​Want to lead social media, SMS, and digital strategy for progressive candidates and organizations? Social media management and broadcast messaging are both growing and in-demand fields in the world of progressive politics. This job is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor with a growing team at Middle Seat and take the lead in running client social media & texting programs. We’re looking for self-starters who love to write, raise money online, design graphics, and follow the news of the day.

NOTE: This is a temporary, full-time position on our team starting mid June 2024 (or after) and ending mid December 2024.

Why Middle Seat

• Competitive salaries and great benefits
• We only work for progressive organizations, candidates, and causes
• We’re a proudly unionized team — part of the Campaign Workers Guild
• Get in on the ground floor of a growing operation

Job Responsibilities

• Managing and maintaining social media accounts and broadcast messaging programs for 3-5 clients.
• Contribute to follower growth, fundraising, and list building on social media.
• Posting on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and other client social media platforms.
• Maintaining a robust cadence of social media posting that is responsive to breaking news and other major moments.
• Maintaining a consistent posting cadence and schedule for each platform.
• Creating graphics and short-form videos for social media posts.
• Researching issues relevant to our clients in order to identify salient topics and content for social media posts and graphics.
• Remaining plugged in to political news and overall trends in progressive politics and social media.
• Managing and interfacing with clients directly (potentially including Members of Congress and candidates for federal office).
• Pulling, compiling, analyzing, and synthesizing social media and texting performance metrics into reports and presenting to clients.
• Draft copy for fundraising and mobilization through SMS.
• Manage texting production and develop other assets, such as mobile flows, landing pages, donation pages, and more.
• Propose ideas for testing, segmentation, and optimization.
• Develop and implement list growth strategy from start to finish, including managing acquisition buys for phone numbers and budgeting campaigns.
• Assist in project management of P2P texting campaigns as needed.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.