DIGITAL LEAD

Sunrise Movement
Sunrise Movement

USD 59,256-66,750 / year

Posted on Jul 28, 2026

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Deadline to apply: Applications will be accepted internally for this position on a rolling basis.


Classification + Hours: Exempt employee, full time

Location: Remote

Start date: August 2026

Manager: Digital Director

Travel: On average every 2-3 months


Union Eligibility: This position is eligible to participate in Sunrise’s CWA Labor Union.

Teams: Communications Team


Compensation: $59,256-$66,750 annually depending on years of experience. In addition, Sunrise provides a special city allowance of $4,176 or $6,999.98 if the hire resides in a metro/micro area. This role also receives yearly salary increases.

Benefits: Sunrise offers a benefits package with 100% paid premiums for health care, dental, and vision. Along with unlimited paid vacation time, and other paid time off opportunities. Option to contribute to 401k and voluntary life insurance.


Top 3 Skills

  • Digital communication: You are an excellent writer for email, social media copy, and video scripts.

  • Digital strategy and coordination: You effectively coordinate with teams of stakeholders to communicate complex political strategy and policy goals in a way that is engaging and accessible for a wide audience

  • Coaching, Training, and Movement Building: You effectively develop and lead hub volunteers to create storytelling strategies for their local campaigns

Top 2 Skills re: Multiracial Cross Class Movement Building

  • Building distributed leadership and organizing capacity: You empower staff and volunteers from multi racial cross class backgrounds by creating accessible trainings, coaching structures, and resources.

  • Narrative building: You develop communications that resonate across race and class and elevate stories that help build a climate justice movement


About The Role

The Digital Lead produces effective digital communication to reach new audiences, raise grassroots donations, and tell the story of our organizing. This includes copy writing for email, SMS, blogs, and social media, as well as producing graphics and editing simple videos. They work with the rest of the Communications Team to support narrative strategy, respond to current events, and coach movement members on creative skills.


You Would Be a Good Fit

You are a good fit for this role if you enjoy fast paced environments, are highly organized, proactive, and able to manage multiple priorities while building strong relationships across teams. You love to learn new skills and build the skills of those around you. You’re excited to contribute a multiracial, cross-class movement by creating digital communications that resonate across race and class to build a strong climate justice movement.


Core Responsibilities

Digital Communications:

  • Lead email and SMS communications that mobilize people and fundraise, including writing, quality control, and graphic design

  • Lead written communication (e.g. email/video scripts/blog posts/social media carousels) that educate the public on Sunrise’s political strategy, programs, and policy goals

  • Write copy and design graphics for social media content.

  • Occasionally edit simple videos for social media.

  • Create and manage assigned digital content for paid advertising campaigns, ensuring messaging aligns with campaign strategy and organizational priorities.

  • Work with the Sunrise Communications Team in moments of rapid response to quickly shape our message and create content

Digital Strategy and Coordination:

  • Coordinate with Sunrise staff, Sunrise volunteers, and partners to inform communication that educates the public on Sunrise’s political strategy, programs, and policy goals

  • Work with the Communications Team to shape narrative strategy around our campaigns.

  • Track goals and metrics for our digital work.

  • Work with Sunrise program staff to support digital strategies for our various organizing programs and tell the story of local campaigns.


Coaching, Training, and Movement Building

  • Develop and lead hub volunteers to create storytelling strategies for their local campaigns

  • Design and facilitate trainings, resources, and coaching that build digital communications skills across hubs and national programs.

  • Evaluate the effectiveness of coaching and training programs and recommend improvements to increase movement digital capacity.

Requirements

Must Haves

  • 2 years of experience in digital and communications in movement spaces

  • Excellent copy writer for email, SMS, and social media

  • Experience framing sharp narratives to support campaigns

  • Political fluency, with the ability to analyze and respond to current events from a strategic, movement-aligned perspective

  • Grounded in the connections between climate, economic, and racial justice and able to speak fluently to the intersections of these issues, familiarity with the Green New Deal

  • Commitment to movement-building and political education, with an understanding of progressive narratives and organizing strategies

  • Intermediate graphic design skills, fluency with Canva

Nice To Haves

  • Experience running an email campaign and/or program

  • Advanced graphic design skills, proficiency with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Figma

  • Experience with platforms like EveryAction, ActionNetwork, ActBlue, and Mobilize. Comfortable using CRMs to evaluate data, address technical issues, and improve digital programs.

  • Experience creating video content, particularly for TikTok and Instagram

  • Strong on-camera presence and the ability to communicate complex ideas in an engaging, accessible, and persuasive manner

  • Experience managing influencer partnerships or collaborating with aligned content creators

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