Director of Email and SMS Campaigns

Everytown; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Paid time off

401K match

Education assistance

Job summary

Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund seeks a Director of Email and SMS Campaigns to lead a team of digital campaigners, shaping strategy for state and national campaigns while engaging supporters through email and SMS. This leadership role demands energy, entrepreneurial spirit, and a drive to grow the team’s skills in a fast-moving movement.

The position is full-time with a hybrid schedule based in New York City or Washington, D.C., offering a salary of $115,000 to $125,000 annually plus

Qualifications

• 4+ years of digital advocacy or digital organizing work.
• 1+ year of management experience.
• Excellent planning skills across multiple teams and tight deadlines.
• Experience leading national campaigns and increasing digital engagement.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a team of digital campaigners managing national and regional email and SMS campaigns.
• Coach team on digital strategy, project management, and communications.
• Lead weekly team meetings to plan campaign strategy, messaging, and processes.
• Provide feedback to organizational leaders to improve campaign planning and internal processes.
• Monitor and report on big-picture email and SMS performance and recommend optimizations.
• Collaborate with leaders from other departments to set ambitious engagement goals and strategies.
• Partner with Data and Field teams to create integrated user journeys and segmentation strategies.

Job description

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Director of Email and SMS Campaigns

Full-Time Reg New York, NY, US

10 days ago Requisition ID: 1095

Salary Range: $115,000.00 To $125,000.00 Annually

Everytown for Gun Safety, the nation’s largest gun violence prevention advocacy group, is seeking a Director of Email and SMS Campaigns. We are looking for a skilled people-leader, technologist, and strategist to assist with the growing grassroots movement to prevent gun violence.

This person will manage a team of digital campaigners who provide strategy and execution for the organization’s state and national campaigns, using email and broadcast SMS to engage our supporters online and offline. This Director should be energetic, entrepreneurial, and ready to grow the team’s digital campaign skills while helping the fight to end gun violence in this country.

This is a full-time position with Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, based in ourNew York City or Washington, D.C. office and following a hybrid work schedule.

SCOPE OF WORK

The Director of Email and SMS Campaigns will lead Everytown’s email and SMS campaign strategy, overseeing a team of digital campaigners and working across the organization to strengthen supporter engagement. The Director will help ensure state and national campaigns are strategic, coordinated, and responsive to the needs of the organization and the movement.

WE TRUST YOU TO

Oversee a team of digital campaigners who manage all regional and national email and SMS campaigns.

Through regular check-ins and coaching, grow direct reports’ digital strategy, project management, people management, and communication skills.

Lead a weekly team meeting where direct reports collaborate on campaign strategy, messaging, and team process projects.

Based on team needs, provide solutions-oriented feedback to organizational leaders on how to improve campaign planning and other internal processes.

Monitor and report out on big-picture email and SMS campaign performance, recommending optimizations consistently.

Collaborate with leadership of other departments to develop ambitious goals and creative strategies for engagement and supporter-centric campaigns.

Lead cross-department coordination with Support Growth and Cultivation, including identifying opportunities for increased collaboration.

Maintain a culture of learning, experimentation, and iteration across all our channels. Seek out new practices and learnings from others both within and outside the organization to share with the team.

Act in a leadership role in partnering with the Data and Field teams to create integrated user journeys and segmentation strategies.

Leverage lapsed data to identify ways to grow our movement and re-engage supporters.

Coordinate the creation and dissemination of digital content (websites, email, online actions, videos, social and multimedia content) for priority campaigns and mobilizations.

Bring flexibility and responsiveness to urgent, time-sensitive moments; this role will occasionally require work outside of standard hours to support rapid-response needs.

YOU WILL HAVE

4+ years of digital advocacy or digital organizing work for political campaigns or non-profit groups.

1+ year(s) of management experience.

Excellent planning skills with the ability to work across multiple teams and campaigns under tight deadlines.

Experience leading national campaigns and a track record of successfully increasing digital engagement.

Deep commitment to testing, reporting, and analyzing results.

Ability to communicate on complex policy in an inclusive and digestible way.

The annual salary range for this role is $115,000 to $125,000 per year, depending on experience. Everytown offers a generous package including medical, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, 401K Match, Education Assistance and more.

ABOUT EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY

Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund (“Everytown for Gun Safety”) is the largest gun violence prevention organization in the nation with nearly ten million supporters, including parents, students, survivors, educators, gun owners, and Americans fighting for common sense gun safety. Through victories in Congress, statehouses, corporate America, the courts, and town halls across the country, Everytown is helping change how Americans think about this public health threat. At the core of Everytown is Moms Demand Action, a grassroots movement of American mothers founded the day after the Sandy Hook tragedy, and Students Demand Action. Learn more at everytown.org and follow us @Everytown.

Everytown for Gun Safety provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

Candidates who identify as members of historically underrepresented groups are highly encouraged to apply. A diverse workforce and open culture are at the heart of our organization and vital to our success.