Deputy Communications Director, Community Safety

The Agency You’ll Join: The New York City Mayor’s Office is responsible for overseeing city services throughout the five boroughs, coordinating public agencies and departments, and managing public property. The administration is leading the fight in making the city more affordable, reducing inequality, improving public safety, ensuring delivery of efficient and effective services, and working to make New York City’s economy stronger. We value leadership, transparency, fairness, and efficiency as we actively seek diverse talents from various sectors to join our team. For current job opportunities, visit our careers page.

The Team You’ll Work With: The Mayor’s Office of Communications is at the heart of our mission to serve, empower, and represent every resident of New York City. We are responsible for coordinating the citywide communications strategy, including messaging from all city agencies. Our goal is to ensure the administration speaks with one voice, effectively and consistently communicating the Mayor's policies and their impact on everyday New Yorkers.

The Problems You’ll Solve: The Deputy Communications Director for the Deputy Mayor for Community Safety will be responsible for setting the proactive messaging, strategy, and outbound communications for Deputy Mayor Renita Francois and the newly created Office of Community Safety.

This person will be the City Hall point person for the agencies within the Deputy Mayor’s portfolio, including the Office of Community Mental Health, the Office of Gun Violence Prevention, and the Office to End Gender-Based Violence.

This person will also help develop the long-term communications plan and strategy for the Deputy Mayor’s policy planks and announcements.

Roles and Responsibilities will include:

• Setting a proactive communications calendar for the Deputy Mayor for Community Safety, including policy rollouts, announcements, etc.
• Drafting the messaging for the Deputy Mayor for Community Safety and the Office of Community Safety, including remarks for the Deputy Mayor, talking points for validators, releases, video scripts, and more.
• Working across teams to create a validator/surrogate strategy for communications.
• Coordinating with the Mayor’s press team to place proactive stories about the Deputy Mayor, including owning stories from end-to-end (pitching and preparing administration staff and outside partners).
• Collaborating with the digital communications team to create affirmative content.

About You:

• You have experience in political communications, which is ideal but not necessary.
• Ideal candidate will be innovative, tenacious, and aligned with the administration’s bold vision for public safety.

Additional Information

• In addition to the resume, a cover letter is required to apply.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5+ years of experience in relevant fields – such as criminal legal reform, criminal legal service delivery, and police reform advocacy.

Required:

• You must submit a maximum two-page writing sample on a relevant topic, plus a one-page resume with your application.

Preferred Skills

• You have deep knowledge of New York City.
• You have experience in political communications, which is ideal but not necessary for the application.

Residency Requirement

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.