Description:
Primary Responsibilities:
Multimedia production
- The manager works closely with colleagues in the marketing and communications, program, development, and product teams to conceive of and produce compelling content to advance our organizational goals and engage new and existing audiences.
- Maximize the ROI on content to serve goals across marketing and communications, program, policy and development teams
- Ensure all multimedia content complies with accessibility standards across platforms
- Create work of high quality, aligned to and supporting our mission, values, and intersectional audiences
Content strategy
- Collaborate with the social media manager to develop content strategy across multiple platforms
- Work with campaign and program staff to determine appropriate mediums and platforms for multimedia assets
Design & production
- Develop creative assets tailored to digital platforms and provide feedback on those assets based on ongoing testing and findings
- Write, film, direct and produce rapid response and longer-form video content to support campaign activities for platforms like YouTube, TikTok and Instagram
- Clip Free Press staff media appearances and repackage for social media platforms in a timely manner
- Provide live event photography and videography as needed
- Complete layout and design work for 1-pagers and reports
- Audit and provide videos, photos, and audio to serve marketing and communications, program and development team needs
Internal collaboration
- Collaborate with other members of the marketing and communications team, other departments and outside consultants to integrate digital content across platforms, including social media and email marketing, and to drive execution
- Work with all program and development teams to bring their content ideas to life
- Provide insights on best practices across different mediums (audio, video, image) and platforms (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, etc)
- Collaborate with the marketing and communication team to produce organic and paid promotional content
External collaboration and vendor coordination
- Collaborate with external partners and contractors to produce original content and amplify existing material that advances the organization’s mission and goals
- Negotiate, manage, and execute contracts pertaining to content production as needed
- Expand Free Press’ network of vendors with shared values from diverse backgrounds
Advancing race equity
- Clearly and consistently articulate an understanding of racial equity and structural racism and the centrality of this analysis to the work Free Press does and how we operate. Integrate that knowledge into work projects and interactions by addressing structural implications and disproportionate impacts of policies, activities and decisions on race, class, gender and other group identities within the context of job responsibilities and projects.
- Integrates race equity and relevant structural implications and knowledge into digital/marketing content creation, projects and interactions.
Desired skills and attributes:
- Passion for digital media and desire to expand understanding and use of emerging social media techniques and strategy
- Seeking a dynamic and fast-paced work environment that advances social and political change through advocacy campaigns, policy change and cultural organizing
- A commitment to racial equity and experience working with communities of color
- Value and respect differences of race, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, ability and socioeconomic circumstance
- A creative self-starter, able to work independently and with limited oversight to accomplish agreed upon objectives and to evaluate results
- Able to work under tight deadlines, navigate competing priorities and effectively adjust work plans to respond to emergent challenges or opportunities
- Able to remain positive, tactful and composed under pressure
- A team player with a low-ego approach to collaboration with both internal and external colleagues
- Able to develop and maintain relationships with a wide range of external organizations
- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
- Spanish language fluency is a plus
- Dedication to Free Press’ mission of fighting for everyone’s rights to connect and communicate, in addition to the overall success of the organization