Description
How to Apply
Please use the ADP portal, linked here, to submit your resume, a cover letter outlining your strategic approach to this role, and three work samples:
- A digital acquisition or mobilization campaign plan - ad or influencer campaign, social strategy, or email/SMS plan that drove recruitment and/or volunteer or donor action
- Original design work — graphics, toolkits, or collateral you made yourself
- A writing sample — a narrative strategy memo (1-3 pages), messaging guide (2-5 pages), or long-form email (1-2 pages)
Applications without required work samples will not be considered.
This position is open until filled. Priority will be given to applications received by July 8.
Narrative & Communications Associate Director // Digital Organizing and Communications Strategist
Shared Position -- Center for Empowered Politics (Education Fund) & Seed the Vote
About the Center for Empowered Politics (CEP) and CEP Education Fund
The Center for Empowered Politics and its sister organization, the Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund, are practitioner-led movement capacity organizations. We support our fiscally-sponsored projects and broader movement ecosystem by training and developing leaders of color to grow their power-building and co-governing infrastructure.
The CEP/EF communications team weaves narrative and organizing strategy together across our network — providing deep accompaniment, focused technical assistance, and peer connection so that movement organizations build and effectively use lasting narrative infrastructure.
About Seed the Vote
Seed the Vote is a grassroots, social justice organization mobilizing volunteers to defeat right-wing politics by supporting the electoral work of grassroots organizations in battleground states. We are dedicated to building the long-term power of working-class communities and communities of color. Seed the Vote recruits, trains, and supports volunteers to door knock with local partners in critical swing states.
Digital organizing and communications are a major way we find, inspire, and move people into action. In election years especially, the stakes are high and the pace is fast; digital is central to our electoral impact.
Note: Seed the Vote may also have temporary (time-limited) digital organizing and comms roles for the fall of 2026.
About the Role
The Center for Empowered Politics (Education Fund) and Seed the Vote have partnered to host a dynamic shared senior position for a strategic, resourceful communicator and organizer who thrives in both fast-moving electoral environments and longer-horizon capacity-building and organizational communications work.
In election years, the majority of this person's time is at Seed the Vote leading digital volunteer mobilization, supporting grassroots fundraising, and driving digital acquisition of new supporters (title at Seed the Vote is Digital Organizing and Communications Strategist).
In off-years, the balance shifts to Center for Empowered Politics (Education Fund), leading organizational communications and supporting network partners (title at Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund is Narrative & Communications Associate Director).
Core Responsibilities
Shared Across Both Organizations
- Translate complex electoral, organizing, and network capacity-building work into compelling narratives rooted in racial and economic justice and progressive values
- Produce and steward powerful content across email, social, web, press materials, and toolkits — including copywriting, graphic design, and video editing
- Ensure quality and narrative alignment across all communications materials; manage consultants and vendors for specialized needs
At Seed the Vote
50–100% in presidential and midterm election years; 15–20% in off-years
- Execute digital acquisition of new supporters, digital volunteer recruitment, and communications strategy across email, SMS, organic and paid social, and web – supporting clear pathways from first contact to active engagement
- Support grassroots fundraising campaigns
- Manage channel analytics and campaign infrastructure to track performance and strengthen outcomes over time
- Work closely with the Organizing, Field, and Fundraising teams as well as the Digital Organizing and Communications Director to integrate digital strategy with the overall organizing ladder and on-the-ground needs
- Manage a team of super volunteers and possible additional staff through coaching, clear delegation, and accountability structures
At Center for Empowered Politics (Education Fund)
80–85% in off-years; up to 50% in election years
- Lead and inform strategic organizational and network-wide communications across programs and initiatives for a range of audiences – funders, movement allies, and network partners
- Build and maintain organizational communications infrastructure – including CRM setup and management across programs (email templates, tagging, editorial calendaring as needed), a writing and content directory, and branded materials oversight – as part of strategic communications planning across the organization
- Support documentation of CEP(EF)’s research and movement learning work – including direct engagement with source material through convenings, interviews, and field spaces, and serving as a communications thought partner from the earliest stages of research design – and lead post-production and distribution strategy to ensure learnings reach the right audiences effectively
- Work closely with the Development and Research & Learning teams as well as program teams to integrate narrative and communications within organizational programs and strategies
- Provide communications and digital organizing coaching, technical assistance, and training to network partner organizations primarily organizing in working-class communities of color
- Design and facilitate peer learning circles, cohorts, and training spaces that build field-wide narrative, communications, and digital organizing praxis and capacity
How to Apply
Please use the ADP portal, linked here, to submit your resume, a cover letter outlining your strategic approach to this role, and three work samples:
- A digital acquisition or mobilization campaign plan - ad or influencer campaign, social strategy, or email/SMS plan that drove recruitment and/or volunteer or donor action
- Original design work — graphics, toolkits, or collateral you made yourself
- A writing sample — a narrative strategy memo (1-3 pages), messaging guide (2-5 pages), or long-form email (1-2 pages)
Applications without required work samples will not be considered.
This position is open until filled. Priority will be given to applications received by July 8.
Requirements
Who You Are
- An organizer at heart who uses communications and digital strategy to move people to action
- A strategic architect who can shift fluidly between high-level narrative strategy and the details of a single email or the needs of a partner organization
- A people-centered leader who manages through coaching, builds trust, and grows the people around them
- A compelling storyteller with message discipline, editorial range, and an ability to amplify community voices and articulate program impact authentically
- A skilled facilitator who sees opportunities and creates conditions for peer learning, collective sense-making, and capacity-building across a network
- A network-minded practitioner who thrives in a fractional, multi-organizational context - able to zoom out to the health and strategy of the broader ecosystem while still delivering excellent tactical work across multiple organizational homes
- A mission-driven collaborator deeply committed to social, racial, and economic justice and to building power for working-class communities and communities of color
Qualifications
Required
- 5+ years of progressive digital organizing and strategic communications experience, with at least 3 years in a senior role managing staff and strategy
- Proven track record in high-impact email and organic social strategy across electoral, advocacy, or base-building contexts
- Fluency in both electoral campaign environments and movement/advocacy communications
- Experience building and leading narrative strategy, including facilitating tools and frameworks with partners
- Strong writing, editing, and message discipline across audiences and formats -- including email writing for volunteer mobilization and fundraising
- Strong graphic design skills, with demonstrated ability to produce compelling collateral independently (Canva, Adobe Suite)
- Proficiency with CRMs and web analytics, with preference for experience in Solidarity Tech, Action Network, and/or EveryAction
- Strong project management skills; able to prioritize across multiple workstreams with high attention to detail
- Self-motivated, proactive communicator with sound judgment and high emotional intelligence
- Demonstrated experience working in close partnership with working-class BIPOC leaders and grassroots organizations rooted in working-class communities of color
- Experience advancing some or all of the following strategies: building broad coalitions across political perspectives, volunteer-led organizing, and face-to-face persuasion and mobilization conversations
- Committed to both blocking anti-democracy agendas and building progressive power for long-term change
Preferred
- Experience facilitating peer learning cohorts, training spaces, or adult learning programs
- Experience with distributed organizing and volunteer-led campaigns
- Existing relationships with political and movement media
- Experience engaging influencers and content creators
- Proven track record managing staff, volunteers, and contractors with excellent delegation, clear accountability structures, and a coaching orientation
- Experience as a staff member or embedded practitioner within grassroots, power-building organizations rooted in working-class communities of color
Physical Demands
- Able to work on a computer, including sitting at a desk, for extended periods of time with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Manual dexterity to operate a keyboard and other technology.
- Able to see or read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids.
- Able to speak clearly and in audible tones on the phone and in person and to be understood by others.
- Able to hear and understand speech at typical levels in person and over the telephone.
- Able to understand and follow oral and written instructions.
Logistics, Compensation & Benefits
- Location: This is a remote position. Center for Empowered Politics (Education Fund) and Seed the Vote have offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, but the employee can live anywhere in the United States.
- Schedule: This is a full-time exempt position.
- Compensation: The salary range for this position is $90,000-$105,000 annually, commensurate with experience. We provide a competitive benefits package including health insurance (medical, dental, vision), paid time off, and paid holidays.
- Travel: Willingness and ability to travel occasionally (approx. 3-5 times per year to the Bay Areas + 2-3 times to other regions) for events, staff gatherings, or field work (e.g. participating in and documenting canvass programs with STV).
