More Perfect Union Action

Position Title: Social Graphics & Thumbnail Designer Fellow

Job type: Paid Fellowship

Compensation: $20/hour plus up to $500/month home office expense reimbursement

Time commitment: Full-time (M-F 9am-5pm ET), 6 month fellowship beginning May 28, 2024 through November 29, 2024.

Location: 100% Remote, Telework

In addition to uploading your resume, applicants must fill out the questionnaire on the application site. There is no need to send a cover letter.

Applications will be accepted for this position through April 7, 2024.

More Perfect Union is an advocacy and journalism organization with a mission to build power for the working class. We cover politics, policy, labor, business, and economics news through a class lens, and we pair our reporting with activism to help working people win policy fights. Launched in February 2021, More Perfect Union’s coverage has garnered more than 500 million video views and 2+ million followers and subscribers.

We’re hiring a Social Graphics & Thumbnail Designer Fellow to join our team. You’ll help expand the impact and reach of our work by creating graphics for Instagram and other social platforms, and by designing thumbnails that drive engagement with our original videos. You’ll also spend time publishing graphics content to social media and strategizing new opportunities to use graphics to advance our organization’s mission.

You will be part of a small, highly collaborative social media and distribution team, but you’ll regularly work with staff across the broader editorial organization.

We’re looking for candidates who are passionate and knowledgeable about graphic design, about economic justice, and about thinking creatively and strategically about how our content can have the most profound possible impact on the world.

Core Responsibilities:

• Work with the Social Media Producers and the Brand Designer to create shareable graphics, carousels, and memes for Instagram and other social platforms;

• Work with Social Media Producers and the Brand Designer to create video titles and thumbnails to drive engagement and reach on YouTube and other social platforms;

• Assist with other aspects of social distribution, including scheduling content, community management, and optimizing posts for engagement and search;

• Monitor analytics, audience sentiments, and social media trends;

• Identify important, interesting, or underreported stories/facts/memes and use them to create compelling social media content;

• Receive assignments from supervisor and colleagues for prompt action;

• Operate in a nimble environment;

• Perform other duties as assigned.

**Experience/Qualifications:**

• Passion for, and substantial knowledge of, national politics and economic justice issues;

• Regular user of social media, in particular Instagram and YouTube;

• An excellent writer, communicator and collaborator, with strong interpersonal skills;

• Experience creating graphics and/or thumbnails for social media;

• A self-starter who pays close attention to detail and is highly organized and capable of meeting tight deadlines;

• Available full-time hours and able to excel in a remote - work from home environment.

At More Perfect Union we strive to increase diversity, equity, inclusion and justice in all elements of our work. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender individual), age, physical or mental disability, post-secondary educational status, citizenship, genetic information, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented and marginalized communities to apply.

More Perfect Union is offering fellows a living wage and benefits package including: health, dental and vision benefits, monthly home office expense reimbursement, paid federal holidays, PTO and paid sick leave.

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