Description

Position Summary and Essential Functions

The Senior Associate, Editorial Management is the hands‑on writing, editing, messaging, and editorial operations lead within OFN's Strategic Communications team. Reporting to the Vice President, Content Strategy, this role turns organizational priorities, approved strategy, research, policy developments, member impact, and executive direction into clear, compelling, accurate content across OFN's platforms and channels.

The role owns the quality and day‑to‑day execution of OFN's editorial pipeline: writing and editing high‑priority content, strengthening framing and message discipline, maintaining the enterprise editorial calendar and Asana workflows, and moving work from assignment through review, approval, and publication with transparent ownership, deadlines, version control, and final quality assurance. This is an execution‑first role for an experienced editor who builds strong fluency in CDFIs, community finance, public policy, capital access, and economic opportunity.

OFN is the nation's leading investment intermediary and network of CDFIs serving rural, urban, and Native communities across the United States. With over $1 billion in total assets under management, OFN manages a national membership network of over 490 mission‑driven lenders and CDFIs, including community development loan funds, credit unions, green banks, community development banks, minority depository institutions, and venture capital funds. OFN is a trusted investment partner to the public, private, and philanthropic sectors — foundations, corporations, banks, government agencies, and others. For more than 40 years,



our team has helped partners invest in communities to catalyze change and create economic opportunities for people and places traditional finance doesn't reach.

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People who work at OFN come from a variety of professional and academic backgrounds. If you have:

- Passion for the mission and true believer in our core purpose.
- Courage to be a fearless advocate who is confident and resilient in our fight to drive capital into low‑income communities.
- Smart, quick seekers of knowledge who thrive on creating and developing new strategies, products, and programs for increasing capital to communities we serve.
- Desire to be a collaborative team player who possesses humility and a willingness to lean in all areas of our work.

Come be a part of our growing diverse, highly committed, skilled, and collaborative staff. At OFN, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive workplace, so if you are excited about this role but your experience does not align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply nonetheless. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles.

This position is based in Washington, D.C. All staff currently work a hybrid schedule.

Key Responsibilities

Writing & Editorial Production

- Write, edit, and refine high‑impact content, including web, blog, email, newsletters, social, press materials, speeches, talking points, op‑eds, reports, presentations,



and event materials; write in OFN's institutional voice and support executive voice, including ghostwriting and rapid‑turnaround work for the CEO.
- Translate complex financial, policy, research, and programmatic information into clear, credible, audience‑centered language without sacrificing accuracy; develop strong framing, headlines, narrative structure, message hierarchy, calls to action, and audience‑specific adaptations.
- Apply OFN's enterprise narrative and approved message frameworks across editorial products; tailor context, proof points, tone, and calls to action for members, investors, policymakers, media, partners, and internal audiences; ensure each deliverable has a clear objective, audience, message, and next action.
- Build content from source materials, interviews, data, and subject‑matter expert input; identify gaps, ask the right questions, verify facts, and resolve inconsistencies before review.

Quality Control & Standards

- Serve as the primary editorial quality‑control lead for written content, applying rigorous standards for clarity, accuracy, grammar, structure, tone, brand alignment, and accessibility; conduct substantive and line editing, copyediting, proofreading, fact‑ and link‑checking, and final reads before publication.
- Return copy that is clean, on brief, in voice, and ready for use with minimal avoidable errors; maintain version control, source documentation, approvals, and final copy decks so the team can readily identify current, approved language.
- Create and apply editorial standards, templates, checklists, and repeatable QA practices; spot weak framing, unsupported claims, message drift, missing context, and reputational risk e

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