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Communications Associate 🔥


The Role

The Working Families Party is looking for a Communications Associate who will serve as media strategist and communications associate for Working Families Party state affiliates and local chapters. In this role, you will elevate the Working Families Party and its work in the public eye. You'll work to raise up WFP candidates, campaigns, and issue priorities in the media. The Communications Associate will establish the Working Families Party brand as an independent political force fighting for an America for the many, not the few. 

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute individual state media plans and strategy, including: 
  • Producing campaign message and strategy documents
  • Writing press releases and statements
  • Planning press events 
  • Drafting opinion pieces
  • Developing relationships and pitching journalists for coverage, features and interviews
  • Writing talking points
  • Prepping state directors and other spokespeople
  • Creating and coordinating social media strategies, including paid media
  • Maintaining social media accounts
  • Writing and disseminating email blasts to volunteers and activists
  • Creating memes, shareable social graphics, and other online content
  • Coordinate with state and regional staff on electoral and issue campaigns as well as breaking news
  • Coordinate with electoral campaign staff and organizational partners
  • Coordinate and work with national WFP staff on social media strategies
  • Work with national WFP staff to Identify national media opportunities for WFP state issues, candidates, and multi-state campaigns 

Qualifications (you might be a good fit for this position if you)

  • Have at least two years of communications experience
  • Have excellent written and oral communication skills;
  • Are detail oriented and highly organized;
  • React quickly;
  • Can handle long days at a frenetic pace;
  • Are flexible, patient and willing to “roll with the punches” as days can be unpredictable as news breaks or opportunities arise; and
  • Want to help build a multiracial working class movement to save the world.

Our Organization

The Working Families Party is an independent, people-powered political party that fights for racial, economic and social justice. We’re the political home for people who want an economy that works for all of us, a democracy where every vote counts, and a nation where everyone can thrive. We elect Working Families champions. From small-town school boards to Congress, a new generation of Working Families leaders are fighting for a $15 minimum wage, a Green New Deal, ending mass incarceration, and pro-democracy reforms.  

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to economic, racial and social justice. Women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and members of other historically disenfranchised populations are strongly encouraged to apply.

The Role

The Working Families Party is looking for a Communications Associate who will serve as media strategist and communications associate for Working Families Party state affiliates and local chapters. In this role, you will elevate…

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Location

1 MetroTech Center North, 11th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201

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