COMPETE Digital: Digital Strategist and Social Media Coordinator

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JOB DESCRIPTION

COMPETE is seeking a full-time, temporary hybrid Digital Strategist & Social Media Coordinator to lead digital strategy for a portfolio of political and advocacy clients while also supporting social media content creation, community management, and publishing. This role will be approximately 75–80% focused on digital strategy and campaign management and 20–25% focused on social media execution, although the weight of these responsibilities may shift depending on client need. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, enjoys juggling multiple accounts, and is comfortable shifting between strategic planning and hands-on social media work.

• What You’ll Do

• Serve as the primary point of contact for a medium portfolio of political and advocacy clients, providing strategic guidance and excellent customer service. Sometimes handling between 30-50 campaigns at a time.

• Lead digital campaign planning across channels, including budgets, targeting, timelines, and execution.

• Manage and oversee concurrent campaigns, ensuring quality control, on-time delivery, and strategic consistency.

• Collaborate with sales, tech, creative, and social teams to translate client goals into actionable digital programs and support proposal development.

• Support social media strategy and content development, including ideation, messaging frameworks, captions, video scripting, content creation, and scheduling.

• Join client calls and interact with clients to get the required items to create content.

• Manage getting content approved, implementing edits, and scheduling approved content.

• Researching social media trends and presenting findings to the team on a monthly basis. And just generally thinking about ways to make the client’s content more engaging and out-of-the-box.

• Putting together and analyzing the monthly social media reports and sending them to the client.

• Scriptwriting and outlining general video direction for any video content we need from the client.

• Candidates should be comfortable executing both static and short-form video assets.

• Track timelines, deliverables, approvals, and workflows across campaigns and support department-level project tracking.

• Identify risks, bottlenecks, or client concerns early and proactively solve problems.

• Contribute to campaign monitoring, reporting, and performance insights including writing regular reports for clients.

• Work with clients and sales team to devise invoicing plans and deadlines and help ensure timely collection of payments to prevent disruptions.

• Step in across departments as needed during peak cycles and support junior team members when appropriate.

• You Are:

• Self-driven: COMPETE is remote, so you’ll be working from home with occasional optional travel. We need folks who are self-motivated, passionate, great at time management, tech-savvy, adaptable, and accountable.

• Exceptional attention to detail: You have a keen eye for precision and can quickly spot errors or inconsistencies and will provide an additional level of quality control in items prepared for clients.

• Sense of urgency and time management: Ability to work quickly, calmly, and efficiently, under tight deadlines. Strategists are expected to complete many tasks, and respond to clients within 24hrs.

• Highly organized and comfortable managing a large volume of concurrent campaigns.

• Polished, confident, and client-facing. Especially with top-tier or high-touch accounts.

• Proactive, detail-oriented, and solution-focused.

• Passionate about progressive campaigns and causes.

• Willing to work weird hours, tough schedules, weekends or whatever the workload requires around Election day(s). After our busy periods, every team member is expected to take significant time off to reset.

• Strong communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential not only for the remote nature of COMPETE but for the high level of customer service required by Strategists.

• Proactivity: You can anticipate the needs of your clients or team and are able to spot and solve problems before they occur.

• You Have:

• Experience working with political campaigns, digital marketing, communications, or related fields (preferred).

• Strong understanding of general digital marketing terms and tactics, as well as the digital advertising ecosystem such as Facebook, Instagram, Programmatic banner and pre-roll ads, Connected TV, Twitter, Google Dynamic, Google Search, LinkedIn, Snapchat, TikTok, and beyond.

• Experience working directly with clients in a professional services or agency environment.

• Familiarity with social media platforms, content strategy, content creation, and digital storytelling. Candidates who run their own social media accounts or clients’ are strongly preferred.

• Strong writing skills, including experience with scripting or messaging development.

• Advanced proficiency in Google Sheets or Excel and have experience working with budgets and numbers.

• Experience working remotely and collaborating across distributed teams.

• Confidence in exercising independent discretion/judgement.

• Logistics & Expectations

• Full-time position (40 hours per week), with flexibility required during peak election periods.

• Temporary position through the November election season.

• Willingness to work irregular hours around Election Day(s) as needed

• After major busy periods, team members are expected to take meaningful time off to reset

• Remote collaboration using Gmail, Asana, Slack, Harvest, and Zoom

• Your Team

You will be part of the Digital Strategist and Social Media teams. You will report to the Director of Campaigns. You will work closely with our Sales, Creative, Social Media, and tech teams to ensure campaigns are launched smoothly and perform at a high level.

• Location & Work Environment

This is a fully remote position.

• Company Culture

COMPETE is committed to diversity in its workforce. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and encourage applicants of all backgrounds to apply.

• Salary range

$60,000 - $80,000 per year