Visual Storytelling & Social Media Strategist

Oakland, CA (On-site)

$77K/yr – $85K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 6 days ago

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Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Create engaging, audience-centered content for Amazon Watch’s social media platforms (especially Instagram), including written posts, graphics, short-form videos, photographs, audio, and other multimedia materials.
  • Produce and edit original visual and audio content that communicates Amazon Watch’s campaigns, partnerships, and impact.
  • Adapt campaign information, research, news, and partner updates into clear and compelling digital stories.
  • Edit and prepare content provided by Indigenous partners and allies for amplification, following organizational standards for consent, attribution, accuracy, and ethical storytelling.
  • Support the creation and editing of materials for Amazon Watch’s website, emails, publications, events, and fundraising communications as assigned.
  • Source photographs, video, audio, and other creative assets for communications and campaign projects.
  • Help maintain consistency with Amazon Watch’s editorial voice, visual identity, messaging, and style guidelines.
  • Coordinate the day-to-day implementation of Amazon Watch’s social media plans across relevant platforms.
  • Maintain an accurate and collaborative social media calendar in coordination with the Communications team.
  • Draft, schedule, publish, and quality-check social content, balancing planned communications with rapid-response needs.

Requirements

  • At least two years of relevant professional experience in social media, digital content creation, journalism, communications, online campaigning, or a related field.
  • Bilingual English-Spanish or English-Portuguese
  • Demonstrated experience creating content for platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, or other relevant channels.
  • Strong writing, editing, proofreading, and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience creating or editing visual and multimedia content, particularly short-form video and social graphics.
  • Strong editorial judgment and the ability to communicate complex subjects clearly and accurately.
  • Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple assignments and deadlines.
  • Ability to balance planned work with time-sensitive and rapid-response communications.
  • Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across teams.
  • Demonstrated commitment to racial justice, climate justice, Indigenous rights, and equitable communications.

Preferred

  • Experience communicating about Indigenous rights, environmental justice, climate justice, human rights, or corporate accountability.
  • Experience working in an advocacy, nonprofit, movement, or campaign environment.
  • Working knowledge of design and multimedia tools such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Canva, or comparable applications.
  • Experience with social media analytics and using performance information to improve content, including familiarity with Meltwater.
  • Photography, videography, audio production, animation, or illustration skills.
  • Experience working respectfully across cultures, geographies, and time zones.

Benefits

  • Current benefits include: Full coverage family health care (including vision and dental), voluntary life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance program, generous vacation time, sick time, paid parental leave, paid holidays,12 weeks paid sabbatical after 5 years, employer-matched retirement plan, plus budget for professional development and home office supplies for ergonomic work.
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Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with indigenous and environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the preservation of the Amazon's ecological systems.We envision a world that honors and values cultural and biological diversity and the critical contribution of tropical rainforests to our planet's life support system. We believe that indigenous self-determination is paramount, and see that indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contribute greatly to sustainable and equitable stewardship of the Earth. We strive for a world in which governments, corporations and civil society respect the collective rights of indigenous peoples to free, prior and informed consent over any activity affecting their territories and resources. We commit, in the spirit of partnership and mutual respect, to support our indigenous allies in their efforts to protect life, land, and culture in accordance with their aspirations and needs.

Founded in 1996
Oakland, California, USA
57 employees (8 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

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Monthly Visitors
43.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.4%
Direct
17.1%
Referral
13.9%
Social
0.5%
Paid
1.2%

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Current headcount: ~57

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7 (12% of company)
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