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About the role:

Join our team in shaping the media narrative around progressive power and democracy. Reporting to the National Press Secretary, the Deputy Press Secretary (Senior Press Manager) helps shape and execute Indivisible’s press strategy. This role is ideal for a creative, fast-moving communicator who thinks outside the box and uses storytelling to build power for grassroots activists.

The Deputy Press Secretary leads press efforts across multiple campaigns, supports Indivisible’s nationwide network of activists, and develops strategies to help local leaders build their media skills at scale. They maintain and grow relationships with reporters, proactively pitch stories, and find new ways to break into the news cycle. This person also manages key administrative systems for the press team, serves as a trusted thought partner, and takes initiative to launch new projects that advance Indivisible’s mission.

What you'll do:

Managing and executing press work - 60%

• Supports the National Press Secretary across the board to earn national coverage and can manage all work areas in their absence.
• Runs point for the press team on various campaigns throughout the year, owning and executing strategies to earn coverage and advance campaign goals, from planning to debrief.
• Builds media lists and researches journalists.
• Fields reporters’ questions and pitches stories.
• Drafts press releases and statements, and proposes responses to news developments.
• Represents Indivisible in coalition spaces, including partner calls and working groups.
• Monitors political news and identifies opportunities to pitch stories.
• Pitches new media and identifies emerging outlets and platforms for coverage.
• Develops and implements creative press tactics that reach beyond traditional political media to new audiences.
• Anticipates news cycles and coordinates proactive press moments to shape coverage.
• Maintains clear internal systems to keep press projects on track and aligned across teams.
• Manages contracts and administrative tasks for the press team.
• Oversees daily clips, running clips documents, and other qualitative measures of success.

Supporting and amplifying Indivisible groups in media - 30%

• Creates innovative, scalable ways to support and highlight local leaders’ work through storytelling and press engagement.
• Pitches local media directly and earns coverage around priority group efforts.
• Maintains lists of group leaders who can serve as media contacts around projects.
• Advises teammates on tactics to secure media coverage.
• Owns toolkit development and serves as the primary liaison with the Training team.
• Drafts media content for written toolkits for Indivisible groups.
• Facilitates trainings for Indivisible group leaders.
• Collaborates closely with the turf team and maintains situational awareness of the state of the movement.

Support for story collection and monitoring - 10%

• Manages story collection, capturing and publicizing Indivisible groups’ activities through roundups and blasts, with support from the National Press Secretary and cross-team collaborators.
• Contributes movement-related stories to spokesperson talking points.
• Pitches stories, fields questions from national reporters about local groups’ activities, and connects them with sources.
• Identifies opportunities to elevate local groups’ work and collaborates with the press team to publicize unique campaigns.

Qualifications:

• Experience earning media coverage and interfacing directly with reporters and producers.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in politics, communications, and/or progressive organizing.
• Strong writing skills with a clear, persuasive voice.
• Comfortable training activists in PR tactics, both online and one-on-one.
• Committed to holding both Democrats and Republicans accountable using media tactics that advance progressive values.
• Deep curiosity about journalism and a strong grasp of political media outlets and how they operate.
• Organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.

Desired Qualifications:

• Diverse political and movement experiences are welcome, including field or labor organizing, issue advocacy, journalism, experience in elected offices, or personal activism.
• Experience in creative storytelling, cultural organizing, or media production is a plus.
• Backgrounds outside traditional political communications—such as journalism, marketing, or advocacy—are welcome.
• Experience working cross-functionally to develop creative campaigns is a plus.

About Indivisible Project

We’re building something new. We’re a progressive grassroots organization that began in the aftermath of Trump’s election. We’re working to build a democracy that reflects a broad, multiracial “we the people,” one that works for all of us and is sustained by all of us. To support this movement, we’ve built an incredible team at the national level. We dream big, we support each other, and we have fun doing it. For more information about Indivisible’s vision, mission, and theory of change, click here.

We’re changing what’s politically possible. Indivisible is part of the powerful progressive movement reaction to Trump, fighting the racist, misogynistic, plutocratic, and authoritarian agenda trumpeted by Trump and the GOP congress. Don’t take our word for it; Indivisible has been featured on the Rachel Maddow Show multiple times, as well as in the New York Times and in pretty much every other major news outlet in the country.

We’re building together. We’re building a new organization every day - a rare opportunity to model what we want to see in the world. We’re deeply committed to equity and building a diverse and inclusive organization.

We’re looking for you. If you want to fight for the soul of American democracy, there’s no better place to be than Indivisible. We’re looking for more team members who are passionate about building an inclusive democracy and committed to getting results. It’s an exciting, fulfilling place if you’re someone who wants to fight fiercely for the progressive world we want to have.

Every one of us on the national team is here because we believe this movement is the best way to retake and build progressive power in this country. Does that ring true for you? If so, great - throw your hat in the ring to join our team. Let’s start #winning together. For more information about Indivisible’s organizational principles, click here.

Indivisible Project is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage and seek applications from women, people of color, including bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, marital status, or medical condition. Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process. Please advise in writing of support needs at the time of application.