Associate Director – Outreach and Communications

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🦬 Wyoming – Remote

🦬 Wyoming – Remote

💵 $61.8k - $75.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🗣️ Communications

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American Rivers

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1973

💼 Consulting

🤝 Non-profit

Consulting • Non-profit • Environmental

American Rivers is a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of rivers throughout the United States. They focus on ensuring clean water, restoring rivers, and protecting river ecosystems, with goals such as removing harmful dams and promoting climate resilience in urban communities. American Rivers aims to protect one million miles of free-flowing rivers by 2030 and half of all rivers in the U. S. by 2050, focusing on areas where people live, and they work to ensure federal funds are used effectively to improve safety, health, and biodiversity. They also aim to educate and mobilize the public to become advocates for river conservation.

📋 Description

• Develop and execute a communications and marketing strategy for the Northern Rockies region • Plan and execute events including speaking engagements, webinars, film showings, field tours, and fundraising events • Lead storytelling efforts through blogs, social media posts, e-newsletters, action alerts, factsheets, photos, video, and other materials • Build and maintain relationships with media members and regional influencers • Coordinate regional media relations, draft press statements and talking points, respond to outreach, and help implement rapid-response communications • Collaborate with the national communications and marketing team on brand, voice, messaging, strategy, and coordination • Track and analyze metrics to evaluate communications and public engagement effectiveness • Manage content calendars, deadlines, and budgets for outreach and communications projects • Support contract and consultant management as needed • Develop timely “take action” opportunities for members and supporters in the Northern Rockies region

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced degree and 2 years of relevant experience, or undergraduate degree and 3 years of relevant experience in conservation, marketing, communication, or journalism • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Ability to manage complex project timelines and coordinate multiple campaign efforts • Experience with digital content production tools • Interest and willingness to experiment with new communications tactics • Experience or interest working with local and regional journalists • Strong familiarity with Northern Rockies conservation issues, politics, and culture • Ability and willingness to travel regionally, including occasional off-hours or field work • Comfort prioritizing work in high-pace environments and meeting regular, variable deadlines • Love and passion for rivers • Must live within one hour’s drive of Jackson, Wyoming • Must be legally allowed to work as an employee in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, long-term and short-term disability, and life insurance • 3% employer contribution after one year of service • Four weeks of paid leave • Eleven paid holidays • Three floating holidays • Sick leave • Focus Fridays with no internal meetings • Professional development opportunities • Home office stipend • Sabbatical leave every seven years • Paid parental leave of six weeks with one year of service • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities