National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

Communications

• Lead Communications Strategy
• Set and execute an integrated communications strategy that advances federal and state policy objectives, legal strategies, and organizational priorities.
• Direct message development, strategic communications planning, and the editorial calendar.
• Ensure a consistent and credible organizational voice across all public-facing channels.
• Oversee integrated PR campaign planning across earned media, owned/digital, and collateral material development to drive measurable influence.
• Oversee proactive and reactive media strategy, including relationships with reporters and news outlets.
• Manage rapid-response and crisis communications in a dynamic and often contentious education policy landscape.
• Maintain clear escalation paths, approvals, spokesperson guidance, and high-quality executive communications and briefing materials.
• Provide executive oversight for the research and data team and their portfolio of work, including helping determine which data collection to prioritize and how it will be shared publicly.
• Align the data collection and research agenda to organizational priorities and ensure data is translated into actionable, accessible insights for advocacy, communications, and fundraising.
• Establish quality and accuracy standards, data-use guidance, and release calendars that synchronize with communications and development needs.
• Provide strategic leadership to the Development team, ensuring communications and research fuel fundraising success across foundations, individuals, government grants, corporate partnerships, dues based campaigns, and broad based giving.
• Oversee narrative development and quality standards for all donor facing materials, including cases for support, proposals, pitch decks, fundraising campaigns, and donor stewardship materials.
• Partner closely with the CEO and VP of Development on strategy and high stakes philanthropic moments, ensuring alignment across message, data, and organizational priorities.
• Ensure Development has timely access to messaging, insights, and assets that strengthen donor engagement and deepen understanding of impact.
• Lead managers, staff, and vendors across Communications, Development, and Research/Data, setting goals, managing budgets, and upholding high standards of quality, accuracy, and message discipline.
• Establish an operating cadence (shared objectives, quarterly planning, regular reviews) that ensures coordination and alignment across all three teams.
• Foster a culture of seizing opportunity, collaboration, accountability, and excellence.
• Help anchor the organization in a shared narrative and ensure coordinated messaging for priority campaigns, policy moments, publications, and major announcements.
• Provide internal and external stakeholders with timely guidance, talking points, and communications support.
• Reinforce message consistency and brand discipline across all external touch points.

Senior Vice President, Strategic Communications and Development

Operations

• Serve as a key strategic partner to the CEO and oversee the organization’s core operational functions.
• Provide high-level leadership for finance, technology, HR, and compliance, organizational planning and alignment, operational excellence, and long-term sustainability.
• Partner with the CEO to ensure operational excellence.
• Coordinate executive team operations to align organizational priorities and track progress.
• Measure progress against the strategic plan and grant metrics.
• Provide direct oversight and strategic guidance for teams responsible for HR, technology, finance, and compliance.
• Ensure HR strategy, talent management, and organizational culture initiatives are executed effectively.
• Champion an organizational culture that prioritizes clarity, team alignment, collaboration, and excellence.
• Oversee financial strategy, including budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning.
• Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting to government, funders, and Board of Directors.

Senior Vice President, Strategic Communications and Development

Senior Vice President, Operations