Project

Appointed as Senior Content Manager, Human Rights Campaign

Program

Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows

PhD field of study

PhD, History, University of South Carolina

Position Description

The Human Rights Campaign (www.hrc.org) is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation improves the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people by working to increase understanding and encourage the adoption of LGBT-inclusive policies and practices.

As part of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation team, the Senior Content Manager will be responsible for developing highly sharable content profiling lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community members with powerful narratives that align with programmatic priorities for the Foundation. Narratives exploring the following topics will be key: children, youth, parenting, workplace, HIV/AIDS, stigma, marriage, religion, faith, transgender populations, education, adoption, foster care, bullying, people of color communities, health, aging, homelessness, and more. The Senior Content Manager will also be charged with working with program directors to find individuals who have or could benefit from the work of the Foundation. S/he will then interview individuals and families with the goal of curating content for a wide variety of uses in the organization, including advocacy and policy work, online membership engagement – including social media, and media efforts.