Youth Digital Campaigns Manager

Title: Youth Digital Campaigns Manager

Department: Campaigns

Status: Exempt

Reports To: National Field Director

Positions Reporting To This Position: None

Location: Flexible (within the United States)

Union Position: Yes

Job Classification Level: D

Salary Range (depending on experience): $68,884-$84,079

General Description:

LCV believes our earth is worth fighting for because everyone has a right to clean air, water, and a safe, healthy community. To ensure those rights are protected, we help people use their power to shape policy, hold politicians and polluters accountable, and influence elections.

For more than 50 years, LCV has grown into a potent political force for protecting our planet and everyone who inhabits it. We have built a powerful national movement with 30 state affiliates, and grassroots and community organizing programs across the country.

LCV is hiring a Youth Digital Campaigns Manager who will coordinate LCV’s outreach and engagement with young people in key regions, focused on growing LCV’s overall online volunteer recruitment efforts, aimed at growing our virtual and in-person activist base. The Youth Digital Campaigns Manager will work closely with key staff from the campaigns and communications teams. The Youth Digital Campaigns Manager plays an integral role in developing strategies to grow and engage young people in key regions through digital organizing tools, and helps bridge the online-to-offline activist program. The ideal candidate is a digital organizer who is culturally competent in messaging and engagement, has a complex understanding of younger communities, an unwavering commitment to racial justice, and derives inspiration from the leadership of everyday people who come together for the health of their families, communities, and our planet.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with the Campaigns and Communications teams on the state digital strategy for youth engagement which overlaps with current and future field programs, and work independently to execute day-to-day tasks.
• Develop and run trainings to support a team of organizers in NV, NH, NC, PA, and VA on digital tools, strategies, and digital volunteer recruitment and story amplification.
• Help achieve LCV’s strategic goals of increasing geographic and racial diversity of our volunteer base. Lead the acquisition strategy to meet LCV’s ambitious youth engagement goals.
• Work with the organizing team to amplify on-the-ground actions and further develop a young activist base.
• Write and edit compelling ad copy, email, mobile alerts, social media content, blogs, and other digital content to educate and engage LCV’s current and new volunteers aged 18-35.
• Work with the Senior Data & Targeting Manager and the membership team to analyze data on the acquisition of new youth activists and draw actionable insights to inform future strategy.
• Identify creative campaign opportunities to mobilize activist base and promote action on climate change, conservation, and environmental justice.
• Participate actively in applying a racial justice lens to all LCV online communications with an increased emphasis on member education of issues, environmental or otherwise, where communities of color are disproportionately impacted.

Qualifications:

• Work experience: Required - 4 years experience in digital organizing. Experience using online tools to engage and mobilize a membership base. Experience working across lines of race and class. Preferred - Experience in a political context, progressive, or environmental organization. Experience with Canva, VAN, Mobilize, and/or peer-to-peer texting.
• Skills: Required - Excellent oral and written communications skills. Forward thinking, innovative, and creative mindset willing to push LCV to new boundaries in the online space and in relation to environmental justice. A strong belief in everyday peoples’ ability to affect change and their fundamental right to be heard by decision makers and to influence the policies and decisions that affect their community. A sense of teamwork and community; highly organized and interested in environmental or community issues.
• Cultural Competence: Demonstrated awareness of one’s own cultural identity, views about difference, and the ability to learn and build on varying cultural and community norms. Commitment to equity and inclusion as organizational practice and culture. Understands how environmental issues intersect with racism, economic and social inequality in the U.S. and has a passion for working to dismantle these systems.
• Working Conditions: This job operates in a professional office environment, and routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and audiovisual systems. This position is largely sedentary, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods. The location of this position is flexible. Applicants need to be located in and legally authorized to work in the United States. Please note that most LCV staff are currently working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, through February 28, 2022.

To Apply: Send cover letter and resume to hr@lcv.org with “Youth Digital Campaigns Manager” in the subject line by January 9, 2022. No phone calls please.

LCV is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a racially just, equitable and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information, or any other protected status. LCV is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please contact hr@lcv.org.

https://www.lcv.org/careers/lcv-job-openings/youth-digital-campaigns-manager/