Communications Associate

Reporting to the Policy and Communications Director, the Communications Associate will provide support to advance MADRE’s communications strategy, by fulfilling the responsibilities listed below. A successful candidate will have strong writing skills, attention to detail, and experience working collaboratively on a team.

Primary roles and responsibilities include:

·         Maintaining, drafting, and regularly updating content that promotes the organization, our campaigns and our projects

·         Posting content to MADRE’s website and social networks, including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram

·         Assisting with production of print membership and public education materials

·         Tracking news developments related MADRE’s priority program areas and strategies

·         Tracking and creating reports on online engagement analytics, and carrying out strategies to expand visibility

·         Designing and editing basic graphics and video, and coordinating with external consultants for more advanced projects

·         Integrating multimedia materials into website and other outreach

·         Supporting event logistics and planning

·         Assisting with the communications team’s operations and administrative needs, including database support

Key Qualifications:

·         Minimum of 2 years of communications experience

·         Strong project management and organizational skills; ability to manage many distinct areas of work at once

·         Strong research, writing, editing and proofreading skills

·         Ability to message complex issues creatively and clearly

·         Commitment to women’s rights and progressive social change, and knowledge of the focus areas and regions in which MADRE works

·         Keen attention to detail

·         Ability to work under pressure with competing priorities and deadlines

·         Desired skills: Spanish, Arabic and/or French fluency

MADRE is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. People of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, people with disabilities, and people of diverse cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply. We take pride in our pluralistic community and continue to seek excellence through diversity and inclusion.

Application instructions: Please email your resume, cover letter, and 1-2 writing samples to commsjobs@madre.org, with the job title in the subject line.  No phone calls please.

 

Campaigner

Reporting to the Policy and Communications Director, the Campaigner is responsible for devising and anchoring MADRE’s progressive and feminist policy campaigns; for conducting and writing about policy research; for outreach to advance MADRE’s program areas, policy positions and strategies; for building relationships with key media and movement allies; and for implementing campaigns that mobilize audiences to take action.

A successful candidate will have strong research, writing and project management skills; experience with campaign coordination and media outreach; and knowledge of global, progressive, feminist policy issues.

Primary roles and responsibilities include:

·         Carrying out policy research — with a focus on US foreign policy, social justice and international women’s human rights — and helping to develop MADRE’s policy positions

·         Creating and providing strategic direction for policy campaigns, and establishing and monitoring progress on campaign objectives

·         Building and coordinating relationships with allied organizations for shared policy campaigns and movement building, and representing MADRE in meetings and coalitions

·         Writing materials to articulate and promote MADRE’s priority policy positions and issue areas (including on ending gender violence, advancing climate justice, and building a just peace), for audiences with differing levels of expertise

·         Anchoring MADRE media strategy, to build relationships with media allies, pitch stories that promote our work, provide commentary, and coordinate media campaigns to uplift our messaging and policy demands

·         Assisting with creation of core communications messaging on MADRE’s projects and initiatives

·         Supporting creation and implementation of online action campaigns for website, publications, campaigns, and events

·         Creating, updating and implementing outreach plans to engage target audiences in coordinated action (including through media, website and social media outreach)

·         Reporting internally and building staff knowledge on policy priorities and progress made

·         Securing and coordinating speaking engagements for MADRE staff around key campaign priorities

Key Qualifications:

·         Minimum of 5 years of policy and/or communications experience

·         Strong research, policy analysis, writing, editing and proofreading skills

·         Strong project management and organizational skills; ability to manage many distinct areas of work at once

·         Experience coordinated shared campaigns among allied organizations

·         Ability to message complex issues creatively and clearly

·         Experience with media outreach and online campaigning tools

·         Commitment to women’s rights and progressive social change, and knowledge of the focus areas and regions in which MADRE works

·         Keen attention to detail

·         Ability to work under pressure with competing priorities and deadlines

·         Desired skills: Spanish, Arabic and/or French fluency

MADRE is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. People of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, people with disabilities, and people of diverse cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply. We take pride in our pluralistic community and continue to seek excellence through diversity and inclusion.

Application instructions: Please email your resume, cover letter, and 1-2 writing samples to commsjobs@madre.org, with the job title in the subject line. No phone calls please.