Employment
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Digital Campaigns and Analytics Manager
Description:
The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s communications team seeks a Digital Campaign and Analytics Manager to own, run, and extend the Foundation’s efforts in the online and digital spheres. Applicants should possess an unconventional sensibility on messaging and communications, a keen aesthetic, a portfolio of work (written, design, online, or any combination thereof), an enthusiasm for liberty, and a conviction that Texas, in Steinbeck’s words, “is a nation in every sense of the word.”
Responsibilities and Duties include, but are not limited to:
- Direct Administration of Foundation Website
- Upload and distribute Foundation content to the website
- Daily maintenance and Quality Control
- Generating long-term website strategy
- Manage Social Media Channels
- Ability to craft and execute social-media campaigns
- Assess and push top Foundation content through Foundation social media channels
- Generate new social media relationships; maintain existing relationships and begin to leverage
- Train interested Foundation personnel in positive, engaging and brand-promoting strategies for social media.
- Monitor all media analytics for the Foundation, draw conclusions from the data, and make recommendations for future actions.
- Tracking Media Presence: finding, tracking and alerting to the Foundation’s media footprint
- Daily maintenance of media tracking services (Meltwater, TVEyes, Google Alerts, etc.)
- Regularly monitor, maintain and archive data inputs
- Be on the lookout for potential crisis communications situations, as well as communications opportunities
- Assist the Communications Director with media relations and team management
• Draft, edit and distribute Press Releases
• Assist in making pitch calls
• Generate and manage targeted media lists, and media list segments
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in public relations, communications and/or journalism preferred
- Work experience in communications or campaigns a plus
- Multimedia skills
- Must be self-directed, goal oriented, and able to manage multiple projects
- Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
- Must be able to work under tight deadlines, and be well-organized
- Understanding and support of free market principles
Please send cover letter, resume, salary requirement, references and portfolio to:
Greg Sindelar
Texas Public Policy Foundation
administration@texaspolicy.com
While we thank all applicants in advance for their interest in this position, we are only able to contact those to whom we can offer an interview. No phone calls, please.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan research institute offering competitive salaries and benefits to qualified candidates.
Now Seeking Applications For
Texas Public Policy Foundation Internship Program
The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s internship program provides undergraduate and graduate students with the opportunity to enter the public policy field and gain valuable public policy experience at one of the nation's leading free-market think tanks. The program offers individuals the chance to engage in hands-on projects with the Foundation’s professional staff in various fields.
The TPPF internship program is designed to be as educational as possible. Interns will attend staff meetings, meet policymakers, and engage in regular policy discussions. In addition to their assigned center, interns will hear presentations from each of our policy centers, and from speakers from other areas of public policy such as legislators, state agency members, lobbyists, etc. Interns also participate in a series called “Thinking Economically,” presented by Vice President Bill Peacock, on the economic principles at work in free-market policy research. Finally, at the conclusion of their internship, each intern will give an oral presentation and participate in exit interviews about their experience.
Operations interns will work with the Foundation’s operations team to learn how to effectively manage the day-to-day business needs of a thriving non-profit organization. Responsibilities include banking, mail, phones, and planning assistance.
Development interns will work with the Foundation’s development team to learn the techniques of fundraising in the competitive non-profit world. They will help plan and participate in development events and solicitations, help write and distribute development materials, and talk with donors.
Media interns will work with the Foundation’s communications staff in the writing and editing of press releases, commentaries, and other media products. They will also help track the Foundation’s media hits and appearances in the news.
Policy interns will be assigned to one of the Foundation’s policy Centers and work directly with a center director or policy analyst. Their work will consist of researching and writing based on the objectives of the policy center and current events with the end goal of crafting works to be published with the Foundation.
Applicants should demonstrate a commitment to free-market principles, strong writing and communications skills, and a general understanding of government and the political process. As well, prospective interns should be entrepreneurially-minded and possess the ability to undertake research, writing, and administrative projects. Full-time and part-time policy, media, and development internships are available with a stipend of up to $500 for part-time (fall/spring only) and $1,000 for full-time (any semester). In your cover letter/email, please let us know your preference for semester.
Please send cover letter, resume and a writing sample (if available) to:
Jaimie Ailshire, Office Manager
Texas Public Policy Foundation
