Copywriter - Nonprofit

Chicago, IL (Remote)

$60/hr – $80/hrMid Level2+ years expContract

Posted 14 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end nonprofit copy across campaigns, landing pages, and testing programs, partnering with growth strategists and AI tooling to deliver on-brand, high-converting content that advances mission-driven goals.

  • Own the creation and optimization of donor-focused copy for multiple channels and tests.
  • Collaborate with growth and AI teams to scale brand voices across clients.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Write donor-facing copy for nonprofit and mission-driven clients. This includes donation page copy, fundraising emails and SMS appeals, year-end and GivingTuesday campaigns, monthly/recurring giving asks, matching gift promotions, and impact-driven landing pages where the "product" is a mission.
  • Write paid media ad copy across platforms (Meta, Google, LinkedIn). This includes headlines, descriptions, and creative copy that drives clicks, donations, and conversions.
  • Produce landing page copy from briefs and wireframes, collaborating with designers to ensure messaging and layout work together.
  • Write conversion-focused copy for A/B tests. This could include headline variants, CTA copy, value proposition or ask-amount rewrites, and messaging hierarchy tests where each variant is mapped to a clear hypothesis.
  • Write email and SMS copy for lifecycle and donor journey campaigns (welcome flows, abandoned cart or gift, win-back/lapsed donor, promotional and appeal sends) within client brand voice guidelines.
  • Rewrite underperforming copy based on test results and analytics, diagnosing what's not working and proposing data-informed alternatives.
  • Adapt quickly to new client brand voices, absorbing voice guides and existing copy to produce on-brand work from the first deliverable, including the balance of authenticity, trust, and urgency that nonprofit tone requires.
  • Collaborate closely with growth strategists. Your copy is the execution layer of their experimentation roadmap.
  • Manage your workload across multiple concurrent clients and projects, communicating proactively about capacity, timelines, and blockers.
  • Use AI tools to accelerate drafting, variant generation, and research while maintaining the craft, originality, and strategic rigor that make great copy.

Requirements

  • 2–4+ years of experience in conversion copywriting, direct-response writing, CRO copy, or performance marketing copy.
  • Experience writing for nonprofit or mission-driven organizations, e.g. donation optimization, fundraising appeals, donor communications, and impact framing.
  • A portfolio demonstrating copy that was written to be tested, such as paid ads, landing pages, headline variants, or email campaigns with clear strategic framing, ideally including nonprofit or fundraising work.
  • Ability to write across multiple brand voices quickly and accurately. You can absorb a voice guide and produce on-brand copy on the first pass.
  • Strong strategic instinct. You understand why copy converts, not just what sounds good.
  • Comfort with volume and speed. You can produce multiple variants quickly without sacrificing quality or strategic thinking.
  • Clear communication skills. You ask good questions about briefs, flag ambiguity early, and explain your copy rationale to non-writers.
  • Self-directed and reliable. You manage your time well, meet deadlines consistently, and don't need to be micromanaged.
  • AI is a hard requirement, not a preference. This role requires active, demonstrated use of AI tools in your daily workflow — and goes further. You'll be expected to build and manage brand-specific AI writing agents that the team can use at scale. You'll be asked to show concrete AI-integrated workflows and agent-building experience during the interview process. Candidates who cannot demonstrate practical AI tool use and agent creation will not advance.
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Cro Metrics is your trusted partner for all things growth. We offer strategic counsel and agile solutions that drive businesses to their full growth potential. Whether solving challenges or seizing new opportunities, we guide you every step of the way.Our suite of services includes:- Strategic Growth Consulting: From comprehensive growth strategies to AI and martech recommendations—and everything in between—we provide solutions to unlock your business's full growth potential.- Customer Journey Analysis and Analytics Solutions: Powered by our exclusive platform, Iris Analytics, we provide deep insights and project management to optimize every step of the customer journey.- Website Design and Development- Conversion Rate Optimization- Lifecycle and Email Marketing- Performance Marketing- Referral Network: A network of vetted providers for any services not offered in-house

Founded in 2011
Greenbrae, California, USA
74 employees (22 in marketing)

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