Location: Boston, MA
Position Type: Full time
Job Overview
Are you a refined and savvy technical writer who has a captivating and inspiring voice? Do you have a strong background in women’s health and a commitment to gender justice? Would you be excited to join an intersectional feminist organization dedicated to generating and sharing evidence-based health and sexuality information, for women and gender-expansive people?
Our Bodies Ourselves seeks a creative, collaborative, and detail-oriented professional to amplify our impact through compelling multimedia design and promotion. The Content Writer and Multimedia Specialist will develop essential communications for an organization that ignited the global women’s health movement and whose website has millions of visitors.
Responsibilities:
The Content Writer and Multimedia Specialist will educate and engage diverse audiences, expand our organization’s impact, and support fundraising efforts, while building organizational capacity. Their work will be on-trend and cohesive across all channels. Guided by the organization’s communications, marketing, and content strategies, they will create content that is dynamic, share-worthy, and cuts through the online noise.
The Content and Multimedia Specialist will create and manage clear and compelling, factually accurate multimedia communications for our website and social media channels. This individual will write lucid text and design powerful graphics to convey our organization’s perspective and values, using a distinctive voice that builds brand awareness. They will reach and expand target audiences, using data to adapt tactics and strategies. They will also collaborate on publicity for meaningful public programming, community outreach, and partnerships.
We seek a candidate who can demonstrate:
- Success in creating high-quality content for diverse public audiences
- Significant background knowledge of women’s health
- Outstanding time management, project management, and interpersonal skills
- Affinity for both collaborative and independent work
- Strong multicultural and cross-cultural competence in verbal and written communications
- Well-developed critical and ethical judgement to navigate potentially controversial topics and sensitive contexts
- Strong initiative and creative problem-solving abilities
- A commitment to gender, racial, reproductive, and economic justice
- Ongoing engagement with, and interest in, politics and popular culture
- 3+ years of experience working with non-profit and/or community-based organizations
You will also have well developed, specific communications skills:
- The ability to use consistent branding, messaging, tone, and style that align with an organization’s mission and voice
- Excellence in writing, developmental editing, copyediting, and proofreading
- Experience with multiple social media platforms and social media management
- Advanced graphic design, videography, and video editing skills
- Familiarity with website content management systems
- Facility with G-suite and MS Office suite software
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (such as Health Communications, Journalism, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) or equivalent experience
Additional qualifications and skills of value:
- Experience with media relations
- The ability to adapt complex health information into accessible formats like posts and factsheets
- Background in public health, community health, health equity, health education, global health,, racial justice, and/or education generally
- Fluency in languages additional to English
- An advanced degree in a relevant field
About Our Bodies Ourselves
Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS) is an educational, activist initiative supporting the health and sexuality of women and gender-expansive people. For over a half-century since the early publication of our landmark book, "Our Bodies, Ourselves," OBOS has grown into an intersectional and global feminist force. We carefully curate trustworthy, evidence-based resources and compelling personal stories, all framed by incisive feminist analysis on our freely accessible website. Alongside this trove of information, we advocate for sexual and health equity and reproductive justice. We are located at the Center for Women's Health & Human Rights, Suffolk University, Boston.
To apply
Please submit a cover letter, resume, and the names of three references. Also include an example of communications work you’ve created recently. All submissions will be kept confidential.
Compensation
Salary: $65,000-$80,000/year, plus comprehensive benefits including health, retirement, and tuition. Full-time, 12-month. Boston-based, hybrid work schedule, in person 4 days/week.
Statement of nondiscrimination
Suffolk University does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age, genetic information, or status as a veteran in admission to, access to, treatment in, or employment in its programs, activities, or employment. Suffolk University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. The University is dedicated to the goal of building a diverse and inclusive faculty and staff that reflect the broad range of human experience who contribute to the robust exchange of ideas on campus, and who are committed to teaching and working in a diverse environment. We strongly encourage applications from groups historically marginalized or underrepresented because of race/color, gender, religious creed, disability, national origin, veteran status, or LGBTQ status. Suffolk University is especially interested in candidates who, through their training, service, and experience, will contribute to the diversity and excellence of the University community.
Note: Research shows marginalized groups are less likely to apply for positions unless they meet 100% of a job description; please consider applying even if you don’t 100% meet these criteria. We highly encourage people from the LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities to apply.
Applications will remain open until June 25 or until the position is filled.
The salary range for this role is $65,000 - $80,000 .Salary Transparency
Suffolk University provides salary ranges as a good faith estimate of what it reasonably expects to pay for a role at the time the position is posted. The actual salary offered to the selected candidate will depend on various factors, including, but not limited to, the position’s scope and responsibilities, the candidate’s experience, education, training, and applicable legal requirements. The listed pay range reflects base salary only and does not include additional benefits or compensation.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Suffolk University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We welcome applications from qualified candidates of all backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. The University strives to recruit, develop and retain faculty and staff committed to educational excellence, the robust exchange of ideas, and engage in membership in a diverse and inclusive community.
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