Cooperative Western North Carolina: Communications Coordinator
Organization: Cooperative WNC
Salary: $25/hour
Location: Western North Carolina
Description:
Position Title: Communications Coordinator
Time commitment: 25-35 hours/week, $25/hr, starting as contractor and transition to employee after 3 months. This might increase to a full-time position over time if desired and as the program/organization grows. We are ideally looking for a long term member of the team, minimum 1-year commitment.
Posting Date: 2/4/25
Closing Date: Applications received by 2/14/25 will be given priority, but rolling applications accepted until the position is filled. Our goal is to have someone filling this position by March 1.
How To Apply: Please fill out this form, and respond to zev@cooperatewnc.org including a resume and two references, ideally WNC-based people you’ve worked with closely and known through a variety of circumstances.
We will follow up with you either way to let you know if we’d like an interview or not, and if so then we’ll schedule an interview in the Feb.10-24th range.
Summary:
We’re seeking a passionate, organized, collectivist and adaptive human who is grounded in a history of relationships and trust in WNC communities to join our team. This person will support our mission by working in the core areas of 1) cooperative bulk purchasing of food, farming supplies and other needs identified by communities in our network and 2) essential network communication and social media management, particularly as related to bulk purchasing and mutual aid hub formation.
Applicants need to:
Have lived in WNC for at least 3 years and be familiar with the geography, roads and people here.
Be self-aware, conversant in collaborative process, excited to embrace conflict and values-level conversations in service to good strategy and healthy work culture.
Have some familiarity with mutual aid, cooperatives and their context in U.S. social movements (you don’t need to be an expert).
Possess strong competence and familiarity with social media platforms, content creation, and use of various tech, and enjoy generating unique posts that tell compelling stories.
Possess the ability to move and lift bulk purchased items weighing up to 50 pounds.
Be willing to work some evening and weekend hours (approx 1-2 times/month as determined by the needs of bulk purchases).
Have a reliable vehicle, ideally a van or truck that can drive well on gravel roads (we won’t ask you to regularly use your vehicle for work).
Be available for 20-35 (estimated average 25, with 35 on weeks when there’s a big purchase distribution) hours/week, starting on March 1, and consistently throughout the year.
Responsibilities will include:
Communications coordination (5-15 hrs/week)
Work closely with the Cooperate WNC team to creatively promote our programs, events, purchases, and network functions.
Keep CWNC website regularly updated, do structural improvements as needed, and help generate ideas for long term improvements.
Generate newsletters related to bulk purchasing, generate and post 3-5 various social media posts/week (related to the full spectrum of CWNC’s mission) on Facebook and Instagram, and update GoFundMe and Patreon pages as needed.
Maintain contact with CWNC Board, program participants, CWNC network members, larger WNC community, and other media sources, to identify and express stories, publicize needs and offers, promote partner org events, solicit special topic articles and blog posts
Field requests from media for interviews, articles, podcasts etc. and direct them to the best sources within our team/network.
Work with the team to create press releases when needed.
Archive posts, articles, communications for longterm history/storytelling.
NOTE:
We are ideally looking for someone who has the skills necessary to carry out the Bulk Purchasing Coordination and the Communications Coordination aspects of this role. That being said, building out our bulk purchasing program is a higher immediate priority than communications.
How To Apply:
Please fill out this form, and respond to zev@cooperatewnc.org including a resume and two references, ideally WNC-based people you’ve worked with closely and known through a variety of circumstances.
View the application on their website by clicking here.