Digital Campaigns Organizer

Role: Digital Campaigns Organizer

Common Cause North Carolina (CCNC) is seeking a creative and passionate Digital Organizer who can help us build compelling and innovative digital campaigns to engage our audience to support our short-term voter mobilization efforts and expands our long-term movement for an inclusive, multiracial democracy.

The Digital Organizer will employ a wide variety of digital communications tools, such as social media, videos, email, texting, graphic design, and data management, and will be crucial to our efforts to drive historic voter turnout in 2024, providing voters with a seamless online path to engagement with Common Cause while creating digital and storytelling content that will give people a sense of why their vote matters. You will love this role if you are self-motivated, enthusiastic, passionate about social justice, and ready to take action for expanded voting rights, fair elections, and responsive redistricting.

This position will report to the Campaigns Manager on the Common Cause North Carolina team, and is a located in North Carolina with a strong preference for someone in the Triangle Region (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill), with occasional travel within state. This is a temporary position, starting April 16th and running through December 31st, 2024.

Responsibilities

Organize and engage online supporters to take actions that push our campaigns forward

Work with the Campaigns Manager to design volunteer trainings and other events that integrate volunteers into our organization

Engage, expand and diversify our membership base by developing organic and promoted graphic, text, and video content for our social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, etc.), in particular to reach our state’s youngest voters

Create content to educate our members about elections, recruit them to events and motivate them to participate in voting

Set up event and advocacy alerts, surveys, and other online outreach using platforms like Mobilize and Voter Activation Network (VAN), under the direction of the Campaigns Manager

Develop scripts for text message follow-up to accompany a field program, and use provided software to contact people and follow up appropriately

Support the organizing team and volunteers with data training, regular reports and daily use of Action Network and or VAN

Collaborate with program staff, including organizers, communications, and advocacy staff, to determine the most effective methods, mediums, and targeting for achieving our outcomes for voter outreach and/or issue campaign

Build and maintain voter contact databases

Support organizing staff’s implementation of outreach tactics by providing guidance on best practices, answering questions, and providing technical help as needed

Support communication efforts to archive and tag all photo and video content across programs and campaigns

Qualifications

You will thrive in this role if you have:

A strong commitment to Common Cause’s non-partisan mission and to advancing racial equity through our democracy agenda 

Ability to quickly build relationships and credibility with multiple stakeholders with diverse interests

A track record of working collaboratively with others 

Critical thinking skills, a resourceful approach to problem-solving, and a creative mindset to expand our team’s work in the online space, specifically in relation to social justice

Deep familiarity with office productivity tools, specifically Microsoft Office, Google Suite, Slack, Zoom; as well as design platforms (e.g. Canva) and website management tools (e.g. Wordpress)

Experience using digital tools (e.g. VAN) to engage and mobilize people; and voter contact technology (e..g predictive dialer, virtual phone banks) and a willingness and excitement to learn new tools

Outstanding written and oral communication skills

Openness to feedback and awareness of your own strengths and areas for growth

The following is required:

Experience mobilizing people to take action, preferably in a progressive or voting rights organization, or in the context of an issue-based or political campaign

Experience leading digital campaigns on social media and via email that engaged thousands of recipients

Experience recruiting, training, and managing volunteers on digital organizing tactics

Ability to travel in-state up to 30% of the time, and domestically 1-2 per year for all staff or team retreats 

Ability to occasionally work evenings and weekends, often multiple times per week during

Per our non-partisan policy, Common Cause staff members may not currently be in elected office (or running for office); on the Steering Committee or Finance Committee for any political candidate; or affiliated with the leadership of a political party 

We have a preference for candidates who also demonstrate: 

Familiarity with get-out-the-vote tactics for election cycles and voter engagement on issue campaigns outside of elections

Knowledge about the voting and elections process, and strong understanding of democracy reform issues (e.g. money in politics reform, redistricting reform, and voting access)

CRM, CMS, and HTML coding skills

Videography, film editing, and/or graphic design skills

Bilingual in English and Spanish

Additional details about this role 

This position is included in a union-represented collective bargaining unit and specific employment terms and conditions are subject to collective bargaining negotiations 

Common Cause is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time; please note that if hired, you will be asked to produce documentation for authorization to work in the US.  

Compensation: $42,500 - $49,584 for 8 ½-month period starting April 16th, 2024 and ending December 31st, 2024 ($60,000-$70,000 annualized). In addition to salary, we also offer a generous benefits package (details here: https://www.commoncause.org/our-benefits/)    

Common Cause is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants of any race, creed, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, income class, political affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status, or marital status, as well as applicants who have been previously incarcerated.  

Common Cause (501(c)(4)) and Common Cause Education Fund (501(c)(3)) are nonpartisan, nonprofit grassroots affiliate organizations dedicated to upholding the core values of American democracy. We work to create open, honest, and accountable government that serves the public interest; promote equal rights, opportunity, and representation for all; and empower all people to make their voices heard in the political process.   

Founded in 1970 and headquartered in Washington, DC, Common Cause has more than 1.5 million members and supporters living in every Congressional district in the United States, and offices in 25 states around the country.