(Career Progress) [JOB] Senior digital organizing role at M+R (~$86,500) [Updated listing]

Hi, I'm helping M+R find an Account Supervisor for their Digital Organizing practice area.  

M+R is a progressive consultancy that runs innovative and strategic online advocacy, digital organizing, and electoral campaigns that build grassroots power and create lasting change.

They exclusively work with progressive organizations (never candidate campaigns) and their clients are some of the biggest and most influential players in the progressive space -- groups like SEIU, Planned Parenthood, Fight for $15, and the League of Conservation Voters.

For this role, M+R is looking for someone with 7-8 years of relevant experience, including at least 5 years of organizing experience, to come up with and supervise the implementation of digital organizing campaigns in both advocacy and electoral contexts. This role will also play an important role in maintaining the client relationships.  

This role might be a good fit for someone with:

• A depth of organizing experience, including some experience organizing to build power outside of the context of a single campaign cycle, 
• A proven track record with building or running scaled organizing efforts (e.g. p2p texting, relational organizing, scaled phone banking, distributed organizing), and 
• A history of using digital tools (e.g. email, p2p or broadcast SMS, social, and digital ads) to make a real-world impact.

This role will be located in DC, NYC, Boston, Oakland or LA, and the salary range is ~$86.5k ($79k + bonus eligibility of ~$6.6k per year). In addition, this is a unionized role, represented by the Washington-Baltimore News Guild.

I've included the full job description (which was just updated this week) below my signature line. 

If you're interested or have any questions about the role, please feel free to reach out to me. 

If you want to apply, please do so directly at this link and mention you got this listing from me. 

Matt Lockshin

(he, his)

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Sent from Victoria, BC --  the ancestral, traditional and unceded territory of the Lekwungen speaking peoples, the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations.

We're looking for an Account Supervisor to join one of the best firms in the do-gooder business in our Digital Organizing Practice Area.

When you come work with us, here's what you'll find:

• Work that is meaningful. We only work with clients who are changing the world. And, we say no to clients if we don't believe in their cause or if we can't help them.
• Colleagues you can count on. Kind, dedicated, passionate people who bring the smarts, get things done, and help you to do your best, too.

So that's us. Now about the work:

• We run innovative and strategic online advocacy, digital organizing, and electoral campaigns that build grassroots power and create lasting change. We work with progressive groups working on everything from economic justice to climate change to global poverty – think Planned Parenthood, NRDC, big national unions, healthcare advocacy groups, and more. Our electoral work exclusively focuses on outside organizations, not candidate campaigns, because our goal is not just to win an election but to build long-term organizing infrastructure that can hold people in power accountable.
• Day-to-day, we're figuring out how to win elections, drive the narrative, influence policy, hold corporations and politicians accountable, recruit activists, make the most of news moments, and leave no idea unconsidered that might build power. We have a particular focus on developing new models to mobilize infrequent voters of color. We use every tool and tactic in the book, from social media to digital ads to broadcast and 1:1 SMS to virtual phone banks and relational organizing, integrating as tightly as possible with on-the-ground organizing and media advocacy.

Here's what you'll be doing in this role:

• Work with clients and colleagues to help conceive winning issue and voter turnout campaigns.
• Develop strategies to best apply pressure to your campaign targets and that complement what's happening in the press and in the field.
• Maintain the client relationship by staying in close contact with clients throughout the day via email and phone, leading weekly check-in calls, and presenting at big strategy meetings.
• Be accountable for our overall work with the client, making sure deliverables are moving the client to achieve their goals, and jumping in to project manage as needed, managing up and down as necessary to get the work done.
• Develop compelling action alerts, petitions, social media creative, microsites, video scripts, and shareable images.
• Oversee the many details involved in launching campaigns using your client's email and/or SMS tools, including pitching in with set up when things are busy.
• Distill email, web, advertising, and social campaign data into the important lessons that could change how a campaign performs.
• Assign and review the work of junior staff on each client team, providing feedback, coaching, and guidance.
• Devise new systems for our team to share knowledge, create new things, and grow as campaigners.
• Drive conversations and processes that help build inclusive spaces within your teams and across M+R.
• Do your part to help us run smoothly - including carefully tracking all of your client hours as well as pitching in with small office management responsibilities.

Skills and experiences required for this role:

• 7-8 years experience, including 5+ years of organizing experience (e.g. candidate electoral organizing, issue organizing, community organizing).
• Proven track record with building or running scaled organizing efforts (e.g. peer-to-peer texting, relational organizing, scaled phone banking, distributed organizing).
• Experience organizing to build long-term community power (not just cycle-style campaigns).
• Ability to take campaign goal(s) and develop plans with clear tactics and execution strategies.
• Experience developing and implementing digital strategies (e.g. email, peer-to-peer texting, broadcast SMS, social, advertising) that drive results online, in the field, and with the media.
• Substantial and nuanced understanding of power as it relates to political processes and systems in the United States.
• Ability to communicate persuasively in a way that articulates your ideas and conveys your expertise, whether on the phone, in-person, or in writing.
• Demonstrated ability to run meetings to identify project goals and ensure successful outcomes.
• Experience leading teams and supporting the professional development of more junior staff.
• Skills and experiences we expect of all M+R employees:
• Acute attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritize your time to meet deadlines for multiple projects.
• Strong ability to write clearly, concisely, and logically.
• Proven track record to successfully pick up new skills on the job, including learning new technologies.
• Successful experience working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Capability to tackle big projects by breaking them down into smaller pieces.
• Ability to see a problem and propose a solution.
• Drive to seek what can be improved and offer ways to fix any potential roadblocks.
• Understanding of how your words and actions affect others.
• Kindness and consideration for others.
• Experience bringing a lens of inclusivity to all of your interactions with colleagues.
• Passion for the role that your work plays in creating change in the world.
• Drive to work collaboratively - soliciting ideas, seeing each other's perspectives, and always doing what you say you will do.
• Comfort admitting what you don't know and recognizing that seeking and receiving feedback is part of the learning process.

Skills and experiences that are preferred, but not required:

• Have managed direct voter engagement and turnout campaigns (e.g. canvassing, voter registration, digital mobilization), especially of infrequent voters and/or groups that have been typically left out of the democratic process.
• Have successfully developed and/or overseen scaled volunteer programs (e.g. peer-to-peer texting, relational organizing, scaled phonebanking).
• Demonstrated familiarity with voter data systems and/or electoral tests.
• Have worked in an agency setting or at another consulting firm.
• Been directly involved in message testing or research.

Salary, benefits, and some perks:

• This is an exempt status, unionized position, represented by the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. The salary is $79,000 with eligibility for an approximate $6,600 year-end bonus depending on start date and firmwide performance. As part of M+R's commitment to compensation equity and transparency, we have a no negotiation policy. Salary negotiations can introduce bias and perpetuate wage inequality. Successful staff at M+R have regular opportunities for promotion with accompanying increases in compensation. We also offer a generous benefits package, plus some perks:

• Three week's vacation as well as paid sick and personal days;
• Generous health, dental, and vision benefits;
• 401(k) plan with quarterly employer contributions and an employer match;
• Professional development stipend;
• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical, dependent care, and transit;
• Regular brainstorms where we cook up our most creative ideas;
• All kinds of benefits depending on which office you're in (once we're back open!). Free lunch once a week. Snack breaks. Cold brew coffee on tap. Records and record players.
• While our physical offices are closed, we offer reimbursements for cell phones and internet, plus a small monthly working from home stipend to make your work-at-home life a bit more comfortable.

The Fine Print

Due to COVID, our offices will remain closed through Labor Day (September 6, 2021), and all staff will have the option to continue working from home through December 31, 2021. Our primary concern is the care and health of our employees, and we want to ensure our staff feel ready to return to the office. This position is not a permanent remote role and starting January 2022, will be located in any one of the following offices full-time:  

• 1101 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC
• 11 Park Place, New York, NY
• 262 Washington St, Boston, MA
• 1611 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA
• 1275 East 6th St, Los Angeles, CA

To apply, use the button on this page. No calls please.

Of course...
M+R is an equal opportunity employer and all applicants will be considered. As a firm we are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn and work together to change the world. M+R is strengthened by our staff's diversity, including race and ethnicity, social class, national origin, culture, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, language, and so much more. We strongly encourage folks from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.

About M+R
We are communicators, marketers, fundraisers, and campaigners who unleash the power of people to do good. We work exclusively with nonprofits fighting for a just and sustainable world.

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