Responsibilities

• Draft, edit, and proofread digital advocacy content, including emails, broadcast text messages, website copy, social media copy, and other grassroots communications.
• Help manage routine communications to grassroots advocates, including Energy Citizens, to support acquisition, cultivation, and activation efforts.
• Assist with building, scheduling, and sending messages through the team's digital communications platforms, including email, landing page, and text messaging tools.
• Support the development and maintenance of cultivation email journeys, onboarding messages, and state-specific engagement communications.
• Maintain the grassroots communications calendar and coordinate with Public Affairs team members to keep content organized, timely, and aligned with campaign needs.
• Route draft content through the quality control and approvals process, track feedback, and make requested edits accurately and on deadline.
• Help monitor basic performance metrics for email, text, and organic engagement campaigns, and assist with pulling results for team updates.
• Support Energy Citizens social media content by drafting posts, coordinating updates, and helping maintain an engaging advocacy presence.
• Assist data, targeting, and campaign partners with content needs related to advocate acquisition, cultivation, and activation.
• Help maintain documentation and step-by-step process guides for the platforms and workflows used to communicate with advocates.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 0-3 years of experience in communications, public affairs, politics, advocacy, marketing, digital media, or a related field. Relevant internship experience may count toward this requirement.
• Strong writing, editing, proofreading, and copywriting skills with careful attention to detail.
• Ability to write clearly for public audiences and adapt tone for emails, text messages, website copy, and social media.
• Interest in grassroots advocacy, public affairs, policy communications, or online engagement.
• Comfort learning and using digital platforms for email, text messaging, landing pages, social media, and content approvals.
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple assignments, deadlines, and rounds of feedback.
• Collaborative team player who can work with internal partners across departments.
• Basic understanding of social media platforms and digital communications best practices.
• Familiarity with Salesforce CRM, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, peer-to-peer texting tools, or similar platforms is helpful but not required.

Benefits

• API offers a comprehensive benefits package for our employees and their families. More information about our benefits may be found at api.org/about/careers/benefits.