Digital Content Manager

Position Summary

As Digital Content Manager, you’ll play a key role in using social media and video storytelling to develop programming for a new brand that helps women unlock their power in supporting a democracy that works for all. Sitting alongside Galvanize USA’s successful Galvanize Together project, this new brand will build a community of women by bringing joy and empowerment right to their newsfeeds through cultural content, creator-driven storytelling, and opportunities to get involved. We’re looking for a Digital Content Manager to generate content ideas, write and design social media content, and work closely with our video production team to execute programming that builds a brand while achieving our mission. 

You are the right person for this position if you’re someone who wants to use your deep love of social media storytelling in service of an America that works better for everyone. You are a highly organized person who knows what it takes to keep track of dozens of moving pieces and projects, and a person who has worn multiple hats in service of making compelling digital content. 

Responsibilities and Tasks 

Audience Understanding & Strategy: 

• Monitor the digital habits of our target audience of women who are low news consumers and not highly partisan, understanding what and who is influencing them online and how to communicate with them most effectively. 
• Optimize strategy using reporting & analytics: Use monthly reporting insights to optimize performance and refine program strategy. Identify best and worst performing content each month across all platforms and use data to make program strategy decisions.
• Stay abreast of trends and new best practices in digital marketing and storytelling to maintain an appealing, high-quality user experience, and make strategic recommendations to leadership on new platforms and opportunities.

Content Creation:

• Generate compelling programming ideas for social media and website content.
• Research and draft regular streams of programming, including content that shares news updates and opportunities to get involved to protect democracy.
• Curate a cohesive user experience across platforms, working with the Social Media Manager to ensure that our brand and engagement tactics are consistent and effective, and that all programming reaches the broadest possible audience. 
• Create visually appealing graphics to complement written content.

Collaboration:

• Project manage editorial calendar for external, audience-facing content. Usher all content through the review process to ensure visibility and approval by programming, compliance, legal, and comms.
• Work with and across teams to share audience understanding insights with the rest of the organization. 
• Where necessary, work with vendors to support the development and execution of marketing programming
• Work closely with our video production team to develop and execute video programming, from low-cost selfie-style videos all the way to multi day activations. 
• Collaborate with data and research team members by requesting specific reporting needs and quantitative analysis

Additional Duties:

• All employees of Hopewell Fund are required to complete timesheets every two weeks
• Engage in other relevant tasks as required.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• 2-4 years working in digital media, communications, marketing, or similar creative role

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Experience developing and/or producing video content
• Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite, Canva or other tool for social media graphics 
• Strong writing skills, preferably across multiple media 
• Exceptional proofreading skills
• Understanding of social media marketing and growth strategies 
• Social media and web tool management, including scheduling, optimizations to drive engagement, and tracking new trends 
• Experience managing vendor and stakeholder relationships 
• Experience applying data and qualitative research to make program recommendations
• Can work well in a remote team and is able to manage and collaborate with staff at all levels and consultants
• Commitment to understanding race, class, gender, and other equity issues as part of your work as well as the impact these structural issues have on our collective work environment
• Travel up to 20% (traveling for video shoots, ~3-5 times per year, and in-person retreats, ~1-3 times per year)
• Strong organizational, time management, and project management skills
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the US. We are not able to sponsor visas at this time.

Valued and Non-Essential Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Ability 

• Experience with Wordpress
• Experience with MobileCommons or similar SMS platforms
• Experience managing or interpreting insights from social listening, sentiment tracking or other social media opinion data 

How to Apply

Submit your resume and answer the custom application questions on our Careers page. Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. 

About Galvanize USA

Galvanize USA is a nonpartisan civic empowerment program for women who want to help build an America that works for everyone - white, Black, and brown. Women who participate in Galvanize USA programming gain confidence, knowledge, and skills to more fully and authentically engage in civic life. We believe in unlocking the power of every woman to advance progress for all. 

The person holding this position may also work part-time for a coordinated project, Galvanize Action, in the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a 501(c)(4) organization, under a resource sharing agreement between the Hopewell Fund and Sixteen Thirty Fund. The responsibilities under that position would be overseen by Sixteen Thirty Fund. Galvanize Action identifies, engages, and moves moderate women in rural, small town, and suburban America to reliably vote for progress. To learn more visit galvanizeaction.org.

Compensation & Benefits

The starting salary for this position is $88,000 and is set within a transparent, market-aligned salary structure. To support pay equity and internal integrity, Galvanize does not negotiate individual salaries at the time of hire. We offer ongoing opportunities for salary growth, including cost-of-living adjustments. Galvanize USA also offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance for employees (and their families). Employees are able to enroll in the 401k retirement plan and are eligible for a 3% automatic contribution and up to a 3% employer match on 401k contributions. Employees are also eligible for pre-tax transportation benefits. Employees will receive 120 hours of vacation time, 80 hours of health leave, up to 2 days of casual leave, and 20 hours of volunteer leave annually. Employees will also receive 13 paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Employees are eligible for 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave after 90 days of employment.

Hiring Statement

Galvanize USA is a project of Hopewell Fund, a 501(c)(3) public charity that incubates new and innovative public-interest projects and grant-making programs. Hopewell Fund is committed to attracting, developing and retaining exceptional people, and to creating a work environment that is dynamic, rewarding and enables each of us to realize our potential. Hopewell Fund’s work environment is safe and open to all employees and partners, respecting the full spectrum of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, and all other classifications protected by law in the locality and/or state in which you are working. 

E-Verify

Hopewell participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with employees’ Form I-9 information to confirm authorization to work in the United States. Job candidates and  employees authorized to work may not be discriminated against on the basis of national origin or citizenship status.