Digital Strategist (Remote)
NextGen America is the leading national organization for engaging young people through voter education, registration and mobilization. We invite 18-to-35 year olds — the largest and most diverse generation in American history — into our democracy to ensure our government works for them and to find new solutions to the dire challenges facing our society and the world. Since 2013, NextGen America has registered more than 1.4 million young voters and educated many millions more.
Location
San Francisco, California
Date Posted
Category
Nonprofit
Job Type
Full Time
Political Affiliation
Democrat
THE ROLE:
NextGen America is currently seeking a creative, self-starting Digital Strategist to develop and execute winning online campaigns. This person will work with the team to engage and grow the NextGen email and SMS community to advance our organizing and electoral priorities. We are looking for someone who wants to connect powerful organizing and campaigning with digital tools and technology to help elect progressives up and down the ballot and advocate for a transformative policy agenda.
The ideal candidate has a passion for politics and a belief that young people will make the difference in America’s future. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage people of diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply. We value and are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion as an organization–in theory and in practice–and our culture reflects that value and commitment. We are committed to furthering issues like climate change, health care, and economic and racial justice from a progressive perspective, we seek to engage the public in these areas as well as others.
This role will report to the National Digital Communications Director.
This is a fully remote position with no location requirement. We encourage candidates from all locations within the United States to apply.
FLSA Classification: Exempt
Remote Position: Yes
Union Position: No
Travel Requirements: Less than 10%
WHAT YOU’LL ACHIEVE:
- Copywriter for web pages and online rapid response campaigns.
- Draft, build and schedule SMS broadcasts and other mobile communications.
- Manage digital grassroots campaigns from conception to design, execution and analysis
- Produce and checklist large email campaigns and action pages
- Produce reports on digital engagement and experiments to NextGen America teams, including incorporating google analytics
- Lead coordination between digital and content creation teams (social, video, creative, press) and strategize methods on how to create connections between the content to ultimately create cohesive, strong messaging
- Strategize digital acquisition campaigns through social media platforms
- Serve as the lead copywriter on email and SMS content, suggest strategically what digital campaigns would be most beneficial
- Developing landing pages on the main site and microsites — as well as helping web build microsites
- Leverage significant spikes in digital engagement to measure the impact of our efforts
- Develop digital strategy to grow our base and promote our calls to action
- Craft strategic digital proposal and briefs to advance annual goals
- Maintain an understanding of the emerging trends in digital storytelling and utilize them effectively
- Perform other duties as assigned.
ABOUT YOU:
- 1-3 years of communications or digital work for political campaigns, nonprofit advocacy groups or marketing.
- Exceptional writing, copyediting and proofreading skills.
- The candidate must have excellent organizational skills, and demonstrate a clear ability to adapt rapidly to evolving priorities and deadlines.
- Ability to work remotely in a highly collaborative distributed environment
- Must have a strong work ethic and demonstrate consistent attention to detail.
- Be a positive, collaborative team player that sets the tone for everyone to do their best work.
- Comfortable working remotely in a highly collaborative distributed workforce setting.
BONUS POINTS FOR:
- Proficiency with advocacy CRM tools such as Blue State Digital, NGPVAN, Convio or Salsa.
- Familiarity with HTML and CSS for email and landing pages.
- Familiarity with graphics and editing tools like the Adobe Creative Suite.
- Experience with reporting and analytics tools including Google Analytics, Omniture, Facebook Analytics, etc.
COMPENSATION:
Salary for this position is $62,000 – $68,000. NextGen America also offers a very comprehensive benefits package.
BENEFITS:
Our comprehensive benefits package plays an essential part in how we recognize you for your critical contribution toward our organization’s mission.
Taking Care of Your Future:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance: 100% coverage for you and for your dependents
- Short-term disability, long-term disability and life insurance
- 401(k) plan – we’ll match 100% up to 4% of your salary
Setting You Up for Success:
- Up to $150 per month to use toward your cell phone and internet costs
- $100 per month to use toward your personal health and wellness goals
- Flexible spending account for dependent care
- Professional development opportunities to help you achieve your best self
APPLICATION LINK: https://nextgenamerica.bamboohr.com/careers/268?source=aWQ9MTI%3D
ABOUT NEXTGEN AMERICA:
NextGen America is the leading national organization for engaging young people through voter education, registration and mobilization. We invite 18-to-35 year olds — the largest and most diverse generation in American history — into our democracy to ensure our government works for them and to find new solutions to the dire challenges facing our society and the world. Since 2013, NextGen America has registered more than 1.4 million young voters and educated many millions more.