Common Cause

Communications

• Support our strategic use of social media across the organization
• Monitor trends and opportunities across social media platforms to identify opportunities for our organization to gain visibility on our key policy issues
• Draft communication content (e.g. talking points) for staff to use to amplify our work
• Stay up to date on how to best use our current social media platforms to maximize our audience reach
• Coordinate our process to track media hits and maintain weekly analytics on earned and owned media
• Maintain process to send our organization’s media clips each morning
• Maintain systems to ensure accurate data for all required metrics, and draft data summaries to share progress with key stakeholders
• Draft scripts for, produce, and edit videos to promote our work; including selfie-videos, short-form videos (up to two minutes), and long-form videos (up to five minutes)
• Draft, and post blogs that promote our work and our policy expertise
• Draft social media posts in alignment with our overall communication team strategy
• Create graphics and motion graphics that are aligned with our branding
• As needed, draft and edit additional media materials, including press releases, media advisories, statements, op-eds, letters to the editor, etc.
• As needed, support other key communication work (for example: editing Instagram Lives, technical support with Zoom events, etc.)
• Complete administrative tasks as needed
• Perform other duties as assigned

Communications Associate – Temporary

Director

• Set the strategic direction for and advance our California and national policy agenda
• Manage all aspects of the legislative process for Common Cause in California
• Act as the team’s primary representative in meetings with elected leaders, legislative leaders, and other critical stakeholders
• Build relationships with key legislative staff at the state capitol to help advance our policy agenda
• Collaborate with program staff to leverage their subject matter expertise to support our advocacy efforts
• Drive legislative advocacy campaigns and lead coalition meetings
• Write op-eds, research reports, legislative factsheets, policy briefs, and memos
• Support fundraising efforts by engaging with key donors and funding organizations
• Complete administrative tasks as required

Legislative Director

Manager

• Lead work to build people-power across states: recruit, train, and sustain a diverse base of volunteers and members, and develop their capacity for independent leadership and action
• Proactively build and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including community leaders, partners, policymakers, and others
• Represent Common Cause in coalition spaces, including leading coalitions
• Develop strategic plans to leverage existing organizing strengths and tactics, and implement new approaches that support a focus on collective, in-person organizing
• Lead key components of the national organizing strategy, including leadership development, base-building and relational organizing, partnerships and coalitions, strategic actions, and program evaluation
• Provide guidance and informal mentorship to interns, volunteers, and team members, coordinating their work to support team goals
• Analyze challenges with, and evaluate the effectiveness and impact of, our state-level organizing to propose actionable and strategic solutions to senior leadership
• Provide customized support plans, coaching, and technical assistance to state teams and organizers
• Create support plans that can be scaled across teams
• Develop an organizing curricula (including toolkits and resources) to be used across our organization
• Develop and facilitate peer learning and collaboration across states, making judgments on best practices and knowledge-sharing opportunities
• Other duties as assigned

Senior Manager, Organizing

Program Manager

• Track state and local policy developments and analyze impacts on Georgia communities
• Lead and implement state programmatic efforts and statewide advocacy campaigns in collaboration with the Policy Director
• Support coalition work: manage working/project groups, conduct research, organize meetings, coordinate actions, ensure communication
• Oversee the election protection program and coordinate outreach to safeguard voting rights and the electoral process
• Lead policy research and analysis; identify policy proposal opportunities; draft, edit, and disseminate policy briefs, reports, and advocacy materials
• Lead systems monitoring, toolkit production, trend tracking, and quantitative research
• Monitor state and local legislative developments, track bills, and provide strategic guidance; execute lobbying efforts, testimony, and public comment
• Lead data-informed projects, research design, publications, and prepare/submit FOIA and government records requests
• Build and maintain relationships with community organizations and partners; execute outreach campaigns and coordinate digital/social media
• Represent Common Cause at community events and coalition meetings
• Supervise temporary staff and interns; recruit, train, coordinate, and mentor interns and volunteers
• Support fundraising: write grants, cultivate donor relationships, manage reporting; assist state advisory board administrative tasks
• Complete administrative tasks and perform other duties as assigned