Date Posted:
October 10, 2026
Position Title:
Press Secretary
Office/Company:
Groundwork Collaborative
Party:
N/A
Office Code:
Job Number:
HC-13576
Reports To:
Location:
Washington, DC
Contact:
Salary:
Salary and Benefits: The compensation range for this full-time, exempt position is $110,000 to $140,000 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:
• Serve as a core member of the Groundwork Communications team, driving the organization’s press strategy and day-to-day media operations.
• Develop and execute proactive media outreach strategies that advance Groundwork’s research, policy agenda, and broader economic narrative.
• Monitor and analyze the daily news cycle and earned media coverage. Identify trends and opportunities to inform communications strategy. Elevate our experts as spokespeople, and advance Groundwork’s worldview on the economy.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with journalists, editors, bookers, producers, and hosts who cover Groundwork’s priority issues.
• Proactively pitch stories, respond to press inquiries, and draft media relations materials, including press releases, media advisories, op-eds, letters to the editor, briefings, talking points, and messaging.
• Support tracking and reporting media hits and clips across platforms for key internal and external audiences.
• Prepare briefing materials for staff interviews with the press.
• Oversee and manage Groundwork’s press lists via our media database and other organizational platforms.
• Organize press-related events, including calls, conferences, and briefings.
• Collaborate with Groundwork’s Policy and Partnerships teams and external partners to pinpoint opportunities to publicize organizational initiatives, activities, reports, and other content that drives press coverage.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Qualifications:
• Deep expertise in economic policy issues and familiarity with the progressive policymaking and advocacy ecosystems, including Capitol Hill, state and local governments, political campaigns, advocacy organizations, and/or think tanks.
• Experience serving as a Press Secretary, Communications Director, or in a comparable senior media role in a policy or advocacy organization, political campaign, and/or congressional or local political office.
• Established relationships in the new and alternative media space including content creators, podcast hosts and producers, independent journalists, and influencer network.
• 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
• Groundwork is a unionized workplace and is represented by the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU). This position is in the bargaining unit.
• More information about Groundwork Collaborative can be found at: www.groundworkcollaborative.org.
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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 – enable 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 an experienced Press Secretary who will support the organization’s communications agenda, focusing on media outreach strategies. This position will drive and coordinate media relations and press outreach efforts, strategize on rollout plans for the organization’s research and announcements, craft press statements and other materials for press audiences, and advise on issue campaigns, economic messaging, and editorial strategy. Working closely with Communications team leadership, the Press Secretary will play a leading role shaping and executing Groundwork’s press strategy, bringing strong discernment for identifying and landing real-time media moments and a strategic eye for sequencing publications, opinion pieces, and press hits into a coherent long-term narrative.
The Press Secretary will also help promote the work and thought leadership of Groundwork’s leadership team and policy experts, including by proactively pitching of experts as spokespeople on economic news of the day, providing interview prep and briefings, tracking news trends and spotting timely opportunities, and building and maintaining relationships with relevant journalists, bookers, and producers. They will keep a finger on the pulse of economic and political conversations happening both in traditional media spaces as well as in new and alternative media to help spot and execute media opportunities that position Groundwork as a leading voice on the economy.
Groundwork Collaborative is an equal opportunity employer and proudly values diversity.
