The take-away
Ready to take on some of the most powerful forces in our society? We’re looking for a Senior Communications Organizer to join a fierce, smart team challenging global corporations, holding them accountable, and creating a world where all people can thrive.
Why you’ll love coming to work every day
You’ll help change the world by being part of fearless and winning campaigns. You’ll be joining an organization that’s not satisfied with the world as it is—and has a vision for how it should be. When your quest is ending corporate abuse, you can’t be afraid to name names and demand what the world needs. For more than 40 years, we’ve been exposing and challenging the abuses of the likes of Nestlé, Exxon Mobil, Philip Morris International, McDonald’s, and more. We don’t back down, and we run campaigns until we win.
You’ll work with awesome people. Join a team of passionate, kind, determined, optimistic, and solutions-oriented folks. We work hard, celebrate victories large and small, and always have each other’s backs.
You can take on big responsibilities as you go. You’ll thrive here as you develop new skills, tackle new challenges, learn, and grow. We pay lots of attention to building staff leadership, and we provide support and training to help you grow in your role.
You’ll be part of an organization committed to advancing racial equity and transforming systems of oppression. We are deeply committed to prioritizing the leadership of people who bear the brunt of corporate abuse: Black and Indigenous people and other people of color, women, low-income people, people in the Global South, and LGBTQ+ folks around the world. Our unique culture has been fostered by a long history of women at the helm. We are actively focusing on the leadership of our staff of color, knowing we are stronger when the organization reflects the vision of the world we’re building together.
What you’ll do
For more than four decades, Corporate Accountability has moved millions of people to challenge corporate power through hard-hitting campaigns that win victories for health, human rights, democracy, and the planet. Compelling communications, paired with strategic grassroots organizing, are at the core of what we do. They’re how we’ve won hearts and minds around the globe to build a world free of corporate abuse, as we’ve taken on the fossil fuel industry, water privatizers, Big Food, and Big Tobacco. And they’re key to building even more momentum.
That’s where you come in. We’re looking for someone to take our communications to the next level by creatively engaging members, activists, and allies in our campaigns and mission, with a focus on the digital space. That includes crafting and driving compelling copy and multimedia from start to finish to connect with people in their homes, on their phones, and out in the world through our email program, social media, our ally networks, and creative new channels. You will also provide project management and administrative support, bringing crucial capacity to our communications team.
Through it all, you’ll keep essential systems running to make sure we meet our deadlines, produce the best content possible, and build deep, meaningful relationships with all the people we need inside and outside the organization to keep making our impact in the world.
Who you are
The rampant abuses of corporations and the outrageous amount of power they have make you mad as hell—and you want to do something about it.
You have a commitment to advancing racial equity and ending systems of oppression, and are ready to do this in your day-to-day work. You understand that campaigning for justice must include working to dismantle white supremacy, institutional racism, legacies of colonialism, and anti-Blackness.
You’re a stellar writer. You know how to communicate stories and concepts clearly to move people to action, and you can nimbly adjust your voice and tone to meet different people where they’re at, whether that’s in a social post or caption, a long-form email or blog, through video, or over the phone. Your strong attention to detail ensures your copy is clean and nearly error-free every time, and that you adhere to established messaging and style guides. And you consistently seek and implement feedback to improve your craft as you go.
You’re a tenacious organizer. You know how to build relationships with integrity, leverage connections, and build power for global change with people from diverse backgrounds. And you know that any piece of communication is only as effective as the breadth of its reach, so you’re creative and fearless about picking up the phone, sending an email, or sliding into someone’s DMs to build partnerships that will get your work out in the world.
You have solid experience managing projects from start to finish, meeting tough deadlines, and managing both up and laterally to get what you need. You appreciate elegant and effective processes and are passionate about creating and implementing them. It goes without saying that you are highly organized.
You have experience with various digital communications tools and platforms, especially blast email and advocacy programs such as EveryAction and Action Network. You have managed social media programs and are familiar with analytics and monitoring, and know how to grow an audience.
Bonus: You have skills in video editing and/or graphic design and are excited to engage in visual storytelling. And/or: You are proficient in Spanish and can create compelling Spanish-language content.
You have 4 – 6 years of experience in nonprofit communications, grassroots organizing, or other relevant fields.
What you’ll be responsible for in the day-to-day
Craft compelling communications that move a variety of diverse audiences from the U.S. to the Global South, including members, activists, donors, government officials, policy experts, public health experts, and reporters. Materials include but are not limited to advocacy and fundraising emails and texts, blog posts and other web copy, social media content and amplification toolkits, phone bank raps and video scripts, and more.
Partner with our Digital Director to run our email, text and social media programs. You’ll craft, load, test, and send emails and texts that move members and supporters to take action, donate, and get involved in our campaigns. You’ll design and implement tactics to grow our social media audiences on platforms including but not limited to Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Bluesky, and YouTube. And you’ll track metrics and impact across channels to keep us ever-improving.
Project manage content creation from start to finish, including collaborating with people from across the organization to develop project plans and timelines; identify the most compelling content; draft tight copy; shepherd it through editing, reviewing, and proofreading; and organize to ensure your communications reach as many people as possible in the world.
Organize with like-minded organizations, advisers, journalists, media outlets and influencers to amplify the impact of our campaigns and build awareness for the organization and its mission across platforms. You’ll help build and coordinate cross-issue coalitions exposing and challenging corporate abuse and the corporate takeover of democracy, with a focus on the digital space.
Support our media team in securing media coverage for the organization, with a focus on non-traditional media. This may include, time allowing, activities as diverse as developing and implementing an influencer and/or podcast outreach strategy; running media-related trainings for staff and activists; lending capacity for traditional media pitching, outreach, and materials drafting in high-priority push moments; and conducting media monitoring.
Serve as an administrative anchor for the communications team. From capturing meeting notes and assigning tasks, to assisting with financial reporting and tracking, to scheduling team meetings, you will ensure the communications team is always on track to meet unit-specific and org-wide goals.
Actively participate in organization-wide planning, fundraising, racial equity work, recruitment, and campaign activities. You may travel up to four times annually for campaign events, conferences, or team planning meetings.
Salary and benefits:
Hours: Corporate Accountability’s full-time staff generally work 32 hours per week, with periods of more intensive work that correspond with the ebb and flow nature of campaigns or projects throughout the year.
Our core hours are 10 am – 4 pm on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with flexibility to determine your remaining hours of the week in coordination with your supervisor and team. Given the nature of campaigning, rapid response moments, and working with organizers and activists at an international organization, there will be instances when you will need to be available outside of standard business hours.
Benefits: Our comprehensive benefit package includes:
Health insurance (with 90% of the premium for all tiers covered by the organization) and dental coverage (with 100% of the individual premium covered by the organization); Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for transit, health care, and dependent care; voluntary life insurance; an employee assistance program; and 401(k) with employer match.
Generous time off policies including one month of personal vacation time, one week of office closure for collective rest, holidays, and unlimited wellness days to prioritize health.
$40/month home office stipend with $250 provided at the time of hire to go towards setting up a home office.
Both internal and external training and leadership development opportunities.
Salary: $65,000
Location:
Remote with the option to transition or utilize our Campaign Headquarters in downtown Boston, MA.
We are looking for great candidates from a wide range of backgrounds. If you don’t exactly fit the job description, but you know you have skills and experiences that are transferable to this position, please apply! Tell us about yourself and why you should be our next Senior Communications Organizer.
To apply: Visit www.corporateaccountability.org/employment-opportunities. Attach your résumé to the online application and include a cover letter. Additionally, we ask that you submit a writing sample as part of your application. Please upload one sample of no more than two pages that you feel best demonstrates your digital writing skills. This could be an advocacy or fundraising email, social media posts, a blog post, or the like. The sample can be from a previous position, freelance work, or even your personal activism. Importantly, the sample should be one for which you were the sole content creator- meaning no other humans or generative AI tools.
Please include where you heard about the position. Due to our current capacity to process applications, we will be responding on a rolling basis and therefore might take between 2 – 4 weeks to respond to your application.
Corporate Accountability stops transnational corporations from devastating democracy, perpetuating systemic racism, trampling human rights, and destroying our planet. We are building a world rooted in justice where corporations answer to people, not the other way around — a world where every person has access to clean water, healthy food, a safe place to live, and the opportunity to reach their full human potential.
Corporate Accountability is an equal opportunity employer and an inclusive organization. Black and Indigenous people and other people of color, women, nonbinary people, LGBTQ+ and disabled folks are strongly encouraged to apply. Join more than 60 smart and driven staff and interns working in this dynamic organization with a powerful network of members and allies around the world.
