KAP 2026-2027 - Communications Manager - Beacon Center

The Koch Associate Program (KAP) is a career accelerator for early to mid‑career professionals with a drive to tackle our country’s most pressing challenges in more effective, principled ways.

KAP equips associates with the tools, mindsets, and community to succeed as social entrepreneurs—individuals excited to find new and better ways to break barriers and eliminate injustice.

Associates spend one day each week engaging in experiential learning with Stand Together Fellowships and work at one of our many partner organizations the rest of the week.

Our curriculum is designed to supercharge your development and equip you for long‑term success as you seek to have an impact on the problems that prevent people from realizing their potential.

About the Organization

The Beacon Center is Tennessee’s premier free‑market public policy organization.

Beacon is pound‑for‑pound the most effective and efficient state‑level think tank on the planet.

With a staff of just 11, Beacon has achieved remarkable policy and legal victories that have empowered Tennesseans to reclaim and protect their freedoms.

Among our accomplishments, we have

• Led the effort to repeal the state death tax and Hall Income Tax, becoming just the second state in history to eliminate an income tax.

These tax cuts have cumulatively saved taxpayers more than $3 billion to date.

• Successfully advocated to amend the Tennessee Constitution to make right‑to‑work a constitutional right.
• Enacted the nation’s fourth education savings account program.
• Advanced free‑market healthcare reforms, including direct primary care, an overhaul of Tennessee’s certificate of need laws, Medicaid work requirements, and Right to Try.
• Helped usher in the nation’s first Right to Earn a Living Act to bring about occupational licensing reform, and successfully repealed multiple licensing laws, resulting in Tennessee leading the nation in the reduction of licensing barriers over the past five years.

About the Role

We’re not done achieving victory for our fellow Tennesseans.

We’re looking for an energetic and liberty‑minded Communications Manager to help us spread the message of freedom and free enterprise far and wide.

Our Communications Manager must be entrepreneurial and results‑oriented, and be a strong communicator, writer, project manager, and collaborator.

He or she should be ideologically aligned.

We believe that the principles of free markets, individual liberty, and limited government are the foundation of a prosperous and opportunity‑laden society, and he or she should, too.

Beacon is headquartered in Nashville, and team members based locally have the option to work from our office or in a hybrid arrangement.

While Nashville is our preferred location, we are open to candidates based anywhere in the United States who wish to work fully remotely.

Candidates working remotely should expect to travel to Nashville periodically for team meetings and events.

We provide generous benefits and place a huge emphasis on a strong culture and positive work environment. Beacon has been recognized among Nashville’s “Best Places to Work.”

Primary Roles and Responsibilities

• Work with the Vice President of External Affairs to invent new ways to market liberty to the masses, actively breaking stereotypes about those who love freedom and free markets.
• Build relationships with media across the state, serve as the chief spokesman for Beacon in the media, and coordinate all media appearances for team members and heroes.
• Assist in the management of all marketing budgets, campaigns, and digital communications vendor relationships, including for issue awareness, legal case promotion, audience engagement, general digital promotion, and event promotion.
• Manage all external communications for projects, including research reports, media releases, digital communications, promotional materials, the Beacon Poll, and messaging campaigns for policy initiatives and legal cases.
• Assist the Vice President of External Affairs with all outreach programs.
• Review and edit all external communications issued by Beacon.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of direct experience in communications, marketing, public relations, and/or related fields.
• Exceptional communication skills—a natural gift for comfortably connecting with people at all levels and for speaking and writing with accuracy in a clear, confident, and compelling way.
• Proficiency using AI tools for writing, content creation, and managing systems.
• Knowledge of and passion for the ideas of freedom and individual liberty.
• Ability to travel up to 15‑20%, including mandatory in‑person staff meetings on the first Monday of every month, participation in annual conferences, attendance at the annual staff retreat, and occasional local travel for media‑related activities.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher, preferably in communications, marketing, public relations, or related fields.

Stand Together Fellowships believes that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success.

Our admissions office treats all program participants and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity.

We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of color, race, religion, religious creed, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), military and veteran status, genetic information, marital or familial status, political affiliation, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.

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