SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITORIAL MANAGEMENT

Description

Position Summary and Essential Functions

The Senior Associate, Editorial Management is the hands-on writing, editing, messaging, and editorial operations lead within OFN's Strategic Communications team. Reporting to the Vice President, Content Strategy, this role turns organizational priorities, approved strategy, research, policy developments, member impact, and executive direction into clear, compelling, accurate content across OFN's platforms and channels.

The role owns the quality and day-to-day execution of OFN's editorial pipeline: writing and editing high-priority content, strengthening framing and message discipline, maintaining the enterprise editorial calendar and Asana workflows, and moving work from assignment through review, approval, and publication with clear ownership, deadlines, version control, and final quality assurance. This is an execution-first role for an experienced editor who builds strong fluency in CDFIs, community finance, public policy, capital access, and economic opportunity.

OFN is the nation's leading investment intermediary and network of CDFIs serving rural, urban, and Native communities across the United States. With over $1 billion in total assets under management, OFN manages a national membership network of over 490 mission-driven lenders and CDFIs, including community development loan funds, credit unions, green banks, community development banks, minority depository institutions, and venture capital funds. OFN is a trusted investment partner to the public, private, and philanthropic sectors — foundations, corporations, banks, government agencies, and others. For more than 40 years, our team has helped partners invest in communities to catalyze change and create economic opportunities for people and places traditional finance doesn't reach.

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People who work at OFN come from a variety of professional and academic backgrounds. If you have:

• Passion for the mission and true believer in our core purpose.
• Courage to be a fearless advocate who is confident and resilient in our fight to drive capital into low-income communities.
• Smart, quick seekers of knowledge who thrive on creating and developing new strategies, products, and programs for increasing capital to communities we serve.
• Desire to be a collaborative team player who possesses humility and a willingness to lean in all areas of our work.

Come be a part of our growing diverse, highly committed, skilled, and collaborative staff. At OFN, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive workplace, so if you are excited about this role but your experience does not align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply nonetheless. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles.

***This position is based in Washington, D.C. All staff currently work a hybrid schedule.***

Key Responsibilities

Writing & Editorial Production

• Write, edit, and refine high-impact content, including web, blog, email, newsletters, social, press materials, speeches, talking points, op-eds, reports, presentations, and event materials; write in OFN's institutional voice and support executive voice, including ghostwriting and rapid-turnaround work for the CEO.
• Translate complex financial, policy, research, and programmatic information into clear, credible, audience-centered language without sacrificing accuracy; develop strong framing, headlines, narrative structure, message hierarchy, calls to action, and audience-specific adaptations.
• Apply OFN's enterprise narrative and approved message frameworks across editorial products; tailor context, proof points, tone, and calls to action for members, investors, policymakers, media, partners, and internal audiences; ensure each deliverable has a clear objective, audience, message, and next action.
• Build content from source materials, interviews, data, and subject-matter expert input; identify gaps, ask the right questions, verify facts, and resolve inconsistencies before review.

Quality Control & Standards

• Serve as the primary editorial quality-control lead for written content, applying rigorous standards for clarity, accuracy, grammar, structure, tone, brand alignment, and accessibility; conduct substantive and line editing, copyediting, proofreading, fact- and link-checking, and final reads before publication.
• Return copy that is clean, on brief, in voice, and ready for use with minimal avoidable errors; maintain version control, source documentation, approvals, and final copy decks so the team can readily identify current, approved language.
• Create and apply editorial standards, templates, checklists, and repeatable QA practices; spot weak framing, unsupported claims, message drift, missing context, and reputational risk early and recommend fixes; protect quality under pressure in rapid-response, conference, and campaign periods.

Editorial Calendar & Workflow Management

• Own and maintain OFN's enterprise editorial calendar as the single forward-looking view of planned content, campaigns, publications, events, and executive moments across owned, earned, shared, and paid channels; convert priorities into sequenced Asana work with clear briefs, owners, approvers, and dates.
• Move work proactively from idea to execution, surfacing missing inputs, conflicts, risks, and bottlenecks early; run regular planning and production reviews with the VP, Content Strategy; provide concise status reporting on what is coming, blocked, at risk, and awaiting decision.
• Coordinate handoffs among writers, subject-matter experts, media relations, digital, marketing, creative, web, agencies, and freelancers; manage recurring workflows, including newsletters, publication launches, event and webinar sequences, executive content, research amplification, and rapid response.

Channel & Content Strategy

• Adapt core narratives across formats and channels and translate campaign strategy into sequenced editorial products; partner with digital, marketing, media relations, and creative colleagues on final copy, press materials, and asset review; support publishing in WordPress and email platforms.
• Build and manage a pipeline of member, borrower, partner, and organizational impact stories; develop relationships with subject-matter experts, establish clear intake, review, and approval processes, conduct interviews, and provide constructive editorial counsel and feedback.
• Use content performance, engagement, search, email, social, and web insights to improve headlines, formats, cadence, and editorial plans; complete post-launch reviews for major efforts; use AI-enabled tools responsibly while preserving human judgment, source verification, confidentiality, and OFN voice.

Requirements

Requirements

Education and Professional Experience

• Bachelor's degree in journalism, English, communications, public relations, marketing, or a related field, or 2-3 years of related work experience in lieu of a degree.
• 2-3 years of progressively responsible experience in journalism, editorial, content strategy, strategic communications, publishing, or a closely related field.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Exceptional writing and editing ability across short-form, long-form, executive, institutional, digital, and campaign content, with a portfolio demonstrating range and publication-ready quality.
• Demonstrated strength in framing, message development, narrative structure, audience adaptation, and translating complex topics into accessible language.
• Demonstrated experience managing an editorial calendar, content pipeline, and multiple concurrent assignments through Asana or a comparable project-management platform.
• Advanced knowledge of AP style and strong command of grammar, usage, fact-checking, attribution, sourcing, proofreading, and editorial ethics.
• Experience producing content across web, email, social, executive communications, press, reports, publications, presentations, and events.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft 365 and Asana.
• Newsroom, editorial desk, publication, media organization, association newsroom, or other deadline-driven content-production experience strongly preferred.
• CDFI industry experience or demonstrated knowledge of community finance, economic development, capital access, public policy, impact investing, philanthropy, financial services, or mission-driven finance strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of WordPress or another CMS, Mailchimp or another email platform, analytics tools, and AI-enabled workflow tools.
• Standard physical requirements for an office position, with occasional travel as needed. Extended hours may be required during rapid-response, conference, and campaign periods.

EOE

Supervisor: Vice President, Content Strategy

FLSA Status: Exempt

Thank you for your interest in joining the OFN team in our effort and commitment to create opportunity for all.

The target salary range for this position is $80,000 - $88,000. The salary offered will depend on internal pay equity and the candidate's relevant skills, experience, qualifications, and job market data. Exceptional performers in this role who make an outsized contribution can make well in excess of this range.

Salary is one part of OFN's comprehensive total rewards package, which includes benefits like dental, health, and vision care plans, and family-building benefits like hybrid work arrangements to promote a better work-life balance. OFN also offers Lifestyle Spending Account, Employee Assistance Program, and mental health benefits. To maximize teammate financial well-being, OFN offers financial education and auto-enrollment in the company's 403(b) plan with employer contributions. To maximize professional growth, OFN provides professional development dollars for each employee, alongside learning and development opportunities.