Writer and Content Producer
The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation
There’s work and there’s your life’s work.
Your life’s work ignites a spark that fuels your passion. Your life’s work grabs you by your soul and won’t let go. You are an impact maker.
People join The Harwood Institute to create real, lasting change. We have a proven 30-year history of actively confronting and tackling complex, systemic issues in communities and creating real hope. When tragedy strikes, like the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, we are on the ground helping communities move from trauma and despair to healing and hope. Today, we are working with various communities across the country – Jackson, MS, Alamance County, NC, and Reading, PA, among others – to demonstrate that communities can come together across fault lines to address real challenges, get on a trajectory for hope, and create new narratives of possibility. We are also actively growing national networks of leaders, public innovators and funders to unleash the potential of people, communities, and society across the U.S.
We’re looking for a passionate and pragmatic individual to work directly with Rich Harwood and our team to write and edit content that lifts up arguments for healing and hope in society, people coming together across differences, and creating community-led change. Rich Harwood has written for national publications and appeared on various news networks, including NPR, CNN, PBS NewsHour, C-SPAN, and most recently, MSNBC’s Meet the Press Daily. He is also a well-respected author of six books, including best-seller Stepping Forward: A Positive, Practical Path to Transform our Communities and Our Lives and his most recent book Unleashed: A Proven Way Communities Can Spread Change and Make Hope Real for All.
Your content development and writing will spread messages that help create a more equitable, fair, just, inclusive, and hopeful society, while promoting Rich Harwood and The Harwood Institute as trusted civic voices. You will play a critical role in crafting Rich and The Harwood Institute’s messaging, creatively capturing ideas informed by the Institute’s more than 30 years of experience working with communities, leaders and organizations. You will craft articles, op-eds, blogs, web content, and other pieces.
You may have worked as a researcher, a freelance writer, on a political campaign, in a marketing and communications role, or in public relations. You are an excellent writer, enjoy being a thought partner, and get results.
If this sounds like you, let’s explore working together.
Responsibilities
- Develop and craft articles, op-eds, blogs, videos and other content pieces that effectively position Rich and the Institute as thought leaders and trusted civic voices
- Write using the Institute’s and/or Rich Harwood’s voice and style
- Connect the Institute’s messages to current events and societal challenges
- Engage with editors/publishers about the content they are looking for and craft and pitch responsive ideas
- Work on new book ideas and chapters
- Write compelling copy for the Institute’s website, newsletter, blog posts, and projects
- Draft and edit and media pitches
- Work with the Network Engagement and Communications team to ensure consistent messaging across all platforms
Qualifications
We are seeking an individual with demonstrated experience and proven results in:
- Writing clear and compelling articles, op-eds, books, blogs, stories of change, and other copy
- Connecting ideas to larger and current societal trends and events
- Engaging in highly interactive, brainstorming discussions and then producing ideas, outlines, and new copy
- Crafting strategic messages, videos, content and pitches
- Receiving critiques of their work and direct feedback
- Positioning an organization or individual as a trusted, valued voice
- Building lasting, authentic relationships with publishers, media and/or other partners
- Connecting dots, discovering new avenues and opportunities, and producing concrete results
- Understanding and aligning content production with an organization’s established voice and writing style
Terms
- Full-time position
- Should be able to work in the Institute’s Bethesda, MD, Office; hybrid and remote work arrangements will be discussed in interviews
To Apply
If you want to be a difference-maker, email your resume and statement of interest to [email protected]. We are looking to hire the right individual as soon as possible.
The Harwood Institute has a strong commitment to building a culturally diverse and inclusive team. We encourage women and minorities to apply. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
About The Harwood Institute
The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that equips people, organizations, communities, and networks with the tools to bridge divides, build capacity, and tackle shared challenges. The Harwood Institute’s work is rooted in a philosophy of Civic Faith and the practice of Turning Outward. Founded in 1988, the Institute’s approach has spread to all 50 states across the US and 40 countries around the world.
About Richard C. Harwood
Rich’s perspective is unique – and urgently needed today. For over 30 years, he has dedicated his career to revitalizing the nation’s hardest-hit communities, transforming the world’s largest organizations, and reconnecting institutions like newsrooms and schools to society. He has been recruited to solve some of the most difficult problems of our time, including being called into Newtown, Connecticut after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Rich has innovated and developed a new philosophy of Civic Faith and the practice of Turning Outward, helping communities solve shared problems and create a civic culture of shared responsibility. Thousands of community leaders, officeholders, foundation and corporate executives, clergy, journalists, and government officials around the globe are using his approaches. He is an inspiring, sought-after speaker who regularly keynotes major conferences. He appears regularly on major media outlets and has written several books, including Stepping Forward: A Positive, Practical Path to Transform Our Communities and Our Lives, and numerous groundbreaking reports. Rich is the Founder and President of The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, located in Bethesda, Maryland.
For more information about The Harwood Institute and Rich Harwood, visit www.theharwoodinstitute.org
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