Digital Strategy Associate - For Our Future
For Our Future Digital Organizing
Digital Strategy Associate - For Our Future
About For Our Future
Founded in 2016, For Our Future Action Fund and For Our Future run the largest, permanent progressive field program across key states. Our vision is to expand the progressive infrastructure and advance economic prosperity for all, strong community schools, climate justice, and racial and social justice. Along with community partners and volunteers, we consistently engage with people in face-to-face conversations around what issues matter most to them. By organizing people in lasting relationships, we win elections, drive local progress, make a community’s collective voice heard, and help build the transformative power needed to improve people’s lives.
In 2018, we made over 10 million door knocks and held 1.5 million face-to-face conversations with voters in 7 states. Our turnout operation and innovative program helped restore voting rights to 1.4 million Floridians, expand Medicaid coverage to 400,000 in Virginia, and resulted in sizable electoral progress at the state and federal level, including the pickup of 3 Governor mansions, 1 Senate seat, 13 Congressional seats, and 22 state legislative seats.
For Our Future will continue to grow and win through 2020, building power across issue fights and elections. Headquartered in Washington, DC, our current state programs include Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Job Summary
Are you passionate about advancing progressive change in the states, expanding the electorate, and defeating Trump? For Our Future and For Our Future Action Fund seek a talented digital strategist to help grow an innovative digital organizing program in critical battleground states.
The Digital Strategist will play an integral role in developing creative content, harnessing digital organizing tools, and supporting digital paid media projects with our partners from Nevada to Florida. You will work closely with our national digital director to evaluate and support digital programs, design content that motivates people to take actions and vote, and facilitate reporting around paid digital work such as SMS and layered ads.
Our ideal candidate should have experience developing digital content and familiarity with SMS, email, or digital advertising for a campaign, non-profit, or other mission-focused organization. We’re looking for organizers with an eye for digital content, designers with a passion for organizing, and advertising professionals who understand the connection between people and messages that drive action.
This position reports directly to the National Digital Director in Washington, DC. This is a full-time position that lasts at least through November 6, 2020.
Essential Functions
- Design digital graphics and videos to support organizing goals for digital programs in battleground states.
- Work with state digital teams to develop compelling content for digital organizing channels like SMS and email.
- Facilitate reporting for paid digital C3, C4, and PAC projects. Partner with state digital teams to advance organic digital organizing work such as direct supported engagement connected to offline actions.
- Cross-functional support of battleground state digital needs.
- Graphic design support for other departments, including communications and fundraising, as needed.
- Work with vendors, and our data, field, communications, compliance, and legal department members as necessary to fulfill projects.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Skills and Qualifications
- At least one cycle or 1-3 years of digital experience in a political, electoral, organizing, or progressive issue campaign environment.
- Experience working with the Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop required; Illustrator and Premiere preferred) and/or online content creation tools like Canva and Adobe Spark.
- Possesses a clear sense of social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, as well as digital organizing tools like P2P texting, MobilizeAmerica, and relational platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines, be flexible, organized, self-motivated, and adaptive to meet project needs.
- A passion for progressive causes and politics and alignment with our mission.Has a background in, or strong familiarity in and interest with movements for progressive social change, and political, labor, or issue campaigns.
- Demonstrates diplomacy, respect, and sound judgment.
- Flexibility to travel as required in the performance of duties.
- Attention to detail and deadline-oriented.
- Experience with website development and design is a plus.
Work Environment
- Office environments vary, but the incumbent should expect to work in an open office setting, among colleagues.
Physical Demands
- Primary physical demands for the job include regular sitting, standing/walking and lifting up to 25 pounds.
Expected Hours of work
- Employees may be required to work outside of normal business hours, including weekends, holidays, and nights.
- Employees may be required to abide by certain blackout dates during a campaign cycle, and generally not allowed to take more than 2-3 days off consecutively unless it's an emergency.
Benefits
- For Our Future offers the following benefits to all full-time employees:
- Health insurance coverage - 95% employer paid, and 5% employee paid.
- Paid paternal leave.
- Retirement savings plan with matching contributions up to the first 5%.
- $100 monthly cell phone bill reimbursement. 10 days paid time off every calendar year, as well as other paid holidays.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.
For Our Future Action Fund is an equal opportunity employer. This application will not be used for limiting or excluding any applicant from consideration for employment on a basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law, including race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or parental status, creed, national origin, disability, ancestry, military service, or veteran status. Should an applicant need reasonable accommodation in the application process, they should contact a company representative.