**Position: **Sunrise Movement is hiring for a full-time Communications Manager (or Communications Lead, depending on experience) through the end of 2024 to support with press, writing, and rapid response work. They will help grow Sunrise’s reach and break through in the media and social media, working on Sunrise’s key 2024 campaigns: demanding a Climate Emergency Declaration from President Biden, electoral work, and demanding action from politicians following climate disasters.
Responsibilities
Writing and rapid response - [40%]
Write copy for graphics and social media posts, particularly those responding to electoral and political events
Long-form writing (op-eds, blog posts, direct-to-camera scripts)
Work with Comms team to brainstorm general social media and creative content for our platforms
Press relations- [30%]
Field inquiries from reporters and pitch stories
Write press statements responding to current events and promoting Sunrise’s campaigning
Track the news and identifying opportunities to intervene in the news cycle
Spokesperson development and support [10%]
Identify, coach, and develop volunteer spokespeople to represent Sunrise in the press and on social media
Support Sunrise’s Executive Director to produce public-facing content (tweets, TikToks, op-eds)
Coordination - [20%]
Manage priority projects for our digital and communications team
Coordinate with partner organizations and political campaigns on joint projects
Qualifications
Must Haves
2+ years doing communications work for political or issue-based campaigns
Experience initiating and managing partnerships
Comfortable writing content on a deadline
Experience crafting narratives and written content in other people’s voices or perspectives
Comfortable working with data to drive strategy around producing content for specific audiences or goals, especially BIPOC and working class audiences
Self-organized, able to coordinate multiple projects on tight deadlines without letting tasks slip
Persistent, willing to follow up with team members and partners to make sure you have all of the information and resources you need, and that everybody knows their part in your projects
Grounded in the connections between climate, economic, and racial justice and able to speak fluently to the intersections of these issues, familiarity with the Green New Deal
Approaches communications work as a way to build the movement and tell the story of the work our movement is doing
Nice To Haves
Experience with electoral campaigning
Experience with digital organizing tactics and tools