Center for Community Change is seeking a Online Communications Associate

employment@communitychange.org — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:03:14 GMT

The Campaign for Community Change will be working closely with the Campaign to Reform Immigration for America, the national collaboration of organizations from faith, labor and immigrant communities committed to the passage of a just and humane immigration reform bill.

Position Overview

· The Campaign for Community Change is seeking an Online Communications Associate with 1-3 years experience in email/mobile list building, leveraging technology for grassroots organizing, and/or implementing effective online advocacy and fundraising strategies. Previous experience working with Democracy in Action and/or coalitions and distributed teams successfully is a plus. The Online Communications Associate should be a web and data "geek" who is constantly looking for new and innovative ways to organize campaigns online.

Principal Responsibilities:

Support the implementation of the Reform Immigration for America (RI4A) and Fair Immigration Reform Movement online (FIRM) campaign strategies, as defined by the Online Communications Director.
Work with coalition partners to help them and the campaign, fulfill agreements around publicizing campaign initiatives and shared list-building efforts.
Work to build capacity of online communications with FIRM field partners and the IOC.
Update the campaign website in coordination with the Communications Pillar and the Online Communications Director.
Draft and edit email outreaches for the campaign in coordination with the Online Communications Director.
Set up landing pages for campaign actions in Democracy in Action (petitions, call Congress actions, tell-a-friend pages, email auto responders, etc.).
Send email outreaches using Democracy in Action.
Develop, monitor, and manage the campaign's social network presence (Twitter, Facebook, MySpace).
Author FIRM blog in coordination with RI4A blog content production and streaming from various partner organizations
Develop and send weekly FIRM bulletin.
Responsible for maintenance of the text database, crafting messages to the list and managing list segmentation.
Do online grassroots outreach of various kinds as needed by the campaign.

Qualifications:

We are looking for someone who is:

· An excellent and experienced project and staff manager.

· At ease with technology and knows basic HTML, CSS and image manipulation.

· Knowledgeable of and understands the online political space and political blogosphere.

· Able to track a lot of moving parts and manage complex projects and maintain attention to detail, while keeping the big picture in mind.

· Able to write compelling email copy, with an understanding of what makes some emails more effective at generating action than others.

· Experienced working with partner organizations on an issue campaign.

· Familiar with Democracy in Action or similar program. (Blue State Digital, Convio, Capitol Advantage, Get Active, etc)

· Familiar with online organizing practices, including social network and blogger outreach.

· Familiar with the use of voter file data and modeling for reaching potential campaign supporters. (not required)

This position reports to: The Online Communications Director

Salary: The Campaign offers a competitive salary.

How to apply: Please submit resume, a cover letter that includes salary expectations and at least two writing samples to:

Campaign for Community Change

Human Resources

Re: Online Communications Associate

1536 U Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20009

(Fax) 202-387 4892

employment@campaignforcommunities.org

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Center for Community Change is seeking a Online Communications Associate