Communications Specialist - (12-month contract)

Strategic Implementation:

• Implement established communication plans and strategies that support campaign and organizational objectives, including in rapid response and breaking news scenarios.
• Support and organize team efforts toward communication outputs across multiple platforms, including social, emerging, and traditional media.
• Aid in the operations, organization, planning and responsiveness of the media team.
• Study and learn the issue areas and campaigns (with a specific focus on climate), objectives, policies, branding and messaging of GPUS.

Content Creation:

• Track breaking news and current events, and assist with disseminating timely information to the team during rapid response moments, in collaboration with the media team.
• Draft and edit materials including press releases, press advisories, op-eds, letters to the editor, fact sheets, and talking points.
• Coordinate between campaigns and social media team to draft and implement social media outputs.

Media Relations:

• Respond to media inquiries and coordinate interviews.
• Track media coverage, pull analytics, and provide monthly reports.
• Build relationships with reporters, producers, podcasters, and other news decision-makers in the United States.
• Create, maintain, and update media lists.

Internal Communications:

• Assist with briefing and training Greenpeace employees to act as spokespeople.
• Prepare and publish content across internal GPUS platforms, ensuring consistent messaging across departments, with guidance from Media Director and Senior Strategists.

This role connects Greenpeace's campaign messages and overall mission with key targeted audiences, helping to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions essential to a green and peaceful future through strategic communications.

• Minimum 2 years experience working in PR, at a media outlet, or as a content creator with demonstrated ability to secure earned media.
• B.A. or B.S. in a relevant communication field, or comparable communications experience.
• Strong writing/editing skills, with a focus on AP style, and experience drafting and editing content (e.g., press releases, posts/emails).
• Basic understanding of media relations, crisis communications, social media platforms, and Content Management Systems (CMS) and analytics tools is preferred.

Greenpeace offers a competitive benefits package including medical, dental and vision coverage with low contributions from staff, pre-tax flexible spending accounts for medical and dependent care costs, generous 401K matching, time-off for vacation, sick, personal, and parental leave, paid sabbatical after five years, subsidies for biking or mass transit, and commitment to staff growth and development. Salary range: $63,410 - $68,632.

Greenpeace is a global, independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest, creative communication and people power to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future. Greenpeace USA is headquartered in Washington, DC.