National Domestic Workers Alliance

STORYTELLING MANAGER

Job Title: Storytelling Manager

Employee Type: Permanent, Full-Time

Reports to: Christina Coleman, Senior Communications Director

Department: Communications

Entity: NDWA/CiA

Hours per week: 40

Salary: $81,689-85,421

Work Location: Remote, with ability to travel 40%

Start Date: May 15, 2026

BACKGROUND

The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is the leading national voice for dignity, respect, and recognition for domestic workers in the United States. NDWA was founded in 2007 by organizers and worker leaders in six cities representing nannies, house cleaners, and care workers, and now represents an alliance of more than 76 organizations across 22 states and 395,000 domestic workers nationally.

We envision a society where domestic work is valued as essential to our collective well-being, domestic workers are leaders in shaping the care sector, and domestic work jobs are good, economically secure jobs.

For over 15 years, we’ve worked to advance our mission by making domestic work visible. We’ve worked to pass policies that enable rights and higher wages for domestic workers across the country, changed public awareness and opinion about the dignity and value of care work, and built the capacity and leadership of domestic workers to organize and advocate for their rights.

We see the next era of our organization as an opportunity to move domestic work from newfound visibility towards transformation, and we’re ready to elevate care workers to the essential workers of the 21st-century economy.

We’re a multi-racial, multi-lingual organization building a powerful movement rooted in the human rights, dignity, and equality of domestic workers, care workers, immigrant women, and women of color.

Care in Action is a (501c4) nonprofit, nonpartisan group dedicated to fighting for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United States, most of whom are women. Founded in 2016, Care in Action is backed by tens of thousands of nannies, house cleaners, and care workers across the country. We provide the tools, training, and community working families need to make their voices heard, and organize and advocate for respect, recognition, and inclusion in labor protections.

POSITION SUMMARY

NDWA is seeking a strong, fast, and nimble writer, and storytelling expert with a strong communications and press background to manage our storytelling program and support with earned media needs. The Storytelling Manager will collaborate closely with teams across NDWA and our 501(c)(4) sister organization, Care in Action, to identify spokespeople to bring into our storytelling program. They will manage spokesperson development and storytelling cohorts, organize storytelling trainings, field spokesperson requests, and prepare spokespeople for speaking engagements. The Storytelling Manager will also support the Media Relations Director by creating and managing press materials, fielding press requests, and occasionally pitching to reporters. This work will aid NDWA and Care in Action in shifting the national conversation around care and domestic work by uplifting domestic worker voices and stories traditionally excluded from media.

This role reports to the Senior Communications Director and is fully remote with ability to travel 40% of the time.

PRIMARY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

I. Storytelling Program Management (35% of FTE)

• Own the process, system, and storybanking of NDWA’s storytelling program, including but not limited to:

  • Managing storytelling database

  • Scheduling trainings and cohort gatherings

  • Managing logistics for spokespeople

• This may include managing logistics, writing remarks, and project managing story production in coordination with other teams.

• Cross collaborate with teams to package stories into a variety of forms for different uses and audiences, including short-form and longer written pieces, infographics and other creative visuals, video scripts and storyboards, audio recordings, etc.

II. Storytelling Training (35% of FTE)

• Assist with preparing speakers for various speaking engagements

• Write remarks for spokespeople based on messaging and narrative set by the Senior Communications Director

• Design and facilitate trainings on our updated narrative to help workers tell their stories.

• Integrate trainings into NDWA/CiA’s overall leadership development and political education programs.

• Provide one on one and small group coaching, preparation and mentorship for individual storytellers.

III. Storytelling Strategy Execution (20% of FTE)

• Keep a finger on the pulse of domestic worker issues and voices through regular checkpoints in Alliance and La Alianza spaces.

• Work with NDWA teams including policy, campaigns, communications, membership and worker experience to integrate into existing plans the strategic use of story to advance NDWA’s mission and vision.

• Work to ensure that storytelling strategy articulated by communications and worker experience teams evolves to meet needs

IV. Press + Request Support (10% of FTE)

• Own the fielding of storytelling and press requests through proper channels, including initial contact

• Work with the Media Relations Director and consultants on fresh media pitches related to workers

• Occasional support drafting communications materials as needed

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years of communications experience at national level preferred, no management experience needed.

• Bilingual in Spanish/English is required.

• Strong organizational skills, and creative problem solver.

• Excellent writing and editing skills.

• A demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strong relationships and partnerships with members of the media.

• Ability to work under high pressure and short deadlines.

• Proven ability to learn quickly, work independently, meet multiple deadlines with a keen attention to detail.

• Alignment with NDWA’s vision and values, including a commitment to economic, race, immigration and gender justice.

• Ability to work and collaborate with diverse staff in person and remotely and as part of a high-performing team, in a fast-paced, experimental organization.

• Understanding of issues facing low-wage workers, immigrant communities, and other communities of color and demonstrated commitment to racial, economic and gender justice, especially for women of color.

• Experience working with impacted community members from diverse backgrounds and cultures.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Suite preferred (include other platforms or technical skills as applicable).

• Ability to travel 40% of the time.

• Assist with other duties as assigned.

How to Apply: Please apply directly to the job posting and send: Resume and cover letter. Applications will only be accepted electronically, and solicitations to individual staff are unlikely to be responded to.

NDWA provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

NDWA is a union employer; this position is a bargaining unit position.

NDWA participates in the E-Verify program and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.