Description
Status: Exempt
Reports to: Director of Communications
Location: Remote
Union Position: This job is covered under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, Local 32035
Salary: $70,000-$90,000, commensurate with experience
Job Summary: The Press Secretary is tasked with serving as a spokesperson for End Citizens United and is responsible for managing media relations and advancing the organization's messaging on issues related to democracy reform, campaign finance, government corruption, and voting rights. This role involves crafting press materials, handling media inquiries, and shaping public narratives to amplify the organization's work. They will join a collaborative work environment and help ensure ECU continues being a leading pro-Democracy voice nationally.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Serve as a spokesperson, handle media inquiries, and represent End Citizens United in interviews, press conferences, and public events.
Craft clear, compelling, and consistent messaging on issues related to campaign finance reform, voting rights protection, and combatting corruption at both the federal and state levels. - Proactively pitch stories to media outlets and work with reporters to secure coverage of the organization’s campaigns, events, and key policy issues.
- Write press releases, op-eds, talking points, speeches, and other materials to promote the organization’s initiatives, campaigns, and legislative priorities.
- Build and maintain relationships with journalists, reporters, bookers and media outlets to secure coverage, promote stories, and elevate the organization’s presence in the media.
- Plan and execute media campaigns to support major policy initiatives, electoral efforts, and organizational milestones, leveraging both traditional and digital media.
- Work closely with the organization’s leadership to prepare for interviews, speeches, and public events.
- Collaborate with the digital and social media teams to amplify press coverage, engage supporters, and create shareable content that promotes the organization’s work across platforms.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
Qualifications: The ideal candidate will have multiple campaign cycles of experience in media relations, communications, and public relations. Multiple campaign cycles of on-the-record experience is required. Strong writing skills, with the ability to craft compelling press materials and clear messaging, are essential, along with a proven ability to build relationships with reporters and secure media coverage. A deep understanding of campaign finance reform, voting rights issues, and democracy reform, along with the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, is critical for success in this role. The Press Secretary must be aligned with our commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees feel valued and empowered. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences to apply, as diversity strengthens our team and drives innovation.
Employee Benefits: End Citizens United offers a competitive benefits package, including health insurance (there are many health plans available that are fully employer paid, and Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, STD, & LTD plans are fully employer paid), reimbursement for your cell phone bill up to $100 a month, and an IRA with up to 3% of salary matched.
Job Location: This is a remote position, with a strong preference for the employee to live in a state in which ECU currently operates. Regular work-related travel is required.
To apply, please submit a resume and cover letter through our website. No calls please.
End Citizens United’s Mission: End Citizens United is the leading electoral organization dedicated to fixing our democracy, getting big money out of politics and protecting the right to vote. We are a grassroots movement made up of millions of supporters across the country dedicated to fighting corruption from Washington to Wall Street to State Capitals. Over the past 10 years, the organization has grown from a start-up to an established force that is driving change across the country. We have raised over $230 million to fight back against the powerful special interests and have over 1.4 million individual donors. This grassroots power has changed the face of the pro-democracy movement and helped respond to the ever-increasing corruption, attacks on democracy, and voter suppression that we see in our country. Over the past five cycles, we have helped elect over 700 candidates up and down the ballot. These leaders have kept reform efforts at the top of the agenda and pushed forward on impactful policies. Over the coming years, we will continue combatting big money in politics, voter suppression, and corruption, both federally and at the state level, through organizing, electoral work, research and messaging, and legislative advocacy.
End Citizens United is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values a multicultural, diverse working environment. Applicants of diverse backgrounds are welcomed and encouraged to apply. ECU’s policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote and administer any and all personnel actions without regard to sex, race, age, color, creed, national origin, religion, economic status, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity or expression, ethnic identity or disability, or any other legally protected basis. ECU is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in the hiring process and on the job, as required by applicable law.
Note: At the end of this application we include several optional questions about your identity. These questions are completely optional and will not be used to make specific hiring decisions, but rather to help us make sure we're building a diverse pool of candidates in the initial stages of the process. Your responses are kept separate from the rest of your application and are not shared outside of our human resources team.
