Campaign Manager

Free Press and Free Press Action work to amplify the voices of people and communities in the crucial decisions that shape our media. We believe that positive social change racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology diverse and independent ownership of media platforms and journalism that holds leaders accountable and tells people whats actually happening in their communities. We work at the intersection of media and technology to strengthen our democracy while creating the way to a just and abundant media future.

The Campaign Manager engages Free Press more than 1 million members hundreds of allies and the broader public on issues within our mission focus on media democracy and technology including issues around the First Amendment surveillance and other topics. This position builds national and local ally relationships executes creative tactics and develops engagement strategies to advance our campaigns. The Campaign Managers focus may shift or expand to different campaigns and issue areas over time.

In collaboration with our campaign communication policy and cultural organizing staff the Campaign Manager provides oversight rapid response coalition engagement organizing and mobilization efforts and represents Free Press in public. They are responsible for fostering collaboration and communication internally and externally. The Campaign Manager develops and executes a range of campaign tactics and contributes to overall campaign development and strategy. They must bring an intersectional approach to our work that includes a race class and gender analysis in order to elevate the relevance of media justice and policy change. They pay attention to details and are able to manage all the little tasks that make campaigns effective and impactful.

The Campaign Manager reports to the Senior Campaign Director. This job requires flexibility in work schedule generally aligning to U.S. East Coast business hours. and evening and weekend hours during peak campaign cycles or in the lead up to special events. Regular local regional and national travel is required including multi-day trips.

Free Press is composed of two separate organizations Free Press and Free Press Action Fund. Both entities share the same overall mission and employees will have time assigned to one or both entities. This job description refers collectively to the two organizations as Free Press.

Primary Responsibilities:

Develop and lead winning campaigns: Anchor campaign planning development and execution in collaboration with the Senior Campaign Director other campaign and policy communications and other programmatic addition focus on identifying campaign opportunities targets asks actions and follow-up. Develop issue area expertise on the organizations core program areas and bring an intersectional approach to our work that includes a race class and gender analysis.

Implement campaign tactics: Develop and execute a range of tactics including digital mobilization content creation for emails blog posts and op-eds outreach and engagement with new and existing local and national allies and creative stunts. This includes implementing organizing power-building culture-shift and advocacy efforts that engage new and existing supporters coalition partners allies media makers journalists and legislators and that garner broad appeal and coverage of our collaboration with the marketing and communications team focus on growing our membership deepening our engagement with activists and advancing our broader race equity goals.

Coalition management and engagement: Manage coalitions to execute advocacy initiatives and other campaigns. Engage with allied organizations to cultivate relationships and partnerships with an emphasis on allies in the media justice civil and human rights pro-democracy and digital organizing spaces. Represent Free Press in coalition meetings strategy sessions actions and listservs. Anchor coalition discussions and strategy calls as needed. Serve as a Free Press spokesperson for the media as well as at events such as rallies protests panels and in lobbying opportunities with policymakers.

Communicate policy positions: From highly technical to very general to a wide range of audiences including staff and allies government decision-makers press and the general public. Participate in press briefings and assist with press releases and other public communications. Promote Free Press mission and policy positions through correspondence and meetings with policymakers and staff.

Content creation: Contribute to the creation of compelling public narratives and public-education materials for a variety of audiences to advance campaign objectives. Drafts email alerts social media posts op-eds and other outreach materials to inspire people to take action on our campaigns.

Advancing race equity: Clearly and consistently articulate an understanding of racial equity and structural racism and the centrality of this analysis to the work Free Press does and how we operate. Integrate that knowledge into work projects and interactions by addressing structural implications and disproportionate impacts of policies activities and decisions on race class gender and other group identities within the context of job responsibilities and projects.

Cross team collaboration: Engage through a consultative approach primarily with policy communications and program staff to address media and technology policy interventions; contribute to formulation of campaign and field organizing strategy.

Evaluation and learning: Stay up to date on the latest advocacy and organizing strategies and trends that are impacting policy change to benefit public interests. Attend conferences and trainings as needed and report back to Free Press program staff.

You will thrive at Free Press if you bring

• Dedication to Free Press mission of fighting for everyones rights to connect and communicate in addition to the overall success of the organization
• A commitment to racial equity and experience working with communities of color
• Value and respect for differences of race ethnicity age gender sexual orientation gender identity religion ability and socioeconomic circumstance
• Creative self-starter energy and you thrive at working independently with limited oversight to accomplish agreed upon objectives and evaluate results
• Youre also a team player with a low-ego approach to developing and maintaining collaborative relationships with both internal and external colleagues
• The ability to work under tight deadlines navigate competing priorities and effectively adjust work plans to respond to emergent challenges or opportunities
• Flexibility in work hours to meet work demands (i.e after hours when appropriate)
• Creativity strategic thinking and a commitment to excellence in your work while managing multiple projects and understanding that long hours are occasionally required to meet deadlines
• Youre a problem solver that remains positive tactful and composed under pressure
• You have excellent interpersonal communication skills
• You thrive in a predominately remote office environment including working with an off-site manager and you actively foster connection and community with colleagues located throughout the U.S.
• You adopt and maintain strong digital security practices
• And finally you have great attention to detail

Experience and qualifications required to succeed in this position:

• No minimum education is required; a bachelors degree may be an indicator of capacity for this position
• 4 years of directly relevant experience advocating for policy change as part of a nonprofit public interest organization or similar setting is required
• Experience designing and leading legislative regulatory and corporate accountability campaigns cultivating leaders and implementing key strategies and tactics to achieve campaign goals.
  
• Experience working with building and leading diverse winning coalitions
• Strong interest in media technology and journalism issues and demonstrated experience working on those or similar issues
• Experience supervising volunteers or interns
• Experience leading successful organizing efforts with a combination of online and/or offline organizing rapid-response work volunteer engagement political advocacy training and reporting
• Must have strong communications skills including writing editing and public speaking

Location: Home office in Washington D.C. preferred. Will consider a home office in the continental U.S. within an hour of a major airport.

Compensation:

Free Press is committed to offering competitive pay and generous benefits including

• Annual paid time off is a total of up to eleven weeks including vacation health-care leave holidays and two organization-wide week-long closures
• Group medical dental and vision insurance
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Employer contribution to retirement plans (no matching required)
• Flexible health commuter and dependent care spending accounts
• Paid family leave
• After 7 years of employment with Free Press staff are eligible to apply for a paid two-month sabbatical
• Stipends for business use of personal phones and for home offices
• All employees receive computers and equipment necessary for the job
• A flexible supportive work culture

This position is categorized as a career level 2 position in the context of five classifications at Free Press ranging from coordinator to executive.

The starting salary at Free Press for a Campaign Manager who meets the above qualifications is $77000 - $84500. Starting salary is based on the selected candidates qualifications and experience. To counter pay inequality and uphold internal parity we use a nonnegotiable starting salary system while benchmarking our pay to competitive markets in the nonprofit sector.

Covid - 19 Safety:

All Free Press employees must be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus or have an approved medical or religious/ethical/moral accommodation.

Free Press is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We value excellence and diversity in our workforce. People of color women people with disabilities lesbian gay bisexual queer transgender gender-nonconforming and formerly incarcerated individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.

If you meet some of the qualifications above we encourage you to apply or to reach out for more information. We know groups subjected to systemic oppression including people of color women people from working class backgrounds and people who identify as LGBTQ are less likely to apply unless and until they meet every requirement for a job. Therefore we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other communities who are marginalized.

How to apply:

Complete our online application. Fully answering the application questions is an important part of the application process; 4-5 sentences in response to each question will help us understand your thinking.

Our hiring process includes an initial 30 minute interview with one staff person one or two hour-long interviews with 3-4 staff members and reference checks after the final interview.

We provide reasonable accommodations for the application interview or any other aspect of the employee selection process to applicants with disabilities. Please email to request an accommodation.

Key dates:

Applications submitted by Sunday February 22 2026 will be reviewed with priority; applications submitted after that date will be reviewed on a rolling basis.This search will remain open until the position is filled. The ideal candidate will be available to begin work in April 2026.

Required Experience:

Manager