NCWIT Communications Coordination Consultant
 Project:
NCWIT is a prominent, national community of more than 1,600 organizations whose mission is to significantly increase girls’ and women’s participation in computing. NCWIT materials create awareness about the current state of affairs for technical girls and women—at the intersections of race/ethnicity, class, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, and other historically marginalized identities—and key barriers to their participation in technology; increase knowledge about research-based practices for addressing these barriers; and motivate individuals and organizations to take action. Thus, communications collateral not only focuses on the difficult technical content area of strategies and approaches for increasing the number of girls and women into computing, but also strives to highlight successes and positive projections, resulting from NCWIT strategies and approaches.
Description of Work:
The Consultant shall coordinate all activities that support the Communications and Marketing Team at NCWIT. This role is highly collaborative and duties of the NCWIT Communications Coordinator Consultant focus on sourcing, writing, and editing content for communications collateral that will be relevant and meaningful to NCWIT’s varied constituencies, as well as measuring the reach and level of engagement of communications collateral.  This is a remote work opportunity, up to 30 hours per week, on an as needed basis.
Services rendered may include, but are not restricted to, the following types of activities:
Consultant Responsibilities:
During this engagement, Consultant shall:
Writing and Editing
- Â Â Â Write, schedule, and post content for social media feeds, including (but not limited to) Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
- Â Â Â Acquire, write, and/or edit content for communications collateral focused on organizational announcements, opportunities, program participant highlights, and other relevant community news, including (but not limited to) blogs, newsletters, press releases, and public calendars.
- Â Â Write new content or revise existing content.
- Â Â Â Edit and/or proofread communications collateral for style and grammar errors, as well as structural functionality.
Monitoring and Reporting
-    Stay abreast of news stories relevant to women’s and diversity issues as they relate to technological innovation, computing education, and business performance and suggest relevant stories for re-posting on NCWIT channels.
- Â Â Â Search for, track, and publish news stories featuring NCWIT program participants.
- Â Â Â Assist with providing social media reporting and analytics on a routine basis.
- Â Â Â Assist with monitoring social media for negative sentiments or violations of community guidelines.
- Â Â Â Assist with responding to inquiries instigated by website users and social media followers.
- Â Â Â Assist with Google Analytics as a means for measuring goals or successes of marketing campaigns.
Necessary Skills/Attributes:
This project requires a unique combination of knowledge and skills. Consultant must have the following skills:
-   Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communications, English or other related field.
- Â Â Three years of professional experience in communications, journalism, publishing, marketing, or a related field
- Â Â Proficient in MS Office Suite, Google Apps, and other editorial tools.
- Â Â Proficiency in above-mentioned social media platforms, including an understanding of functional capabilities for creating and managing content.
- Â Â Familiarity with SendGrid, MailChimp, and other email campaign management platforms.
- Â Â Ability to organize, track and complete tasks in a timely manner, prepare for meetings, regularly communicate progress on tasks or issues impeding progress.
- Â Â Accurate, clear written and oral communication skills, delivered in a responsive manner, and the ability to ask questions when needed.
- Â Â Technical aptitude and experience, including use of project management software
- Â Â Ability to work independently as well as on a team; excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
- Â Â Ability to multitask, change priorities when necessary, and follow through with all assignments.
- Â Â Demonstrated project management
- Â Â Demonstrated creativity and problem solving
- Â Â Ability to balance the needs of a distributed organization with multiple program managers
- Â Â Professional communication skills and editorial experience
- Â Â Professional experience with a non-profit
- Â Â Education including gender studies and intersectionality
- Â Â Familiarity with WordPress
- Â Â Adept in technical writing
To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to [email protected]
