Job Title: Public Relations Specialist
Location: Remote
This is a full-time position with full health, dental, vision, and retirement benefits.
Date: April 2022
The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) seeks a Public Relations Specialist.
FAIR is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to advancing civil rights and liberties for all, and promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding and humanity.
Here’s what we stand for:
- We defend civil liberties and rights guaranteed to each individual, including freedom of speech and expression, equal protection under the law, and the right to personal privacy.
- We advocate for individuals who are threatened or persecuted for speech, or who are held to a different set of rules for language or conduct based on their skin color, ancestry, or other immutable characteristics.
- We support respectful disagreement. We believe bad ideas are best confronted with good ideas – and never with dehumanization, deplatforming or blacklisting.
- We believe that objective truth exists, that it is discoverable, and that scientific research must be untainted by any political agenda.
- We are pro-human, and promote compassionate anti-racism rooted in dignity and our common humanity.
Job Summary
The Public Relations Specialist supports FAIR’s Communications Team in its mission to promote a common culture based on fairness, understanding and humanity. The person in this role will be a highly motivated and detail-oriented person who thrives in a fast-paced, start-up environment. This position reports to the Director of Messaging and Editorial.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Maintain a philosophical alignment with and be able to articulate FAIR’s pro-human, nonpartisan mission, values, and principles
- Work well on a team, being mindful of overall team and organizational goals and objectives.
- Help maintain FAIR’s identity and reputation
- Develop content and messaging for media outlets, including press releases, images, pitch letters, Substack content, and trend stories
- Cultivate and maintain relationships with regional and national media outlets
- Arrange for interviews and other media or event appearances for FAIR or FAIR’s stakeholders
- Respond to requests for information from media outlets
- Evaluate messaging and content to ensure alignment with FAIR mission
- Track, evaluate, and share results of PR efforts
- Field inquiries from the press and public
- Coordinate scheduling and logistics as necessary
- Other responsibilities as assigned
Qualifications
- Excellent communication skills, including well-developed writing and presentation skills
- Active listening, problem solving, and relationship management skills
- Comfort with a public-facing role
- Comfort with fast-paced and ever-changing situations
- Ability to set and achieve goals and meet deadlines
- Strong administrative and organizational skills
- Self-starter and independent initiative
- Ego-less team player with flexibility to adapt and modify work.
- Undergraduate degree in a complementary field
- Prior public relations and/or journalism experience is helpful but not required.
Computer Skills:
Requires knowledge of Google office software. Knowledge of database management, contact management software (Salesforce), project management software (Asana), and video conferencing software (Zoom) preferred.
To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to [email protected] with the subject line “Public Relations Specialist.”
