to ADF issues. This role will serve as the central hub for monitoring real-time developments, aligning organizational messaging, and ensuring the timely dissemination of communications to external audiences. The Rapid Response Manager will partner closely with Communications leadership, legal, media relations, and subject-matter experts to protect and advance the organization’s reputation and mission in the public eye.

Key Responsibilities

Breaking News Monitoring & Response

  • Continuously monitor media, industry news, and relevant digital channels for emerging issues and breaking news.
  • Quickly assess potential organizational impact and elevate urgent matters to Communications leadership.
  • Provide crisp, daily reports for executive management and key partners across the ministry, including areas for action, areas for increased monitoring, and opportunities.

Message Development & Alignment

  • Draft, edit, and distribute rapid response statements, talking points, and key messages for media, stakeholders, and the public.
  • Ensure consistency, accuracy, and alignment with organizational values, priorities, and legal considerations.

Cross-Functional Coordination

  • Act as the central point of coordination across Communications, Legal, Policy, and Executive teams during rapid response moments.
  • Facilitate approvals on messaging under tight deadlines.

External Engagement

  • Partner with Media Relations to proactively pitch statements and responses to journalists.
  • Ensure organizational perspectives are represented in external coverage of breaking events.

Preparedness & Process

  • Maintain and refine a rapid response playbook and escalation process.
  • Conduct scenario planning and simulations to ensure organizational readiness.
  • Track, measure, and report on the effectiveness and timeliness of responses.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, or related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in media relations, public affairs, crisis communications, or a related role.
  • Exceptional writing and editing skills, with the ability to distill complex issues into clear, compelling messaging.
  • Strong news judgment and familiarity with fast-moving media cycles.
  • Experience coordinating across senior leaders, legal, and policy experts.

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

$79,753 - $99,690 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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