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Founded in 2008, our Customer represents a global travel community that offers magical end-to-end trips, including where you stay, what you do and the people you meet. They exist to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere, providing healthy travel that is local, authentic, diverse, inclusive and sustainable. Their website and app uniquely leverage technology to economically empower millions of people around the world to unlock and monetize their spaces, passions and talents to become hospitality entrepreneurs.

We are seeking a Communications Associate, U.S. Policy Communications on a contract basis to help support our Customer’s business needs. This role is located in San Francisco, CA.

Responsibilities

• Support US Policy Communications Lead by spearheading organizational support for the team, ensuring cross-functional collaboration and integration with other functions, and providing surge capacity for overall policy communications needs nationwide.
• Serve as connective tissue between regional U.S. comms leads and communicating priorities internally to key stakeholders on other teams.
• Develop internal and external written materials: press materials, story pitches, op-eds, messaging guidelines, Q&As, briefs, presentations, talking points, etc.
• Identify opportunities to partner with organization's public policy team regarding new community policies that protect the business and strengthen the company’s reputation.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3+ years of relevant experience in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, including supporting a team in a communications and administrative capacity.
• Strong process-oriented skills and passion for learning, improving, and sharing best practices.
• Confidence driving communications process and ensuring team organization.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to communicate across departments and to all levels of the organization.
• Strong communication and writing skills. Prior experience working with press and in communications.
• Positive attitude, enthusiasm and ability to keep a level head in even the most stressful situations.
• Personal integrity that reflects Airbnb’s core values and commitment to diversity and belonging.