Communications & Community Engagement Specialist
Do you love writing and storytelling?
Do you want to get out in the community and work with progressive campaigns to tell powerful stories?
Do you feel butterflies in your stomach when you hear or read a powerful speech?
This position is part of our Communications Hub program: a small, but mighty team of storytellers.
WHAT IS THE COMMUNICATIONS HUB?
The Communications Hub is a statewide program housed at Fuse Washington, the largest progressive organization in Washington State. We act as a communications "toolshed" for the progressive movement – working with progressive campaigns and organizations tell a more powerful story. We do this by providing communications support, storytelling training and coaching, and direct staffing capacity to strengthen advocacy campaigns. We work on a variety of progressive issues, but our top priorities are democracy reform, voting access, climate justice, and progressive tax reform.
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Communications Hub is looking for a multitalented individual who thrives in a collaborative work environment. We're looking for someone who can juggle many different issues, partners, and projects while keeping a careful eye on the long-term vision and work plan. This person will work in a team environment with Fuse staff, nonprofit coalitions, and progressive activists to execute coordinated communications campaigns for top priority issues and help partner organizations improve their communications infrastructure and capacity.
This full-time position is located in Seattle and will report to and work closely with the Communications Hub Director.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Provide direct communications support to organizational partners and priority campaigns
- Research and draft messaging for advocacy campaigns
- Support the daily communications needs of partner organizations lacking communications infrastructure – generating content and coordinating communications
- Identify and collect stories from community members for communications
- Provide communications support to the WA Voting Justice Coalition and All In For Washington campaign
Engage and build relationships with new partners and organizations, particularly groups led by and engaging with communities of color, immigrants, and refugee communities
- Represent the Communications Hub at coalition and community meetings
- Engage new voices and build relationships with community organizations and leaders
- Facilitate the quarterly meetings of the Communications Hub's Advisory Council – a permanent communicators table for progressive organizations
Train and coach progressive advocates on innovative new communication strategies, skills, and best practices
- The Communications Hub offers several trainings to partners – ranging from storytelling strategies to writing op-eds to using social media. The coordinator will facilitate a selection of these trainings, often alongside the Communications Hub Director
- Build new trainings and toolkits based on feedback and requests from the community
- Provide on-going coaching to partners on how to implement a long-term narrative and integrate storytelling into advocacy communications
Generate high-quality content for our blog and social media accounts
- Regularly blog and share lessons learned on the Heroes' Narrative website
- Share interesting and helpful research and materials on Facebook and Twitter
- Grow our online presence to engage partners in new ways
QUALIFICATIONS
- Excellent writing skills and a knack for storytelling.
- A mind for communications and political strategy.
- A curiosity to learn and dive into the latest messaging research.
- Proven experience working alongside communities of color.
- Proven commitment to racial justice.
- Some traditional and new media experience.
- Creative, innovative, and have a sense of humor.
- Strong public presence. Engaging and confident interpersonal style.
- Collaborative and thrives working in a team setting.
- Technology friendly.
- Flexibility to travel, including regular travel to different communities across Washington state.
- Ambitious about increasing the strength of the progressive community and making serious changes in the world.
- Training facilitation and curriculum development experience a plus.
- Bi-lingual a plus.
HOW TO APPLY
Send a resume, cover letter, and 2 writing samples to jobs@fusewashington.org with the subject heading "Communications and Community Engagement Specialist". We will consider applications as they arrive. The deadline to apply is Friday, April 7th, 2017.
This full-time position is located in Seattle, with a starting date as soon as possible. Flexible hours. Creative work environment. Competitive salary and superb benefits.
The salary range for this position is $48,000 – 52,000 DOE.
Send all questions regarding this position to Spencer Olson at spencer@fusewashington.org. Please no phone calls.
Fuse Washington is an equal opportunity employer. We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. All interested individuals, including people of color, women, persons with disabilities and persons who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender nonconforming, or intersex are encouraged to apply.
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