Digital Marketing and Communications Specialist

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$62K/yr – $76K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end digital campaigns and analytics for RFA, turning data into actionable insights, and coordinating content across platforms and languages for newsroom and stakeholders.

  • Plan multi-channel campaigns with clear goals
  • Translate data into concise reports for leadership
  • Develop multimedia content for social, site, and newsletters

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Plan multi-channel campaigns (social, email, search) with clear goals, target audiences, and KPIs set before launch
  • Track results in Google Analytics and platform insights, report what worked, and adjust campaigns based on the data
  • Test formats, timing, and messaging to steadily improve audience growth and engagement
  • Track how RFA's reporting travels (pickups, citations, audience growth) and turn the data into short impact summaries for leadership and stakeholders
  • Demystify complex analytics to provide clear, goal-aligned insights in actionable reports
  • Write, design, and publish copy, graphics, and video for social media, the website, and newsletters
  • Turn exclusive reporting and field footage into short-form content for new audiences, outlets, researchers, and policy experts
  • Create explainers on censorship, digital and transnational repression, and threats to journalists
  • Manage RFA's About site and corporate social channels
  • Work with newsroom and language service staff to find story angles and adapt top-performing content across platforms and languages

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, or a related field preferred; equivalent experience considered
  • 3 years of experience in digital marketing, digital communications, or news content (student media, freelance, nonprofit, and volunteer work count)
  • Experiences using analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics, Sprout Social, native platform insights) to explain what changed and why, not just report “likes” and “followers”
  • Strong writing and editing, shown in published digital content
  • Demonstrated experiences turning long or complex reporting into short-form content, and explaining policy, human rights, or international issues to general audiences
  • Hands-on, professional skills in Canva, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, or similar tools, plus AI tools
  • Strong knowledge of SEO and AI search optimization
  • Experience with an email platform (e.g., Mailchimp, HubSpot), including audience segmentation

Preferred

  • Knowledge of human rights, Asian geopolitics, and press freedom
  • Experience at a mission-driven, nonprofit, media, or international organization, especially a multilingual one
  • Experience at a start-up or PR agency
  • Fluency in an RFA language, especially Mandarin, Tibetan, Korean, Vietnamese, or Uyghur
  • Existing relationships with creators and influencers interested in RFA's coverage regions
  • Experience working with platforms on moderation, demonetization, or restricted access
  • Familiarity with basic digital security, or a strong interest in learning it
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Radio Free Asia

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RFA is a private, nonprofit news corporation informing audiences living in places with few alternatives to state-controlled and -influenced media through uncensored, in-depth journalism. RFA broadcasts in nine Asian languages including: Mandarin, Tibetan, Burmese, Vietnamese, Korean, Lao, Khmer, Cantonese, and Uyghur. RFA also operates websites carrying original news content in nine Asian languages, plus English, and several additional dialects.RFA is funded through an annual grant from the United States Agency for Global Media.

Founded in 1996
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
276 employees (174 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
0% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$62K/yr – $76K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
165 (60% of company)
Median Tenure
6.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
47.3%
Direct
27%
Referral
16.4%
Social
5.8%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~276

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Digital Marketing and Communications Specialist

Radio Free Asia · District of Columbia, USA · Hybrid