Date Posted:
September 29, 2026
Position Title:
Vice President of Media Engagement
Office/Company:
Groundwork Collaborative
Party:
N/A
Office Code:
Job Number:
HC-13323
Reports To:
Location:
Washington, DC
Contact:
Salary:
Salary and Benefits: The compensation range for this full-time, exempt position is $180,000 to $200,000 annually commensurate with the candidate’s relevant experiences, capabilities, and skills. A generous benefits package is also provided through Groundwork Collaborative, which includes:
Primary Role
Secondary Role:
Job Type:
Full Time
Description:
Responsibilities:
• Lead Groundwork’s press and earned media strategy
• Set the vision, strategy, priorities, and operating approach for Groundwork’s press and earned media work, ensuring a proactive, coordinated, and high-impact presence across national broadcast, print, digital, podcast, newsletter, and emerging media.
• Translate Groundwork’s organizational and communications strategies into targeted media campaigns, proactive narrative opportunities, rapid response, and sustained press engagement.
• Identify the moments, messengers, stories, and platforms that can move economic debates and expand Groundwork’s reach.
• Build systems for prioritizing opportunities, coordinating across teams, and measuring the impact of Groundwork’s media work.
• Build and lead a high-performing press operation
• Directly manage and develop a press team of 2-4 staff, providing strategic direction, editorial leadership, coaching, feedback, and professional development opportunities.
• Establish clear goals, workflows, and decision-making processes that enable the team to operate effectively in a fast-moving news environment.
• Serve as a senior editor and strategic thought partner on press materials, including releases, media advisories, statements, talking points, briefings, op-eds, and other communications products.
• Advise the SVP of Communications and senior leadership on emerging media opportunities, risks, trends, and developments in the information ecosystem.
• Lead and grow the Economic Speakers Bureau
• Provide strategic leadership for the Economic Speakers Bureau (ESB), ensuring that its growing network of economic experts is effectively integrated into Groundwork’s broader communications and narrative strategy.
Qualifications:
• Experience leading or overseeing a speakers bureau, surrogacy program, expert network, or similar initiative.
• Experience serving in a senior press or communications leadership role in an advocacy organization, political campaign, congressional office, government agency, or think tank.
• Deep expertise in economic policy issues, including areas such as fiscal policy, labor, trade, or financial regulation.
• Established relationships with influential voices in new and alternative media, including podcast producers, newsletter writers, content creators, and creator networks.
• Experience building or expanding communications infrastructure or launching a new organizational function.
• WORK LOCATION, COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
• Work Location: This role is hybrid position, with Monday and Wednesdays in the office and three days remote, as well as the occasional need to work in-person for events and special projects. The Groundwork Collaborative is based in Washington, D.C.
• Excellent health benefits with 100% employer-paid coverage and a generous HRA.
• Five weeks of vacation and personal leave, two week-long office closures, and additional time off for floating and federal holidays.
• Up to 16 weeks parental leave.
• Up to 6% retirement contribution.
• Health club and cellphone reimbursement.
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ABOUT GROUNDWORK COLLABORATIVE
Launched in 2018, Groundwork Collaborative (Groundwork) is driven by the idea that We Are The Economy: when all of us are doing well, that is when our economy thrives. We fight for progressive economic policy and narrative change that builds accountable public power, breaks up concentrations of private power, and centers people too long left out of prosperity. Taken together, these actions can help build a stronger and more resilient economy.
Groundwork’s unique structure – part strategic communications organization, part think tank, and part issue advocacy organization – enables us to drive narrative and policy change with credibility, expertise, and impact. We work across four core audiences – the media, policymakers, economic experts, and grasstops leaders – using targeted policy campaigns, timely research, and compelling messaging to advance a truly inclusive economic worldview.
THE OPPORTUNITY
Groundwork Collaborative is seeking a Vice President of Media Engagement to lead the organization’s press and earned media operation and expand the reach and influence of its economic narrative work.
This is a new senior leadership role within Groundwork’s communication team, created to bring together two powerful assets: a growing in-house press operation and the Economic Speakers Bureau, which is helping diversify the expert voices sharpening coverage and conversation about the economy.
The Vice President will build the strategy, relationships, systems, and team necessary to ensure that Groundwork’s research, experts, campaigns, and ideas consistently break through in a dynamic, rapidly evolving media environment. They will translate Groundwork’s broader communications and organizational priorities into high-impact media strategies—from proactive narrative campaigns and major report launches to rapid response and opportunities to shape breaking news.
Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Communications, the Vice President will directly manage Groundwork’s press team and provide strategic leadership for the Economic Speakers Bureau. They will serve as a senior member of the communications team and a trusted advisor to executive leadership, working closely with Policy, Advocacy, Research, Partnerships, and Digital staff to build integrated campaigns that move both policy and narrative.
Groundwork Collaborative is an equal opportunity employer and proudly values diversity.
