Digital Storytelling Manager

Location: Seattle, WA or Portland, OR (Hybrid)

Reporting to: Senior Director of Communications and Engagement

Compensation: $85,000 - $97,500

Start Date: September 2025

Application Deadline: Friday, August 15th

About Climate Solutions

As a Northwest-based nonprofit for over twenty-five years, Climate Solutions' mission is to accelerate clean energy solutions to the climate crisis. Climate Solutions has a vision of a thriving, equitable Northwest, powered by clean energy, inspiring the transition to sustainable prosperity across the country and beyond. Climate Solutions advances local, regional, and state action on climate and clean energy through championing transformational policies and market-based innovations; catalyzing powerful partnerships and a diverse movement for action and accountability; and communicating a bold vision for solutions at the scale required by climate science. For more information about Climate Solutions, visit www.climatesolutions.org.

About the Opportunity

Climate Solutions is looking for a Digital Storytelling Manager who wants to use their storytelling superpowers to create and promote story-centered content on our digital channels and with partners. This position will support Climate Solutions' policy programs and campaigns, helping shift public narratives framing climate and clean energy. The manager will cultivate and educate a digital community of supporters and foster story collaboration with other partners and coalitions to support the growth of the climate movement throughout the region. The Manager will identify story prospects, cultivate relationships, report stories, produce compelling content for digital channels, and promote that content to others.

They will also have the opportunity to collaborate and train supporters and partner organizations to deepen knowledge and capacity for storytelling among the ever-growing climate movement in the Pacific Northwest.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Communications and Engagement, the Digital Storytelling Manager will focus on instilling story-led communications in Climate Solutions’ work, developing digital content to support field engagement, policy programs, and organizational development. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic nonprofit environment, is passionate about using their storytelling skills to promote both the organization’s mission and community voices, and is excited to work in a collaborative, mission-driven environment.

SUCCESS OUTCOMES AND PRIORITIES

Social Media Strategy & Marketing Campaign Implementation

• Works closely with Communications and Engagement staff in Washington and Oregon to develop and execute high-impact, creative digital campaigns targeting multiple priority audiences with distinct engagement goals across channels and organizational brands.
• Measures the success of story-based social media outreach among various audiences (community partners, policymakers, and community-at-large) and adjusts to social media trends.
• Works with the Communications and Engagement team to plan and execute marketing campaigns that push forward the organization’s strategic initiatives and goals through content creation, media production, and publishing on social media.

Community Engagement & Elevating Community Voices Through Storytelling

• Cultivates and nurtures key partnerships, broad coalitions, and relationships among priority constituencies, particularly those impacted first and worst by climate including Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color, and people from diverse socio-economic backgrounds.
• Develops and highlights community partners’ successes and barriers and elevates their voices and experiences.
• Advances equitable storytelling through image- and video-based content as well as written media, increasing community competency in climate conversations while showcasing climate efforts across Washington and Oregon.

Cross-Campaigns and Cross-Team Collaboration

• • Works closely with the Washington and Oregon Policy teams to develop stories, content, and clear messaging to engage various communities, partners, and stakeholders regarding events and policy changes, and to increase climate awareness and competencies.
  • Collaborates with Communications and Engagement team and Development team members to support and promote Climate Solutions events, fundraising initiatives, and highlight stories from Climate Solutions’ community.

Organizational Participation

• • Participate in Climate Solutions staff meetings, trainings, racial equity conversations, retreats, and team meetings. Lead or coordinate meetings when appropriate.
  • Incorporate Climate Solutions’ Equity, Diversity and Inclusion commitments, Commitment to Leading our Work with a Racial Equity Lens, and Climate Solutions’ values into all aspects of the job.
  • Meet staff reporting deadlines for program, development, and administrative tasks
  • Additional duties may be assigned within the course of the work, such as providing excellent customer service internally, participating in relevant meetings and events, maintaining positive working relationships by travelling to other offices, and more.

WHO YOU ARE

• You believe in Climate Solutions’ mission to accelerate clean energy solutions to the climate crisis and champion transformational policies and market-based innovations across Washington and Oregon.
• You understand and produce digital content for social media environments. You can learn, adapt, and be flexible with the evolving landscape of social media. You can identify emerging trends and adapt our communications to increase awareness of Climate Solutions’ brand and mission among growing, diverse audiences. You are comfortable creating and producing both written and visual content.
• You cultivate trust-based relationships. You cultivate collaboration with trust-centered and meaningful relationships with diverse stakeholders and community members. You practice cultural humility, listen actively, and highlight the voices of current and new partners contributing to strong clean energy and climate narratives.
• You center equity and inclusion. You actively work to redress power imbalances by fostering equitable, collaborative partnerships. With cultural humility and recognizing personal biases, you navigate complex dynamics and create space for voices historically marginalized—ensuring they are heard, valued, and prioritized throughout your work.
• You can manage projects from ideation to production. You can visualize, implement, and receive feedback for social media and marketing campaigns.
• You are enthusiastic about stories, and changing hearts and minds. The stories you write and tell are able to shape audience conversations about climate and clean energy, and to engage community members who hold different perspectives and levels of knowledge around climate.
• You are a coalition builder. You unite diverse stakeholders–organizations, community leaders, businesses, policymakers–to amplify collective power.
• You are adaptive and resilient. You stay focused amid shifting priorities and perspectives, helping guide clean energy initiatives with clarity, collaboration, and a long-term view.

Travel: This is a hybrid role based either in Seattle, WA or Portland, OR, with a combination of remote and in-person meetings (2-3x week) and external partner meetings, events, and trainings, as well as frequent travel within the region to capture stories.

Nominate a leader: Submit a nomination and a recruiter will personally reach out to nominees.

Climate Solutions recognizes that institutional racism, including systems and behaviors that maintain white power and privilege, exists within our organization, the broader climate and environmental movement, and throughout society. We also recognize that the impacts of the climate crisis, pollution from fossil fuels, and the costs of proposed solutions fall disproportionately on communities of color, low income, Tribal Nations, and frontline communities, both in our region and across the world. This is a barrier to a more equitable future and our ability to achieve our mission.

Climate Solutions has chosen to lead our work with a racial equity lens as a strategy to address all forms of oppression. Climate Solutions is committed to equal opportunity in employment and promotion for all qualified persons without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, military or veteran status, the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability, pregnancy and childbirth, family responsibilities, or any other basis protected by applicable laws, regulations, or guidelines relating to discrimination in employment.