UltraViolet is hiring a Campaign Director to help us drive
cultural and political change to advance an intersectional feminist
agenda.
About UltraViolet:
Since 2012, UltraViolet has been the premier national
organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative,
strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. UltraViolet
drives feminist cultural and political change by exposing the white
supremacist patriarchy and creating the conditions for a more just
and equitable world for all.
Together with our more than 1.2 million members, we have taken
over 17 million actions driving feminist cultural and political
change. UltraViolet members have taken down major misogynists from
Bill O’Reilly and Harvey Weinstein to Roger Ailes and Rick Ross,
led the fight nationwide to combat racist and sexist disinformation
during the 2020 election, campaigned for justice for women of color
murdered by law enforcement, forced TikTok to include deadnaming
and misogyny to its hate speech policies, and more.
We work across a broad spectrum of interconnected issues that
impact the lives of women, girls and gender-marginalized people,
including gender-based violence, disinformation, health care,
economic security, reproductive rights, and racial justice. In all
of our work, we center frontline communities disparately impacted
by sexist policies and practices, especially Black women,
Indigenous women, women of color, people with disabilities,
low-income women, immigrants, survivors, and LGBTQ+ people.
If fighting for a world beyond white supremacist patriarchy–a
world where all people can thrive with freedom and dignity–ignites
your passion, then UltraViolet is the organization for
you!
Job description:
Are you a great writer with a fire in your belly to leverage
breaking news and cultural moments to disrupt sexism in the media,
government, cultural institutions, and Big Tech?
Are you an experienced digital campaigner with sharp strategic
instincts and a knack for identifying and running creative and
effective digital-first advocacy and culture-change
campaigns?
Are you an entrepreneurial self-starter who knows both how to
build strong relationships with allies, key decision-makers and the
media, and how to leverage those relationships to advance advocacy
campaign goals?
If so, please read on!
Reporting to the Vice President of Campaigns, the Campaign
Director will cover a portfolio of campaigns and projects, where
they lead the strategic planning and decision-making and the
tactical execution of our work.
While not the exclusive focus of this role, this Campaign
Director will likely take over a portfolio that includes at least
some significant portion of our Big Tech accountability and
anti-disinformation work.
Across their campaign and project portfolio, the Campaign
Director will run longer-term systemic change campaigns, leading
our digital advocacy work and building deep relationships with
allies, legislative staff, key decision-makers (whether at social
media and tech companies or entertainment and cultural
institutions), and relevant reporters and influencers.
Alongside these longer-term campaigns, the Campaign Director
will also opportunistically run creative and strategic
digital-first, rapid-response campaigns in response to breaking
news or cultural moments as a tactic to advance campaign goals,
promote feminist values, and grow our community of online
activists.
The role is fully remote, in an all-remote organization, with a
starting salary range of $100,000 to $115,000, plus a home office
stipend based on the cost of living in your location.
The Campaign Director oversees the following areas of
work:
Driving Strategic and Tactical Planning and Decision-Making for
a Portfolio of Projects and Campaigns:
- Identify and lead both the development and execution of
high-impact digital campaigns rooted in a framework of anti-racist
feminism that leverage breaking news and cultural moments to
confront sexism in the media, government, cultural institutions,
and Big Tech. - Monitor campaign progress and execution on an ongoing basis,
ensuring the day-to-day digital work is aligned with established
goals, objectives, budgets, and timelines and that key stakeholders
and decision-makers are updated regularly. - Design escalation plans that deepen engagement of UltraViolet
members, ensure that corporate, institutional, and political
targets are aware of our campaigns (whether through the media or
meetings with decision-makers), and include research-backed tactics
to persuade targets to meet our demands. - Act as spokesperson with the press for your campaigns and
represent the organization at relevant meetings and events, on
conference calls with allies, and on relevant listservs. - Actively participate in coalitions (both formal and ad hoc)
related to your campaign work, including recruiting organizations
to join campaigns we’re leading; engaging with other leaders,
stakeholders, and allies; and supporting our key allies’
efforts. - Monitor the news and political and cultural events for their
potential to become new campaigns or advance active campaigns, and
propose ideas for testing. - Identify rapid-response opportunities to introduce more
feminists to UltraViolet and grow our membership. - Develop detailed campaign plans, including soliciting input
from team members and partners.
Campaign Production and Management:
- Write compelling petitions, emails, and other types of campaign
content (often on tight deadlines) to mobilize our members to take
action and to grow our membership base. - Manage the creation of digital content from beginning to end:
drafting and editing digital copy (e.g. emails, petitions, surveys,
SMS blasts, etc.); setting up, targeting, and sending the digital
content through our digital tools; analyzing the results to help us
make better decisions going forward; and identifying appropriate
next steps in the campaign. - Project manage and liaise with vendors, outside consultants and
partners (e.g. designers, technology providers, video editors,
etc.) as necessary to leverage their specialized expertise on your
campaigns. - Work with our technology and design teams to develop creative
ways to amplify campaign demands, priorities, and impact. - Coordinate on-the-ground campaign events, such as petition
deliveries, house parties, and rallies. - Manage member inquiries and issues related to campaigns as
needed.
Campaign Analysis:
- Continually analyze and report out on data and impact during
campaigns. - Conduct internal campaign evaluations, debriefs, and lessons
learned. - Stay abreast of ongoing changes in the digital, advocacy, and
narrative-change fields (e.g. new innovations, changing best
practices, new tools), and find ways of incorporating this learning
into your campaigns.
Membership Growth and Engagement:
- Support the development of membership growth strategies across
email, mobile, social media, and website, and implement experiments
and projects designed to increase UltraViolet’s digital
membership. - Contribute ideas for campaign-relevant member fundraisers and
provide feedback on fundraising email drafts.
These are the required skills, traits and experience for this
position:
- A deep commitment to anti-racist feminism and gender
justice. - Five or more years of highly relevant work experience,
particularly experience working in digital campaigning, digital
organizing, or digital communications for progressive organizations
or campaigns, or experience working in investigative journalism or
on narrative-change campaigns. - Excellent all-around communication skills, and the ability to
write sharp, persuasive and well-messaged copy for action alerts,
press releases, organizational sign-on letters, etc. - Sharp strategic instincts and the ability to both identify
opportunities where grassroots activism can deliver gender justice
victories, and the ability to explain your strategic rationale to
diverse audiences. - A knack for leveraging breaking news or cultural moments for
educating and mobilizing people. - A deep curiosity to understand more about the world, ideas, and
subjects of interest, along with the ability to quickly get up to
speed on complicated issues related to public policy or culture
change. - An excellent understanding of how to use the Internet to
research information. - Deep familiarity and engagement with Internet culture; a good
awareness of online trends, fads, discourses, influencers,
communities, and subcultures. - Experience working in intersectional feminist organizing and/or
racial justice organizing. - Experience managing complex projects from start to finish,
independently and as part of a team. - Proven writing ability in a relevant setting; experience
mobilizing people via email and mobile. - Comfort working in ActionKit, Mobile Commons, Mobilize, or
similar e-activism tools for blast email, broadcast and P2P SMS,
call campaigns, and events. - Knowledge of basic HTML, how to use a CMS like WordPress to
edit web content, and how to use Excel (or a similar program) for
basic data analysis — or the willingness and ability to learn
these skills. - Please note: If you don’t check all of the boxes above, but
you’re interested and think you can do this job successfully, we
welcome your application.
We’re hoping that you’ll bring one or more of the following:
- Experience driving corporate accountability campaigns,
particularly campaigns focused on Big Tech or one or more of the
major social media companies. - Experience running large-scale gender justice or gender equity
campaigns. - Proven experience running large-scale digital campaigns.
- Experience writing for a large public audience (e.g. articles,
op-eds, action alerts, blog posts, etc.) using a gender
justice or intersectional feminist lens. - Experience writing for the public (as above) about corporate
power, corporate abuses, or corporate accountability
efforts. - Experience with communications and media strategies, and a
proven track record of generating earned media. - Experience as a coalition leader or organizer.
- Experience working on reproductive justice issues.
- Experience growing member email lists, both paid and
organic. - Experience fundraising from a membership list
- Advocacy experience alongside experience with and understanding
of cultural organizing and/or electoral politics. - Knowledge and experience with managing media-driven campaigns
on intersectional feminist political and cultural issues. - Comfort with digital metrics and analytics.
You will thrive in this role if you’re someone who:
- Thrives while working remotely, since we are an all-remote
organization. - Is comfortable juggling multiple tasks and can thrive in a
fast-paced environment, independently and as a team. - Is flexible and able to pivot seamlessly in a rapidly changing
environment while handling multiple complex, deadline-driven tasks
and priorities. - Is an excellent project manager, managing processes seamlessly
from start to finish. - Loves working with colleagues from diverse backgrounds in a
low-ego, collaborative environment.
Perks of working for UltraViolet:
- Fully remote workplace with home office stipend based on
location. - Full health, dental, and vision benefits for employees, and
generous coverage for your family. - Four weeks of vacation, 13 paid holidays plus 4 floating
holidays, 2 weeks off at end of year, a shorter day on most
Fridays. - Paid Sabbatical after six years of service.
- 401(k) with a 5% employer contribution.
- Eighteen weeks of parental leave, plus support for child care
for work-related events and travel.
Salary:
- The salary range for this position is $100,000 to $115,000,
plus a home office stipend based on the cost of living in your
location.
Application Process:
- Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with a
priority deadline of 11:59pm PT on March 17, 2024. Depending on
applicant volume and qualification, the process may include an
interview with an outside recruiter, two interviews with members of
the UltraViolet team, and a written component. Any applicants who
are invited to, and complete, the written component will be
provided a payment in appreciation, regardless of whether they are
subsequently selected to move forward. - Apply via this link:
https://ultraviolet.applytojob.com/apply/OhetqN58Wh/Campaign-Director
UltraViolet is committed to the full inclusion of all
qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, UltraViolet will
ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable
accommodations for the hiring process in accordance with applicable
law. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact us at
hr@weareultraviolet.org.
UltraViolet is a multi-racial, multi-gender organization. We
strongly encourage people of all genders, BIPOC people, LGBTQ+
people, people with disabilities, and those from other
systematically marginalized communities to apply.
UltraViolet is an equal employment opportunity employer and
does not discriminate against applicants or employees because of
race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, citizenship
status, disability status, genetic information, sexual orientation,
or gender identity or expression, or membership in any other class
protected by applicable law. This applies to all terms and
conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement,
promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of
absence, compensation and training. UltraViolet hires and promotes
individuals on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be
filled. We strongly encourage diverse applicants to apply.