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Remote

Roles:• Develop and execute mobilization and organizing strategies across digital and real world spaces• Develop and create compelling multimedia digital content• Engage and grow our community of 1,000,000+ activists, donors, and online action-takers• Strengthen the connection between our online and offline work, and in particular use digital organizing • Maintain and troubleshoot the team’s technical systems and digital tools.• Train and develop campaigners and organizers to implement smart, effective campaign tools and tactics.• Manage a variety of contractors and staff• Monitor news media and social media to identify rapid response campaign opportunities• Create compelling fundraising content and recommend new platforms that mobilize small donations to power our campaign work, and identify impactful fundraising opportunitiesAchievements:• Spearheaded the push for California to endorse the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, making it the biggest economy by far to call for a global Fossil Fuel Treaty. • Coordinated over 200 organizations in a successful pressure campaign to get President Biden to utilize the Defense Production Act to increase the production of energy tech crucial to a just transition.• Created and maintained key digital content and infrastructure for the SAFE Cities initiative, including but not limited to: • A brand new website • Automated texting flows to recruit organizers • Hyper local email-to-target engagement tools• Created a dynamic tracking system in order to build out a repository of policies limiting fossil fuels in the U.S. and Canada• Drafted and landed op-eds in major outlets like The Guardian and Grist• Generated 688,537 actions from 300,824 unique action takers while bringing in 150,990 newcommunity members

Remote

Roles:• Online fundraising - creating compelling content that mobilizes small donations to power our campaign work, and spotting impactful fundraising opportunities.• Working as a part of the digital team to develop and execute online mobilization and organizing strategies for our campaigns across all digital platforms.• Engaging and growing our online community of 125,000+ activists, donors and online action-takers.• Spotting and experimenting with new digital tools that could significantly improve the effectiveness of Stand’s campaigns - for example, messenger bots or peer texting programs.• Strengthening the connection between our online and offline work.• Maintaining the team’s technical systems and digital tools.• Training campaigners and organizers to run smart, effective digital tactics.• Monitoring news media and social media to identify rapid response campaign opportunities.Achievements:• Helped run and then eventually lead our small dollar email fundraising program, bottom-lining monthly fundraising cycles and growing it from raising $14K in 2018 to 333K in 2020• Lead digital organizing efforts for the Extreme Oil campaign that (amongst other things): • Defeated Trump's dredging project in the San Francisco Bay • Upheld Whatcom County's moratorium on new fossil fuel infrastructure by submitting hundreds of comments and driving massive turnout to County Council meetings • Created the Protect the Bay coalition in the San Francisco Bay Area, complete with website, digital assets, and 16 member organizations • Participated in multiple comment periods on pipelines, LNG terminals, and other projects with severe repercussions for frontline communities • Generated 347,555 actions from 178,597 unique action takers. • Brought in 93,115 new community members• Project managed the creation of our SAFE Cities map and digital assets

Irvine, California, United States

Ran Katie Porter's social media program during her initial run for Congress, tripling her social media presence and raising thousands of dollars from donations averaging $14.

Irvine, California

A nonprofit organization dedicated to ending our dependence on oil by opening the market to cleaner, cheaper fuel choices.Roles:Manage and execute tactics that support the strategic campaigns of both brand awareness and advocacy • Development and project management of digital content ranging from blogs, emails, and social media posts to researching and directing designers on graphics • Moderate and manage growth of social media communities and brand presence • Weekly site traffic analysis, reporting, and SEO optimizationAchievements • Creation of content responsible for 16% of total web traffic since coming on board (https://www.fuelfreedom.org/author/ntaft/) • Multiple campaigns that significantly boosted web traffic by as much as 86% week over week • Specific campaigns earned media coverage in Bloomberg, RealClearEnergy, Green Car Reports, and others • Created, wrote, and optimized 12 pages ranked in Google Top 10 for relevant web searches, five as first result

Irvine, Ca

A nonprofit organization dedicated to ending our dependence on oil by opening the market to cleaner, cheaper fuel choices.Roles:Worked with team members to research and write about topics related to alternative energy • Researched and drafted high-quality white papers • Website contributor, including copywriting and error-checking • Composed daily news briefs for internal staff consumptionAchievements • Researched and co-authored in-depth White Papers used by our policy team in meetings to educate high-level policy makers in regulatory agencies (EPA, CARB, NHTSA) and members of Congress

The college newspaper of the University of Washington that has an annual circulation of 1.6 million copies.Roles:Wrote multiple articles per week for Arts & Leisure and Opinion Sections• Past content available here: (http://bit.ly/NathanTaftUWPastWork)Achievements • Advocated for and secured weekly political columnist position for Opinion Section in the run-up to the 2012 elections, increasing readership

Seattle, Wa

The college newspaper of the University of Washington that has an annual circulation of 1.6 million copies.Roles:Created and managed content for the Opinion section five days a week• Supervised over 25 writers, providing mentorship and guidance• Led weekly meetings and assigned storiesAchievements • Incorporated new "Room for Debate" columns that became permanent fixture of the Opinion Section due to positive feedback from the community and section writers • Secured multiple full page, color spreads for the section that increased the visibility and readership of the Opinion Section