Job Description
Mentor A Promise is a New York City–based nonprofit serving children and youth (ages 5–18) experiencing housing instability, grounded in the belief that every child is a Promise—full of potential, dignity, and possibility. We deliver consistent, high-quality programming across mentorship, literacy, social-emotional learning, and creative expression in shelters, schools, and community spaces, creating structured environments where students can grow, be seen, and build lasting skills. Through signature experiences like The Imagination Studio, The Kitchen Table, The Sound Lab, and The Story Space, we nurture academic development, emotional well-being, and creative voice, all within a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and accessibility-centered framework. Our work prioritizes dignity-protective storytelling, consent-driven engagement, and deep community partnership, ensuring that how we serve is as intentional as whom we serve. We are not only addressing immediate needs - we are building pathways to confidence, belonging, and long-term opportunity, so every child has the support and foundation to carry their promise forward. , Director of Communications (Volunteer) PromiseVoice | Strategic Communications, Storytelling & Organizational Messaging Organization Mentor A Promise (MAP) Location Remote with NYC-based collaboration opportunities Type Senior Leadership Volunteer Role Commitment Length Minimum Six (6) Month Commitment Preferred Reports To Executive Leadership Works Closely With PromiseVoice, PromiseStories, PromiseStudios, PromisePublic, Program Leadership, Creative Teams, Community Partners About Mentor A Promise Mentor A Promise (MAP) is a New York City–based, volunteer-powered nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting children and youth experiencing housing instability through mentorship, education, literacy, social-emotional learning, creative expression, and community-centered programming. MAP was built through the collective effort of mentors, educators, creatives, advocates, technologists, community leaders, and mission-aligned volunteers who believe every child deserves stability, opportunity, dignity, belonging, and access to transformative support systems. As a volunteer-driven organization, collaboration, accountability, communication, and shared responsibility are foundational to how we operate and grow. Our volunteers are not viewed as passive supporters; they are active contributors helping build programs, systems, public trust, and long-term community impact. Our work is rooted in dignity, accessibility, safeguarding, trauma-informed practice, ethical storytelling, and public trust. Across education, communications, creative initiatives, civic engagement, and community partnerships, MAP develops people-centered systems designed to strengthen communities while protecting the voices and experiences of the young people and families we serve. We believe communication is not simply promotional. It is institutional trust-building. It is operational leadership. It is public responsibility in practice. Every communication shapes how communities, families, students, volunteers, partners, and stakeholders experience the organization. Role Overview Mentor A Promise is seeking a strategic, emotionally intelligent, and highly collaborative Director of Communications to lead and strengthen organizational communications, storytelling strategy, messaging systems, and cross-functional communication efforts across the organization. This senior leadership role is responsible for helping shape how MAP communicates internally and externally while supporting organizational visibility, operational coordination, institutional consistency, and mission-aligned growth. The Director will oversee communication initiatives across multiple platforms and departments, helping ensure that messaging remains clear, accessible, organized, ethical, culturally responsive, and aligned with MAP’s safeguarding-centered values. The ideal candidate understands that nonprofit communications require more than marketing expertise. They require emotional intelligence, operational discipline, community awareness, ethical leadership, and long-term trust stewardship. This role is well-suited for a communications professional, nonprofit communications leader, journalist, storyteller, media strategist, editor, or organizational communications specialist interested in helping build mission-driven communication infrastructure within a growing nonprofit environment. Key Responsibilities Lead and oversee organizational communications strategy across internal and external platforms Supervise and support communication coordinat