Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day activity across PPIC’s social media channels (Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram), maintaining a consistent, engaging voice.
• Monitor news, California policy developments, and PPIC’s media mentions to identify timely opportunities for relevant, real-time content.
• Collaborate with the digital team to plan, execute, and evaluate social media campaigns tied to major reports, events, and organizational priorities.
• Maintain and protect PPIC’s nonpartisan brand across multiple social media channels.
• Develop, create, and edit high-quality graphics and copy drawn from PPIC research for social media. This social content should be crafted to engage PPIC’s target audiences—California policymakers, staff, journalists, and the broader California policy community.
• Choose images for use in published reports, ensuring visuals are high quality, relevant, and consistent with PPIC's style and brand.
• Ideal candidates would be able to shoot and edit high quality short-form social video that promotes PPIC research.
• Monitor key metrics across social media to track the impact of digital content and campaigns.
• Track and report out on metrics for social campaigns tied to major reports, events, and organizational priorities.
• Stay current with digital trends, emerging platforms, and content best practices, and monitor the digital activities of peer organizations for ideas and benchmarking.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of experience in digital content, social media, or communications
• Strong writing and editing skills
• Experience with social media analytics platforms (e.g., Sprout Social)
• Experience developing and editing graphics, charts/maps, and video.
• Experience with video production and editing software (e.g. Adobe Premiere Pro).
• Experience with design tools (e.g., Canva, Adobe Creative Suite)
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word and Excel), WordPress, and preferably interactive graphics software (e.g. Tableau, Infogram, DataWrapper).
• Working experience in a research organization or a nonpartisan media organization a plus.

Preferred

• Working experience in a research organization or a nonpartisan media organization a plus.
• Experience shooting and editing high quality short-form social video.

Benefits

• The comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents.
• PPIC contributes the equivalent of 9% of the salary towards the retirement plan.
• 14 paid holidays and 28 days of PTO annually (PTO balance increases with tenure), and more!