Content Writer at The Public Interest Network | Boston, MA | $38K/yr – $42K/yr

The Public Interest Network

Content Writer

Boston, MA (On-site)

$38K/yr – $42K/yrEntry Level1+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

environmental campaigns ownership: own the storytelling pipeline from idea to amplification and learning, with steady editorial direction and collaboration with PIRG and Environment America.

Storytelling Ownership: Write, edit and proofread stories for web and print to motivate action.
Amplification: Adapt content for web, emails, fundraisers, and reports to broaden impact.
Planning & Growth: Create content plans, manage time, and coordinate teammates to move concepts to completion.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Connect: Work with the PIRG and Environment America state directors and program teams, learn our issues and campaigns, and keep on top of our action, progress and results.
Tell stories: Write (and rewrite, and rewrite again), edit and proofread stories that capture attention and motivate, excite, persuade and enlighten.
Amplify and expand stories: Amplify our stories on the web and in print. Adapt them for email alerts and fundraisers, campaign content, direct mail appeals, newsletters, annual reports and more.
Get and stay organized: Come up with a plan that puts you in a position to deliver content that makes an impact. Manage your time and keep track of your progress. Organize the team of people you need to take your work from concept to completion.
Get training and direction: Practice and perfect your craft. Learn new skills. Get direction up front, editorial feedback throughout, and an evaluation at completion. Keep getting better at what you do.

Preferred

Design stuff: Do you know Canva? Adobe Creative Suite?
Data stuff : Can you explain statistical significance and medians v. averages? Are you able to turn raw data into a chart that looks cool and communicates something meaningful? Are you a Google Sheets wizard?
Creative stuff: Are you a good photographer, illustrator or videographer?

Benefits

We’re a nonprofit that gets the most bang for the buck for our donors.
The Public Interest Network offers a competitive benefits package. Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents, time off, a commuter benefit program, a 401(k) plan with employer match, parental leave, long term disability insurance, and may include needs-based student loan assistance. We also offer an excellent training program and opportunities for advancement.

The Public Interest Network

The Public Interest Network runs organizations committed to our vision of a better world, a set of core values, and a strategic approach to getting things done.The 16-plus groups in The Public Interest Network each strive for solutions on their own, while the force of our combined strategies builds pressure for change across the political and economic spectrum.Mission: We work on issues that speak to the need for a new kind of politics. Our campaigns challenge decision-makers to stop tolerating problems that are increasingly absurd in an age of advancing technology and growing abundance.We've won hundreds of victories at the local, state, national and corporate levels, and because of these laws and policies, people are buying healthier and safer products, getting more of our energy from the sun and the wind, drinking cleaner water and breathing cleaner air.

Denver, Colorado, USA

105 employees (22 in marketing)

publicinterestnetwork.org