Hours: Full-time (4-days, 32 hours/week)
Salary: $43,000 - $48,000
Benefits: medical, dental, disability, vacation, holidays, sick days, disability
Supervisor: Beth Porter, Green America’s Climate Campaigns Director
Location: Remote possible (working EST), with preference for candidates located in DC, Virginia, or Maryland.
Green America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a just and sustainable society by harnessing economic power for positive change. Our unique approach involves working with consumers, investors, and businesses. Our workplace reflects our goal of creating a more cooperative, environmentally sound economy. We have a participatory decision-making process, which aims to build consensus within the departments and teams.
We are looking for someone to support the digital needs of our climate, food, finance, and labor campaigns. We will offer the position at the position at the Campaigns Associate level to a qualified candidate with minimum 2 years’ professional experience.
The Campaigns Associate will join Green America’s Corporate Responsibility Programs team, which works to educate consumers about various social and environmental issues and to push large companies to improve their practices. The Campaigns Associate is a new position created to support programmatic and communications work across the climate, labor, and food campaigns. The ideal candidate will have a wide range of skills (including time management), enjoy different tasks and learning, and thrive in a role in which no day looks the same.
The initial focus will include developing campaign briefs, creating a fact checking system across the issue areas, increasing reach of the campaigns via digital platforms, and analyzing current campaign materials to identify areas for improvement. This role will provide the opportunity to work with and learn from both programmatic staff and the communications team, gaining a wide range of experiences.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Green America’s Communications Team to create engaging content to promote campaigns online and in print, including social media, email blasts, web articles, and earned media promotions to reach a growing and diverse audience.
- Support Directors in report writing, infographic design, publications, web articles, social media posts, and other campaign materials.
- Ensure all campaigns include quality content with diverse supporting information, outreach, and communications that engage our audiences and maximize conversions.
- Help create and test out new fact checking process across campaign areas.
- Work across issue areas to ensure content makes important links between the work we are doing in different sectors of the economy.
- Identify opportunities to reach new audiences and advance organizational goals on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI).
- Contribute to brainstorming and strategic planning for optimal education and mobilization of our base.
- Engage in external outreach to partners.
Skills and Qualifications:
- A minimum of 2 years of relevant, professional experience.
- Interest and knowledge of all/any of climate, food, finance, and labor issues desired, with preference for previous experience in one or more of these areas.
- Proven ability to use social media creatively and effectively to engage users to take action, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
- Strong research and writing skills. Experience creating content for various audiences and for web and social media.
- Ability to communicate clearly online (website, newsletters, social media), in print (magazine and other publications), and through presentations (and other events).
- Experience with outreach to diverse communities including Black, Indigenous, People of Color, environmental justice, frontline communities, and/or international communities.
- Experience with corporate campaigning preferred, but not required.
- Experience with Salsa Labs or similar email platforms, Drupal or similar website CMS preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred, as well as previous professional experience.
- Ability to manage multiple projects at once and meet deadlines.
- Works well both independently and with a team.
To Apply: Email your resume, two writing samples demonstrating the ability to write for different audiences (between 2-4 pages each), and cover letter to Beth Porter: BPorter@GreenAmerica.org. No phone calls, please.
Applications will be accepted until Monday, May 10.
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Green America is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination regarding: actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions, breastfeeding, or reproductive health disorders), age (18 years of age or older), marital status (including domestic partnership and parenthood), personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, genetic information, disability, matriculation, political affiliation, citizenship status, credit information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Harassment on the basis of a protected characteristic is included as a form of discrimination and is strictly prohibited.
