Content Writer

Boston, MA (On-site)

$38K/yr – $42K/yrEntry LevelFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive compelling storytelling and content production to support PIRG and Environment America campaigns.

  • Own story development from draft to final edits across web, email, and print.
  • Must-have: Excellent editing and storytelling skills to persuade diverse audiences.
  • Coordinate content planning and collaboration to deliver timely campaigns.

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

  • 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
  • may include needs-based student loan assistance
  • excellent training program and opportunities for advancement
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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.

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