Position: Outreach & Engagement Manager (FL)

Location: Remote, based in Florida

Start Date: Immediate

Reports to: Program Director Florida

This is a full-time role.

Essential Functions: The Outreach and Engagement Manager works in collaboration with the Florida Director and national staff in a multifaceted role. Primary functions include the development, management and implementation of Common Cause Florida’s digital organizing and community and member engagement strategies. This position offers a significant opportunity to expand the reach and influence of the organization.

Responsibilities:

Program Leadership

●      Collaborate with the Director to develop and execute strategies aimed at advancing a more inclusive, representative, open, and accountable democracy.

●      Assist in the development and implementation of campaigns to advance and win reforms.

●      Represent Common Cause Florida coalition meetings, speaking to community groups, and other forums for increasing grassroots activism.

Community and Member Engagement

●      Develop and implement outreach to members, supporters and partners, to build their connection to Common Cause and provide the tools they need to take action and stand up for our democracy.

●      Support implementation of the Florida Election Protection program for the 2024 cycle, including recruitment and training of volunteers.

●      Represent Common Cause Florida in civic education and outreach activities.

●      Conduct member and community events and meetings.

●      Assist in developing materials (factsheets, blogs, emails, graphics, etc.) to inform and educate our members and the public.

●      Stay abreast of legislative and organizational developments across constituencies (i.e., know what’s going on across the issues we care about and know which ones are most important to historically disenfranchised communities in Florida).

Digital Organizing

●      Working with the Director, develop, implement, and manage the organization’s digital organizing, website and social media approach.

●      Ensure that all social media channels remain responsive, collaborative, and engaging.

●      Create original content for social media platforms (including original text, images, and video) that garners high engagement and represents the voice of Common Cause.

●      Propose, draft, edit, and send high-quality emails to Common Cause Florida’s 45,000+ online supporters to engage members, raise money, and build grassroots power.

●      Publish, edit, and update website pages and blog posts, ensuring the website content is accurate and up to date.

●      Successfully execute live streaming events on social media (e.g., Facebook Live, Instagram, LinkedIn Live).

●      Identify and engage in trending topics and social media moments relevant to our mission with the goal of reaching new audiences and being a part of the conversation.

●      Identify high-impact opportunities to increase the visibility of Common Cause, our programs and campaigns, and our advocacy work.

●      Create toolkits to make it easy for internal and external stakeholders to amplify content.

●      Evaluate new media channels and establish a presence on any deemed worthy.

●      Work with the national digital team to send action alerts, membership updates, and fundraising appeals to our members and supporters.

Qualifications:

Education and Technical Skills

●      Three to five years of relevant experience.

●      Bachelor’s degree OR equivalent combination of education and experience. Preferably in public policy, journalism, marketing, or another related field.

●      Hands-on knowledge using social media platforms in a professional setting and the ability to identify and deploy new platforms as needed.

●      Experience working in or demonstrated ability to understand WordPress and other digital tools.

●      Ability to design simple graphics (with Illustrator, Canva, Adobe Spark).

●      Demonstrated ability for clear, concise, and persuasive writing.

General Competencies

●      Demonstrated dedication to Common Cause’s mission of upholding the core values of democracy both nationally and in Florida.

●      Strong organizational skills and a demonstrated ability to meet deadlines, manage competing priorities, and work independently as part of a team.

●      Flexible, detail-oriented, and able to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple competing priorities.

●      Must maintain a high level of professionalism, honesty, and reliability.

●      Experience working with many kinds of people and a working knowledge of the dynamics of power, privilege, and bias.

●      Vision, creativity, enthusiasm, and excellent interpersonal skills.

●      Able to work a flexible schedule with evening and some weekend availability.

Preferred Qualifications

●      Ability to read, write and speak Spanish is strongly preferred, but not required.

●      Familiarity with Florida state and local politics and government a plus.

Salary Range: $57,000-$64,000

Classification: This position is included in a union-represented collective bargaining unit and specific employment terms and conditions are subject to collective bargaining negotiations. 

To Apply: Please submit resume and cover letter to hr@commoncause.org and include Outreach & Engagement Manager (FL) in the subject line. Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

Covid-19 vaccines are required, except where prohibited by law. Reasonable accommodations will be provided when required by law.

Common Cause is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants of any race, creed, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, income class, political affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status, or marital status, as well as applicants who have been previously incarcerated.

About Common Cause

Common Cause (501(c)(4)) and Common Cause Education Fund (501(c)(3)) are nonpartisan, nonprofit grassroots affiliate organizations dedicated to upholding the core values of American democracy. We work to create open, honest, and accountable government that serves the public interest; promote equal rights, opportunity, and representation for all; and empower all people to make their voices heard in the political process.

Founded in 1970 and headquartered in Washington, DC, Common Cause has more than 1.5 million members (about the population of New Hampshire) and supporters living in every Congressional district in the United States, and offices in 30 states around the country.

Distinguished Lecturer – Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, Department of Anthropology, Gender Studies, and International Studies

Job ID

24813

Location

City College of New York

Full/Part Time

Full-Time

Regular/Temporary

Regular

FACULTY VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership’s Department of Anthropology, Gender Studies, and International Studies invites applications for two Distinguished Lecturer positions to begin at the start of the Spring 2023 or Fall 2023 semester.

Distinguished Lecturers are experienced practitioners, or teachers who hold full-time, non-tenure track position with a maximum appointment period of seven years, subject to annual reappointment. We seek candidates with knowledge and experience in the United States on some combination of the following: social movements; leadership for social change; community organizing; political economy; race, class, gender and sexuality, and disability.

These Distinguished Lecturer lines are made possible by a partnership between CCNY’s Colin Powell School and the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, with partial support for the positions provided by Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice, the recently launched CUNY institute focused on training and supporting early and mid-career social justice leaders nationally. The people hired will be based in the Department of Anthropology, Gender Studies, and International Studies of CCNY’s Colin Powell School. They will teach and participate in programming in that department. They will also play a role in the intellectual development and instruction of Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice. They will have the opportunity to contribute to the Colin Powell School’s Master in Public Administration Program, which has a distinct social justice focus, and the Distinguished Lecturers will have consortial appointments at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, which will include the opportunity to teach courses there.

We seek candidates who will be able to draw on their own ample professional experiences in order to teach courses and to mentor students as they develop their own professional goals and career paths. Candidates must have a commitment to teaching and mentoring a diverse student population. Expertise and background in social movements, social justice leadership, women’s and gender rights, racial justice, health justice, and/or climate justice are especially attractive.

About the Colin Powell School

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership is the division of social sciences at CCNY and is comprised of five academic departments: Anthropology, Gender Studies, and International Studies; Economics and Business; Political Science; Psychology; and Sociology. It is also home to all of the College’s leadership development and public service programs, alongside a range of dynamic interdisciplinary programs including International Relations, Mental Health Counseling, Public Service Management, Women’s Studies, and the Honors Program for Legal Studies. With almost 4,000 students, the Colin Powell School is CCNY’s largest student division, and it offers a wide variety of traditional and interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate degrees. The internationally recognized scholarship of the Colin Powell School’s diverse faculty addresses critical topics of societal concern from multiple intellectual perspectives. Our students constitute one of the most unique academic communities in the country. Intellectually curious and highly motivated, they come from broadly diverse national and ethnic backgrounds, united in the mission to improve the world they will inherit. Colin Powell School students serve in community clinics, international development projects, local advocacy organizations, and communities at home and abroad. They also matriculate at top law, business, and public affairs schools and pursue graduate degrees at highly ranked universities around the globe.

About the City College of New York

Since 1847, The City College of New York has provided a high-quality and affordable education to generations of New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. CCNY embraces its position at the forefront of social change. It is ranked #1 by the Harvard-based Opportunity Insights out of 369 selective public colleges in the United States on the overall mobility index. This measure reflects

CCNY is proudly committed to equity and inclusion and strongly values the experiences of historically marginalized people and encourages them to apply. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

COMPENSATION

both access and outcomes, representing the likelihood that a student at CCNY can move up two or more income quintiles. In addition, the Center for World University Rankings places CCNY in the top 1.8% of universities worldwide in terms of academic excellence. Labor analytics firm Emsi puts at $1.9 billion CCNY’s annual economic impact on the regional economy (5 boroughs and 5 adjacent counties) and quantifies the “for dollar” return on investment to students, taxpayers and society. At City College, more than 16,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in eight schools and divisions, driven by significant funded research, creativity and scholarship.

CCNY is as diverse, dynamic and visionary as New York City itself.About Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice is a new CUNY institute designed to support a diverse cohort of leaders from the communities at the forefront of social justice movements, who can build collective power that can be wielded anywhere, from the streets to the halls of Congress.

Existing models of leadership in social justice are often tied to one theory of change or a single community of practice, whether that’s street protests, workplace organizing, or lobbying on Capitol

Hill. But a new generation of leaders needs to fight for power across movements and from outside and inside existing institutions. These leaders want to fundamentally understand power: how to

build it, how to use it, and how to share it with our communities. Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice is an initiative of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at City

College of New York and the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. The institute helps early and mid-career leaders in social justice movements build power across disciplines and with the

communities that are at the forefront of social change.

About the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies The CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, established in 2018, is explicitly dedicated to public service and social justice. Offering the only interdisciplinary curriculum in labor and urban studies in the nation, SLU awards undergraduate and graduate degrees in those fields, as well as credit-bearing professional certificates in areas such as public administration, public policy, health care administration, and labor relations. SLU also collaborates with New York City’s labor unions and other CUNY schools to offer a broad range of college-credit programs designed to give workers the academic and technical skills they need for professional advancement and economic mobility.

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree and a record of achievement in a profession or field of expertise related to teaching assignments. Also required is the ability to cooperate with others for the good of the institution.

Prominent and promising scholars as well as practitioners from social justice or labor movements are invited to apply.

Candidates for the title of Distinguished Lecturer must preferably demonstrate the following characteristics:

• Experience in and commitment to the social justice leadership and movement building in the United States;

• An outstanding record of achievement in the applicant's field of expertise;

• Commitment to working with CCNY and SLU faculty and staff

Candidates will be required to provide proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 upon commencing employment. Exemption (medical or religious) requests to this requirement will be considered in accordance with applicable law. Being fully vaccinated is defined for this purpose as being at least two weeks past their final dose of an authorized COVID-19 vaccine regimen. Final candidates must be fully vaccinated as of their first day of employment. Until further notice, this is a hybrid position, eligible to work remotely and work in the office.

COMPENSATION

CUNY offers faculty a competitive compensation and benefits package covering health insurance, pension and retirement benefits, paid parental leave, and savings programs. We also provide mentoring and support for research, scholarship, and publication as part of our commitment to ongoing faculty professional development.

HOW TO APPLY

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CLOSING DATE

Open until filled, with review of applications to begin September 15, 2022.

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CUNY encourages people with disabilities, minorities, veterans and women to apply. At CUNY, Italian Americans are also included among our protected groups. Applicants and employees will not be discriminated against on the basis of any legally protected category, including sexual orientation or gender identity. EEO/AA/Vet/Disability Employer.