Narrative Coach

Title: Narrative Coach

Location:Arlington, VA

Stand Together Foundation – Community 

Full-time

Job Description:

Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems, from education to the economy, broken communities, and toxic division, among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding, thought leadership, a network of peers, and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society. 

Stand Together Foundation seeks a Narrative Coach who will provide communications subject matter expertise to support Catalyst partners, a network of national nonprofit organizations.  This coach will help our nonprofit partners explore and articulate narratives that showcase principles in action, and they'll have a particular focus on adapting narrative work that's been done to different kinds of delivery (writing op-eds, delivering keynote remarks, serving on a panel, being a guest on a podcast).   

The Narrative Coach will support nonprofit leaders to move from reciting what their organization does to successfully telling a story that moves a donor, a partner, or their own team. A successful Narrative Coach will work directly with nonprofit leaders to surface and own their narrative, then help them carry that narrative into external-facing material.   

This is an ideal position for a communications professional with a background in marketing and communications who enjoys helping leaders uncover, refine, and confidently deliver narratives that showcase principles in action across a variety of formats and audiences.   

Remote candidates will be considered on a case by case basis.

How You Will Contribute

• Coach & Advise Nonprofit Leaders: Build high-trust relationships with founders, leaders, and spokespeople. Help them find, refine, and confidently deliver their organizational and personal narrative.   

•  Adapt Narrative to Delivery Format: Take narrative work that's already been developed and help leaders carry it into new formats (op-eds, keynote remarks, panels, podcast appearances) so the story lands regardless of the format.   

• Build the System, Not Just the Sessions: Contribute to formalizing narrative coaching methodology (playbooks, repeatable frameworks), so this capability scales beyond any one coach.   

• Contribute to Strategy and Continuous Improvement: Synthesize patterns across engagements to identify where narrative gaps are limiting a leader's growth, funding, or partnerships.   

• Manage a Portfolio of Coaching Engagements: Support multiple nonprofit leaders and organizations simultaneously while maintaining high levels of responsiveness, organization, preparation, and follow-through. Balance competing priorities and varying partner needs while delivering an exceptional coaching experience. 

What You Will Bring  

• 5+ years in coaching, leadership development, or communications with direct, hands-on narrative/storytelling work   
• Prior operating experience in marketing or communications (agency, brand, or nonprofit comms)   
• Strong diagnostic capability: can identify why a leader's story isn't landing and knows how to improve it to maximize results 
• Outstanding listening, relationship-building, and interpersonal skills with the ability to establish trust and deliver candid feedback with empathy
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, evolving environments   
• Comfortable holding both a coaching relationship and an external-facing deliverable in the same engagement   
• Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect.  

Standout Candidates Will Bring  

• Experience in nonprofit or philanthropic ecosystems   

• Track record of building narrative or comms tools/frameworks that scale beyond individual engagements   

• Experience coaching founder-led, mission-driven, or high-autonomy organizations 

What We Offer 

• Competitive benefits: Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting, flexible time off, comprehensive health and dental plans, plus wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace. 
• A meaningful career: Join a passionate community of over 1,400 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges. 
• Commitment to growth: Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop and apply their unique talents.  

$100,000 - $140,000 a year

For this role, the anticipated base salary range is $100,000 - $140,000 per year. This role may also be eligible for additional bonus compensation designed to align total compensation with an employee’s overall contribution to the organization.  

Our Principles-Based Management™ (PBM) compensation philosophy is grounded in an individualized approach that rewards the long-term value each person creates for the organization. Compensation decisions are informed by a variety of factors, including relevant experience, capabilities, demonstrated skills, role responsibilities, and expected contribution. Consistent with this approach, base salary may vary within or outside of the anticipated range based on these considerations. 

Our Values: Working for an organization within the Stand Together philanthropic community is different from many other places. The culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment. PBM® empowers employees to be entrepreneurial, to innovate, and to continually drive transformation.   

We believe diversity fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success.  That is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, and respect.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.