Content Creator
Remote
Full Time
UUSC
Mid Level
Job Title: Content Creator
Department: Programs, Advocacy, and Action (PAA)
Reports to: Director of Strategic Communications
Level: Union position: Grade 6
FLSA Status: Exempt, Full-Time (35 hours/week)
Starting Salary Range: $75,000-82,500
Location: Boston/Cambridge, MA (some positions may be remote eligible)
Other Work Conditions
The organization requires all UUSC community members to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Our office in Cambridge, MA is regularly cleaned, and standard safety protocols are followed in accordance with public health authorities to prevent the spread of infectious disease.
Organization Overview
Guided by Unitarian Universalist principles and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UUSC is a human rights organization that strives to advance human rights, dismantle systems of oppression, and uplift the inherent dignity and power of all people. We focus our work in three intersectional areas of justice: Migrant Justice, Climate and Disaster Justice, and International Justice and Accountability. We center the voices and experiences of those most affected and strengthen those grassroots groups and movements who are organizing themselves to advance these goals. To accomplish this, we offer Justice Education and Leadership Development, Engagement and Mobilization for Advocacy, and Grantmaking and Partner Support.
Position Overview
The Content Creator will work collaboratively with the Strategic Communications unit and departments across the institution to produce timely and relevant content for UUSC’s website and social media platforms as well as external audiences such as the media, elected officials, and peer organizations in the human rights space. The writer will have a strong understanding of message development and branding to keep UUSC’s digital content up to date and engaging. The Content Creator will also ensure consistency across all digital platforms and coordinate several projects to ensure that UUSC’s core audiences are consistently delivered fresh, dynamic, informative, and influential content.
This position is remote eligible. Employees can be based in states that UUSC is registered with as a business. These jurisdictions currently include: MA, ME, CT, NY, VA, MD, NC, GA, FL, MN, WA, and Washington D.C.
Responsibilities
Media
- Responsible for writing and distributing press statements, opinion editorials, and media advisories.
- Draft quotes, statements, and opinion pieces on behalf of UUSC leadership.
Digital
- Collaborate with Digital Strategist to develop and implement a social media strategy and social media toolkits (Content Creator will develop content; Digital Strategist will post content and ensure that it is optimized for social media platforms).
- Serve as primary content generator for website; assess content strengths and areas of growth; develop dynamic content and assist Strategic Communications Unit in developing new and engaging content strategies.
- Collaborate with Digital Strategist to ensure that content on website—blogs, statements, landing pages, partner profiles, and other written materials—is up-to-date, informative, and engaging.
- Generate content for e-actions and ensure that e-actions are timely and regularly shared on social media.
- Work with Impact Storyteller to produce blogs, social media, and other communications deliverables that share partner work and impact.
- Collaborate with Partner Support and Grantmaking Unit to ensure that critical narratives are pulled from partner reports and meeting notes and translated into dynamic content; interface with Development and Research staff to ensure the transmission of content and narratives for their respective purposes.
Messaging/Brand
- Assist Communications Director and collaborate with Impact Storyteller to develop message narratives, arcs, and talking points for institutional bodies of work, sharing in management of related projects.
- Use messaging narratives, arcs, and talking points in support of the creation of engaging content such as videos, one-pagers, graphics, etc. in collaboration with other communications staff members and consultants.
- Collaborate with Justice Education Unit to develop and deploy faith-based educational materials for webinars, workshops, toolkits, and other projects.
- Collaborate with Advocacy Unit to develop advocacy materials, how-to guides, and other content to “upskill” UU base in the areas of activism and advocacy.
- Produce informational one-pagers on topical issues.
- Develop accessible messaging for UUSC’s theory of transformation, vision, global solidarity priorities, and other high-level institutional concepts.
- Strong commitment to human rights and social justice
- Understanding of intersections among human rights and social justice and ability to tie these issues together into cohesive narratives
- At least 5 years of demonstrated relevant content creation experience in the form of writing blogs, press statements, opinion pieces, social media toolkits, communications plans, newsletters and other communications materials
- Demonstrated experience working with communities facing oppression (BIPOC, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, etc.)
- Excellent writing and other communications skills in English
- Ability to solve problems, think critically, and make sound decisions
- Ability to work across departments to meet multiple institutional demands
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent lived experience required
- Master’s degree preferred
- Preferred strong analysis of intersectional oppressions
UUSC offers a highly competitive benefits package including medical, dental, and life insurance, STD/LTD, 403(b) tax deferred annuity, retirement plan with 9% of salary contribution to pension plan after 1 year of service, FSA for medical and dependent care, 12 paid holidays, and generous paid time off, including starting with 20 vacation days per year and bonus holiday and summer break weeks.
Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunity
UUSC’s mission affirms and celebrates the inherent dignity and power of every person. We are committed to creating a diverse and talented team to achieve that mission. UUSC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the full inclusion of all. UUSC is deeply committed to ensuring that our organizational culture, policies, and employment practices embody equity and justice and comply with applicable employment laws.
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