We are looking for the next dedicated leader for Convention of States Arkansas Communications Coordinator. If you love leading great people and managing awesome technical communications,
As a State Communications Coordinator, you will be primarily responsible for leading a team of volunteers to create and execute all aspects of statewide communications.
The SCC will work collaboratively and manage all members of their state’s COMMS team. This team consists of:
- Facebook Editor Coordinator - Helps manage and post content for the State Facebook page.
- Content Writer - Tasked with generating web content at least once per week.
- Social Media Warrior (SMW) Team Coordinator - The SMWTC helps the SCC manage the state’s team of SMWs to go on targeted missions to support state strategy. SMWs are tasked with reaching, teaching, and activating people for COS using the power of social media.
- State Videographer - Gathers photos and video at important Convention of States Project events in your state.
- Media Liaison - Communicates Convention of States Project state and national news to journalists within the state and secures interviews.
Duties of the State Communications Coordinator include:
- Be the state COMMS team’s liaison to the state executive team. Proactively (at least once a week) communicate with your state leadership team to stay up-to-date with state strategy and identify promotional opportunities. You will need to know about upcoming events, call to action, and what plans the state team is working on.
- Regularly communicate with your state COMMS team and direct them to take actions based on the state’s promotional opportunities and digital strategy.
- Manage state strategy for the COS website, including at least one new article per week (i.e. local COS news, calls to action, and event RSVP pages).
- Assist in managing your state's Facebook page.
Assist in creating state-level emails. - Participate in weekly training with national Digital Director.
- Be active on the COS COMMS and state Slack teams.
- Attend calls involving state leadership and national COMMS training.
- Lead the weekly State COMMS Team call. Be available to SCT members to support their efforts and maintain organizational management of the SCT.
- Coordinate with State Videographers. You will communicate with them about current projects, upcoming events, and support them in their role.
- Coordinate with the Media Liaison. You will communicate with them about state messaging, what local media outlets are being targeted, how does this fit into the statewide strategy, placing letters to the editor, etc.
- Coordinate with Facebook Editor: Is state-level content being posted regularly? Direct him/her to post current, relevant state content. Follow COSU course directions.
- Coordinate with Social Media Warriors: Direct them to state-level missions.
- Coordinates with Writer and other content creators in your state to post content to website at least once a week.
- Follow COSU course and Citizen Builder training instructions
Steps into the gap whenever there is a need. - You should have Editor privileges on the Facebook page and create posts when there is no active FB Editor.
- When there is no available Videographer, you will attend an event to get photos/video or appoint someone and coordinate with them.
- When there is no active Writer, you will generate new content or task someone with doing that.
