Social Media Manager Remote · 3–5 hours/week · Ongoing

Healthful Stories; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Healthful Stories, a Seattle-based nonprofit, is seeking a Social Media Manager to build and manage an engaged audience around serious health stories rather than lightweight graphics. You will shape content that reflects real patient journeys and expands our reach across platforms.

You will work closely with our team to bring patient perspectives to audiences who need them most, balancing compelling storytelling with editorial judgment and sensitivity to health topics.

Qualifications

• Experience managing social accounts for a nonprofit, publication, or advocacy organization.
• Strong writing skills and an understanding of health/advocacy audiences.
• Familiarity with scheduling tools (Buffer, Later) and basic analytics.
• Comfort handling health-sensitive content with editorial discretion.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage an engaged audience around serious health content.
• Collaborate with the team to translate patient perspectives into content.

Skills

Nonprofit social media management

Health/advocacy writing

Social scheduling tools

Editorial discretion on health content

Tools

Buffer

Later

Analytics basics

Job description

Healthful Stories is a Seattle-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that conducts in-depth interviews with people living with chronic and complex health conditions. We exist to document the real patient journey: the delays, the barriers, and the turning points in a way that will have the greatest impact on those living with similar illnesses. Our interviews are structured and informational, not just inspirational.

As our Social Media Manager, you will build and manage an engaged audience around serious health content - not awareness-month graphics, but real stories. You'll work closely with our team to bring patient perspectives to the people who most need to hear them.

You bring:

• Demonstrated experience managing social accounts for a nonprofit, publication, or advocacy organization
• Strong writing skills and an instinct for what resonates in health and advocacy spaces
• Familiarity with scheduling tools (Buffer, Later, or equivalent) and basic analytics
• Comfort with health-sensitive content and editorial discretion

What you'll gain: End-to-end ownership of a nonprofit's digital presence, a measurable track record of audience growth, and experience at the intersection of patient advocacy and health communications: a combination that translates directly to roles in health system communications, patient affairs, advocacy, and public health media.