Recovery Café and Recovery Café Network Marketing and Communications Manager Remote · Full time Company website

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Recovery Café was founded on the understanding that every human being is precious and beloved regardless of past trauma, mental and emotional anguish, or addictive behaviors. We provide a beautiful, safe, warm, drug and alcohol free space and loving community to anchor Members (our most closely-supported participants) in the sustained recovery needed to gain and maintain access to housing, social and health services, healthy relationships, education, and employment. We help people maintain recovery, reduce relapse and fulfill their potential. Recovery Café currently has about 35 employees. We operate two cafés in Seattle and operate the Recovery Café Network, which provides training and support to over 90 Member Cafés across the US and Canada.

Help grow a national movement of belonging and recovery. Recovery Café Network (RCN) is hiring a Marketing & Communications Manager to strengthen our brand, tell powerful stories, and expand our reach—so more communities can launch Recovery Cafés and more people can find connection, healing, and hope.

Location: Hybrid (Washington State required)

Compensation: $29.80 - $36.05/hr

Benefits: Employer-paid health/vision/dental; retirement up to 6%; paid leave; PTO/holidays; professional development funds; EAP

To apply: Cover letter, resume, and 1–2 work samples (see below)

 

About Recovery Café Network

Recovery Café Network trains, supports, and connects communities using the Recovery Café Model: a healing, drug- and alcohol-free space where people recover from anything that blocks our capacity to love and be loved. We help organizations launch and sustain Recovery Cafés through cohort-based learning, mentorship, tools, and shared practice.

The Role

You’re a creative, collaborative communicator with strong writing skills and a solid foundation in design and analytics. Reporting to the Associate Director of Engagement & Communications, you’ll guide marketing/communications strategy, create compelling multi-channel content, and ensure brand consistency across training and outreach materials—helping position RCN as a national leader in building healing communities.

 

What You’ll Do

• Develop and execute RCN’s marketing and communications strategy and annual communications plan
• Create clear, compelling content across channels (web, email, social, print) tailored to key audiences
• Maintain brand standards; design core collateral and digital assets (one-pagers, decks, event materials, swag)
• Oversee and keep the website up to date; optimize content for usability and engagement
• Produce a monthly e-newsletter highlighting stories of healing across the Network, using analytics to track performance
• Collect and elevate stories from Member Cafés using a trauma-informed approach
• Support media relations (messaging, press releases/advisories, media coordination with leadership)
• Manage vendors/contractors as needed (printing, design, video) and maintain outreach-material inventory
• Facilitate communication best-practice sharing across the Network; collaborating cross-departmentally including Monitoring and Development and Training and Development teams.

What You’ll Bring

• Must live in Washington State.
• 3+ years of relevant marketing/communications experience
• Excellent writing and editing; ability to adapt messages for diverse audiences
• Design capability for collateral and digital assets (Adobe/Canva or similar)
• Analytics fluency (web/email/social) to measure results and improve strategy
• Strong collaboration, organization, and comfort working remotely across time zones
• Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Nice to Have

• WordPress, Mailchimp, and/or Salesforce experience
• Trauma-informed interviewing/storytelling experience
• Experience in social services and/or proximity to recovery communities
• Bilingual Spanish/English

How to Apply

Submit a cover letter, resume, and 1- 2 work samples. Work sample ideas (choose what best represents you):

• Social posts for multiple platforms showing how you adapt messaging (published work or a curated sample set)
• A design/infographic that presents impact metrics clearly (published work or a curated sample)

Recovery Café is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We seek applicants who value diversity and inclusivity. People of Color and members of the LGBTQIA+ community are encouraged to apply.