Social Media Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colorado.

📋 Description

• Develop, oversee, and enhance a detailed weekly and monthly content calendar that aligns with organizational goals, campaigns, events, and timely educational news.

• Produce high-quality, original content including posts, captions, threads, video scripts, and graphic briefs.

• Manage and expand ACE’s organizational accounts on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn.

• Establish and maintain the CEO’s professional social media presence, primarily on LinkedIn and X.

• Write thought-leadership posts, video messages, and interview summaries; facilitate ghostwriting and approval workflows.

• Attend significant events with the CEO and provide real-time social media coverage.

• Ghostwrite and share live updates, threads, stories, captions, videos, and highlights on behalf of the CEO.

• Collaborate with organizational partners on coordinated campaign messaging across various channels.

• Monitor channels daily, respond promptly, and engage with the community, including evenings and weekends during peak periods or events.

• Develop and implement social media strategies for major events, encompassing live coverage, real-time posting, post-event amplification, and reporting.

• Schedule and disseminate content using social management tools.

• Coordinate with organizational partners, state teams, development, scholarship programs, and external PR/communications vendors.

• Track performance metrics, analyze insights, and provide regular reports and recommendations to leadership regarding engagement, growth, and ROI.

• Ensure that content adheres to nonprofit best practices, brand guidelines, and platform policies.

• Travel occasionally to accompany the CEO at key events and speaking engagements, capturing and posting content in real-time.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of progressive experience in social media management, preferably within nonprofit, education, advocacy, or political/issue-based organizations.

• Strong journalistic or professional writing experience with a proven portfolio of engaging, story-driven content; writing samples or portfolio are required.

• Proven success in managing X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn while growing audiences organically.

• Strong alignment with ACE’s mission, values, and founding principles.

• Experience in building and managing executive/CEO thought-leadership channels.

• Experience in managing multiple channels and producing content during live events.

• Exceptional project management skills and the ability to own strategy while executing at a high volume at a managerial level.

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, Communications, English, Marketing, or a related field.

• Technical proficiency and experience with Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint, Teams, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X, Sprout, and MarTech project management platforms.

• Experience with video content creation/editing and YouTube channel management is preferred but not required.

• Familiarity with education policy and current events in the K-12 sector is preferred but not required.

• Experience within a national or multi-state organization is preferred but not required.

• Willingness to travel 25–33% throughout the year.

• Comfort working within conservative or religious partner environments.

• Strong strategic thinking, hands-on execution, collaboration, emotional intelligence, professionalism, adaptability, and comfort with ambiguity.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual performance bonuses.

• Medical Insurance (with generous employer contribution).

• Dental Insurance (with generous employer contribution).

• Vision Insurance.

• Voluntary Life Insurance.

• HSA, FSA, Limited FSA, and Dependent Care FSA pre-tax spending accounts.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Free, employer-paid Short-term, Long-term, and AD&D insurance.

• 401(k) with a 6% employer match and immediate vesting.

• Monthly cellphone stipend.

• Scholarships for employees’ children who are actively enrolled in a K-12 private school ($3,500/child, up to $10,500/year).

• Employer-paid parking (in-office).

• Access to gym, café, and building security (in-office).

• In-office coffee, snack bar, and walking treadmill (in-office).