Communications Manager – Beacon Center of Tennessee – Nashville, TN or Virtual in TN

About the Organization:

The Beacon Center is Tennessee’s premier free-market public policy organization. Beacon is pound-for-pound the most effective and efficient state-level think tank on the planet. With a staff of just 13, Beacon has achieved remarkable policy and legal victories that have empowered Tennesseans to reclaim and protect their freedoms. Among our accomplishments, we have:

• Led the effort to repeal the state death tax and Hall Income Tax, becoming just the second state in history to eliminate an income tax. These tax cuts have cumulatively saved taxpayers more than $3 billion to date.
• Successfully advocated to amend the Tennessee Constitution to make right-to-work a constitutional right.
• Enacted the nation’s fourth education savings account program.
• Advanced free market healthcare reforms, including direct primary care, an overhaul of Tennessee’s certificate of need laws, Medicaid work requirements, and Right to Try.
• Helped usher in the nation’s first Right to Earn a Living Act to bring about occupational licensing reform, and successfully repealed multiple licensing laws, resulting in Tennessee leading the nation in the reduction of licensing barriers over the past five years.

About the Role:

We’re not done achieving victory for our fellow Tennesseans. We’re looking for an energetic and liberty-minded Communications Manager to help us spread the message of freedom and free enterprise far and wide. Our Communications Manager must be entrepreneurial and results-oriented, and a strong communicator, writer, and collaborator. He or she should be ideologically aligned. We believe that the principles of free markets, individual liberty, and limited government are the foundation of a prosperous and opportunity-laden society, and he or she should, too.

We have an office in Nashville but offer a hybrid work environment. Team members choose the work location that is best for each day, whether it be working from the office, at home, or some combination thereof. We provide generous benefits and place a huge emphasis on a strong culture and positive work environment. Beacon has been recognized among Nashville’s “Best Places to Work.” A recent internal survey found that 100% of our team members find meaning in what we do and 92% said that their role at Beacon is their dream job at this stage in their career.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities:

• Work with the Senior Director of External Affairs to invent new ways to market liberty to the masses, actively breaking stereotypes about those who love freedom and free markets.
• Serve as the chief spokesman for Beacon in the media and coordinate all media appearances for team members and heroes.
• Assist in the management of all marketing budgets, campaigns, and digital communications vendor relationships, including for issues, engaged audiences, general digital promotion, and event promotion.
• Produce and distribute all external communications including research reports, media releases, digital communications, promotional materials, and messaging campaigns for policy initiatives and lawsuits.
• Conduct and manage every internal aspect of the quarterly Beacon Poll in partnership with external vendors.
• Assist the Senior Director of External Affairs with all outreach programs and oversee Beacon’s Young Professionals Society.
• Review and edit all external communications issued by Beacon.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher, preferably in communications, marketing, public relations, or related fields.
• 3+ years of direct experience in communications, marketing, public relations, and/or related fields.
• Exceptional communication skills—a natural gift for comfortably connecting with people at all levels and for speaking, as well as writing with accuracy in a clear, confident, and compelling way.
• Knowledge of, and passion for, the ideas of freedom and individual liberty. 
• Ability to travel up to 15-20%, including mandatory in-person staff meetings on the first Monday of every month, participation in the annual SPN meeting and related events, attendance at the annual staff retreat, and occasional local travel for media-related activities.

To Apply:

Qualified candidates should submit the following application materials in one PDF document:

• Cover letter detailing your interest in the position, the mission of the Beacon Center, and your salary requirements
• Resume

Applications should be submitted to Talent Market via this link: talentmarket.org/apply-for-your-dream-job/.

Questions can be directed to Savannah Rupp, Project Manager at Talent Market, who is assisting with the search: [email protected].

There is no application deadline for this position. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. This job will remain posted on our site until it is filled.

While we thank all applicants in advance for their interest in this position, we are only able to contact those to whom we can offer an interview. Only direct applications will be considered. No phone calls, please.

Talent Market is a nonprofit entity dedicated to promoting liberty by helping free-market nonprofits identify talent for critical roles. We provide consulting and recruiting services at no cost to 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations that clearly and directly focus on advancing the principles of economic freedom, free enterprise, free trade, free speech, property rights, rule of law, and limited regulation.