Content and Engagement Director, civicIQ (Full Time, Remote)

Position: Content and Engagement Director (Full Time, Remote)

Organization: civicIQ

Reports to: VP of Community Engagement, Dana Schultz

Direct Reports: TBD

Location: Full-time, 100% remote position in the United States (from home or co-working space) with occasional travel once every 2-3 months

COVID-19: We take Covid-19 safety very seriously. Employees must follow our Covid safety protocols and be fully vaccinated and boosted. Accommodations are provided to the extent required by law. For employees based in the state of Florida and Texas, the COVID-19 vaccine is encouraged but not required due to Florida and Texas state laws.

About civicIQ

To decarbonize at scale and address the urgency of the climate crisis with action we must rapidly build clean energy infrastructure in rural America, with the backing of the communities who live there. civicIQ is a nonprofit founded to accelerate the clean energy transition by helping renewable energy projects succeed in two critical locations: the hearts and minds of their host communities. We build real, lasting local support, inspired by community organizing principles, rooted in hard data, fueled by direct human connection, and designed to move clean energy projects forward. We help developers succeed— community by community— in order to protect a future where our kids and future generations can thrive by replacing fossil fuels with clean energy infrastructure. We also work strategically with media partners to shift America’s clean energy story and the champions who define it to create the social license we’ll need to transition off of fossil fuels before it’s too late.

civicIQ is a digital media venture within Accelerate Change (AC), which is a nonprofit media lab dedicated to catalyzing new scalable and sustainable digital media models for citizen engagement. See “The Secret of Scale” for more on AC’s model for scalable citizen organizing read and see “The Promise of Lean Experimentation” for AC’s approach to experimentation using Lean Startup methodologies and other business strategies, both from the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

About the Position

civicIQ is seeking a Content and Engagement Director to design and lead our digital content strategy that educates and mobilizes supporters for clean energy projects—including solar, wind, transmission, battery storage, and community benefits. This is a role for a strategic thinker and detail-oriented doer who’s excited to build systems, collaborate across departments, and craft high-impact content that drives public action in rural communities.

You’ll shape narrative and testing strategy alongside the VP of Community Engagement, with significant autonomy over content creation, experimentation, and platform execution. This is a chance to influence how hundreds of thousands of people across the U.S. learn about and take action for clean energy.

The ideal candidate is a storyteller, strategist, and systems builder—someone who understands how to move people from curiosity to conviction to action. You might come from a background in digital organizing, creative strategy, clean energy advocacy, grassroots communications, or content marketing—and be eager to stretch across all of them.

Here’s what you could expect to do as Content and Engagement Director (key responsibilities):

Content System Design and Execution:

• Content Creation: Create and publish multimedia content including copy, GIFs, visuals, and short-form videos. This includes writing, editing, and directing high-quality, engaging content across SMS, email, video, and social, for a rural audience. Build and manage a repeatable content calendar across SMS, email, Facebook Messenger, and organic digital platforms.

• Strategic & Systems Thinking: Build a content system and spot high-leverage points to improve performance. Develop and test “evergreen” flows, content pillars and high-performing templates to streamline operations.

Audience Research and