Lead Writer
Thousand Currents
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $97,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Write high-impact articles, op-eds, speeches, and letters that articulate Thousand Currents’ vision and strategies.
- Collaborate with Thousand Currents’ President & CEO and other spokespeople to develop thought leadership pieces that reflect their voice and perspective in ways that resonate with varied audiences.
- Contribute to the editorial calendar in partnership with the Communications Manager.
- Provide crisis communications writing/editing support.
- Work in close cooperation across teams to develop educational materials, stories, and messaging for donor organizing and education, campaigns, website content, donor journeys, and evergreen materials.
- Create, oversee, and update key materials for individual and institutional donor audiences including one-pagers, fact sheets, reports, and brochures.
- Serve as lead writer for major organizational products such as the Annual Report and other organizational priorities.
- Ensure all fundraising and donor communications maintain editorial excellence and align with Thousand Currents’ voice, tone, and values.
- Craft stories that expand audiences’ understanding of the roles, contributions, and solutions of movements, connecting local experiences with global trends, and showcasing solidarity across borders.
- Work with program teams and research partners to translate quantitative and qualitative data into compelling narratives.
- Use evidence to break the “evidence ceiling” around the impact of social movements and demonstrate impact.
- Stay up to date on philanthropic trends, movement ecosystems, and geopolitical developments to inform writing and ensure timely, relevant content.
- Work in close collaboration across the Philanthropic Partnerships and Influence Team (PPI), the Center for Transforming Philanthropy, and the Global Programs Team to strengthen storytelling systems, information flow, and success of organization wide activities and events.
- Participate in organization-wide learning, including staff meetings, retreats and training.
- Manage regular personal administration, including timely submission of receipts, reimbursement requests, scheduling, travel planning, filing HR paperwork etc.
- Provide back-up support for social media and communications operations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional writing and editing experience, including long-form content (articles, reports, speeches, op-eds, or thought leadership).
- Exceptional writing and editorial judgment, with the ability to maintain a consistent organizational voice across audiences and formats.
- Proven experience translating complex ideas, data, and movement realities into clear, compelling narratives for donors, partners, and public audiences.
- Experience working in the climate justice sector preferred.
- Experience writing in partnership with senior leaders, adapting to distinct voices while advancing strategic messaging.
- Movement-centered storytelling, with an ability to write across cultures and power dynamics with care, accuracy, and accountability.
- Research fluency, including working with qualitative and quantitative information to ground narratives in evidence.
- Strong project management skills, able to manage multiple deadlines and shifting priorities.
- Alignment with Thousand Currents’ mission and values, including solidarity, humility, experimentation, and interdependence.
- High learning orientation, openness to feedback, and sound judgment in sensitive or high-visibility communications.
- Flexible and proactive.
- Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment with a remote, geographically dispersed team.
- Ability to travel as needed (both nationally and internationally) and to engage virtually across time zones.
Benefits
- 100% of employee and dependent cost for Health, Dental, and Vision for employee + medical travel insurance for employee
- 10 paid annual holidays + open paid time off policy allowing flexible time off
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Up to $1,000 stipend to set up work space, $2,000 per year wellness stipend, $1,500 per year work from home expenses, and up to $2,000 per year for learning and development
- Remote, flexible schedule
- Retirement contribution allowance of 4% of gross salary
- Life Insurance + Long and Short Term disability insurance
- Possibility of sabbatical leave after seven years of employment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
writingeditinglong-form contentnarrative developmentdata translationproject managementcrisis communicationsstorytellingresearch fluencyfundraising communications
Soft skills
exceptional writing judgmentadaptabilitycultural sensitivitycollaborationflexibilityproactivityhigh learning orientationopenness to feedbacksound judgmentability to manage multiple deadlines