Content Director

Location: Arlington, Virginia
Job Category: Online | New Media
Job ID: 11882
Employment Type: Full time
Salary: per year
Posted: 10.14.2024

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Job Description:

Overview

 

Campaigns & Elections (C&E) is the journal for the political campaign industry. C&E publishes exclusively online, through its flagship website (www.campaignsandelections.com) and email newsletters. C&E also produces the campaign industry’s leading B2B conferences and award shows. 

 

Your job will be to ensure Campaigns & Elections produces best-in-class content for its audience of political campaign professionals across C&E’s various publications, events and social media channels.

 

Your Responsibilities

 

Editorial Content Creation

 

• Create editorial plans for the Campaigns & Elections website and its associated newsletter.

• Write editorial content and commission content from others.

• Manage the production of C&E industry reports.

• Conduct interviews and host webinars and videos with industry experts.

 

Social Content Creation

 

• Create a video-first social media content plan to support C&E’s editorial and broader content output.

• Managing the creation of all social media content required to support that social media plan.

 

Event Planning & Participation

 

• Assist C&E’s Director of Events by suggesting speakers and session topics as needed.

• You will travel to C&E’s conferences, moderate sessions and write copy covering the event.

Job Requirements:

Our Expectations

 

• You are excellent at writing sharp editorial copy.

• You are highly organized and manage your time exceptionally well.

• Exceptional communication skills. Great verbal, listening and persuasion skills. You are the kind of person who can make connections wherever you are.

• You are a doer, someone who gets involved and makes things happen. You seek out opportunities to work with other people to deliver specific objectives. 

• Work collaboratively with colleagues to support the achievement of team and broader organizational goals.

 

Skills & Experience

 

• At least two years copywriting experience, preferably with a journalistic background.

• An experienced social media content producer with an emphasis on data visualization and/or video.

• Exceptional design skills and the ability to turn around design work quickly.

• Experience with the following professional tools:

  • Wordpress

  • HubSpot

  • Canva

 

Benefits

 

• Full medical and dental - Premiums are 100% covered by C&E

• Unlimited leave policy - and not one of those policies where they say ‘unlimited’ but means ‘never take time off’. We want you to take time off so you can bring your best self to your work, whether its a vacation or logging off early to get to your kid’s soccer game.)

• 401k with employer match - it’s never too early to start saving!

• $75 monthly phone reimbursement

• Laptop for work use

To Apply
Send your resume to: Shane Greer at sgreer@campaignsandelections.com