Digital Communications Manager (Concerned Veterans for America)

Organization

Stand Together

Location

Arlington, Virginia

Job Description

Stand Together is a dynamic and mission-driven organization committed to driving positive social change and empowering individuals to overcome barriers. Join our team and be part of a collaborative community that values innovation, personal responsibility, and the power of bottom-up solutions. Together, we will create a society that fosters opportunity, dignity, and well-being for all.
Stand Together Communications is seeking a Digital Communications Manager to lead the planning, oversight, and execution of digital strategies and campaigns that advance Stand Together’s priority initiatives and Concerned Veterans for America (CVA).  
 
You will be responsible for driving collaboration with internal and external partners to develop creative, innovative, and effective ways to educate, persuade, engage, and activate audiences to advance long-term priorities and capture immediate opportunities to support CVA’s work in foreign policy and veteran advocacy.  

Your Responsibilities Include

  • Manage Concerned Veterans for America’s social media accounts, drafting copy, creating social first graphic content, managing digital communities, and more. 
  • Drive the development and execution of fully integrated digital communications campaigns that support the Stand Together community’s priority initiatives. 
  • Collaborate with key stakeholders and team members to ensure that goals are properly identified, digital plans are fully integrated with comprehensive communications strategies, and ongoing performance is measured and reported. 
  • Ensure that plans leverage our internal capabilities and account for long-term needs to build and maintain audience reach through websites, social media, and email marketing.
  • Identify creative, out-of-the box ways to engage on issues and to capture opportunities that align with priorities and goals. 
  • Increase the awareness and exposure of critical branded priority initiatives through organic promotion on social media and other digital platforms. 
  • Develop regular reports to track key metrics across digital platforms and communicate performance to key stakeholders. 
  • Establish and maintain workflow processes and structure to maintain effective execution on multiple issue areas. 

Knowledge and Skills You Bring to the Organization

  • 4+ years of experience in a digital communications or marketing role 
  • Strong familiarity with social media trends, strategy, and best practices 
  • Experience with social media platforms and digital content management systems  
  • Ability to work on multiple priorities and maintain stakeholder relationships concurrently 
  • A passion for policy issues 
  • Out-of-the-box mindset to propose innovative and experiential digital strategies 
  • Strong critical thinking skills and creative mindset to develop effective engagement tactics 
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
  • Experience with graphic creation, social media video creation, or podcasting 
  • Attention to detail and project management skills 

Standout Candidates May Also Bring

  • 3+ years of experience creating digital strategy 
  • Digital marketing agency experience 
  • Experience in political or public policy organizations 
  • Understanding or experience with the foreign policy, the military, or veteran communities 

What We Offer

  • A meaningful career where your work will improve the lives of millions of Americans
  • A vision-driven organization of over 1,000 employees across the country who are dedicated to improving the lives of others
  • Competitive salaries and bonuses. Our salary and bonus strategies are aligned to the value you create, not a standardized bell curve
  • Generous 401K match - 6% match with immediate vesting
  • Competitive health and wellness benefits
  • Our flexible time-off policy allows all employees to take planned and unplanned time off as needed
  • Mileage reimbursement for business travel separate from your commute
  • Commuter assistance plans to offset the cost of commuting into our headquarters (on-site parking or metro)
  • Opportunities for professional development and mentorship that can strengthen your effectiveness through Principle Based Management and other industry specific programs

Stand Together helps social entrepreneurs supercharge their efforts to help people improve their lives. We connect them with passionate partners and the resources necessary to make a greater difference.  Through our philanthropic community, we tackle some of the nation's biggest challenges so that every person has the opportunity to realize their extraordinary potential. Stand Together partners with people from diverse perspectives and backgrounds—including people in education, business, community non-profits, and public policy—to accomplish more together than any of us could on our own.   
  
Our Values Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on a business philosophy called Principle Based Management® (PBM®). Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, PBM® prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.    
  
We believe that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of color, race, religion, religious creed, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), military and veteran status, genetic information, marital or familial status, political affiliation, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.