Social Media Director - Full-time

We are looking for a passionate social media director who shares the Forward Party values and is ready to help build a movement through smart, fact-based, fun and interactive messaging..

Be part of the team that defines how we can inspire a movement to break out of our political duopoly and build excitement among existing and potential members.

Requirements:

  • Experience managing multiple social media channels and adapting messages to the appropriate format and voice for each audience

  • Strong attention to detail and proofreading

  • Experience using social media analytics to gauge progress

  • Experience working collaboratively to develop strategy and content

  • Experience running a moderation team

  • Some design experience - enough to put together professional-looking posts

Responsibilities:

  • Coordinate with team leaders to develop the right message for diverse audiences

  • Using site analytics, report back to the Communications team on the engagement and impact of content across platforms

  • Maintain multiple social media accounts and develop a strategy for growing followers, delivering visitors to our website, and drawing interest in volunteer opportunities

  • Stay up to date on emerging events and initiatives within the organization.

  • Communicate with the creative team when you see the need for visual content to enhance copy

  • Engage with volunteers as needed

  • Revise content from one platform to another to match the unique voice of each audience

  • Adhere to legal standards of communication and exercise good judgment, knowing when you should seek approval for content, and when you can be more spontaneous

  • Respond to comments as appropriate, but also know when it is better not to respond

  • Proactively identify upcoming opportunities to engage with different communities based on holidays, news stories, and similar events, and create a strategy for promoting Forward Party around them

You are:

  • Creative

  • Detail oriented

  • Collaborative

  • Communicative

  • Strategic

  • Comfortable with the full range of platforms, including Reddit moderation

Who we are:

We are a team of political outsiders who are fighting to change a system that has become increasingly separated from the needs of the American people. We recognize that the incentives of our political structure and media outlets are towards polarization and division, and we’re fighting to correct that. We’re focused on data and problem-solving instead of a defined ideology, so that our policies are designed to actually fix the biggest issues facing the American people. We are building a team that is open, inclusive of all backgrounds and various viewpoints, and dedicated to data-driven governance.

Hiring process:

The Social Media Director is high on our priority of new hires, so if you’re ready, so are we! Please forward your resume and a cover letter outlining your experience. We will reach out to qualified applicants for a series of interviews with various members of the team, over a period of 1-2 weeks. From there, a decision will be made and communicated to all qualified applicants. The hiring process will require a background check where allowed by law, and thus you may be required to sign a waiver.

To apply:

Send us an email and include your cover letter and resume.


The Forward Party is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, or age. The Forward Party is committed to providing a discrimination- and harassment-free workplace. All employment decisions, including hiring, transfers, terminations, and promotions, are based on organizational needs, qualifications, and performance.