Job description
About the Working Families Party
The Working Families Party (WFP) is the progressive party for the multiracial working class, fighting for a nation that works for the many, not the few. We recruit, train, and support transformational candidates up and down the ballot — and run them to win.
We believe that no matter where we come from or what our color, most of us want the same things. We want to earn enough to thrive, not just survive, and leave a better future for our kids. We want healthy food and clean water, safe neighborhoods and a safe world. We want to be free.
The Working Families Party is regular people coming together across our differences to make a better future for us all. We’re a multiracial party that fights for workers over bosses and people over the powerful. We want an America which realizes the promise – unrealized in our history – of freedom and equality for all.
The Working Families Party is the grassroots political party of the multiracial working class, fighting for a nation that cares for all of us. The WFP recruits, trains, and elects the next generation of progressive leaders.
The WFP is seeking an experienced communications professional to join our team to help tell our story, developing and driving earned media strategies nationally, and for states and local chapters.
Applicants should have extensive experience with media relations and strategy, and digital organizing. We are looking for candidates with excellent written and organizational skills. An ideal candidate is Spanish-language fluent and has experience working with Spanish-language press.
This is a six-month temporary role. This position is remote but must be willing to travel to states in the Southeastern US when needed. Preference given to applicants who live or have experience working in the southeastern region.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Manage the communications and digital work of Working Families’ Southeast Region. The ideal candidate will have a history working in a communications role in the South and is knowledgeable about the history of resistance in the 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
Skills and Qualifications
- 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
- Experience working with press in the South is an advantage
- Commitment to building a multiracial working-class movement to save the world
- Established media contacts and Spanish language skills are a big plus for this role
What Else Should You Know
- Compensation: The final salary for this role will be determined based on our Pay Scale, which takes into consideration years of experience, geographic location, and final job description. The upper end of the salary range is reserved for individuals who significantly exceed the minimum qualifications and years of experience. The final salary offer will fall into one of the following ranges depending on where you live:
- National Market - $65,000 to $84,000
- High Market - $74,750 to $94,000
- We also offer a robust benefit package for full time employees including paid time off; health, dental, vision, and life insurance; flexible spending accounts; retirement plan options; professional development funding; and remote work support.
- Location and Travel: You may work remotely, but you must be located in or near Atlanta Georgia or Durham North Carolina in order to attend in person meetings and events approximately 3 days per week. You may need to travel for major events and all staff meetings a few times per year.
- Schedule: The position is temporary and full time.
- Union Affiliation: Working Families Party / Working Families Power is a unionized workplace. This is a nonmanagerial role eligible to join WFP’s staff bargaining unit after six months of employment. WFP’s union employees are represented by the New York Metropolitan Area Joint Board, Workers United union.
- Work Authorization: Applicants must be currently authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor, or take over sponsorship of, employment visas at this time.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Working Families is an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to economic and social justice. Women, people of color, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, and members of other historically disenfranchised populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to apply for or perform the essential functions of the job should contact us at [email protected] with the subject line “Application Accommodation” to request such an accommodation.
