Media and Communications Coordinator - Peoples Climate Movement - CA/Bay Area (Remote-Open to Discuss)

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Peoples Climate Movement

Job Posting

Media and Communications Coordinator

The Peoples Climate Movement (PCM) is looking to hire a Media and Communications Coordinator for a critically important temporary position to help build, coordinate, and amplify the work of PCM and our local and state partners around PCM’s national day of action: Rise for Climate Jobs and Justice September 8th.

The Media and Communications Coordinator will be responsible for building, coordinating, and amplifying the work of PCM to ensure that there is strong earned media coverage at the national, state, and local level of PCM and of our local and state partners before, during, and after Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice September 8th.

Who We Are: PCM is a collaborative formation that brings together a range of environmental and progressive organizations, local front-line and community groups, faith organizations, arts and cultural workers, labor unions, youth organizations, and community leaders working to use mass-mobilization and movement-alignment  strategies to win bold action on climate change rooted in racial and economic justice. Originally growing out of the massive NYC march in 2014, we have worked together to strengthen and expand the climate movement over the last 4 years.

Our 2018-2019 Program: Throughout 2018, using the 2018 mid-term elections and the Global Climate Action Summit as motivating moments, the PCM will execute a comprehensive organizing, mobilizing, and movement-building program that will manifest during Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice September 8th in hundreds of actions across the country, tens of thousands of people taking to the streets, and even more civically-engaged Americans demanding climate action before, on the day of, and beyond the mid-term elections.

The 2018-2019 program is comprised of: Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice September 8th; the Global Climate Action Summit, or GCAS; targeted c3 and c4 voter work; and our Priority State Movement-Building Work. The multi-tiered program will strengthen the foundation of our intersectional climate movement, engage existing and new climate activists, help achieve state- and local-level policy wins, and set the stage to demand bold action on climate from decision-makers now, in 2019, and leading up to the Presidential election in 2020.

Responsibilities:  The primary responsibilities of the Media and Communications Coordinator include:

• Creating and implementing a strategic media and communications plan building towards Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice September 8th that amplifies the stories of our local and state partners organizing for climate action in their communities.

• Coordinating and staffing weekly media and communications working groups/committees along with the media and communications’ leads of our national, state, and local partners.

• Supporting and managing the media and communications plans, recruiting, and engagement strategies of our local, state, and national partners in order to get earned media for PCM’s entire 2018 program, including Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice September 8th and our voter work, that amplifies the stories of our local and state partners organizing to win climate, jobs, and justice policies and programs in their communities.

• Managing, with the National Director, strategic relationships with key media and communications firms working on climate change and/or events connected to GCAS, including convening coordination calls with key partners.

• Building out and dispersing, with PCM staff, effective messages, media advisories and releases, local and state stories, social and digital content, media and communications tool kits, and other supporting collateral materials.

• Pitching stories and managing media lists and inquiries prior to, during, and after Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice September 8th.

Qualifications: In addition to having experience in campaign-style media and communications and excellent administrative, organizational, and management skills, the ideal candidate for this position will possess the ability to:

• Work with a broad base of organizations and movement formations representing different organizing sectors, ideologies, styles, communities, and issues.

• Demonstrate excellent writing and communications skills, be organized, and capable of juggling different projects.

• Organize successfully, including building and staffing committees, recruiting and developing volunteer leadership, and supporting and partnering to build winning campaigns.

• Move between different organizational cultures, including movement formations, institutional organizing, labor and community groups, environmental organizations, arts and culture, as well as for-profit and business companies.

Qualities:

• You bring vision for the necessity of multiracial, multicultural base-building and organizing that is accountable to impacted communities.

• You understand the nuance of working at the intersection of national, state, and local organizations, grassroots groups, and larger institutions and are comfortable navigating volunteer grassroots and nonprofit contexts.

• You are comfortable working on complex projects under tight time frames with many moving logistical pieces.

• You are invested in team-building, and can cultivate strong relationships with a constantly shifting team.

• You can scale your work both up and down. This means, in addition to working with large groups, you are comfortable being self-directed and doing the grunt work yourself, making your own photocopies, and pitching in as needed.

• You have an ability to absorb new skills quickly, and shift your role as needed.  

Application Deadline:  Applications will be accepted until position is filled.  Interviews will commence immediately.

Start Date and Compensation: This is a temporary FT position that starts immediately and lasts until September 21, 2018 - with a possible extension. The weekly rate will be $1700 to $2200 a week, depending on experience.

Location: Negotiable. PCM staff currently work virtually with regular in-person and video staff meetings.  The Media and Communications Coordinator will be required to work from the Bay Area the last week of August through September 9th.

People of color, women, and LGBTQ people are strongly encouraged to apply for this position. Please submit a cover letter stating why you are interested in this position, along with your resume, to Ashley Blevins, Operations and Management Coordinator, at pcmjo...@gmail.com. Indicate “Media and Communications Coordinator” in the subject line.