About The Role The Social Media Associate is responsible for day-to-day execution of social media campaigns and strategies for RepresentUs. They work with the Social Media Strategist to operationalize the vision for growing our social audiences and reaching millions of Americans with creative campaigns and educational content. Location is flexible, and we currently allow staff to work from home during COVID-19 for safety.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Brainstorming social media strategy for all channels to reach organizational goals.
- Pitching and developing content for all social media channels.
- Drafting social media plans and messaging calendars for various marketing projects.
- Writing audience messaging including social media copy, graphics direction, video scripts, and landing page copy.
- Amplifying social media for partner campaigns.
- Scheduling content on social channels.
- Proofing and performing quality assurance checks on content to ensure posts go live without mistakes.
- Collecting and analyzing social media metrics to help inform strategies.
- Working with designers and video editors to ensure content is optimized for each social platform.
- Setting up brainstorm meetings for social media campaigns, creating task lists, helping finalize content, ensuring all deliverables go live on schedule.
- Writing copy for scripts, posts, and campaign plans as needed.
- Moderating comments on social media channels.
- Assisting the team with other tasks as needed.
Skills and Experience
- 1-2 years social media experience
- Experience working in politics or non-profit preferred
- Must have professional work experience
- Ability to learn new skills quickly.
- High level of organization, including experience coordinating multiple projects at once.
- High attention to detail; spelling and grammar snobs are encouraged to apply.
- Excellent design and copywriting instincts.
- Experience using publishing tools for social media platforms, especially Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
- Ability to work well under pressure and tight deadlines, and stay organized to get a campaign out the door.
- Creative thinking and problem solving skills.
- This is a remote position, and candidates must have consistent access to reliable internet and phone.
Physical RequirementsRepresentUs is committed to supporting employees of varying abilities and to providing reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to thrive at RepresentUs.
The requirements of this role, related to its physical demands, described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.Â
All employees must be able to operate a computer and use a cell phone. For roles that include frequent business travel expectations, we can discuss reasonable alternatives to travel in some instances. Most roles also require communicating with key external stakeholders of the organization in person, via the telephone, or via email. Applicants with questions about accommodations may request to speak with our ADA liaison, Ellie Collinson.
Essential functions of the role include:Working from a computer for long periods of time;While performing the duties of this job, the employee may also frequently be required to communicate using the telephone, email, and in person with stakeholders; and
This position has less than 5% travel expectations and is eligible for flexible work hour arrangements.Â
Compensation and BenefitsWe’re committed to bringing in top talent from all sectors. Accordingly, we offer competitive salaries and pretty awesome benefits, including health and dental insurance, a health reimbursement account, wellness perks, a dependent care account, a health concierge benefit, and a retirement benefit. Plus disability and life insurance.Oh, and we have this wild idea that we’ll do better work if we have time to see our friends and families, so we get four weeks of paid vacation a year, plus personal and sick time.
The hourly rate for the Social Media Associate position is $22-28.