About Greenpeace

Greenpeace is a global, independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest, creative communication and people power to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future. In just the past year, we’ve secured a Global Oceans Treaty to protect wildlife and people who depend on healthy oceans. We persuaded the Biden Administration to phase out single-use plastics from federal operations. And we safeguarded healthy spaces, from national marine sanctuaries to bans on seabed mining to stopping liquefied national gas terminals poisoning Gulf Coast communities. Our work spans more than 50 years of fights and successes.

As an independent campaigning organization, Greenpeace does not accept funds from any corporations or government entities. The global Greenpeace network is headquartered in the Netherlands, with offices around the world in over fifty countries. Greenpeace USA is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Position Summary

The Senior Digital Strategist - Oceans and Plastics (6-month contract) is a key member of Greenpeace USA’s online team. This is a results-oriented position that will lead key areas of Greenpeace USA’s campaign projects and engagement strategy for our high-profile campaigns. This position will organize, prioritize and coordinate planned and responsive work (both global and domestic) and ongoing core work within the digital department, identifying opportunities, setting ambitious goals for projects, collaborating with key stakeholders across teams to advance the work, and task-managing team members to bring in new supporters, raise money, deepen engagement, and win campaign victories.

The Senior Digital Strategist - Oceans and Plastics (6-month contract) is an exempt, full-time, benefits-eligible position, based in any GPUS-authorized location (CA, DC, MD, VA,, NY, NJ, CT), and will report to the Digital Campaigns Director.

Strategy

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Develop mutually beneficial relationships within GPUS and with other NROs, GPI units, and social movement allies
Serve as the Senior Digital Strategist for one or more of Greenpeace USA’s campaigns, and work with the Digital Campaigns Director and Communications Digital Director to task content and technical development with online team members and others
Develop strategy and work plans for short-term responsive projects, including capitalizing on major local, national and global events and milestones and longer-term projects that enhance Greenpeace USA’s ability to grow, fundraise, and engage our supporters
Global work: coordinate with Greenpeace communications hubs, digital team and other National and Regional Offices (NROs) to develop coordinated work plans and implement key pieces of global work
Domestic responsive work: Collaborate with leadership and peers to identify response opportunities for GPUS. The Senior Digital Strategist will lead key pieces of this work, including leading response teams, developing strategy and materials, and coordinating with other NROs
Identify responsive projects that could be scaled into larger projects and collaborate with stakeholders both inside and outside of GPUS to develop project proposals
Research and stay on top of industry best practices, trends and tools to support digital campaigns

Project Management

Develop mutually beneficial relationships within GPUS and with other NROs, GPI units, and social movement allies
Task manage small, cross-functional teams for short-term orlong-term projects, including project managing content creation, review, legal sign-off, production and sending off communications via email, web, socials and SMS

Analysis And Reporting

Follow and test best practices and innovations for email, social media, mobile, web and online-offline mobilization, including collecting analyzing and reporting post-campaign data
Make key decisions on digital output, using expertise and insights from relevant team members or organizational stakeholders as well as testing and performance data
Proactively communicate successes and learnings to the campaign team, and the national and global organization

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned as organizational or team priorities arise and/or shift.

Role Requirements

Knowledge and Experience

Minimum 7 years experience in public interest campaigning with environmental organizations preferred
Minimum 6 years experience in digital engagement with advocacy, political, or charitable organizations preferred
Minimum 3 years experience in project or people management with a strong track record of producing creative, successful output. A combination of experience and education will be considered
Deep expertise in digital engagement strategies and tactics including digital campaign planning, expertise in all relevant channels (email, social media, mobile, web), fundraising, and online-to-offline organizing
Graphic design skills, preferred
Familiarity with CRMS, such as EveryAction

Skills/Attributes/Competencies

Ability to work collaboratively with multiple teams, set and review goals, and assess risks and outcomes
Inspirational and strategic approach
Strong decision-making skills, able to make strategic calls for the project with awareness of the context in which it is operating both internally and externally
Ability to balance multiple projects at once, including both short-term responsive work and long-term capacity-building work
Keen judgment about what will work with key audiences, advance engagement goals, and organizational capacity
Strong project leadership and project planning skills to enable the delivery of projects to time, to budget and to deliver clear objectives;
Strong project and/or line-management skills enabling you to cultivate the best performance of staff
Track record of developing creative campaign content that engages diverse communities and deepens relationships with existing supporters
Excellent communication skills, including both written and public speaking skills;
Excellent interpersonal skills, including willingness to facilitate conflict resolution and offer and receive direct feedback

Other

Willingness and ability to work outside normal business hours, on occasion
Willingness to experiment, take risks, and learn from failures
Commitment to progressive values and peaceful direct action as a means to effect change
Demonstrated commitment to the organization’s values on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Compensation And Benefits

Greenpeace offers a competitive benefits package including medical, dental and vision coverage with low contributions from staff. We have options for pre-tax flexible spending accounts for medical and dependent care costs. Greenpeace employees enjoy generous 401K matching and time-off for vacation, sick, personal, and parental leave. After five years, staff are eligible for a paid sabbatical. To encourage public transportation use and biking, we offer subsidies for staff who choose to bike or ride mass transit to work. Greenpeace is committed to the growth and development of staff and fostering a creative workplace culture. For more information, check out our benefits plan.

This role is graded at a level 3, and a salary within the range of $78,668 - $85,146 and is anticipated to be provided to the successful candidate having met the minimum requirements for the position consistent with reflecting our commitment to maintaining competitive and fair compensation practices.

If you want to save the world from climate change and believe in environmental and social justice, please submit an application on our careers page. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and will conclude once we have found the best candidate.

Greenpeace is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, class, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, family/marital status, religion or other protected classes. We strongly encourage applications from marginalized communities. If you require assistance applying to this opportunity, please contact usa-resumes@greenpeace.org.

Only applicants eligible to work and live in the United States without any legal restrictions need apply for this opportunity.

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