Restaurant & hotel owners are now reporting that the economy is so strong, they're having trouble hiring — and that higher wages are spreading into the area around Seattle.
Read MoreWorking Washington is hiring a Communications Specialist
Communications Specialist
Working Washington's mission is to build a powerful workers’ movement that can not only dramatically improve wages and working conditions, but can also change the local and national conversation about wealth, inequality, and the value of work.
Working Washington fast food strikers sparked the fight that won Seattle’s first-in-the-nation $15 minimum wage. We successfully drove Amazon to sever ties with the right-wing lobby group ALEC and improve conditions in their sweatshop warehouses. We helped lead the winning campaign in SeaTac for a $15 living wage. And we continue to break new ground as baristas push for a landmark secure scheduling ordinance in Seattle and our organization grows across the state.
We are seeking a creative and talented person to join our communications team and help build the power of workers in our state at a time when the mass media is melting away, standard approaches to communications are increasingly ineffective, and fewer and fewer people are tied in to conventional information networks.
The successful candidate will demonstrate talent for design & video; facility with a range of digital communications tools and tactics; a creative, experimental approach to getting the word out and changing the debate; and a strong ability to independently move projects forward.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Principal duties and responsibilities include:
- Support high-profile worker organizing & workers rights campaigns including secure scheduling and minimum wage through the use of design, video, and new digital tools.
- Conceive, draft, and produce content for multiple channels & audiences that amplifies worker voices and helps move the debate on our issues.
- Help dream up and execute creative new ideas for reaching supporters, influencers, and elected officials — because press releases, direct mail, and blog posts clearly aren’t enough.
- Establish a distinct, appropriate, and consistent organizational style.
- Contribute to Working Washington’s social media and web presence, in coordination with online organizing team.
- Help manage technology and data systems, including some data import and data entry as needed.
- Amplify the voices and stories of workers through multiple modes and tools, primarily digitally.
- Quickly produce sticky & compelling work that grows our reach with key audiences.
- Experiment with innovative and forward-thinking tools & tactics to advance our campaigns, and be ready to adjust strategies as campaigns progress.
- Work directly with workers and community supporters as needed to fulfill campaign goals, including story collection, interviews, media prep, etc.
- Participate directly in the political and organizing work of Working Washington, including marches, rallies, protests, actions, door-knocking, get-out-the-vote, signature gathering, and other campaign activities.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
- Strong video and design skills, including experience producing quick and fluid work on a variety of topics without being dull.
- Comfort with various digital platforms & willingness to learn new tools.
- Eagerness to amplify the voices of low-wage workers across the state, and willingness to take calculated risks when appropriate to advance our campaign.
- Discontent with being boring.
- Willingness to work long and irregular hours, including evenings and weekends.
- Dedication to the mission of Working Washington.
- Strong technical skills a major plus.
COMPENSATION:
Staff union pay scale, based on experience. Generous benefits package, including fully-paid family health care, employer matched 401k, and vacation and sick leave.
Submission Instructions:
Please send a résumé and cover letter, along with one or two relevant samples of your work by July 25, 2016, to jobs@workingwa.org
Working Washington is an Equal Opportunity Employer
To the ballot with 360,000 signatures for $13.50
Working Washington and a broad coalition of other organizations across the state just turned in 360,000 signatures to get Initiative 1433 on the ballot in November to raise the minimum wage to $13.50 and provide paid sick days. Your signature was probably one of them
Read MoreThey spent more than $14,000. We charged $10.
Former top Starbucks exec Howard Behar recently spent more than $14,000 to buy a full-page ad in the Seattle Times. We don’t have that kind of money to burn, so we charged $10 for tickets to our Secure Scheduling Story Slam. Here’s the thing: we also showed up in the Seattle Times.
Read MoreSecure Scheduling Story Slam
Seattle workers are leading the fight for secure scheduling — and their voices will take center stage at our Secure Scheduling Story Slam on Thursday, June 16th, presented by Working Washington and Seattlish.
Read MoreLetter of support for secure scheduling
A letter to Mayor Murray and the Seattle City Council expressing support for secure scheduling, signed by more than 30 different organizations with tens of thousands of members.
Read MoreWant a roof over your head? You're gonna need more than $9.47/hr.
No one can afford rent anywhere in the state on the current minimum wage. Washington state needs a raise.
Read MoreWorking Washington is hiring an Online Organizer (bilingual Spanish & English)
ONLINE ORGANIZER (BILINGUAL SPANISH & ENGLISH)
Working Washington's mission is to build a powerful workers’ movement that can not only dramatically improve wages and working conditions, but can also change the local and national conversation about wealth, inequality, and the value of work.
Working Washington fast food strikers sparked the fight that won Seattle’s landmark $15 minimum wage. We successfully drove Amazon to sever ties with the right-wing lobby group ALEC and improve conditions in their sweatshop warehouses. We helped lead the winning campaign in SeaTac for a $15 living wage. And we continue to break new ground as baristas push for a landmark secure scheduling ordinance in Seattle and our organization grows across the state.
We are seeking a creative, talented, and ambitious person to join an aggressive online organizing and digital communications program aimed at substantially growing our movement and building the power of workers in our state.
The successful candidate is bilingual in Spanish and English; demonstrates knowledge of the tools and tactics of online organizing and communications; is prepared take a creative, experimental approach to online organizing and digital communications; and has a strong ability to move projects forward, engage supporters, and get things done.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Principal duties and responsibilities include:
- Build a community of engaged members, primarily through one-to-one online outreach
- Engage workers, Working Washington supporters, and the public at large through multiple modes and tools
- Lead execution of Spanish-language media outreach and communications efforts, both digitally and through conventional broadcast & print outlets
- Help develop compelling content that moves audiences to action & engagement
- Execute creative new ideas for online organizing tools & tactics — because who wants to be petition factory?
- Communicate in a distinct, appropriate, and consistent voice in various online channels
- Contribute to Working Washington’s social media and web presence
- Maintain online organizing datasystems, and track supporters’ level of engagement
- Develop new online supporters into online leaders with Working Washington
- Experiment with innovative and forward-thinking tools & tactics to advance our campaigns, and be ready to adjust strategies as campaigns progress
- Work directly with workers and community supporters as needed to fulfill campaign goals
- Participate directly in the political and organizing work of Working Washington, including door-knocking, get-out-the-vote, signature gathering, and other campaign activities.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
- Capacity to write quickly and clearly on a variety of topics without being boring
- Comfort with various social media and online platforms
- Ability to move broad engagement on various social media platforms
- Eagerness to amplify the voices of low-wage workers across the state
- Willingness to work long and irregular hours, including evenings and weekends
- Bilingual fluency in written Spanish and English
- Demonstrated facility for design is a plus
COMPENSATION:
Staff union pay scale, based on experience. Generous benefits package, including fully-paid family health care, employer matched 401k, and vacation and sick leave.
Submission Instructions:
Please send a résumé and cover letter, along with one or two relevant writing samples by June 20, 2016, to jobs@workingwa.org
Working Washington is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Seattle’s $15 wins again
The International Franchise Association is withdrawing their lawsuit against Seattle’s $15 after losing not once, not twice, but thrice!
Read MoreDairy Queen hasn't paid these workers for more than 3 weeks.
One of the employee is homeless with her one year old daughter and is struggling to find a job and is struggling to provide for her family, another employee is behind on their student loans for college, and another person is unable to pay for their car insurance.
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