Responsibilities

• Digital campaigns – Lead our online advocacy to persuade brand-owners to reduce their use of harmful plastics and toxic chemicals.
• Social media – Manage our social accounts to help maintain fresh relevant content and boost engagement.
• Boost content – Help draft, edit and amplify written and visual production of information and materials, including monthly newsletter.
• Web sites – Maintain our web site and campaign microsites to optimize functionality and freshen content.
• Media advocacy – Help pitch stories and content placement to editors and reporters in mainstream and online media outlets.
• Manage contractors – Supervise communications-related contracts with vendors and consultants to ensure quality strategic and timely work product.
• Planning – Develop project plans and budgets, and contribute to program planning and broader strategy development

Requirements

• Minimum of ten years of professional work experience across a variety of communications strategies and tactics with prior success in persuasion campaigns as an advocate, campaigner or organizer
• A directly relevant graduate degree may count as two years of experience
• A demonstrated commitment to social justice
• Knowledge: Must know the field of persuasive communication and be familiar with the changing media and social change landscape. Some knowledge of environmental public health, climate change, and/or environmental justice issues is needed or quickly grasped.
• Skills: Must have truly outstanding writing, editing and storytelling skills; strong oral communications skills, and a very good graphic sensibility regarding effective visual media. Must be tech savvy on a variety communications-related programs and platforms and practiced at the art of persuasion.
• Abilities: An ability to be personable but persuasive, to promote with humility, and to build relationships with people on the basis of where they’re at, not where we want them to be. Ability to plan and organize work, ability to listen and understand information that is presented, ability to solve complex problems, and think critically. Ability to effectively translate complex issues, including those steeped in science and technology, into relatable stories and actionable bites.