Job Announcement: Digital Strategist

California Calls is an alliance of 30 dynamic local community-based organizations across the state working to achieve real, lasting policy change that strikes at the root causes of poverty, inequality and oppression.  We are a pioneer in “Integrated Voter Engagement” which combines statewide on-going voter engagement, state-of-the-art technology and neighborhood-based community organizing to make sure who votes in California reflects who lives in California.  By organizing the power of the people locked out of decision-making, building strategic alliances, and waging structural policy battles, we are shaping a new future for California based on justice and equality.

We’re looking for a Digital Strategist who can join our team and enhance our ground operation with dynamic digital organizing and content creation.

We Are:

  • Strategic, bold and innovative.  We set ambitious goals and consistently experiment to shape a new blueprint to achieve justice.
  • Democratic from the bottom up – our mission centers building the power of poor and working people and the leadership of our local partners
  • Rigorous and disciplined to evaluate our progress and scale our power
  • Fiercely committed to social, economic and racial justice

You Are:

  • An effective writer with a passion for the creative, who understands how to inspire and motivate all kinds of audiences. 
  • Able to create compelling visual content (graphics & video) that tells the story of California’s Emerging Electorate – including poor and working class families, communities of color and people who represent the majority in our state but aren’t politically active. 
  • Able to effectively document and amplify stories via photography and social media. 
  • A new media expert with an understanding of current trends and strategies to effectively leverage the power of social media. 
  • Comfortable taking the lead on projects and driving them to completion, using rigorous, metric-driven analysis to balance short-term tactical campaigns with long-term strategic projects.
  • Able to demonstrate a successful track record of social media management and content creation. 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

  1. Work closely with the Strategic Communications Manager to coordinate and execute communications’ projects. 
  2. Drive content creation process from concept, development and deployment.
  3. Manage social media platforms – including creating a social media calendar, deploying digital ad buys, and day to day management of facebook, twitter and instagram platforms. 
  4. Assist in development of strategic communication analysis, methodologies, and narratives that impact worldview and engage a base of hundreds of thousands.
  5. Manage and curate video, photographs, stories and other creative content at events, conferences and speaking engagements.
  6. Support digital and field organizing through data organizing and mass Email and SMS campaigns.
  7. Website management for multiple brands. 

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

  • Background in and commitment to social justice work.
  • Must have strong digital skills including, basic HTML, WordPress, Facebook Business Manager, Action Network (or similar CRM), Photoshop & Adobe Premiere. 
  • Must have strong analytical skills and excellent written and verbal communication and organizational skills.
  • Must be able to produce high-quality creative content and photographs. 
  • Demonstrated ability to set and achieve goals under deadlines.
  • Demonstrated ability to work with a diversity of people, organizations, communities, and cultures.
  • (Preferred) experience in community and/ or labor organizing.
  • Strong framing and messaging skills. 
  • Bilingual (English/Spanish) a plus.

SALARY

$60,000 – $65,000 Annually (DOE). Generous benefits including medical, dental, paid vacation, flexible work schedule. Email resume, cover letter, and three references to Melinda Ealy – mealy@calicalls.org