Senior Content Writer and Editorial Lead

Senior Content Writer and Editorial Lead

JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Remote, US (job must be performed within the United States)

Reports to:Director of Communications

About the Praxis Project

The Praxis Project is a values-driven, national nonprofit organization that seeks to improve health justice through partnerships to build community power and increase authentic collaboration and engagement. Praxis believes strongly that organized communities are critical partners in the struggle to create healthy communities. Praxis works with over 200 diverse grassroots groups across the United States that influence local policy, mobilize communities, and strengthen programs and organizations to improve health, equity, and racial justice. Praxis works to enable local efforts to build community power through training, technical assistance, capacity-building, hosting spaces for building relationships and learning, as well as comprehensive fiscal sponsorship. Our capacity-building programming is focused on partnerships that actively advance Praxis’ mission to build healthy communities by transforming the power relationships and structures that affect our lives. For more information, please visit www.thepraxisproject.org.

About Health Equity Works

Health Equity Works (HEW) seeks to transform how America talks about racial health equity by equipping organizations and individuals with strategic communications tools, real-time intelligence, and coordinated messaging that drives lasting narrative change.

HEW serves as a central communications hub, providing shared opposition research, collaborative message testing, rapid response coordination, and unified messaging frameworks. Through real-time social listening, audience research, and message testing, we help our network communicate in ways that expand support for health equity. We operate as a hub-and-spoke network, amplifying partner organizations' communications and building capacity where gaps exist. Through strategic communications support and collaborative campaigns, we move beyond reactive messaging to proactive narrative building. For more information, please visit www.healthequityworks.org.

Position Summary

The Senior Content Writer and Editorial Lead is responsible for originating and producing high-quality, original written content that supports the organization’s communications goals, and serves as a strategic storyteller and content architect, leveraging professional journalistic expertise to amplify health equity narratives across multiple media platforms. This role must be familiar with creating content and narratives for general audiences, not just policy makers, advocates or nonprofits.

In order to do this, the role requires strong journalistic and narrative writing skills, the ability to synthesize complex issues into digestible and compelling formats, and the discretion to shape and lead written content strategy with minimal oversight. This role combines investigative research, compelling storytelling, and strategic communications to challenge existing narratives and drive meaningful conversations about racial health equity broadly. While experience in traditional media formats is appreciated, HEW recognizes that multi-media formats that include but are not limited to: digital, podcast, storytelling and thought leadership are needed in order to create broad change.

The Senior Content Writer transforms complex health data and research into accessible, impactful content that reaches key audiences. This position offers the opportunity to shape public discourse on health equity while building strategic media relationships and developing innovative digital storytelling approaches.

The ideal candidate will serve as both a skilled content creator and strategic thinker, responsible for developing comprehensive content strategies, managing editorial workflows, and creating multimedia content that advances the organizational mission and has a measurable impact. This position operates independently to generate original editorial material – including thought pieces, reports, message frameworks, and feature articles – that serve organizational, partner engagement, and public communication objectives.

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), fully benefits-eligible, exempt position with a general work schedule of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET. Overnight travel is required. The salary range for this position is $75,000-$90,000 per year, and the final salary will be based on experience.

Duties and Responsibilities

• • Independently research, develop, and write original content that advances the organization’s mission and messaging priorities.
  • Own the full content process, including topic development, angle, research, and narrative flow.
  • Establish measurable content performance indicators and analyze impact metrics to refine strategy
  • Exercise discretion and editorial judgment to determine story selection, source credibility, and framing
  • Lead content planning sessions and collaborate on strategic messaging frameworks to support networks
  • Partner with research teams to identify and communicate key findings through strategic content, engaging visual and narrative formats
  • Maintain expertise on current health equity issues and emerging trends
  • Monitor media landscape and opposition messaging to inform proactive communication strategies
  • Interview subject matter experts and community leaders to extract insights for content creation
  • Conduct interviews with community leaders, policymakers, researchers, and affected individuals
  • Manage relationships with freelance contributors and subject matter experts
  • Translate research into persuasive, accessible written materials for content creation.
  • Represent the organization at media events and professional conferences

Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by their direct manager.

This is not a 100% comprehensive list of all duties and responsibilities that may be assigned.

Qualifications, Education and Experience

• • Master’s degree in journalism, communications, public health, English, or related field
  • Experience covering health, policy, or social justice topics
  • Understanding of media relations and press outreach strategies
  • 3-5 years of progressive experience in journalism, strategic communications, or content marketing
  • Demonstrated experience with data journalism and information visualization
  • Portfolio demonstrating range of multimedia storytelling capabilities

Required skills, knowledge, and abilities

• • Demonstrated ability to independently create original written content in the fields of journalism, strategic communications, or public policy
  • Advanced writing, editing, and research skills with experience producing self-directed, substantive work
  • Understanding of editorial decision-making, message framing, and content structure
  • Ability to work autonomously while aligning with organizational goals
  • Familiarity with legal, public health, or policy language and ability to convey it for broad audiences
  • Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously
  • Proven ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and external partners
  • Comfort working in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities and emerging opportunities

Mental and physical demands

• Fast-paced work environment.
• High level of concentration and attention to detail required.
• Time speaking and listening ranges between 25–50%.
• Extended time sitting or standing while at a computer.
• Praxis currently works remotely both as an internal team and with our partners based across the United States. Leading and participating in remote video and telephone conferences is required.
• Multiple video conferences per day with camera settings and video camera on.
• Occasional travel, including overnight travel to support network partners in content development and story collection, may be required.
• Travel for quarterly in-person team meetings
• Some exposure to hearing, seeing, or imagining traumatic events or social crises within the communities we serve.
• Extensive interaction and communication with colleagues and strangers, in person and virtual.
• Valid driver’s license, clean driving record, and insurance are required for employees driving on Praxis business; driving record checks may be required as well.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Praxis Project is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religious creed, disability (mental and physical) including HIV, AIDS, and AIDS-related conditions, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, age, marital status, sexual orientation, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Praxis participates in I9 & E-Verify. You must be able to prove you are legally authorized to work in the United States. This role may require a background check.

The Praxis Project will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on Praxis operations. Please submit reasonable accommodation requests to people@thepraxisproject.org.

Required Training

Praxis is committed to fostering a safe and welcoming work environment. All Praxis employees are required to complete annual training on preventing harassment and discrimination.Additionally, managers are required to complete training on managing bias and creating an inclusive workplace. Ongoing training may be assigned for professional development purposes.

To Apply

Screenings will begin the week of January 5th. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Applications will only be accepted with a resume & cover letter. The ideal start date is before or by March 2nd.

Praxis offers a very competitive full-time benefits package including employer-sponsored health, dental, and vision insurance, paid sick leave, paid vacation (15 days in year one of employment), 15+ paid holidays per year, flexible spending accounts, 401k retirement plan with 6% employer match (immediately vested), reimbursement for cell phone and wireless internet usage as well as wellness costs, regular cost-of-living pay adjustments, and more.