The Opportunity
Down Home is seeking a full-time, permanent Sr. Narrative Strategist to help plan, implement, and run Down Home’s communications and earned media strategy across rural North Carolina. Down Home’s communications strategy aims to activate multiracial, working-class rural North Carolinians through digital, emerging, and traditional communications strategies. We are committed to building a powerful, multiracial base of working-class power through both community organizing and electoral strategy on all levels of government.
The ideal candidate for this position is a strategic people-person who is highly motivated to build a powerful multiracial base that wins changes for poor and working-class people in rural North Carolina through communications. They are an experienced communicator and content creator, a strong manager, have experience coordinating and moving projects from start to finish, and are committed to building power for the working-class.
About Down Home
Down Home is a growing statewide organization of rural and small town communities that advocate for economic, gender, and racial justice. We move North Carolina toward the values of dignity, safety, and inclusion through leadership development, strategic campaigning, multiracial movement building, and civic engagement that advances positive, life-changing reforms for poor and working-class rural communities.
Buckets of responsibility:
Required skills and experience:
Personal or professional experience living in rural communities, living in the South, and/or organizing/being an activist in the South are a plus but not required.Compensation Some irregular hours are required, including nights and weekends. Work location is flexible within North Carolina.
Please note that a significant portion of work will be in person. Applicants must be able and willing to travel regularly for work.
Compensation for this full-time staff position is determined by the candidate’s level of experience and ranges between $74,739 - 86,237 annually, including best-in-class health coverage, retirement, sick, vacation, and other benefits. Employees and their dependents, domestic partners, and spouses are eligible for dental, health and vision insurance the first day of the month following thirty (30) calendar days after the Employee’s hire. The Employer pays 100% of all premiums.
Applicants must be able and willing to travel regularly for work. In-person work will be required.
How to Apply
Down Home NC is committed to creating a dynamic, multicultural, diverse working environment. Candidates of color and diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Down Home NC is an equal opportunity employer and a unionized workplace. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis, with a priority for applications received by May 9. If this job description is posted on Down Home’s website (www.downhomenc.org), we are still accepting applications.
Please send a resume and a short cover letter that includes your experience working with organizations to: jobs@downhomenc.org
The Opportunity
Down Home is seeking a full-time, permanent Sr. Narrative Strategist to help plan, implement, and run Down Home’s communications and earned media strategy across rural North Carolina. Down Home’s communications strategy aims to activate multiracial, working-class rural North Carolinians through digital, emerging, and traditional communications strategies. We are committed to building a powerful, multiracial base of working-class power through both community organizing and electoral strategy on all levels of government.
The ideal candidate for this position is a strategic people-person who is highly motivated to build a powerful multiracial base that wins changes for poor and working-class people in rural North Carolina through communications. They are an experienced communicator and content creator, a strong manager, have experience coordinating and moving projects from start to finish, and are committed to building…
Including best-in-class health coverage, retirement, sick, vacation, and other benefits. Employees and their dependents, domestic partners, and spouses are eligible for dental, health and vision insurance the first day of the month following thirty (30) calendar days after the Employee’s hire. The Employer pays 100% of all premiums.
Including best-in-class health coverage, retirement, sick, vacation, and other benefits. Employees and their dependents, domestic partners, and spouses are eligible for dental, health and vision insurance the first day of the month following thirty (30) calendar days after the Employee’s hire. The Employer pays 100% of all premiums.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis, with a priority for applications received by May 9. If this job description is posted on Down Home’s website (www.downhomenc.org), we are still accepting applications.
Please send a resume and a short cover letter that includes your experience working with organizations to: jobs@downhomenc.org
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis, with a priority for applications received by May 9. If this job description is posted on Down Home’s website (www.downhomenc.org), we…