Digital Media Coordinator

Job Title: Digital Media Coordinator

Supervisor: Communications Manager

Supervisees: None

Status: Full-time, exempt, salaried

Salary: $70,000 USD

Location: Remote

Degree required: None

Deadline: May 31, 2024

We Testify is hiring a Digital Media Coordinator to elevate the voices of abortion storytellers through creative social media content, spread the organization’s vision of culture shift through innovative campaigns and engaging content, and maintain the organization’s brand identity through graphics and videos. You’ll create trendy TikToks reminding supporters that everyone loves someone who had abortions, edit videos explaining what people can expect when they have abortions, and design graphics illuminating the We Testify abortion storytellers’ voices and experiences. The Digital Media Coordinator will support visionary campaigns that reflect our abortion experiences, engage with our supporters through We Testify’s social media accounts, and challenge the people who love us to think deeper about our full spectrum of experiences.

Digital Media Production (approximately 70% of the position)

The Digital Media Coordinator is responsible for managing We Testify’s social media accounts, including Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook accounts with engaging and affirming content centering the experiences of people who have abortions and relevant news cycle topics. Common duties include:

• Social media content creation: create and develop social media content and social media strategies engaging and centering people who’ve had abortions
• Video content creation and editing: envision, produce, and edit video content featuring staff and storytellers sharing We Testify’s vision and values, campaign messages, and responding to cultural moments
• Graphic design: ideate and create graphic design templates for social media content highlighting We Testify staff and storytellers in the media, cultural moments, and We Testify’s messaging and values
• Content calendar coordination: create and maintain the social media content calendar ensuring a consistent balance of evergreen content, timely cultural responses, and campaign implementation
• Online engagement: engage We Testify’s audience through responses including but not limited to responding to questions, appreciation for story sharing, building connections, elevating with partner organization’s social media content 
• Storyteller engagement: elevate social media content of We Testify storytellers and engage with them on social media, and support them should they receive harassment or threats
• Brand management: develop, implement, and maintain We Testify’s voice, language, and style guide, brand guide, and other values-aligned assets in all messaging, communications, communication and donor campaigns, and social media

Campaign Coordination (approximately 20% of the position)

The Digital Media Coordinator is responsible for supporting the Communications Department with the execution of campaign projects to increase the visibility of storytellers and values-based messaging in partnership with the We Testify staff, organizational partners, and consultants. Common duties include:

• Campaign coordination: design support, development coordination, and implementation of campaigns to elevate We Testify’s values, messages, and the experiences of people who have abortions
• Partnerships: work with We Testify staff and partner organizations to develop and implement joint campaigns to elevate the voices of and shift the narrative about people who have abortions
• Engagement: encourage campaign engagement with We Testify storytellers and partner organizations and disseminate campaign materials to ensure participation and engagement
• Website maintenance: manage and update the We Testify website and any sub-brand and campaign websites

Other Duties (approximately 10% of the position)

All staff are responsible for completing administrative work to ensure smooth organizational operations and other duties as assigned. Common duties include: 

• Administrative work: maintain and submit expense reports for individual’s corporate credit card and reimbursements, honorarium requests, vendor payments, approving timesheets, and other paperwork
• Participation in meetings: ongoing participation in abortion storyteller retreats, staff meetings and retreats, NEO Philanthropy all staff trainings, movement conferences, rallies, press conferences, and partner meetings and convenings
• Professional development: attend professional development and management trainings as part of ongoing learning and education
• Other duties as assigned, within reason

Candidate Experience Qualifications

• Personal experience with abortion storytelling
• Two or more years of experience working in digital communications and social media marketing
• At least one year of experience using Adobe Suite, Photoshop Illustrator, and/or Canva for original graphic design creation
• At least one year of experience producing and editing video content for a brand
• Demonstrated ability to communicate verbally and in writing in English fluently, with correct grammar and punctuation, and free from errors. Ability to communicate verbally and in writing in Spanish is a plus, but not required
• Demonstrated commitment to abortion access and reproductive justice
• Demonstrated belief in social justice values, including centering Blackness and anti-racism, trans and nonbinary people, and people living on low incomes
• Ability to manage one’s own workload, set daily tasks, determine priorities independently, handle challenging situations using critical thinking skills, and manage several projects simultaneously.
• Ability to collaborate creatively with colleagues and organizational partners on a variety of timelines with competing priorities
• Ability to be responsive to a variety of storyteller needs and experiences with empathy, sensitivity, and care, and maintain storyteller’s confidentiality
• Appreciation of a culture of giving and receiving feedback

We Testify is fiscally sponsored by NEO Philanthropy, thus workplace benefits are administered by NEO Philanthropy. Benefits include: medical health insurance administered by United Healthcare, dental insurance administered by Mutual of Omaha, vision insurance administered by Mutual of Omaha, flexible spending account, dependent health insurance coverage, abortion procedure funding, paid time off, paid sick time, paid parental leave, retirement savings account with 5% employer contribution after one year of employment, employee assistance program, commuter transportation benefits, life insurance, long term disability insurance, short term disability insurance, legal benefits, and pet insurance.

Demonstrated ability to communicate verbally and in writing in English fluently, with correct grammar and punctuation, and free from errors. Ability to communicate verbally and in writing in Spanish is a plus, but not required.

Interested candidates should submit their application via We Testify’s website. Applicants should submit their résumé, optional cover letter, and fill out several application questions pertaining to the position's qualifications, and their interest in the position. Due to limited staff capacity, only qualified candidates will be invited for an interview via email. If you require additional accommodations to submit your application, please email info@wetestify.org. Please, no application inquiries via phone, email, or social media, or to individual staff members.