Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the communications team to create high-quality, engaging content across various formats, including social media updates, blog posts, videos, and infographics that follow Down Home’s message guidance and theory of change.
• Design and implement content strategies that effectively align with organizational goals and target audience needs while prioritizing conversion into offline organizing.
• Generate fresh and innovative ideas to improve social media presence and reach a wider audience.
• Collaborate with our political and organizing teams with the supervision of the Sr. Information Strategist to produce time-sensitive deliverables.
• Support community outreach through content that promotes events, initiatives, and campaigns to foster community involvement and participation.
• Manage and implement the editorial calendar and our distribution platforms with support from other communications staff; lead and take ownership of specific projects, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality output.
• Assist in the creation of comprehensive digital content archives. Maintain statistics and generate data, as needed.
• Stay informed about the unique issues and challenges faced by poor and working-class communities in rural North Carolina and incorporate that knowledge into content creation and community engagement strategies.

Requirements

• Trust builder: Ability to establish credibility and respect with colleagues, and an understanding of how to build strong, long-term relationships. Build relationships with staff, members, contractors, and stakeholders. Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with people from different backgrounds.
• Skilled Creator: Demonstrated ability to create dynamic, engaging content across platforms, both print and digital.
• Skilled Communicator: Ability to take narrative and messaging guidance and turn it into impactful, consumable content. Content marketing experience is a plus.
• Effective project management skills: Demonstrated ability to successfully meet deadlines, set goals, develop realistic work plans, and adjust work to meet emerging needs. Highly organized and with strong attention to detail. Proven ability to manage complex schedules, multiple projects, and responsibilities.
• Mission alignment: Committed to the vision of a powerful, inclusive, rural, multiracial, working-class movement-building as a path towards liberation for all people.
• Familiarity with Canva, Adobe, and other design and video editing software required; Social Media, WordPress, EveryActio,n and scheduling software experience preferred.
• Personal or professional experience living in rural communities, living in the South, and/or organizing in the South are a plus but not required.
• Requires experience in developing and implementing independent judgment, excellent people skills, and excellent written and oral communication skills
• Some irregular hours are required, including nights and weekends.

Benefits

• best-in-class health and retirement benefits; sabbatical policy; relocation stipend
• paid time off at 8 hours per month for the first year
• 80 hours of sick time upon the start date