Development Editor Jobs in Silver Spring, MD (NOW HIRING)

As a Deputy Editor, you will help lead Development Communications for our grassroots brands, including Americans for Prosperity, The LIBRE Initiative, Concerned Veterans for America, and related efforts. 

This role will oversee Development Communications, including the editorial calendar, workflows, review cycles, deadlines, approvals, and handoffs. The Deputy Editor will directly manage writers focused on Development Communications, ensuring work is strategically planned, clearly assigned, well edited, and delivered with accuracy, consistency, and quality. 

This team’s portfolio includes donor-facing emails, proposals, pitch decks, direct mail packages, polling memos, stewardship updates, and related materials. The Deputy Editor will help ensure these products translate policy, strategy, campaign context, and impact into compelling content for donor audiences. 

The ideal candidate is a strong editor, people manager, and editorial operator who can balance strategy with execution. This person will collaborate across Marketing, Fundraising Strategy, policy, legal/compliance, creative, and grassroots partner teams to move complex projects from intake to final review. Over time, this role should grow into greater ownership of final editorial review and approval readiness. 

This role requires electoral campaign experience, strong editorial judgment, direct people-management experience, comfort with complex workflows, familiarity with AI tools, and the ability to shape high-quality donor-facing content. The Deputy Editor should also be willing to write, revise, and develop high-priority content directly when needed. 

• Directly manage a team of writers focused on Development Communications, creating a culture of editorial excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. 

• Lead editorial workflow and process improvements across intake, prioritization, assignments, review cycles, approvals, deadlines, and handoffs. 

• Edit, shape, and occasionally write donor-facing content, including donor emails, proposals, pitch decks, direct mail packages, polling memos, stewardship updates, and related materials. 

• Own the content calendar for grassroots partners and initiatives, ensuring donor-facing content is planned, prioritized, assigned, and delivered on deadline. 

• Collaborate with Marketing, Fundraising Strategy, Policy, Legal/Compliance, Creative, and Grassroots teams to ensure content is accurate, strategically aligned, and polished. 

• 3+ years of electoral campaign experience, with the judgment to understand campaign strategy and political dynamics, and translate that into compelling donor-facing content.  

• 7+ years of professional experience in editing, writing, content strategy, communications, or publishing, including direct people-management experience. 

• Strong editorial judgment, with the ability to improve content structure, clarity, tone, message discipline, accuracy, and audience relevance. 

• Experience managing complex editorial calendars, workflows, review processes, and cross-functional content projects. 

• Excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills, with the ability to translate policy, strategy, polling, and organizational priorities into compelling donor-facing content. 

• Strong stakeholder-management skills, comfort using performance and workflow insights to improve execution, and alignment with Stand Together’s values of humility, integrity, entrepreneurialism, and principled problem-solving. 

• Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect. 

   

• Competitive benefits: Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting, flexible time off, comprehensive health and dental plans, plus wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace. 

• A meaningful career: Join a passionate community of over 1,300 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges. 

• Commitment to growth: Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop and apply their unique talents. 

• Competitive compensation: Our approach rewards the value you create through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities, allowing you to share in the success you help drive. 

For this role, the anticipated base salary range is $120,000–$140,000 per year. This role may also be eligible for additional bonus compensation designed to align total compensation with an employee’s overall contribution to the organization. 

Our Principles-Based Management™ (PBM) compensation philosophy is grounded in an individualized approach that rewards the long-term value each person creates for the organization. Compensation decisions are informed by a variety of factors, including relevant experience, capabilities, demonstrated skills, role responsibilities, and expected contribution. Consistent with this approach, base salary may vary within or outside of the anticipated range based on these considerations.