Responsibilities

• Manage Quivira’s social media accounts, develop content, track engagement, and create strategies to improve external awareness of Quivira’s work
• Manage most event communications from start to finish
• Draft written content, including for Quivira’s newsletters, one-pagers, webpage content, external reports, among others
• Create visual content such as infographics, flyers, and short videos using design platforms such as Canva, among others
• Create content for Quivira’s website, support in editing and maintenance of the site
• Support in drafting responses to external inquiries from Quivira’s official email account.
• Help team with video uploading and optimizing
• Provide support for annual conference communications needs
• Help team with digital asset organization
• Attend selected external events such as conferences, resource fairs, and other related events to represent Quivira to ranchers, farmers, partner organizations, and the general public, and share information about Quivira’s programs and resources

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, journalism or similar degree; or equivalent work experience in similar roles
• 2+ years of communications/marketing experience highly preferred
• Experience coordinating social media platforms and developing graphic content.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to create communications for a wide variety of audiences and connect in person with people from different backgrounds
• Strong interpersonal, networking, and storytelling abilities. Ability to understand and publish the voice of the organization
• Demonstrated skills to work independently within a remote team environment, prioritize, and meet demands in a timely manner, while also working on multiple deadlines.
• Openness to public speaking and sharing information about Quivira at public events
• Flexible schedule to accommodate some weekend work
• Ability to travel to remote locations where camping may be required
• Ability to work long hours bending, lifting, and walking outdoors

Preferred

• Familiarity with regenerative agricultural practices and soil health principles
• An understanding of how conservation and agriculture have historically and currently impacted Hispanic, Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color
• Event planning and management experience
• Graphic design skills and experience
• Photography experience
• Experience with Wordpress and Elementor Wordpress builder
• Experience with G Suite (gmail, drive, calendar, etc.)
• Multilingual in Spanish or Native languages

Benefits

• After two months, benefits include health, dental, vision, simple IRA, paid time off, short- and long-term life disability insurance, and continuing education benefit.