Communications Manager

Madison, WI (Hybrid)

$67K/yr – $79K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end digital communications flow for policy-focused outreach, balancing technical email systems, CMS web content, social channels, and responsive media relations to advance voting rights and environmental justice in Wisconsin.

  • Digital production and platforms: shepherd bulk email campaigns, site updates, landing pages, and social posting across multiple channels.
  • Visual storytelling and writing: lead design, field content gathering, basic photography/video, and production of authentic written narratives for members.
  • Media and campaign support: draft press-ready materials, capture field visuals, and translate policy priorities into compelling narratives for partners and journalists.

Job Description

Own digital communications operations across email systems, CMS, social, media relations, and policy-focused campaigns to advance voting rights and environmental justice in Wisconsin.

  • Responsibilities: Digital production and systems management: Serve as the primary technical lead for setting up, testing, and deploying bulk email campaigns via EveryAction. Handle formatting, tracking, and list segmentation to ensure high deliverability and engagement. Act as the day-to-day webmaster for content updates across our digital platforms, including Craft CMS and Squarespace. Build new landing pages for campaigns and ensure all civic engagement resources are accurate and accessible. Own the daily posting and polishing of organizational social media channels. Adapt core messaging for Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and any new channels, ensuring consistency and timely delivery.
  • Responsibilities: Design, writing, and visual storytelling: Act as a lead designer for digital and print assets. Utilizing Canva and occasionally Adobe Creative Suite, create social graphics, email headers, and digital flyers that make our complex policy work feel urgent and human. Serve as a field-based content gatherer. Assist the communications team with light photography and mobile video skills to document events, capture interviews, and create authentic behind-the-scenes content for social stories. Draft and produce original written content including emails, blog posts, news articles, and social media toolkits that translate organizational priorities into engaging narratives for our members. Help maintain the organizational photo and video library, ensuring that staff have easy access to high-quality, on-brand visuals.
  • Responsibilities: Media relations: Monitor news trends and social media to help the team pivot messaging quickly during legislative sessions or election cycles. Draft and distribute press-ready materials, including blog posts, news articles, and media toolkits that translate policy priorities into compelling narratives. Capture field-based content, such as photography and video with a mobile phone, to provide media and partners with authentic visuals of our work. Direct reporters to appropriate staff.
  • Responsibilities: Issue-based campaign support – voting rights: While supporting WCV’s general communications workflow, this position will also provide specialized support for democracy campaigns, working with WCV’s Voting Rights Associate Director and coalition partners to develop a compelling voting rights narrative and support a campaign focused on passing transformational voting rights legislation in Wisconsin. Collaborate with BIPOC-led organizations and communities historically marginalized from the voting process to identify and elevate trusted local messengers.
  • Requirements: Attention to detail: A strong focus on accuracy across all digital work. You must be able to spot small mistakes, follow brand guidelines, and keep projects on track under multiple deadlines
  • Requirements: Campaign narrative and writing: 2 to 4 years of experience in digital communications, with an ability to translate complex language into compelling narratives for public consumption
  • Requirements: Digital systems management: Proficiency with bulk email systems (EveryAction would be ideal, but not required) and website CMS platforms (Craft CMS and SquareSpace ideal, but not required); you should be comfortable with building and segmenting lists for efficient targeting
  • Requirements: Visual content creation: Proficiency in Canva is required; experience with Adobe Creative Suite and video production/editing skills is a significant plus. Experience with mobile video production specifically is essential
  • Requirements: Political and legislative savvy: A strong understanding of Wisconsin’s political landscape will be helpful. You must be able to navigate the fast-moving legislative sessions and election cycles with accuracy and strategic intent
  • Requirements: Media and stakeholder relations: Experience or a strong willingness to build and maintain relationships with local and state media outlets to advance campaign goals
  • Requirements: Project and team collaboration: Ability to manage multiple moving pieces across different departments while maintaining quality control and brand consistency
  • Requirements: Commitment to racial justice and equity: Demonstrated awareness of how one’s life experiences influence one’s biases and assumptions. Demonstrated commitment to continual learning. Commitment to equity and inclusion as organizational practice and culture. Understands how environmental and voting rights issues intersect with racism, economic and social inequality in the U.S. and has a passion for working to dismantle these systems
  • Requirements: Enthusiastic about WCV’s mission of engaging voters to protect Wisconsin’s environment : committed to racial equity, and share the organization’s values of leadership, action and results, and building power and community with our partners and those most impacted by environmental injustice and voter suppression.
  • Preferred: Experience with EveryAction would be a plus
  • Preferred: Experience with Adobe Creative Suite and video production/editing is a plus
  • Preferred: Prior experience in democracy campaigns or coalition-building is a plus
  • Preferred: Experience building relationships with local and state media outlets is a plus
  • Benefits: 36 hour work week
  • Benefits: Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and two weeks of communal rest (one summer week and one winter week) totaling 44 days of PTO per year plus 12 sick/personal days per year
  • Benefits: 12 weeks paid parental leave
  • Benefits: Paid medical/emergency leave policy that is straightforward and trust-based
  • Benefits: Paid sabbatical after five years of employment
  • Benefits: Health and dental insurance with a generous employer contribution
  • Benefits: 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contribution after one year
  • Benefits: Flexible Spending Account (medical, dependent care, and transit)
  • Benefits: Life insurance and short-term disability insurance
  • Benefits: Phone stipend
  • Benefits: Flexibility in working hours
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Wisconsin Conservation Voters

Wisconsin Conservation Voters advocates for sound environmental laws and policies, holds elected officials accountable for their votes and actions, and elects pro-conservation candidates who will champion our priority issues. Our priority campaigns are Clean Energy for All, Safe Drinking Water for All and Healthy democracy for All.

Founded in 2002
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
30 employees (4 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
26.8%
Direct
49.1%
Referral
6.1%
Social
16.6%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~30

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4 (13% of company)