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  • Fri 19 Apr, 2013
    Campaign Manager
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    Location: Oakland, CA

    About ColorOfChange.org
    With over 850,000 members nationally, ColorOfChange.org is the nation's largest online Black political organization. Using the Internet, we enable our members to speak in unison, with an amplified political voice, on issues directly affecting the black community. In the process, we also bring attention to the needs and concerns of Black folks by holding coordinated events in different parts of the country, lobbying elected representatives, pressuring corporations, running TV and print advertisements, and demanding that the news media cover our issues.

    Position Summary
    The Campaign Manager is expected to be entrepreneurial in practice every day. There are hundreds of issues, events, and government policies that affect the constituency daily. The Campaign Manager is expected to utilize his or her experience, skills, and creative energy to determine which issues are of interest to our members, have sufficient momentum, systemic implications, and a clear path forward for change. As campaigns evolve and change in fast-paced political and social environments, the Campaign Manager must utilize discretion and in-the-moment judgment to identify strategic "opportunity moments" to engage members to take action and escalate the campaign. The Campaign Manager collaborates with campaign team members and external partners, especially local organizations

    Responsibilities

    • New campaigns: Analyze, interpret, and evaluate the circumstances around local/national political and social events for their potential to become a campaign, by utilizing personal campaign instincts and ColorOfChange.org's online organizing "Theory of Change"
    • New campaigns: Create plans and provide well-thought out strategy and work plans for new campaigns
    • New campaigns: Provide start to finish oversight of campaigns for which Online Organizer is the lead
    • Local engagement campaigns: Analyze and suggest moments for strategic action promoting the organization's local engagement work
    • Voting Rights: Analyze, suggest and execute campaigns in line with the organizations efforts to expand and protect the Black electorate
    • Current campaigns: Monitor and respond quickly to the fast-paced changes that occur during current campaigns through direct outreach writing (emails, blogs, print/digital media, opinion letters) to members of the constituency
    • Current campaigns: Write regular outreach emails with input from the team to alert/inform the membership of the progress of a campaign or an opportunity for action
    • Manage relationships with partners in order to maximize the impact of a campaign, ensuring strategy and messaging is consistent and clear
    • Recruit and supervise additional staff and consultants as needed to achieve campaign goals Participate in general campaign strategy sessions, evaluations, and other meetings
    • Prepare materials for grant proposals and reports pursuant to campaigns for which Online Organizer is the lead

    Qualifications
    The ideal candidate is an exceptional writer who is creative, entrepreneurial, detail-oriented, flexible, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. Most of all, this person should have a knack for campaigning: the ability to spot a moment, the willingness to go after any target, and the determination to keep pushing, even in the face of long odds. Specific qualifications include:

    • Experience in online organizing or commensurate experience/skills that translate well into an online organizing environment (such as those gained in political campaigning, community organizing, and/or communications)
    • Strong knowledge of the political system/legislative process, particularly at the federal level
    • Deep understanding of racial justice issues
    • Excellent communication skills, including: The ability to reach/speak to various communities; Impeccable writing skills — the ability to differentiate between good, very good, and great writing; and Strong understanding of the news cycle
    • Team orientation and collaborative working style
    • Comfort level with technology, including databases, content management systems, blogging platforms, basic HTML and SQL
    • Familiarity and confidence with online fundraising

    Potential Metrics

    • Number of responses by members to outreach emails/blogs
    • Reactions by political actors to campaign materials/op-eds
    • Concrete online actions by members
    • Concrete offline actions by members
    • Concrete victories of campaigns

    Application Submission
    Email: jobs@colorofchange.org. The title of the position ("Campaign Manager_Oakland") MUST appear in the subject line of the email. No phone calls please. Interested applicants should email us with a resume, cover letter, and writing sample.

  • Thu 14 Feb, 2013
    NY Campaign Fellow
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    Location

    New York, NY

    About ColorOfChange.org
    With over 850,000 members nationally, ColorOfChange.org is the nation's largest online Black political organization. Using the Internet, we enable our members to speak in unison, with an amplified political voice. In the process, we bring attention to the needs and concerns of Black folks, by holding coordinated events in different parts of the country, lobbying elected representatives, running broadcast, print and online advertisements, and demanding that the news media cover our issues.

    Position Summary
    The ColorOfChange.org Fellowship was created to develop new leadership in the movement for racial justice, and to provide a unique opportunity to build experience in online activism by working in ColorOfChange.org offices and being supervised and mentored by ColorOfChange.org's campaign staff. The Fellow will work with the Communications Manager and report directly to the Sr. Campaign Manager in New York. The Fellow will assist with the day-to-day execution of ColorOfChange.org's blog, social media and Culture/Media Accountability campaign work, as well as with the longer-term strategic planning necessary to ensure success across these platforms.

    Responsibilities

    • Assist with creation of campaign materials: emails, petition text and calls scripts, blog posts, op-eds, social media, press releases, etc.;
    • Monitor political and social events for their potential to impact and shape campaigns;
    • Plan, write, edit, and proofread materials including web content and other documents as needed;
    • Collaborate in curation of third-party media content to be highlighted by ColorOfChange.org, and in production of original media content;
    • Support the coordination of on-the-ground events, e.g., petition deliveries, community events, legislative district meetings;
    • Conduct research projects, and handle routine writing and administrative tasks; and
    • Complete other tasks as assigned.

     

    Qualifications
    The ideal candidate is an exceptional writer who is creative, entrepreneurial, detail-oriented, flexible, able to juggle multiple tasks, and thrives in a fast-paced office setting. The candidate should be excited about working in a campaign-style environment and willing to take on new responsibilities as they arise. Specific qualifications include:

    • Excellent oral and written communication, research and organizational skills;
    • Demonstrated experience/interest working on racial justice issues;
    • Familiarity with online organizing;
    • Demonstrated experience/interest in culture or media;
    • Background in media production, journalism and/or the study of media portrayals is a strong plus;
    • Eye for graphic design and technical skills to generate effective visual aids (print and digital) are desirable.

     

    Compensation
    The Campaign Fellowship is a six-month temporary appointment, and Fellows are paid $10 per hour for 40 hours of work per week. Fellows are classified as temporary, non-exempt employees, and earn pro-rated paid time off and holidays. At the end of the fellowship period, subject to fit and organizational needs, ColorOfChange.org may extend the Fellow an offer of employment as campaign staff.

    Application Submission
    Email: jobs@colorofchange.org. The title of the position ("NY Campaign Fellow") MUST appear in the subject line of the email. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. Interested applicants should email us with a resume, cover letter, and brief writing sample. If applicable, applicants are additionally encouraged to include a link to a relevant audio or video sample, ideally a self-produced podcast or clip.

     

  • Thu 07 Feb, 2013
    Senior Communications Manager
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    Location

    New York City

    Organizational overview

    With more than 850,000 members nationally, ColorOfChange is the nation's largest online Black political organization. Using the Internet, we enable our members to speak in unison, with an amplified political voice. We bring attention to the needs and concerns of Black Americans by holding coordinated events in different parts of the country, lobbying elected representatives, running TV and print advertisements, and demanding that the news media cover our issues. For more information, please visit www.ColorOfChange.org.

    Position overview

    The Senior Communications Manager will work with both the Executive Director and Campaign Director to execute the organization’s communications, social media and culture/media advocacy strategies. This position will play a critical role in supporting all communications work, including writing and editing PR material, website copy, campaign outreaches, and collateral campaign material, and ensuring that communications with our membership, reporters, producers and other media professionals are timely and of high quality.

    We are looking for a highly organized and detail-oriented candidate with strong writing skills and solid news judgment who is online-savvy and thrives in a deadline-driven environment.

    Job responsibilities

    Writing & Editing:

    • Writes copy related to a variety of campaigns and organizational initiatives, including but not limited to press releases and advisories, email outreaches, website updates, blog posts and letters to the editor.
    • Proofreads, fact-checks, rewrites and edits as needed.
    • Comfortable in a collaborative writing environment, including editing and being edited by others.

     

    Media Relations:

    • Works with Senior Leadership to drive ColorOfChange’s communications work and develop a strategic communications plan.
    • Manages organization’s press clippings and recorded media appearances.
    • Monitors mainstream and African-American news outlets and identifies opportunities to amplify the voices of ColorOfChange and its membership.
    • Assists with planning media moments and organizing media events.
    • Develops relevant partnerships and identify coalition opportunities.
    • Identifies possible speaking engagements for Executive Director and appropriate staff.
    • Responds to media inquiries.
    • Manages consultants.
    • Manages, builds and maintains relationships with relevant reporters, producers, editors and other media professionals.
    • Assists with planning media interviews for various staff, including logistics, scheduling and follow-up.

     

    Media Advocacy/Online Strategies

    • Grows our social media presence and finds innovative ways to advance our campaign work and organization.
    • Regularly updates website with press releases and media coverage.
    • Ensures home page and other web pages are updated with fresh content regularly.
    • Provides start to finish oversight of campaigns that the employee is responsible for.
    • Monitors media and pop culture to respond quickly to the fast-paced changes that occur during current campaigns through direct outreach email writing (emails, blogs, print/digital media, opinion letters) to members of the constituency.

     

    Administrative Support

    • Maintains media contacts database.
    • Responds to and/or reroutes media inquiries.
    • Researches ad rates and places ads and other promotions.
    • Assists Campaign Director and Executive Director with projects as assigned.

     

    Qualifications

    • Bachelors degree or 3-5 years equivalent professional experience in communications, journalism, PR, or media relations, preferably for a racial justice, political or news publishing organization.
    • Prior political organizing or online organizing experience, a plus. Strong interest in and commitment to racial, social and economic justice. Extensive knowledge of print and electronic news media.
    • Excellent news sense and political savvy. 
    • Strong framing and storytelling skills. 
    • Excellent writing and proven proofreading skills, with competence in the following styles: media releases, letters to the editor, blogs and op-eds. Knowledge of AP style a plus.
    • High proficiency with MS Office suite, Internet research, and database management. 
    • Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines, work independently, prioritize and multitask on several projects simultaneously.
    • Self-motivated, flexible, and able to work well as part of a team.
    • High proficiency with social media and web-based tools.
    • Experience with basic HTML preferred.
    • High attention to detail.

     

    To apply

    Please send resume and cover letter that explains your qualifications and interest in this position, along with a writing sample, to jobs@colorofchange.org.

  • Fri 10 Aug, 2012
    Campaign Fellow
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    Location
    Oakland, CA

    About ColorOfChange.org
    With over 800,000 members nationally, ColorOfChange.org is the nation's largest online Black political organization. Using the Internet, we enable our members to speak in unison, with an amplified political voice. In the process, we bring attention to the needs and concerns of Black folks, by holding coordinated events in different parts of the country, lobbying elected representatives, running broadcast, print and online advertisements, and demanding that the news media cover our issues.

    Position Summary
    The ColorOfChange.org Fellowship was created to develop new leadership in the movement for racial justice, and to provide a unique opportunity to build experience in online activism by working in ColorOfChange.org offices and being supervised and mentored by ColorOfChange.org's campaign staff. The Campaign Fellow will work with and report directly to the Campaign Manager running ColorOfChange.org's Community Radio and civil rights online campaigns. The Fellow will assist the Campaign Manager with the day-to-day execution of these two areas of work, as well as with longer-term strategic planning necessary to ensure the campaigns' success.

    Responsibilities

    • Assist with creation of campaign materials: emails, petition text and calls scripts, blog posts, op-eds, social media, press releases, etc.;
    • Monitor political and social events for their potential to impact and shape campaigns;
    • Plan, write, edit, and proofread materials including web content and other documents as needed;
    • Collaborate in curation of third-party media content to be highlighted by ColorOfChange.org, and in production of original media content;
    • Support the coordination of on-the-ground events, e.g., petition deliveries, community events, legislative district meetings;
    • Conduct research projects, and handle routine writing and administrative tasks; and
    • Complete other tasks as assigned.

    Qualifications
    The ideal candidate is an exceptional writer who is creative, entrepreneurial, detail-oriented, flexible, able to juggle multiple tasks, and thrives in a fast-paced office setting. The candidate should be excited about working in a campaign-style environment and willing to take on new responsibilities as they arise. Specific qualifications include:

    • Excellent oral and written communication, research and organizational skills;
    • Demonstrated experience/interest working on racial justice issues;
    • Familiarity with online organizing;
    • Experience with community organizing and effective community relations skills;
    • Background in media production, journalism and/or radio broadcasting is a strong plus;
    • Eye for graphic design and technical skills to generate effective visual aids (print and digital) are desirable.

    Compensation
    The Campaign Fellowship is a six-month temporary appointment, and Fellows are paid $10 per hour for 40 hours of work per week. Fellows are classified as temporary, non-exempt employees, and earn pro-rated paid time off and holidays. At the end of the fellowship period, subject to fit and organizational needs, ColorOfChange.org may extend the Fellow an offer of employment as campaign staff.

    Application Submission
    Email: jobs@colorofchange.org. The title of the position ("Campaign Fellow") MUST appear in the subject line of the email. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. Interested applicants should email us with a resume, cover letter, and brief writing sample. If applicable, applicants are additionally encouraged to include a link to a relevant audio or video sample, ideally a self-produced podcast or clip.

  • Wed 25 Jul, 2012
    Campaign Manager
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    Location: New York City

    About ColorOfChange.org
    With over 800,000 members nationally, ColorOfChange.org is the nation's largest online Black political organization. Using the Internet, we enable our members to speak in unison, with an amplified political voice. In the process, we bring attention to the needs and concerns of Black folks, by holding coordinated events in different parts of the country, lobbying elected representatives, running TV and print advertisements, and demanding that the news media cover our issues.

    Position Summary
    The Campaign Manager is expected to be entrepreneurial in practice every day. There are hundreds of issues, events, and government policies that affect the constituency daily. The Campaign Manager is expected to utilize his or her experience, skills, and creative energy to determine which issues have sufficient momentum, and a clear plan of action to be put forward to members. As campaigns evolve and change in fast-paced political and social environments, the Campaign Manager must utilize discretion and in-the-moment judgment to identify key "opportunity moments" to engage members of the constituency and call them to action. With the range of campaigns undertaken by ColorOfChange.org, this work is extremely varied in nature, utilizing a methodology/theory of change as a guide. The Campaign Manager oversees the work of Campaign Associates and the Community Relations Specialist, while collaborating with campaign team members and external partners, especially local organizations.

    Responsibilities

    • New campaigns: Analyze, interpret, and evaluate the circumstances around local/national political and social events for their potential to become a campaign, by utilizing personal campaign instincts and ColorOfChange.org's online organizing "Theory of Change"
    • New campaigns: Create plans and provide well-thought out strategy and work plans for new campaigns
    • New campaigns: Provide start to finish oversight of campaigns for which Online Organizer is the lead
    • Current campaigns: Monitor and respond quickly to the fast-paced changes that occur during current campaigns through direct outreach writing (emails, blogs, print/digital media, opinion letters) to members of the constituency
    • Current campaigns: Write regular outreach emails with input from the team to alert/inform the membership of the progress of a campaign or an opportunity for action
    • Manage relationships with partners in order to maximize the impact of a campaign, ensuring strategy and messaging is consistent and clear
    • Recruit and supervise additional staff and consultants as needed to achieve campaign goals
    • Participate in general campaign strategy sessions, evaluations, and other meetings
    • Prepare materials for grant proposals and reports pursuant to campaigns for which Online Organizer is the lead

    Potential Metrics

    • Number of responses by members to outreach emails/blogs
    • Reactions by political actors to campaign materials/op-eds
    • Concrete online actions by members
    • Concrete offline actions by members
    • Concrete victories of campaigns

    Application Submission
    Email: jobs@colorofchange.org. The title of the position ("Campaign Manager") MUST appear in the subject line of the email. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. Interested applicants should email us with a resume, cover letter, and writing sample.

  • Tue 29 May, 2012
    Campaign Director (Strategy)
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    Location: New York City

    About ColorOfChange.org

    With over 800,000 members nationally, ColorOfChange.org is the nation's largest online Black political organization. Using the Internet, we enable our members to speak in unison, with an amplified political voice. In the process, we bring attention to the needs and concerns of Black folks and their allies, by holding coordinated events in different parts of the country, lobbying elected representatives, running TV and print advertisements, and demanding that the news media cover our issues.

    Position Summary

    The Campaign Director responsible for strategy is a key member of ColorOfChange’s Leadership Team. S/he will work alongside our Campaign Directors responsible for media and campaigning, and will coordinate closely with the Executive Director on all aspects of organizational strategy. Applicants should be passionate about our mission of empowering everyday people's voices, understand organizing and technology, and have a demonstrated commitment to racial and social justice.

    This position reports to: Executive Director

    Principal Responsibilities

    • Developing/thinking through campaign and organizational strategy, and advocating for it both internally and externally;
    • Working with Leadership Team and advising campaign staff on every stage of the campaign arc, from:
        Big picture strategy and messaging, to
        Identifying strategic campaign opportunities and compelling, creative asks, to
        Executing the email, web, and social media components of each tactic, and
        Maintaining healthy, strong relationships with grassroots supporters over time;
    • Continually revisiting/revising campaign plan in response to developments;
    • Crafting advocacy emails, petitions, and other written materials including website copy;
    • Day to day managing, guidance, and coaching of campaign staff, including substantive editing and provision of other feedback on campaign staff writing;
    • Developing partnerships with outside organizations for strategic campaign collaborations;
    • Interfacing with organizational partners and consultants (e.g., designers, PR consultants, etc.);
    • Advising Leadership Team on big picture questions of organizational development, communications, structure, management and growth.

    Qualifications

    The ideal candidate is an exceptional writer who is creative, entrepreneurial, detail-oriented, flexible, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. Most of all, s/he should have a knack for campaigning: the ability to spot a moment, the willingness to go after any target, and the determination to keep pushing, even in the face of long odds. Specific qualifications include:

    • 2-5 years experience in online organizing, or somewhat fewer with commensurate experience/skills that translate well into an online organizing environment (such as those gained in political campaigning, community organizing, and/or communications);
    • Strong knowledge of the political system/legislative process, particularly at the federal level;
    • Deep understanding of racial justice issues;
    • Excellent communication skills, including:
        The ability to reach/speak to various communities;
        Impeccable writing skills — the ability to differentiate between good, very good, and great writing; and
        Strong understanding of the news cycle;
    • Team orientation and collaborative working style;
    • Experience with and love for teaching, coaching, and guiding others to fulfill their potential in this field;
    • Comfort level with technology, including databases, content management systems, blogging platforms, basic HTML and SQL;
    • Familiarity and confidence with online fundraising;
    • Management experience preferred.

    Application Submission

    Email: jobs@colorofchange.org The title of the position ("Campaign Director") MUST appear in the subject line. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. Interested applicants should email us with a resume, letter of interest, and writing sample.

For inquiries, please contact: