Defending Rights & Dissent is seeking a full-time Communications Manager to join the growing Defending Rights & Dissent team. We are a Bill of Rights advocacy organization, with a primary focus on the First and Fourth Amendments, and great history doing grassroots organizing and legislative advocacy. We defend the rights of protesters and dissidents, we fight surveillance, Islamophobia, and racism, we stand up for whistleblowers and promote government transparency. Our board includes activists with diverse backgrounds, life experiences, and political orientations--all working toward a shared vision of a U.S. free from government surveillance and political repression.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about protecting the right to political expression; have experience in communications, public relations, civil liberties advocacy, or journalism; be a strategic thinker and an engaging communicator who can persuade, motivate and educate; have an eye for design; and be organized, responsive, reliable, and pay acute attention to detail.
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Benefits include fully paid health insurance, five weeks of paid time off and 14 paid holidays per year.
Salary range: $80-90k
This position may be home-based and/or work from a shared office space in our Washington, DC office.
Women, people of color, disabled and LGBTQ people are strongly encouraged to apply.
Defending Rights & Dissent is seeking a full-time Communications Manager to join the growing Defending Rights & Dissent team. We are a Bill of Rights advocacy organization, with a primary focus on the First and Fourth Amendments…
Benefits include fully paid health insurance, five weeks of paid time off and 14 paid holidays per year.
Benefits include fully paid health insurance, five weeks of paid time off and 14 paid holidays per year.
Please include a resume, cover letter, two writing samples (press release, op-ed, blog post or article, etc) and examples of your social media management (links to social media accounts you manage, sample tool kits, etc).
Please note that a requirement for this position is a demonstrated commitment to First and Fourth Amendment rights. If your work and volunteer experience doesn't demonstrate this commitment, we invite you to talk about your interest in our mission in your cover letter.