Brandworkers has an opening in our Development Department for a full-time Digital Community Manager
Brandworkers is the first and only non-profit organization exclusively dedicated to the factory workers behind the soaring local food industry. Brandworkers members are organizing an industry-wide base of local food production workers for dignified jobs; promoting fresh food made close to home; and developing a new form of workplace association for the 21st century.
Our Development Department enables allies to take a mutual journey with mostly immigrant workers to a just and sustainable local food system. We have an opening for a Digital Community Manager to be the staff lead for the organization’s online community-building efforts. Brandworkers’ staff works under the leadership of members and is responsible for helping workers deliver on the organization’s commitment to victory. Brandworkers members deserve a world-class staff and this position is right for candidates who aspire to that very high standard.
Responsibilities:
– Take charge of the digital aspect of Brandworkers’ overall community-building effort
– Facilitate online environments where workers and allies make common cause and take action together
– Create and enable members and allies to create compelling, on-mission content for Twitter, Facebook, Brandworkers.org, and other channels
– Engage, grow, and steward the Brandworkers community through digital channels
– Serve as staff leader of the organization’s efforts to explore designing its own digital tools
– Serve as the accountable staff owner for the digital oriented metrics that impact our mission
– Train members to use digital tools for story-telling, mobilization, campaigning, and organizing
– Assist on Brandworkers’ administrative and compliance work
– Complete diverse assignments that may arise
– Serve as a full mission leader with an emphasis on delivering department-wide development objectives
Experience and Skills:
– You have experience in or a demonstrable interest in ally organizing, individual fundraising, and digital community. A specific, proven alignment with working class people, people of color, indigenous people, women, and immigrants is a must.
– You have a genuine desire to help allies take a transformational journey with members and win justice.
– You understand the necessity of resources to win justice struggles and relish the opportunity to help the community generate those resources.
– You are a superb writer with a great attention to detail.
– You have solid graphic design experience with Photo Shop, Illustrator, Canva, and/or InDesign.
– You have been successful driving organizational objectives via Facebook, Twitter, and the web.
– You are comfortable using MailChimp, WordPress, Google Analytics, Asana, and Salesforce.
– You are comfortable using data and metrics to measure results and learn.
– You own your work, relish feedback, roll-up your sleeves, and enjoy working in accountable teams. You are candid, have conviction for a point of view based on data, and speak up with dissenting views.
– You think big, you take risks, and are not afraid to fail. You actively identify problems to solve and generate new concepts to test.
Send your resume and a meaningful cover letter to Brandworkers Community Manager, Harvir Kaur, at hkaur@brandworkers.org. Salary is highly competitive commensurate with experience, and the position includes fully-paid health care.
Brandworkers strongly encourages applications from people of color, women, immigrants, indigenous people, LGBT people, and other traditionally oppressed communities.
