Civic Media Campaign Manager

March 19

🧀 Wisconsin – Remote

Although this job is listed in Wisconsin, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $75k - $82.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📈 Performance Marketing

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Free Press is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advocating for a free and open internet, media accountability, the future of journalism, and privacy and surveillance issues. The organization works to challenge powerful corporations, hold policymakers accountable, and mobilize millions of activists. Through campaigns and events, Free Press seeks to ensure media and technology are used for justice and democracy, advocating for digital rights, press freedom, and representation of diverse communities in media ownership. They focus on net neutrality, media control, and platform accountability, pushing for regulations that benefit people rather than corporations.

media and technology policy reform • education • advocacy and organizing • communications • research and analysis

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2003

🤝 Non-profit

📱 Media

🌍 Social Impact

📋 Description

• The Campaign Manager will anchor Free Press' organizing, network building and policy making efforts in Wisconsin and the broader Great Lakes region. • The Campaign Manager will help design and oversee implementation of our Wisconsin campaign to strengthen local news, community and ethnic media, and the information needs of residents across the region. • The Campaign Manager will mobilize our network of more than 27,000 active members in the region, coordinating and activating coalitions around our short- and long-term campaigns. • The Campaign Manager must bring an intersectional approach to our work that includes a race, class and gender analysis in order to elevate the relevance of media justice and journalism policy to people in the region.

🎯 Requirements

• A home office in Wisconsin. • A driver's license and vehicle. • No minimum education is required; a bachelor's degree may be an indicator of capacity for this position. • 4+ years of directly relevant experience advocating for policy change as part of a nonprofit public interest organization or similar setting is required. • Experience working with, building and leading diverse winning coalitions. • Experience working with and knowledge of local and state level organizations in Wisconsin and other Great Lakes states. • Strong interest in media, technology and journalism issues and demonstrated experience working on those or similar issues. • Experience supervising volunteers or interns. • Experience leading successful organizing efforts with a combination of online and/or offline organizing, rapid-response work, volunteer engagement, political advocacy, training and reporting. • Must have strong communications skills including writing, editing, and public speaking.

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual paid time off is a total of eleven weeks, including vacation, health-care leave, holidays, and two organization-wide week-long closures. • Group medical, dental and vision insurance. • Short- and long-term disability insurance. • Employer contribution to retirement plans (no matching required). • Flexible health, commuter and dependent care spending accounts. • Paid family leave. • Stipends for business use of personal phones and for home office locations. • All employees receive computers and equipment necessary for the job. • A flexible, supportive work culture.