Digital Campaigner

Location: Flexible within the U.S., Washington, D.C. metro area preferred (Remote)
Salary: $65,000 - $72,000

Daily Kos is the nation's largest liberal online political community, news organization, and activism hub. Powered by millions of highly engaged supporters, we’re building progressive power by connecting grassroots activists to hundreds of people-powered organizations and campaigns.

We are seeking a strong, confident, and impassioned Digital Campaigner to work in our Activism department to assist with creating, running, and tracking multi-partner campaigns and joint petitions that grow the size of our community while effecting change. Your work would be key to expanding our reach with the Democratic Party base and mobilizing our readers to take action.

Digital Campaigner is an entry-level position in Daily Kos's Activism department. In this role you will learn all department and organizational processes, as well as the audiences for the email campaigns we create. You will lead issue campaigns under the supervision and support of Activism management/higher level team members. You will also represent Daily Kos at coalition meetings and calls.

Are you interested in a wide variety of issues? Do you have a desire to help build progressive organizations? Do you enjoy group projects?? Are you made happy by both writing and spreadsheets? This could be the job for you!

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary means of email list growth for Daily Kos by organizing multi-partner activism campaigns (a.k.a. swaps) hosted on Daily Kos' Action Network pages, and measure and meet metrics
• Write content, including petitions, emails, social media share pages, and blog posts to update Daily Kos community on the progress of these multi-partner activism campaigns
• Work with colleagues to produce email, SMS, blog and social media content for Daily Kos
• Develop and launch creative digital campaign strategies and tactics in coordination with Advocacy team members and leadership
• Write compelling and persuasive content based on campaign priorities and rapid response needs - including action pages, emails, blog posts, and more - to engage the Daily Kos community
• Support department-wide GOTV efforts as needed
• Represent Daily Kos at in person or virtual events connected to these campaigns

Desired experience

• 1-2 years work at campaign or advocacy organizations, and/or involvement with progressive advocacy campaigns that generated attention and had an impact. Ideally, some experience with coalitions.
• Experience using a CRM database.
• Experience with data tracking, analysis, and reporting.
• MSExcel or Google Sheets experience is required.

Qualifications

• Impeccable writing and proofreading skills with an eye for accuracy and attention to detail
• Strong time management and organizational skills; ability to field and prioritize multiple tasks
• Exceptional communication skills both online and in-person
• Ability to handle a fast-paced, dynamic virtual working environment. (We have offices in Oakland and D.C. but we are mostly virtual)
• Understanding of U.S. politics and elections and the players or a willingness to learn.
• Be tech and internet savvy. We use Slack, Google Workspace, Hubspot, Dropbox, Asana, and lots of other tools that make work life easier.

Benefits
This position is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt position and reports to a Senior Campaign Director. Candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States. The position offers a flexible work environment, the ability to work remotely or from home, competitive salary, excellent benefits including: full medical, dental and vision benefits, optional 401K with a company match, remote worker stipend, a generous vacation package, traumatic grief leave, as well as employer-paid parental/family leave. Our organizational commitment to personal growth and work-life balance reduces churn and encourages a very rewarding long term position.

At Daily Kos, we believe that the diversity of ideas, experiences, and cultures that our employees contribute to our organization help us be more effective activists, and we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We have a team of amazing people with different backgrounds and talents that are energized by the day’s news events, and people united by common cause. We’re a company that loves learning and supports growth and training for all our employees.

Women, people of color, and LGBTQ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Note: Daily Kos does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to any recruiting alias or employee.

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