Feed Black Futures is a Black, queer-led organization committed to food justice, sovereignty, and healing within our communities. We strengthen Black food economies, cultivate ecosystems for resilience, and address the historical and ongoing harms of carceral violence, land dispossession, and extractive food systems.
Grounded in abolition, self-determination, and collective governance, we build community power toward a future in which Black communities have the resources, relationships, land, and infrastructure necessary to determine how food is grown, shared, governed, and sustained. Our work moves between meeting immediate community needs and building the conditions for long-term food and land sovereignty.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Communications Strategy & Planning
- Develop and manage FBF’s annual communications strategy in alignment with organizational priorities, programs, fundraising goals, and campaigns.
- Build and maintain annual and quarterly communications calendars, identifying key campaigns, stories, events, seasonal moments, and opportunities for public engagement.
- Proactively identify communications opportunities and needs across programs, development, partnerships, organizing, and organizational initiatives.
- Develop communications plans for major campaigns, events, program launches, reports, and organizational announcements.
- Establish workflows and systems that allow staff to effectively request, plan, review, and produce communications materials.
- Track communications goals and performance and use insights to strengthen future strategy.
Narrative Strategy & Storytelling
- Steward FBF’s voice and narrative across communications channels.
- Translate complex ideas related to food sovereignty, land liberation, abolition, collective governance, agroecology, and solidarity economies into accessible and compelling communications.
- Identify and develop stories that demonstrate FBF’s impact while honoring the dignity, agency, and expertise of community members and partners.
- Collaborate with staff, members, farmers, community partners, and leadership to gather stories, interviews, testimonials, photographs, and other narrative materials.
- Maintain strong ethical practices around confidentiality, storytelling, consent, representation, attribution, and community data.
Content Development & Editorial Management
- Lead the creation, editing, and publication of organizational communications, including newsletters, social media, website content, event materials, reports, video projects, graphic design, campaign materials, and donor/funder-facing communications.
- Develop content from initial concept through final publication, coordinating review and approval when needed.
- Manage FBF’s library of communications assets, including photographs, videos, graphics, templates, messaging, and organizational language.
Digital Communications & Social Media
- Manage FBF’s digital communications presence across Instagram, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mailchimp, Facebook, the FBF website, and emerging platforms as appropriate.
- Develop and execute social media strategies that balance organizational storytelling, political education, program visibility, community engagement, and movement amplification.
- Create and oversee original digital content, including graphics, written content, short-form video, campaigns, and multimedia storytelling.
- Identify and implement tools and practices that make digital communications more effective and sustainable.
Publications & Impact Communications
- Project manage the development of FBF’s Annual Impact Report and other major organizational publications.
- Work with staff and leadership to translate organizational impact into clear and compelling narratives.
- Publication research and submissions.
Merchandise
- Co-lead the redesign of FBF’s merchandise including identifying local artists to support with the project.
- Ensure stock of FBF merchandise is sufficient for the organization’s needs and proactively place orders when necessary.
Media & External Communications
- Support the development of FBF’s media and public relations strategy.
- Maintain organizational bios, background materials, talking points, press materials, and other external communications resources.
- Identify relevant media, podcast, speaking, and storytelling opportunities in collaboration with organizational leadership.
- Coordinate incoming communications and media requests and support staff in preparing for interviews and public appearances.
- Build and maintain relationships with aligned media makers, storytellers, cultural workers, and communications partners.
Cross-Team Collaboration & Project Management
- Serve as the primary communications partner for staff across programs, development, operations, and leadership.
- Coordinate contractors, photographers, videographers, designers, printers, or other communications vendors as needed.
- Supervise communications the Communications Coordinator and possibly interns, fellows, or contractors as the communications function grows.
- Maintain and periodically update FBF’s internal and public-facing resource materials.
- General event support and communications for events.
- Coalition representation and participation as requested.
Skills & Qualifications
We recognize that strong candidates may bring different combinations of professional, movement, community, and lived experience. We encourage applicants who meet many, but not necessarily all, of the following qualifications:
- 4+ years of communications, storytelling, marketing, journalism, digital media, or related experience, ideally within a social justice, movement-building, nonprofit, or community-based context.
- Demonstrated experience developing and implementing communications strategies and campaigns.
- Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills, with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly across different audiences and formats.
- Strong understanding of narrative strategy and the relationship between communications, culture, organizing, and systems change.
- Demonstrated project management skills and ability to independently move projects from concept through completion.
- Experience managing editorial calendars and multiple communications channels.
- Strong working knowledge of platforms such as Instagram, FaceBook, Squarespace, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mailchimp, Canva, Adobe, Google Workspace, and website content management systems.
- Experience creating visually compelling communications materials and working within an established brand.
- Ability to interpret communications analytics and use them to inform strategy.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate across roles, programs, and levels of an organization.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, anticipate needs, take initiative, and meet deadlines with limited supervision.
- Demonstrated commitment to racial, economic, food, and land justice.
- Understanding of, or willingness to engage deeply with, food sovereignty, abolition, collective governance, solidarity economies, and Black liberation.
- Experience working with Black communities, grassroots organizations, movement organizations, or community-led initiatives strongly preferred.
WE’RE LOOKING FOR
Someone who:
- Thinks strategically while also enjoying the craft of making things.
- Can take a broad idea or organizational priority and determine what needs to be communicated, to whom, through which channels, and when.
- Is a thoughtful and curious storyteller who understands that community members are protagonists in their own stories rather than subjects of organizational storytelling.
- Has strong political instincts and is comfortable engaging ideas that do not always fit neatly into traditional nonprofit messaging.
- Can distinguish between what is urgent and what is important and build systems that reduce reactive communications.
- Is comfortable offering recommendations, making decisions within their scope, and taking ownership of projects.
- Values collaboration without requiring constant direction.
- Approaches communications with care, rigor, experimentation, and imagination.
Role Overview
- Role location: Hybrid; Oakland, CA. Regular in-person work and participation in community events required
- Reports to: Co-Executive Director
- Compensation: $85,000-$85,000 DOE
- Status: Full-time, non-expempt
Applying
Please submit your resume and 3–4 relevant work samples demonstrating your communications experience. Samples may include social media campaigns, newsletters, reports, articles, graphic design, digital campaigns, videos, messaging frameworks, or other communications materials.
Please include a brief response describing your approach to storytelling and communications and your vision for Feed Black Futures brand and communications strategy.
Send application materials to communications@feedblackfutures.org with the subject line “S&C Manager Application.”
Our interview process will consist of 2-3 interviews. After the first interview, we will offer $75 for each additional interview. We may ask applicants to participate in take-home work exercises to prepare for interviews which will be included in the compensation.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
