Strategic Lead, Digital Prevention & Behavioral Interventions

The Senior Manager will lead the design, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-informed digital prevention interventions across Moonshot's U.S. Online Violence Prevention portfolio. This role combines substantive expertise in violence prevention and behavioral interventions with strong program and people leadership, ensuring campaigns are grounded in prevention best practices, responsive to the needs of their intended audiences, and effective in achieving meaningful prevention outcomes.

The Senior Manager will oversee a team delivering diverse prevention campaigns, including help-seeking interventions, bystander awareness, pre-bunking, and resilience-building initiatives. Working closely with digital advertising specialists, threat assessment practitioners, and other subject matter experts, they will ensure interventions are strategically sound, ethically delivered, and continuously improved through evidence and evaluation.

The role also includes oversight of complex project delivery, management and development of campaign teams, client engagement, and contributions to Moonshot's evolving prevention methodologies and organizational growth.

Candidates must be based in MA, CO, NY, VA, GA, PA, MD, WI, TN, TX, OR, NJ, or DC. Occasional travel may be required.

Your responsibilities will include:

Intervention Strategy, Design & Evaluation

• Lead evidence-informed intervention design processes, identifying target audiences, risk and protective factors, behavioral objectives, theories of change, messaging strategies, and intervention pathways.
• Oversee the design of diverse digital prevention initiatives, including help-seeking, bystander awareness, pre-bunking, and resilience-building campaigns.
• Translate research, behavioral insights, and practitioner expertise into actionable intervention strategies, incorporating appropriate referral pathways and services where relevant.
• Define meaningful intervention outcomes and oversee evaluation of campaign effectiveness beyond traditional digital advertising metrics, including help-seeking, service connections, and other intended behavioral outcomes.
• Identify weaknesses in intervention strategies or outcomes and lead improvements informed by evidence, campaign findings, and emerging prevention research.

Project & Portfolio Delivery

• Provide leadership and oversight across multiple projects, from scoping and planning through implementation, evaluation, and reporting.
• Translate intervention strategies into actionable delivery plans, establish clear accountability, and exercise sound judgment in managing competing priorities, resources, budgets, and delivery risks.
• Work closely with digital advertising specialists to ensure campaign execution, creative approaches, and optimization decisions support substantive prevention objectives.

Subject Matter Leadership & Quality Assurance

• Apply substantive knowledge of targeted violence prevention, violent extremism, radicalization, and related fields to intervention design and delivery.
• Collaborate with behavioral threat assessment practitioners, psychologists, researchers, and other specialists, recognizing when additional expertise or review is needed.
• Ensure interventions meet high standards of ethical, evidence-informed practice, including appropriate safeguarding, risk management, specialist review, and staff wellbeing.
• Strengthen the team's understanding of violence prevention principles and foster intellectual curiosity, interdisciplinary collaboration, and openness to practitioner feedback.

Client & Team Leadership

• Serve as a primary point of contact for designated clients and partners, building trusted relationships and managing expectations throughout project delivery.
• Brief clients and stakeholders on intervention strategies, progress, findings, and recommendations, translating complex information into actionable insights.
• Lead and develop campaign managers and team members through effective delegation, coaching, constructive feedback, and clear performance expectations.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and professional development, fostering a collaborative and accountable team culture.

Organizational Development & Growth

• Collaborate across Moonshot's Network Development, Research & Analysis, Campaigns, Product & Engineering, and Operations teams to deliver integrated prevention initiatives.
• Contribute to standardized intervention methodologies, quality assurance processes, and organizational learning, ensuring lessons from campaign delivery inform future practice.
• Contribute subject matter expertise to proposals, project scoping, methodologies, and staffing plans for new and existing opportunities.
• Support the development of innovative prevention approaches that respond to emerging client needs and strengthen Moonshot's impact.

Essential:

• Significant professional experience in violence prevention, targeted violence prevention, preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE), behavioral interventions, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, or overseeing evidence-informed prevention interventions, including translating research and behavioral insights into practical programs, defining intended outcomes, and using evaluation findings to improve effectiveness.
• Strong understanding of targeted violence, violent extremism, radicalization, and prevention approaches, including relevant risk and protective factors.
• Experience leading complex, multidisciplinary projects or programs, managing competing priorities, and maintaining accountability for high-quality delivery.
• Experience leading and developing teams through coaching, delegation, performance management, and professional development.
• Experience managing client or partner relationships, including communicating complex information and actionable recommendations to diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrated intellectual curiosity, sound judgment, and willingness to incorporate practitioner feedback, recognize the limits of one's expertise, and navigate sensitive ethical and operational considerations.
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the US, and will be required to undertake and pass any relevant security clearance procedures per client needs.

Desirable:

• Experience designing or delivering digital prevention interventions, online outreach campaigns, or strategic communications initiatives.
• Familiarity with behavioral science and behavior change approaches, including experience with help-seeking interventions, bystander awareness, pre-bunking, or resilience-building programs.
• Familiarity with behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM) and multidisciplinary prevention approaches.
• Experience working with government agencies, civil society organizations, technology companies, or practitioner networks.

Specialist expertise in digital advertising platforms is not required. The Senior Manager will work closely with colleagues responsible for advertising strategy, execution, and optimization.

• 15 days paid vacation leave, plus Federal holidays and 1 day additional paid leave for Native American Heritage Day.
• Flexible public holiday policy with the option to work federal holidays in exchange for a day off at another time.
• Full private healthcare package, including coverage for partners and children.
• Dental & Vision Insurance.
• Life & Disability Insurance.
• 24/7 access to free counseling via our Employee Assistance Program.
• 3% matched 401k contributions.
• 401(k) Roth Contributions.
• Generous maternity and paternity leave: 26 weeks paid maternity leave, 8 weeks paid paternity leave.
• All permanent employees are granted share options upon employment.

Salary: $115,500 - $152,250 (depending on skills and experience).