Digital Platforms Manager

Wagner Foundation; Cambridge (MA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Wagner Foundation in Cambridge, MA seeks a Digital Platforms Manager to elevate grantee voices, amplify our thought leadership, and advance our communications strategy across owned channels. You will craft engaging copy, tell compelling stories, build a community on social media, and ensure a consistent brand across digital platforms while collaborating with a small team.

The role involves coordinating with the Deputy Director and Director of Communications, travel, and contributing to social

Qualifications

• Experience creating social media campaigns and content.
• Ability to maintain a consistent brand across digital platforms.
• Collaborate with team and external partners to deliver campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage an online community on social media.
• Create engaging content and copy for digital channels.
• Coordinate with consultants and freelancers to support campaigns.
• Collaborate with the Deputy Director and Director of Communications.
• Support travel as needed for outreach and events.

Skills

Copywriting

Storytelling

Social media

Brand management

Strategic thinking

Collaboration

Job description

The Digital Platforms Manager is a new position for the Foundation. Serving as a pivotal figure in raising visibility of grantee partners and amplifying our Foundation’s voice and thought leadership, the Digital Platforms Manager will be a key disseminator of our communications strategy.

This individual will be a creative thinker, skilled copy writer and storyteller, will be
responsible for building community on social media, and will maintain a consistent brand on our digital platforms. The Digital Platforms Manager will coordinate with a small team of consultants and freelancers to further support the strategic execution of select projects and will work in direct collaboration with the Deputy Director, the Director of Communications, Program Officers, and other Foundation team members.

The successful candidate will have a keen understanding of the relationship between owned and earned media channels with expertise in leveraging owned digital channels. The role requires experience developing social media campaigns and the ability to leverage its capabilities to deliver on our communications goals. The ideal candidate is a holistic, strategic, creative thinker with a commitment to confronting issues of social justice.

Reporting to the Director of Communications, this position is based in Cambridge, MA and requires some domestic and international travel. Our team values and believes in the power of in-person collaboration and we currently operate under a hybrid work model, working 8:00AM5:00PM Tuesday – Thursday in the office and Monday and Friday remotely. This hybrid model is subject to change

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with priority given to those submitted by September 30, 2024.