Summer 2025 Communications Assistant Contract
Terms of Reference
Title: Summer Communications Assistant (Contract)
Location: Remote. Open to applicants anywhere. The 10 hrs a week is flexible, but you must be available for some remote meetings and collaboration between 12pm and 5pm ET weekdays.
Contract Duration: June 16, 2025 to August 15, 2025 (8 weeks)
Time Commitment: 10 hours per week
Compensation: $2,000 flat rate contract
Application Deadline: May 22, 2025
Start Date: June 16th, 2025
About Us
The Center for Artistic Activism transforms advocacy through the power of creativity.
We equip activists, artists, and organizations with the skills, strategies, and resources to make social justice movements more effective, imaginative, and impactful. By integrating art and activism, we challenge injustice, shift cultural narratives, and inspire action.
Through research, training, and community building, we help changemakers worldwide harness creativity to combat authoritarianism, inequality, and systemic oppression. We work with those on the front lines of racial justice, democracy, immigration, climate action, healthcare access, LGBTQ+ rights, and beyond, empowering them to move people, change policies, and create a more just and joyful future.
At the Center for Artistic Activism, we believe imagination powers change and changes power.
Role
We’re seeking a creative and detail-oriented Summer Communications Assistant to support our content and campaign efforts. This role involves helping prepare and publish digital content, especially social media and newsletters, and collaborating closely with the Communications Manager to bring stories of artistic activism to life.
What You’ll Do
- Turn written copy into visual social media content using Canva, and schedule posts using Social Pilot, tag partners, and reply to comments and direct messages
- Prepare newsletter drafts in Bloomerang based on the written copy provided, including designing graphics in Canva and submitting test emails for final approval
- Assist with light content management and publishing via our WordPress site
- Upload editorial content, such as Impact Project stories, event recaps, etc., and help with formatting or visual layout
- Collaborate on scheduling, asset organization, and internal content trackers
- Attend weekly check-ins and contribute to content planning conversations
There may be opportunities to contribute to C4AA’s social media strategy, develop and implement creative new ways to reach our audiences, and delve into our archives to find and then share nuggets of inspiring artistic activism. If you’re full of ideas and passionate about culture change, there’s space here to go beyond execution and explore our archives, pitch creative content ideas, and help shape how we communicate the power of artistic activism.
The ideal candidate will:
- Have experience creating and managing digital content for social media or email and using scheduling platforms like Social Pilot or similar
- Be comfortable using Canva and doing some graphic design work
- Be interested in art + activism, and passionate about reaching change-makers
- Have some familiarity with CMS and CRM tools (e.g. WordPress, Bloomerang)
- Be detail-oriented and enjoy following visual and editorial brand guidelines
- Be an excellent writer, and can adapt text to different tones and audiences
- Have a small portfolio of work (this can include social posts, email layouts, graphics, blog writing, etc.)
How to Apply
Please send ONE PDF file that includes a cover letter (limit one page), your resume, and 3-5 samples of communications work (social media posts, newsletters, writing samples, or visuals) to [email protected] before 11:59 pm ET on Thursday, May 22, 2025. The file must follow this naming convention: LASTNAME-FIRSTNAME.pdf (for example, DOE-JANE.pdf). Please tell us why you’re interested in the position, why you’re a good fit based on your experience, and about the amount of your availability for 10 hrs a week between 12pm and 5pm ET weekdays.
