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Empatico

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1 - 10 employees

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

🤝 Non-profit

Education • Social Impact • Non-profit

Empatico is an organization dedicated to overcoming extremist thinking and toxic polarization across the globe. It aims to equip individuals with the skills, tools, and networks required for flexible thinking and constructive problem-solving, while fostering a sense of unity and dignity among people. Empatico operates various initiatives in regions such as the United States, the Middle East, and Ukraine, focusing on fostering security, freedom, and democracy. The organization encourages collaboration, alliances, and the promotion of shared values to counter division and conflict.

📋 Description

• Own the daily pitch operation - proactively identifying story angles, drafting sharp pitches, and relentlessly following up to secure coverage across national media outlets and key regional markets (most notably, Texas). • Monitor the news and culture cycle in real time to spot reactive opportunities where Builders’ voice, insights, or programs can be inserted credibly and quickly. • Draft compelling press releases, media advisories, op-ed drafts, and story memos that make it easy for journalists to say yes. • Develop and maintain a robust media list across national political, civic, and cultural beats. • Treat creators as a core earned media channel - identifying, vetting, and building relationships with podcasters, newsletter writers, YouTube channels, and social creators whose audiences align with Builders’ mission and reach demographics traditional press doesn’t. Managing execution in collaboration with the Social team. • Build and maintain genuine, trust-based relationships with journalists, producers, editors, and bookers across print, digital, broadcast, and podcast platforms. • Serve as a consistent, reliable point of contact for media - responding quickly, providing useful background, and positioning Builders as a go-to source for cross-partisan civic stories. • Identify and cultivate relationships with emerging media voices and non-traditional platforms where Builders’ message can reach new audiences. • Support the placement and preparation of Builders spokespeople and Movement Partners for media appearances, interviews, and contributed content opportunities. • Leverage AI tools actively across your workflow - pitch drafting, media research, coverage analysis, and contact list building - staying ahead of emerging PR tech. • Own the team’s media monitoring and outreach stack (Muck Rack, SmartSuite, TVEyes) - maintaining lists, tracking coverage, and generating regular performance reports to sharpen strategy. • Use social listening and trend-monitoring tools to identify story opportunities early and keep Builders positioned to move quickly when moments arise. • Bring a continuous improvement mindset to the comms tech toolkit - evaluating new tools, testing what works, and making recommendations to the Editorial Director. • Contribute to messaging and communications frameworks - both providing input on strategy, and running the execution. • Partner with the Editorial Director to align earned media efforts with the broader editorial calendar, newsletter content, and organizational priorities. • Collaborate with programs, partnerships, and community teams to surface stories, data, and voices worth pitching. • Support crisis and rapid-response communications as needed, helping to draft reactive statements and coordinate media inquiries under pressure.

🎯 Requirements

• 5- 7 years of PR or communications experience, with the majority of your time spent in earned media - pitching, placing, and managing press. • A proven pitching track record: you can point to placements you drove in national or major regional outlets, and you know what made them land. • Ability to build relationships with political, civic, lifestyle, or national news reporters • Sharp, fast writing: you can draft a pitch, a press release, or a reactive statement that is clean, on-brand, and compelling without heavy editing. • Deep familiarity with the national political and media landscape - you know the beats, the outlets, and the reporters who cover civic life. • Comfort operating in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment where priorities shift and no two days look the same. • An instinct for what’s newsworthy - you read the news constantly and can immediately spot the angle that connects a story to Builders’ mission. • An overall technology-forward mindset - you proactively seek out tools that make you faster and smarter, and you bring that curiosity to the rest of the team. Including fluency with the modern PR tech stack - media monitoring, outreach, AI tools, and measurement platforms are part of your daily workflow, not a learning curve. • Collaborative spirit and genuine enthusiasm for Builders’ cross-partisan mission - you understand that reaching both sides of the aisle is a feature, not a constraint. • Familiarity with the Texas political and media landscape - knowledge of key outlets, reporters, and civic players is a genuine plus. • Existing relationships with creators, podcasters, or newsletter writers in the political, civic, or culture space. • Experience in nonprofit, advocacy, or civic sector communications. • Familiarity with op-ed placement and thought leadership development. • Experience supporting executive spokespeople or public figures in media contexts.

🏖️ Benefits

• Excellent health, dental & vision insurance with company coverage options of 100% • 25 days Paid Time Off (20 personal, 5 sick) • 401K with company match • Flexible, remote-friendly work environment • Charitable gift matching program • The opportunity to make a real impact through your day-to-day work