Fight Crime Invest in Kids is hiring Communications Coordinator

Communications Coordinator
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Illinois

FIGHT CRIME: INVEST IN KIDS ILLINOIS is a state affiliate of a national, non-profit advocacy organization comprised of over 2,500 police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, other law enforcement leaders and violence survivors who support public investment in programs that cut crime by helping kids get started on the right track and stay there. The major issue areas are preschool, after-school programs, prevention of child abuse and neglect, and youth mental health services. The three-person Illinois office is a joint project of the Illinois Center for Violence Prevention and the national FIGHT CRIME: INVEST IN KIDS.

Responsibilities: We are seeking an energetic and creative Communications Coordinator to be based in Chicago. He or she will have primary responsibility for the development and implementation of FIGHT CRIME: INVEST IN KIDs Illinois’ earned media strategy, which is centered on putting forward law enforcement leaders and crime survivors to call for public investments in young people that are proven to prevent crime. This position also has responsibility for connecting our nearly 200 Illinois members to our media work as well as coordinating our work on new membership recruitment.

Competitive salary and benefits. Please fax, email or mail completed questionnaire (available here), resume, writing sample and cover letter to:

Communications Coordinator Search
FIGHT CRIME: INVEST IN KIDS Illinois
70 E. Lake St., Suite 720
Chicago, IL 60601
Fax: 312-922-2277
Email: illinoisjobs@fightcrime.org