Digital Organizer

Position Type: Hourly, Non-Exempt

Compensation: $56,700-69,825 DOE

Schedule: Full-time, 36 hours per week, some evening and weekend work

Location: Downtown Spokane office with some optional remote work

Reports to: Executive Director

About PJALS:

The Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane (PJALS) engages everyday people to build a just and nonviolent world. Our approach is community organizing and grassroots leadership development for peace, racial equity, economic justice, and human rights. We are an independent, multi-issue, membership-based organization founded in Spokane County in 1975.

PJALS’ 2025 strategic priorities are:

1. Organizing and advocating for human rights
2. Countering white Christian nationalism and American fascism
3. Countering American imperialism and militarism
4. Ending mass incarceration, including transforming policing
5. Offering grassroots leadership development and education for action

Come be part of our team to organize for peace and justice! Learn more about PJALS: www.pjals.org/values

Position Description:

The Digital Organizer amplifies our long-term movement work and advances organizational priorities through strategic online engagement. This position maintains multiple simultaneous campaigns plus ongoing membership relations. In close collaboration with the Community Organizer, this position turns online engagement into in-person action, leveraging digital technology to expand our reach, build support for campaigns, and drive fundraising and offline engagement. This role also works to elevate the voices of people impacted by relevant issues through our communications strategy and enhances the online community experience of our members and supporters.

Job Duties:

• Storytelling and Mobilization:
  • Engage PJALS membership on social media platforms, peer-to-peer texting, multi-platform newsletter, and other channels, with the goal of transforming digital engagement into in-person involvement in the organization.
  • Collect and share stories and testimonials from PJALS members, ensuring that participant reflections on our events and other impact reports are included as part of regular planning.
• Strategy:
  • Develop digital strategy, including identifying key goals and measurable outcomes.
  • Plan, create, and manage content across digital platforms in alignment with organizational values, long-term priorities, and brand guidelines.
• Manage:
  • Distribute campaign updates, writing, op-eds, event reflections, etc. across all communication channels as generated by staff.
  • Review and monitor social media insights and website data
  • Implement inclusivity and accessibility standards in our digital communication
• Content Creation:
  • Create social media posts, graphics, asset packages, and visually appealing materials including event invitations, organizing materials (postcards, outreach lit, etc), slideshows, pamphlets, handouts, fliers, and other materials for use in person and online
  • Create and edit videos for social media, workshop recordings, fundraising, and other organizational needs.
  • Maintain PJALS image library on Google Drive
  • Plan and design PJALS newsletter for availability across multiple platforms
• Support organizational programs, fundraising efforts, and other events as needed.

Required Qualifications:

• Strategy and Messaging Skills and Abilities:
  • Strategic and critical thinking, ability to recognize and articulate the interconnectedness of our work and the constituencies we represent
  • Experience with the role of narrative and storytelling in organizing work, able to create a continuous story of member engagement within a campaign.
  • Experience with social media strategy, content development, and best practices in digital organizing for brands/organizations.
  • Ability to apply an intersectional racial equity lens to communications.
  • Strong communication, particularly in crafting concise messages that inspire people to action.
• Technical Skills and Abilities:
  • Experience with the following platforms (or comparable): Wordpress, Every Action (CRM platform), Zoom, Google Suite, and social media platforms.
  • Graphic design skills for visual appeal and accessibility (extensive design experience is not required).
• Relational Skills and Abilities:
  • Ability to build respectful relationships with people unlike oneself and support relationship-building across race/ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, faith, and other identities to increase recognition of mutual interest, shared values, and sense of community.
  • Comfort in collaboration, able to hold self and others accountable to timelines, values, and relationships.
• Professional Skills and Abilities:
  • Self-motivated with a growth mindset.
  • Excellent time management, ability to advance more than one project at a time with varying degrees of urgency and long-term importance.
  • Ability to work some evenings and weekends, as needed

Preferred Qualifications:

• Directly impacted by issues we work on.
• Experience in Inland Northwest social justice organizing or familiarity with the issues we work on.
• Experience maintaining an organizational website.
• Phone/ text banking, cutting turf for canvassing, familiar with ThruText, VAN, or comparable tools.
• Knowledge of accessibility best practices in the digital realm.
• Experience managing integrations between digital and field organizing. Able to advise on-the-ground organizers on the digital tactics most likely to support their work.
• Experience with project management tools such as Asana and design tools such as Canva.
• Photography and videography skills

Benefits Include:

• Dental coverage
• 100% employer-paid healthcare with a Kaiser Permanente Gold Plan including vision
• 401k with 10% employer match
• Employer-paid professional development
• 11 paid holidays (including 2 floating holidays)
• Paid organization-wide breaks in August and December
• 15 paid leave days annually (increasing with length of service)
• YMCA membership
• Subscription to DeleteMe privacy service

If you have gotten this far and are thinking you do not qualify, consider again.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. If you are excited about this role but your experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may just be the needed person for this or other roles.

To Apply:

Please send a cover letter, resume, and 3 references as pdf files to jobs@pjals.org with the subject line “PJALS Digital Organizer.”

Date Posted: Jan 29 2025

Closing Date: Feb 20 2025

Anticipated Start Date: Late March 2025