Communications Senior Associate

Job Title: Communications Senior Associate

Reports to: Senior Communications and Digital Manager

Start Date: ASAP

Salary range: $60,000-$85,000

Location: Remote with occasional in-person time

ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW:

Greenlight America is the leading grassroots campaign force powering the nation’s clean energy transition at the local level. Founded in 2023, we educate, empower, and mobilize volunteers to make their voices heard and win permitting approvals for clean energy projects in their communities. In the past two years we have advanced more than 15 gigawatts of clean power to the grid, approximately 10x the size of the Hoover Dam.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Communications Senior Associate plays a key role in supporting Greenlight America’s communications and campaign work, providing online research and creating content both on assigned campaigns and across the organization’s communications and messaging priorities. A successful candidate for this position will be a skilled writer and researcher with the demonstrated capacity to produce quality work on deadline. They will also have the ability to get up to speed quickly on complex topics and digital tools, be highly creative and willing to take risks, and exhibit strong skills in project management. The position is remote and reports to the Senior Communications and Digital Manager.

PRIMARY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Produce social listening reports at the start of all Greenlight clean energy campaigns, reviewing local news coverage and social media activity to assess public sentiment and shape campaign messaging priorities and communications tactics around a proposed project, ordinance, or technology in a given community or area.
• Support on the creation of communications materials for other Greenlight clean energy campaigns as assigned, working closely with other members of the communications and campaigns teams to execute a messaging and content strategy for each campaign. Materials produced may include talking points, fact sheets, letters to the editors, op-eds, digital content, social media posts, one-pagers, and presentations.
• Support on the creation of general volunteer guides and resources and other organization-wide “evergreen” messaging materials, including research and drafting.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

We are especially interested in candidates with the following qualifications:

• 1+ years of experience developing content and/or messaging on deadline. Strong candidates for this role may also have backgrounds in journalism, community organizing, campaigning, clean energy development, or similar.
• Strong research and written communications skills.
• Passion for accelerating the clean energy transition.
• Experience in social media analysis and news monitoring is a plus.
• Experience with digital advocacy and Mobilze.us is a plus.
• Candidates in Eastern or Central time zones preferred due to the collaboration needs and media monitoring schedule of our campaigns in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. However, we welcome applicants from all U.S. locations.

DIVERSITY AND EQUITY IN OPPORTUNITY:

Greenlight America and Greenlight Action are proud to be equal opportunity employers, and anti-racist organizations that prohibit discrimination in their governance, programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, reprisal, marital status, amnesty, status as a covered veteran, because all or part of an individual’s income is derived from public assistance or for any other non-merit based factor. Women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, and members of other historically and presently disenfranchised populations are strongly encouraged to apply.

Our goal is for a work experience that has meaning and impact on the world and on our professional lives, and a workplace where you can feel supported and proud. Read more about our values and commitment at greenlightamerica.org.

This position also supports Greenlight Action, an affiliated 501(c)(4) organization. While motivated by the same core values, Greenlight Action and Greenlight America operate independently of one another and each organization has its own board of directors.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

The base annual salary for this position is $60,000-$85,000. We offer an excellent benefits package which includes 100% employer paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance, unlimited paid time off, monthly technology stipend, and retirement contributions through 401k and Roth plans.