Associate Director, Communications & Digital

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🕒 June 25

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Center for Empowered Politics

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11 - 50 employees

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

📚 Education

Non-profit • Social Impact • Education

Center for Empowered Politics is a nonprofit organization focused on capacity building for power and justice. Using its tagline "capacity building for power and justice," the organization aims to strengthen the abilities of communities, civic actors, and organizations to pursue equitable political influence and social change. Listed on LinkedIn as a Non-profit Organization, its work centers on empowerment, training, and support for civic/political engagement and justice-oriented initiatives.

📋 Description

• Translate complex electoral, organizing, and network capacity-building work into compelling narratives rooted in racial and economic justice and progressive values • Produce and steward powerful content across email, social, web, press materials, and toolkits — including copywriting, graphic design, and video editing • Ensure quality and narrative alignment across all communications materials; manage consultants and vendors for specialized needs • Execute digital acquisition of new supporters, digital volunteer recruitment, and communications strategy across email, SMS, organic and paid social, and web – supporting clear pathways from first contact to active engagement • Support grassroots fundraising campaigns • Manage channel analytics and campaign infrastructure to track performance and strengthen outcomes over time • Work closely with the Organizing, Field, and Fundraising teams as well as the Digital Organizing and Communications Director to integrate digital strategy with the overall organizing ladder and on-the-ground needs • Manage a team of super volunteers and possible additional staff through coaching, clear delegation, and accountability structures • Lead and inform strategic organizational and network-wide communications across programs and initiatives for a range of audiences – funders, movement allies, and network partners • Build and maintain organizational communications infrastructure – including CRM setup and management across programs (email templates, tagging, editorial calendaring as needed), a writing and content directory, and branded materials oversight – as part of strategic communications planning across the organization • Support documentation of CEP(EF)’s research and movement learning work – including direct engagement with source material through convenings, interviews, and field spaces, and serving as a communications thought partner from the earliest stages of research design – and lead post-production and distribution strategy to ensure learnings reach the right audiences effectively • Work closely with the Development and Research & Learning teams as well as program teams to integrate narrative and communications within organizational programs and strategies • Provide communications and digital organizing coaching, technical assistance, and training to network partner organizations primarily organizing in working-class communities of color • Design and facilitate peer learning circles, cohorts, and training spaces that build field-wide narrative, communications, and digital organizing praxis and capacity

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of progressive digital organizing and strategic communications experience, with at least 3 years in a senior role managing staff and strategy • Proven track record in high-impact email and organic social strategy across electoral, advocacy, or base-building contexts • Fluency in both electoral campaign environments and movement/advocacy communications • Experience building and leading narrative strategy, including facilitating tools and frameworks with partners • Strong writing, editing, and message discipline across audiences and formats -- including email writing for volunteer mobilization and fundraising • Strong graphic design skills, with demonstrated ability to produce compelling collateral independently (Canva, Adobe Suite) • Proficiency with CRMs and web analytics, with preference for experience in Solidarity Tech, Action Network, and/or EveryAction • Strong project management skills; able to prioritize across multiple workstreams with high attention to detail • Self-motivated, proactive communicator with sound judgment and high emotional intelligence • Demonstrated experience working in close partnership with working-class BIPOC leaders and grassroots organizations rooted in working-class communities of color • Experience advancing some or all of the following strategies: building broad coalitions across political perspectives, volunteer-led organizing, and face-to-face persuasion and mobilization conversations

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision) • Paid time off • Paid holidays