Senior Communications Manager

Summary

Join the Working Families Party (WFP) as a Communications professional to manage communications and digital work in the Southeast Region. Develop and execute regional media plans, train staff, build journalist relationships, and create social media strategies. Responsibilities include producing campaign messages, prepping staff for media, writing press releases, planning events, and managing crisis communications. The ideal candidate has five years of communications experience, two years of management experience, excellent written and oral communication skills, and experience working with Southern press. This is a six-month temporary, remote role based in or near Atlanta, Georgia or Durham, North Carolina, with some travel required. The WFP offers a competitive salary, benefits, and a commitment to social justice.

Requirements

• Minimum of five years of communications experience and two years management experience
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Detail-oriented and highly organized
• Ability to react quickly and manage competing priorities without dropping balls
• Flexibility, patience, and willingness to “roll with the punches” as days can be unpredictable as news breaks or opportunities arise
• Commitment to building a multiracial working-class movement to save the world

Responsibilities

• Manage the communications and digital work of Working Families’ Southeast Region
• Develop and execute regional, state, and local media plans, including
• Producing advocacy and electoral campaign messages and strategy documents
• Training Southeast staff in earned media strategies
• Prepping staff and organizers for earned media opportunities
• Building relationships and pitching journalists for coverage, features, and interviews
• Writing and/or reviewing press releases, media advisories and statements
• Planning press events
• Drafting opinion pieces
• Writing talking points for staff and volunteers in preparation for earned and paid media, public statements and public testimonies
• Managing crisis communications in conjunction with party wide staff
• Identifying and training WFP spokespeople
• Creating and coordinating social media strategies, including paid media
• Maintaining regional press list to include local, state, and regional outlets
• Implement the Southeast digital program including managing the Southeast Digital Organizer
• Along with Digital Organizer, write and disseminate email blasts, social media posts, sms / broadcast messages, etc
• Develop communications strategies to elevate WFP leaders as movement thought leaders locally, in states and regionally
• Coordinate with state and regional staff on electoral and issue campaigns as well as breaking news
• Identify and navigate regional, state, local environments
• Coordinate with electoral campaign staff and organizational partners on traditional and new media
• Coordinate and work with national WFP staff on social media strategies
• Work with national WFP staff to Identify national media opportunities for WFP state issues, candidates, and multi-state campaigns

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with press in the South is an advantage
• Established media contacts and Spanish language skills are a big plus for this role

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Retirement plan options
• Professional development funding
• Remote work support