Social Media & Marketing Specialist - Vital Voices Global Partnership

Vital Voices Global Partnership is a leading international non-profit organization. We invest in women leaders who are tackling the world's greatest challenges – from gender-based violence to the climate crisis, economic inequities, and more. We are "venture catalysts," identifying leaders with a daring vision for change and partnering with them to make that vision a reality. What sets Vital Voices apart is that we make long-term, holistic investments in leaders with bold ideas for change — providing them connections, capacity, a network of their peers, financial support, and visibility for their work. We have provided early support for leaders who went on to become Nobel Peace Laureates, US Youth Poet Laureates, Prime Ministers, award winning innovators and breakthrough social entrepreneurs. Over the past 24 years, we have directly invested in more than 20,000 change-makers across 184 countries, who in turn have improved the lives of millions of people in their communities and countries.  

Today, Vital Voices has a staff of nearly 100 headquartered in Washington, DC. In the coming years we have a bold vision to dramatically scale our impact. In early 2022, we opened the first ever Global Headquarters for Women's Leadership, a 30,000+ sq. ft. historic building just blocks from the White House on 16th Street. It is a hub of activity, events, and collaborations — bringing together women leaders and their allies to tackle the world's greatest challenges. 

Mission 

Vital Voices invests in women leaders taking on the world's greatest challenges and accelerates collective action towards an equitable and sustainable world.  

Organizational Goals 2030 

1. Scale our proven investment model from 20,000 to 50,000 women leaders - who together will positively impact the lives of one billion

2. Make a measurable impact on 1-2 of the greatest challenges as defined by the Vital Voices Global Network - proving the power of collective action. 

Summary 

The Communications Department seeks a talented professional with strong writing, digital communications, social media management and creative content production skills for the position of Social Media & Marketing Specialist. The Social Media & Marketing Specialist will oversee Vital Voices' external channels including our social media platforms, website and creative content production such as videos, photo editing and podcast editing and publication. The team seeks a dynamic, entrepreneurial self-starter with keen attention to detail and ability to multi-task to support Vital Voices' online communications and brand as we take the organization to the next level. This position is based in Washington, DC with the option of a hybrid work schedule. We are not accepting remote candidates at this time.  

Additional responsibilities include: 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

• Collaboration: Work across departments to implement a strategic communications agenda that advances Vital Voices' goals and activities across a range of regional and issue-area programs, events, partnerships and branded intellectual property. 
• Social Media Channel Management: Take ownership of Vital Voices' social media strategy and day to day activity on social media channels. This includes proactive content drafting, planning and scheduling and reactive community management on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and LinkedIn; staying on top of social media algorithm changes and trends to recommend strategic campaigns to amplify engagement and reach; collaborate with internal Vital Voices teams to amplify program and women leaders' efforts across channels; stay current on global affairs and events and incorporate into the Vital Voices' social media strategy.
• Online Reporting and Analytics: Prepare regular analytics reports with data on online channel performance, leveraging all available looks include Twitter Analytics, Google Analytics, Meltwater platform and other data. Analyze findings and assess content behaviors; implement findings and adjustments to maximize audience growth, reach and engagement. Leverage Google Analytics learnings to edit and optimize page offerings, cull through content to increase SEO. Coordinate with administrative and program teams to ensure updates are accurate and timely. 
• Content Creation and Management: Leverage Adobe Creative Suite and Canva to create graphic content for Vital Voices and related efforts including, but not limited to, infographics, quote cards, social media tiles and graphics for website. Manage, coordinate and connect staff with Vital Voices' photo and photo archive through iCloud and Dropbox. Manage in-house creative content production (such as staff headshots) and housing and rental of equipment including podcast kit, digital camera and other communications equipment. 
• Podcast Development and Editing: Cut, edit and publish the Vital Voices podcast using Adobe Audacity editing suite and publishing across Libsyn and Simplecast. Manage interviews once scheduled, develop social media content to amplify episodes and write titles and descriptions for each episode. 
• Communications Support for Organization: Work with Communications Director and Chief Communications Officer to ensure communications for the organization are provided and strategically implemented. Amplify organization efforts by preparing communications toolkits for programs to market their applications and work. Prepare the weekly internal newsletter (Vine) for the organization. 
• DE&I Commitment:  Embrace and model the Vital Voices guiding principles, values, investment, and leadership models with the goal of supporting Vital Voices' organization culture and success; 
• Other duties as assigned.   

Professional Qualifications:   

• Bachelor's degree and 2-4 years of experience working in communications or representing an organization/company through social media   
• Excellent oral and written communications skills 
• Strong organizational and time management skills and meticulous attention to detail 
• Experience in social media content drafting and platform management including on 
• Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn etc., and analytics tools to track social networking data, such as Hootsuite and Google Analytics 
• Experience with social media publishing, scheduling and content drafting platforms like Hootsuite preferred 
• Experience producing social media content and communications support for live events preferred 
• Experience using common website content management systems such as WordPress 
• Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Audacity, Lightroom) preferred 
• Advanced computer literacy, including strong Excel and PowerPoint skills 
• Flexibility, team player and multitasker 
• Strong entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to learn 
• Positive attitude and demonstrated commitment to Vital Voices' mission and values. 

This position is a full-time exempt hybrid position based in Washington, DC with two days of required in person attendance at the Vital Voices Headquarters. If and when it is safe to travel, domestic and international travel up to 10% may be required for the position.  

The starting salary range for this position is $59,635 - $76,735 based on experience and ability to have broad impact early.  

Benefits:  

At Vital Voices, we value our employees and their well-being. That's why we offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401k match, short and long-term disability, life insurance, HSA, EAP, and more. But that's not all. We believe in giving our employees the flexibility and support they need to thrive in their work and life. That's why we provide generous PTO including wellness flex Fridays, parental leave, earned sabbatical time, and volunteer leave as well as a professional development stipend to support continuous improvement. Join us and be part of a global team that empowers women leaders to transform the world.   

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Vital Voices provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Vital Voices complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.   

Vital Voices expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Vital Voices' employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.   

Staff may experience secondary trauma due to exposure to descriptive and/or graphic gender-based violence content in their work on the urgent assistance program. Vital Voices does not provide work visa sponsorship or relocation assistance for this position.   
  
Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.