Social Media Content Creator

USA (Remote)

$19/hr – $24/hrMid LevelFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the storytelling engine for PETA's social channels, turning quick reactions into emotionally compelling posts while aligning with factual accuracy, real-time engagement, and cross-department priorities.

  • Content Ownership: plan and craft short, story-driven copy for Instagram, X/Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok.
  • Audience & Performance: analyze responses, replicate wins, and grow followers through data-informed optimization.
  • Trend & Real-Time Ops: monitor memes and events, apply them creatively, and post at moments that move the needle.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • You will collaborate and brainstorm with other social media team members to create compelling content—specifically through words—for PETA's Instagram, X/Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok accounts. Content must be emotionally evocative and tell a story with minimal words and well-designed imagery.
  • Helping save animals is PETA’s biggest priority. You will work on priorities from other departments to ensure that the social team is pushing PETA’s biggest issues and thus getting the public to take animals into consideration. You’ll also communicate with these departments to guarantee that everything you are posting is engaging, factually accurate, and emotionally compelling.
  • It takes a lot of skill to learn how to best present information to an online audience, so a major part of your job will be analyzing your work and its online response, then finding ways to both improve and replicate prior success AND grow our following!
  • You will get to know our online audience and see what they respond to and share, which will help you create content tailored for them to share. If we want to win animal rights, we must get our content in front of our audience and their followers!
  • A portion of your every day will be researching current trends in social media, staying on top of things like the latest meme, and creatively applying that knowledge to PETA's efforts.
  • The news never sleeps! Since social media success depends on acting in real-time, we post when the moment strikes (and on some occasions, the moment is 9 p.m. on Saturday night). You'll also need to be available on some holidays and weekends to post urgent breaking news.
  • Though this role is remote, you’ll need to be able to hop over to your local vegan restaurant to create a fun TikTok or get content when we’re protesting in your area.
  • You’ll also be expected to perform any other duties assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements

  • Must own or have access to reliable transportation such as a car or public transit, as content collection will be required for the position, sometimes on a moment's notice.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in marketing, advertising, communications, graphic design, or related field or equivalent experience.
  • You must have experience creating content for social media brand pages with proven success in fostering engagement and analysis.
  • Not only do you know what Instagram, X/Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook are, but you know who is the biggest demographic on each platform and how to write captivating content for each audience.

Preferred

  • Photoshop and Premiere skills are a plus since social media relies so heavily on visual impact. Candidates should at least be familiar with some of the Adobe Creative Cloud.

Benefits

  • A list of benefits available to qualified employees is available here.
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PETA

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) entities have more than 10.4 million members and supporters globally, and PETA U.S. is the largest animal rights organization in the world.PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: in laboratories, in the food industry, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of rodents, birds, and other animals who are often considered “pests” as well as cruelty to domesticated animals.PETA works through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.PETA Foundation was founded in 1993 as an organization that helps PETA run, and includes departments like IT, Development, and Interactive Media. PETA and the PETA Foundation are two separate organizations but work very closely together.Looking for a career in animal rights? See our open positions here: http://www.peta.org/jobs.

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Norfolk, Virginia, USA
699 employees (172 in marketing)

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