Social Media Editor

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🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $74k - $80k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💕 Social Media Manager

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Project On Government Oversight

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 1981

🤝 Non-profit

🏛️ Government

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Government • Social Impact

Project On Government Oversight is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting accountability and effectiveness within the federal government. It investigates corruption, injustice, and abuse of power within government institutions, advocating for commonsense reforms to strengthen democracy and promote transparency. POGO engages in civic advocacy, public policy analysis, and congressional oversight to ensure a government that serves all people fairly. The organization focuses on key issues including accountability, checks and balances, civil and human rights, corruption, abuse of power, and national security.

📋 Description

• Own the POGO Investigates social content calendar • Produce native social packages for investigation launches across X, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook • Write social copy in the POGO Investigates voice, prioritizing findings and maintaining the roughly 70% native and 30% link content mix • Produce recurring content across newsroom content pillars, including standalone data points, archive features, behind-the-investigation and reporter spotlight content, and impact and outcomes posts • Create and edit 30–60 second short-form videos, pull-quote and data graphics, and document snapshots using established templates and the Brand Kit • Collaborate with the associate designer and Creative team on higher-production assets • Build and maintain an evergreen content bank from interview footage, B-roll, testimony clips, data visualizations, podcast audio, and published data • Drive email list growth through social, including link stickers, newsletter conversion pushes, and automation tools such as ManyChat • Track performance in Sprout Social and native platform analytics against strategy benchmarks • Report weekly during launches and monthly thereafter • Coordinate with the Digital team's social media manager and digital engagement staff to align POGO Investigates accounts with POGO's main channels • Use collaborative posts, cross-posting, and shared content while avoiding duplication • Report to the Digital Engagement Manager

🎯 Requirements

• Three years of experience running social media for a newsroom, news outlet, or journalism nonprofit, with a track record of packaging reported stories for social platforms • Ability to create native content across formats, including written threads, carousels, short-form video, and data graphics • Proficiency with tools such as Canva, Adobe Express or Creative Cloud, CapCut, or comparable software • Strong news judgment and story instincts • Strong writing and editing skills, with ability to adapt voice by platform while staying consistent with a newsroom brand • Experience with social media management and analytics tools, such as Sprout Social or similar • Ability to translate performance data into content decisions • Ability to work under deadline and manage a multi-platform calendar • Ability to coordinate across reporters, newsroom leadership, editors, designers, and communications staff • Understanding of nonpartisan communications and judgment to cover politically charged subjects without partisan framing • Commitment to POGO's mission and values, including equity and inclusion • Resume required • (+) Experience at an investigative or accountability-focused outlet, or covering federal government, Congress, or public policy • (+) Basic video editing and motion graphics skills, and experience directing or shooting reporter-facing video • (+) Experience building or relaunching a social presence, including audience retention through a rebrand or acquisition • (+) Familiarity with LinkedIn newsletters, native document posts, and audience development among policy and professional audiences • Availability during POGO's working hours of 9AM-6PM EST

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, dental and vision insurance • 403(b) employee investment plan available, with employer contribution once eligible • Life insurance • Short-term and long-term disability coverage • Paid holiday, vacation, and sick leave • Remote work from anywhere within the United States • Full-time, non-exempt, at-will employment • Competitive nonprofit salary commensurate with experience