Contract Strategic Communications Director

What to know

In this role, you’ll make meaningful contributions to a team of communicators developing impactful strategies for a client base that spans leading nonprofits, advocacy organizations, campaigns, and brands. You’ll translate their mission and objectives into innovative approaches and narratives that reach new audiences and give a platform to their issues. You’ll be a close partner to key clients, and help Blue State deliver the best possible outcome.

The ideal candidate is an inquisitive writer, thinker, and avid consumer of news, culture, and digital trends who can help develop and execute engaging strategies across social, owned and earned media.

The company

Blue State is a purpose-driven agency. We partner with leading causes, brands, and campaigns and create real change. From Doctors Without Bordersnd The Michael J. Fox Foundation  to Amnesty International and Oxfam, we transform how brands and causes amplify their messages, raise money, influence policy, build platforms, and grow communities of supporters. Led by the most creative and analytical minds from the political, nonprofit, and brand worlds, Blue State is an independent agency and has 150+ employees in the US and London.

A day in the life

• Help clients think strategically about their communications, and craft innovative earned and social media plans that meet the moment.


• Develop press relationships for media opportunities and oversee/create earned media assets including press releases, collateral, and other supporting materials.


• Contribute to the execution of cross-disciplinary, integrated campaigns that leverage public affairs, media and digital tactics to reach key audiences and achieve client goals.


• Write and edit persuasive external and internal documents such as press releases, op-eds, presentations, fact sheets, talking points, social media language, pitch notes and ideas memos.


• Advise and stay up-to-date on social media strategies and best practices in social media marketing, including growth recommendations, influencer trends, and content recommendations, across platforms including LinkedIn, Meta (Facebook/Instagram), X, Bluesky, TikTok, and others.

• Help create compelling content about Blue State’s mission, culture, clients, work, and more.


• Attend client meetings and engage in discussions regarding strategies, recommendations, and deliverables.


• Coordinate communication with clients and assist on creation and distribution of meeting agendas and notes as needed.


• Ensure delivery of client deliverables according to project timelines, and pivot work as necessary based on timeline adjustments and new client needs.

The team 

We are a passionate group of people who are both thinkers and doers. We bring a people-first, data-driven mindset to all of our work. Ultimately, we’re about real impact for real people, partnering with brands, nonprofits, and political organizations to drive progress.

For us, this isn’t just work. Everything we do is connected to something we care about and we’re seeking an individual willing to work tirelessly to create positive change in the world.

Some things we're looking for

• 8+ years Communications experience 




• Bonus: journalism or social media content creation experience


• Bonus: experience creating messaging and materials for complex and/or sensitive subjects


• Bonus: marketing experience




• Impeccable written and oral communication skills -- the ability to explain the reasons behind a particular strategic or creative approach, and guide clients through difficult decision points


• Skilled at writing, pitching, and cultivating media/influencer relationships


• Passion for social advocacy, and a willingness to get up to speed quickly on issues ranging from environmental justice to public health 


• Fluency with leading social media platforms and social media marketing


• Strong collaborator and relationship builder


• Self-starter, driven, focused, eager, ability to think on feet, detail- and process- oriented

Hourly rate for this position is $65-$95; compensation will be commensurate with experience.

At Blue State, diversity is a necessity, not a nice-to-have. We encourage those from underrepresented communities — women, people of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between — to apply. Even if you don’t think your current skill set checks every box, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.

Blue State is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible application and interview process. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, including the use of AI tools throughout the hiring process, please contact us at [email protected] with the subject line: Accommodation Request to get started.