American Bird Conservancy

Title: Digital Engagement Specialist Location: Flexible/remote; preference for Washington, DC area Communications Job Description: Job Type Full-time Description Title: Digital Engagement Specialist Supervisor: Director of Marketing Location: Flexible/remote; preference for Washington, DC area Salary: Estimated at $62,280 – $69,200*; Based on experience Position Summary: This is a full-time position with American Bird Conservancy (ABC). American Bird Conservancy is a fast-growing, results-focused nonprofit seeking employees with an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to make a difference for birds and their habitats throughout the Americas. Inspired by the wonder of birds, ABC achieves lasting results for the bird species most in need while also benefiting human communities, biodiversity, and the planet’s fragile climate. The Digital Engagement Specialist helps advance ABC’s mission by expanding and deepening relationships with priority audiences through creative use of digital products and channels. Leading the production and analysis of virtual events, the Digital Engagement Specialist creates compelling content that inspires, engages, grows, converts, and steers audiences in an omnichannel communications and marketing ecosystem. The position will play a key role in expanding the reach and awareness of ABC, while also motivating people to take key actions that benefit birds and advance ABC's mission, including fundraising, list growth, and advocacy. The ideal candidate has experience and proven success managing and/or hosting virtual and/or live events, using digital marketing platforms to produce emails, graphics, videos, and other forms of multimedia content, managing multiple forms of constituent engagement, generating content that meets key goals, and working collaboratively both internally and externally with colleagues, partners, influencers, organizations, and brands. Primary Duties: Virtual Events 1. Execute a comprehensive virtual event strategy that raises awareness of the ABC brand, engages followers, cultivates donors, and drives relevant actions to grow the ABC email list and generate revenue. This includes: a. Generating ideas and achieving internal alignment on regular live events that achieve cross-departmental goals and outcomes b. Coordinating logistics, including scheduling, production, and documentation, for multiple live events at any given time c. Managing and assisting event speakers, including relationship-building, scheduling, preparation, and follow-up d. Managing external event support, including live translators, including the hiring and contracting process, scheduling, and all associated preparation and follow-up e. Developing and producing digital assets to support and market events, including videos, emails, graphics, and presentations f. Providing technical and constituent engagement support before, during, and after each event g. Conducting long-range planning, scheduling, and relationship-building h. Defining, tracking, reporting on, and analyzing metrics, both quantitative and qualitative i. Devising strategies to consistently improve outcomes 2. Work with ABC’s Multimedia Producer to produce recordings. This includes: a. Capturing and editing recordings b. Creating short-form content from recordings, including both video clips and sound bites 3. Contribute to the generation of revenue, both restricted and unrestricted, through helping to advance an effective omnichannel marketing and fundraising strategy via live events. Social Media and Constituent Engagement 4. Work in conjunction with ABC’s Social Media Specialist to to grow and expand ABC’s social media platforms (potentially including Reddit, Tumblr, Discord, Twitch) and to support constituent engagement on organic and paid media across all ABC social media platforms, including but not limited to managing direct messages, comments, tags, and relevant discussions that include reference or connection to ABC. 5. Manage ABC's mobile messaging inbox. 6. Maintain, review, analyze, and regularly summarize quantitative and qualitative survey data on virtual events, regularly reporting on results and ensuring relevant constituent-generated content is accessible cross-departmentally. 7. Define, track, and report on metrics; analyze results; and devise strategies to consistently achieve growth in followers, impressions, engagement, and conversions. 8. Other duties as assigned. Benefits: American Bird Conservancy fosters a mission-driven, collaborative, and supportive workplace where staff are respected, empowered, and connected by a shared purpose. ABC offers strong benefits, a 35-hour work week, generous leave policies, and flexible, remote-friendly work arrangements that support a healthy work-life balance. - Excellent benefits package includes medical, dental, flexible spending accounts, and employer-matched retirement savings, flexible schedule, etc. - Paid vacation days (starting at 15 days annually and increasing to 20 days after 1 year of employment), paid holidays (including both US holidays and additional ABC holidays) and sick leave. - Lodging, meals, and transportation covered for work-related travel away from home where applicable. - Rental vehicle or personal mileage reimbursement where applicable. To Apply: Please apply online at Paylocity with your resume, cover letter, and 3 writing samples and/or portfolio. If you have any difficulties uploading your resume, cover letter, and 3 writing samples and/or portfolio then please send them as ONE document to HR@abcbirds.org * ABC aligns our compensation with local market rates to ensure internal equity and fairness across our distributed workforce. At American Bird Conservancy, we believe that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills makes us more effective. We are committed to creating a respectful and inclusive work environment for all of our employees. As an equal opportunity employer, ABC is committed to ensuring that employees and applicants for employment have equal opportunities regardless of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other factor unrelated to the requirements of the position. Requirements Position Requirements: - Bachelor’s degree in a communications-related field and a minimum of 3 years’ related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience. - Experience and proven success managing and/or hosting virtual and/or live events. - Experience cultivating and managing relationships with internal and external event stakeholders and participants. - Demonstrated ability to create engaging multimedia content tailored for each platform that encourages consistent engagement and conversion. - Experience producing marketing and fundraising efforts including emails and events using digital marketing platforms such as EveryAction or similar eCRMs. - Proficiency in creative and design software: Canva and Adobe Creative Suite including Premiere. - Ability to create a variety of video products, including fundraising and storytelling. - Experience with Zoom, PowerPoint, Google Docs, Trello, Slack, and other communications-related software. - Experience organizing and coordinating multiple projects with varying deadlines and multiple stakeholders. - Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills. - Experience analyzing success using social media metrics. - Strong list of successful social media campaign results. - Knowledge and application of current and evolving trends across social platforms. - All remote and hybrid employees are required to have a stable and high-speed internet service provider in place prior to beginning work for ABC. Our distributed work force relies heavily on cloud technologies, Zoom, and other automations to successfully complete our day to day work. The ideal speeds are 30-40 Mbps for downloads and 10-15 Mbps for uploads. - You may be required to use your personal cell phone to access ABC systems remotely. - Authorized to work in the US or Permanent Resident - Occasional air and car travel may be required with this position. - Background screening required Preferred Additional Skills: - Spanish and/or Portuguese language skills are a plus. - Multicultural or cross-cultural experience. - Experience working with non-English language media, especially Spanish-language media in the U.S. - Interest in birds, conservation, environmental justice, or related areas. Salary Description $62,280 – $69,200*; Based on experience

Production Specialist Flexible/remote; preference for Washington, DC area • Communications Job Type Full-time Description  Title:    Production Specialist Supervisor:   Director of Communications Location: Flexible/remote; preference for Washington, DC area Salary:  Estimated at $75,780 – $84,200*; Based on experience  Position Summary: This is a full-time position with American Bird Conservancy (ABC). American Bird Conservancy is a fast-growing, results-focused nonprofit seeking employees with an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to make a difference for birds and their habitats throughout the Americas. Inspired by the wonder of birds, ABC achieves lasting results for the bird species most in need while also benefiting human communities, biodiversity, and the planet’s fragile climate. The Production Specialist helps advance ABC's mission by supporting the essential operations and internal communications processes of the Marketing and Communications team. By effectively managing project intake, workflows, timelines, and scheduling; internal reporting; staff and vendor relationships; budgets; and other aspects of production planning and execution, the Production Specialist acts as a bridge between the Communications and Marketing team and stakeholders, both internal and external to the organization. The position plays a key role in ensuring that this high-performing team can continue to expand the reach and awareness of ABC and continue to motivate people to take key actions that benefit birds and advance ABC's mission, including fundraising, list growth, and advocacy.  The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented communications and marketing professional with strong project management skills, adept at balancing multiple priorities while maintaining clear communication, meeting deadlines, and driving operational efficiency. This role requires the ability to manage complex workflows, collaborate across departments and external vendors, and help maintain brand consistency across all marketing and communications materials. Strong organization, communication, project management, and relationship-building skills are required. Primary Duties: - Project Management: Lead the full lifecycle of deliverables from concept to final delivery, ensuring efficiency, consistency, quality, timeliness, and sustainability. - Workflow & Traffic Management: Use project management software (Trello) to manage, track, prioritize, and complete requests, tasks, and projects. - Resource Coordination: Allocate the necessary resources efficiently to meet tight deadlines. - Vendor Management: Coordinate with external vendors to build and manage relationships, including contracts and agreements, deliverables, timelines, and quality control. - Administrative Management: With oversight by Communications and Marketing leadership, maintain contracts, agreements, invoices, forms, and SOPs. - Performance Tracking & Reporting: Collect, analyze, and synthesize marketing and communications data for internal (e.g. board reports and staff communications) and external (e.g. grant reports) purposes.  - Quality Assurance: Help ensure all materials adhere to brand guidelines, legal standards, and high-quality specifications.   Benefits: American Bird Conservancy fosters a mission-driven, collaborative, and supportive workplace where staff are respected, empowered, and connected by a shared purpose. ABC offers strong benefits, a 35-hour work week, generous leave policies, and flexible, remote-friendly work arrangements that support a healthy work-life balance. - Excellent benefits package includes medical, dental, flexible spending accounts, and employer-matched retirement savings, flexible schedule, etc. - Paid vacation days (starting at 15 days annually and increasing to 20 days after 1 year of employment), paid holidays (including both US holidays and additional ABC holidays) and sick leave.  - Lodging, meals, and transportation covered for work-related travel away from home where applicable. - Rental vehicle or personal mileage reimbursement where applicable. Requirements Position Requirements:  - Bachelor's degree in a communications-related field and a minimum of 3 years' related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience. - Experience in project and production management that includes marketing, communications, advertising, and/or fundraising with a nonprofit or nonprofit agency. - Exceptionally strong organization, communication, and project management skills, including experience cultivating and managing relationships with internal and external project stakeholders and participants.  - Proficiency in project management tools (Trello preferred), digital asset management systems such as Canto, Google Suite, and MS Office. - Understanding of print and digital media production and lifecycles. - Experience with WordPress and digital marketing platforms such as EveryAction or similar eCRMs. - Experience with creative and design software (Canva and Adobe Creative Suite preferred). - Experience using digital marketing platforms such as EveryAction or similar eCRMs. - Experience with Zoom, Slack, and other communications-related software. - Experience organizing and coordinating multiple projects with varying deadlines and multiple stakeholders. - Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills. - All remote and hybrid employees are required to have a stable and high-speed internet service provider in place prior to beginning work for ABC. Our distributed work force relies heavily on cloud technologies, Zoom, and other automations to successfully complete our day to day work. The ideal speeds are 30-40 Mbps for downloads and 10-15 Mbps for uploads. - You may be required to use your personal cell phone to access ABC systems remotely. - Authorized to work in the US or Permanent Resident - Occasional air and car travel may be required with this position.  - Background screening required Preferred Additional Skills: - Spanish and/or Portuguese language skills are a plus. - Multicultural or cross-cultural experience. - Interest in birds, conservation, environmental justice, or related areas. Salary Description $75,780 – $84,200*; Based on experience

• In coordination with the Senior Writer/Editor, identify storytelling opportunities that demonstrate American Bird Conservancy's mission, work, and impact, and mobilize audiences to take actions that help advance ABC's mission, including revenue generation • Support and ensure adherence to editorial guidelines for web stories and other products, including guidelines for authorship credits, acknowledgment of partners, and protocols for updating content to improve brand voice and identity • Periodically audit web stories for updates to keep content fresh and reinforce ABC’s brand • Report, research, and write digital content with an emphasis on habitat and conservation practices, including but not limited to news stories and blog posts, and produce and leverage content that can be used across ABC’s communications ecosystem • Report and write additional content as assigned • Collaborate with Graphic Designer and Multimedia Producer to identify opportunities for compelling visuals, including videos, in web stories and other content; suggest visuals for use in ABC’s omnichannel approach • Research, write, and edit content pertaining to ABC’s conservation practices for habitat management and stewardship; convey technical information in an accessible format for a variety of audiences, including landowners • Participate in editorial planning across the division and evaluate opportunities to spotlight habitat conservation practices in a variety of products, including web stories, web content, and magazine articles • Assist ABC's Media Relations Specialist with press releases as needed, including proofreading and fact checking; evaluate upcoming news and support press releases with related web content when appropriate • Assist ABC’s Magazine Editor with magazine stories, including proofing and fact-checking, writing content, and coordinating related web content • Support strategy for print-digital interplay through collaboration with Magazine Editor; identify opportunities to leverage web content (including web stories and videos) to enhance magazine storytelling and funnel readers to ABC’s digital content; produce new stories and identify additional storytelling opportunities to support magazine content • Support ABC's Communications & Marketing team with writing, editing, fact-checking, and proofreading content used in a digital ecosystem, including web, email, social media, digital advertising, and more • Contribute to the generation of unrestricted revenue through helping to advance an effective omnichannel marketing and fundraising strategy • Work closely with ABC staff and partners to stay informed and aware of ABC's work and impact • Contribute to the further development of and adherence to ABC’s brand standards, organization-wide content strategy, and style guides • Collaborate with other writers on staff • Other duties as assigned

• Verify financial data in NetSuite for legitimacy, accuracy and allowability of charges • Create financial performance reports using data from our systems for multiple grants from Federal, State and other bodies • Rely on knowledge of and experience with 2 CFR 200 Federal Grant rules and regulations • Evaluate data from a wide range of ABC systems to resolve discrepancies, gain insight and make forecasts and recommendations • Apply donor restrictions to funding to ensure compliance and track funding release when funds received upfront • Review and analyze financial performance v budgetary line items for material deviation • Use knowledge gained to guide overall strategy and tactics to support ABC’s goals and objectives • Work with Program and development teams to understand financial performance and understand key trends • Explain trends and factors that drive variances • Assist with using such insight to shape programmatic strategy • Prepare and submit Financial Reports for federal, other governmental, and privately sponsored projects • Create invoices to be sent to donors • Manage various processes for receipt of funds from donors • Ensure compliance with all federal and state grant regulations • Coordinate across divisions and review submitted documents and submission of timely reports in accordance with sponsor financial reporting specifications • Manage timelines, deliverables and requests in order to stay in compliance with financial reporting requirements • Use judgement and deep knowledge of applicable regulations to support ABC objectives within the framework of required reporting • Review critical award information set up in the financial system • Identify areas of information that need to be updated and modified • Develop a level of technical expertise of ABC systems that leads to an understanding of the level of effort required to make these changes • Monitor subawards and the financial performance of partners • Ensure payments are made in accordance with agreement • Assist with external audit reviews and provide financial and project information for awards within assigned areas • Rely on knowledge of audit procedures to review and compile data for audit requests • Understand both financial statement audit and Uniform Guidance audit regulations and requirements • Assist in the preparation of annual budgets • Other duties as assigned

• Assist ABC’s Invasive Species Programs (e.g., Cats Indoors) and Advocacy teams with local, regional, and national communications needs that align with organizational mission and campaign goals. • Coordinate with policy and threats staff to create and implement communications strategies that target policy implementation and human behavior change objectives. • Identify opportunities for, coordinate the hiring of, and manage agreements with external vendors to help meet ABC’s communications needs in target markets (e.g., Hawaii). • Coordinate with division leadership and program staff to create clear, persuasive content for education and advocacy efforts, including but not limited to: Action alerts, campaign messaging, and advocacy toolkits; Fact sheets, policy briefs, and educational materials; Press releases, media statements, and Op-Eds; Website content and email communications. • Foster interdivisional collaboration and support, especially across policy, communications, and fundraising divisions. • Provide rapid-response communications during key policy moments or emerging issues. • Act as liaison with ABC’s Communications & Marketing team.