Communications Manager

Overview: Job Title: Communications Manager

Department

Communication

Reports To

Chief Communications Officer

FLSA Status

Exempt

Location

Washington, DC | Hybrid

Schedule

Full-Time

Who We Are

Radio Free Asia (RFA) is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with editorial and operational bureaus in Taipei, Bangkok, and Seoul. A congressionally funded grantee of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), RFA operates with full editorial independence.

Our mission is to provide accurate, uncensored news and information to people living in countries where a free press does not exist. We broadcast in nine languages and dialects — Mandarin, Cantonese, Tibetan, Uyghur, Burmese, Vietnamese, Lao, Khmer, and Korean — reaching audiences across China, North Korea, Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia, Laos and beyond via shortwave, satellite, and the internet. Our journalists work in some of the world’s most difficult media environments, often at considerable personal risk, filling a critical gap in access to truthful, timely news for millions of people who would otherwise have very little of it. That reality shapes everything about how we work and who we hire to lead this organization. Job Summary The Communication Manager joins a small, nimble integrated communications team responsible for external media, event-planning, and internal communications of a mission-driven private, nonprofit media corporation funded by the U.S. Congress and undergoing transformational change. More specifically, this role, which reports to the Chief Communications Officer, focuses on RFA’s reputation management, media relations, event planning, digital communications strategies and content creation, and stakeholder cultivation and engagement.

The ideal candidate would be an out-going, natural networker, adept at cultivating professional relationships with media and like-minded groups, finding ways and opportuniti...