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The Life You Can Save aims to inspire and empower people to join the fight against extreme poverty. We are a dedicated and dynamic group of individuals who believe in the power of collaborative action in co–creating a world where everyone has an opportunity to build a better life and where there’s no suffering or death due to extreme poverty.
Our ability to reach our goals is only possible thanks to the commitment and persistent efforts of our amazing staff and volunteers. If you are looking to use your time, skills and knowledge to support highly effective charities, we invite you to apply for current openings to join our global team.
Are you looking to use your media relations skills to make a difference? The Life You Can Save is looking for a media relations volunteer who is able to develop and drive strategies that reach, inspire and engage people to support charities that save and improve the most lives per dollar. We hope that you will join our fast-growing meta-charity, founded by Australian philosopher and Princeton Professor Peter Singer.
Project Description
Working collaboratively as a member of our small global, distributed team, this volunteer position leads the development, implementation and evaluation of The Life You Can Save’s news media and public relations initiatives to reach, inspire and engage target audiences to save and improve the most lives per dollar by supporting effective charities.
Working with the team, this role develops The Life You Can Save’s key messages and products for news outlets.
This role requires an ability to build and leverage relationships with news outlets in a fast-changing landscape, manage reactive and opportunistic media across a diverse range of issues including crisis management, and work with the wider team to develop rich offerings for news outlets.
Time Requirement
- 5-10 hours a week on a regular basis, ideally developing into a long-term engagement.
- Flexible hours
Location
- Remote work, based in the U.S.
Skills and Attributes
- Demonstrated media relations management experience working in news media acquired on the client side (private sector or NGOs) or PR agency side, preferably with experience covering or advocating social issues.
- Demonstrated experience developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating news media and PR strategies and managing implementation across projects, partners and clients.
- Excellent contemporary knowledge of news media platforms, channels and sectors e.g. consumer, specialist and business, and the ability to tailor media relations activity to suit each.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including an ability to translate scientific and technical content into engaging copy for multiple channels.
- Experience in issues and crisis management across all types of media.
- A network of relationships with journalists, editors and opinion leaders.
Experience covering or advocating for poverty elimination or similar issues will be considered favourably.
Reporting to
- Executive Director
To Apply
Please mail your resume/ CV along with a cover letter to: jointheteam@thelifeyoucansave.org
Blogs can be a powerful force for social change.
If you are a blogger, we invite you to help create change by writing about effective giving and effective charities on your blog or social channels. When you sign up for our Effective Giving Bloggers Program, we’ll send you a voluntary writing assignment each month – write something, post it and tag us. By doing this you’ll help spread the word about effective giving. We may contact you about featuring your article on our website or social media channels- and possibly on our founder Peter Singer’s social media channels.
To join this program, please mail your resume/ CV along with a cover letter and a link to your blog to: jointheteam@thelifeyoucansave.org
