Apply to fill our first digital communications and organizing role!

Digital Communications and Organizing Role (Narrative Communications Fellowship)

Location: Virtual (based in or with proximity to Oklahoma for regular access to in person events preferred)

Reports to: Executive Director

Status: Full time, 1 year fellowship (with possibility for continued work based on funding) 

Salary: $50,000 annually

About Freedom Oklahoma: Freedom Oklahoma advocates and organizes across Oklahoma and within the 39 sovereign tribal nations that call this land home to build a future where all Two Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and fuller spectrum of people whose sexuality or gender or romantic identity exists beyond a heteronormative, binary framework (2SLGBTQ+), have the safety to thrive. 

Freedom Oklahoma’s vision: At Freedom Oklahoma, we know that 2SLGBTQ+ people have been under attack on this land since it was first colonized. We believe that a critical step in creating collective, community-based safety is building power and engaging in advocacy for protections at every level of governance. We fight harmful policy attempts while also looking for the opportunities to build and move forward. It is tough and intentional work, and we do it imperfectly, always striving to do better, to grow our table, to make sure everyone in the community has space in the movement, though centering those people who have faced the most historic and ongoing marginalization and exclusion. As an organization, we will forsake popularity and funding to avoid compromising on behalf of members of our community. Two-Spirit, Queer, and Transgender liberation is the long-game. The 2SLGBTQ+ community is not a monolith, and therefore we as a single organization cannot claim to do this work on behalf of anyone, but rather we seek to do work with and among our community members, alongside a growing coalition of allies, towards our collective liberation, and until the community safety we seek is realized.

For us, the future isn’t just safe, it is joyful. No member of our community lacks the resources they need to thrive. We’re all clothed, housed, fed, and nurtured, together, by one another, as a community and a collective, not forced to subsist on individualism and resource competition. Because there’s more than enough if we all share. For our disabled relatives, there are no barriers to access. We all work on the -isms, both external and internalized, to grow beyond a culture of harm that maintains a status quo of cishet white power.

About our team: The Freedom Oklahoma team is made up of 4 full time staff and a rotating number of interns. We have been a virtual office since the end of 2021, and staff is based throughout Oklahoma. We engage in a robust schedule of community programming and support including the Name Change and Gender Marker Correction Clinic, The Freedom Sessions and Annual Conference, HIV Modernization, legislative education and advocacy support, The People’s Hearing, Trans Week of Advocacy and Action, Trans Day of Remembrance and Resilience, Youth Action Month, Inclusive Sexual Health education, research support, Virtual Community Groups, and direct response and support to community in the changing policy landscape. 2025 marks 10 official years of Freedom Oklahoma as an organization, and the return of our annual gala event. 

About the Role: For this role, Freedom Oklahoma seeks a candidate with a people-centered approach to storytelling and narrative development. We envision this position at the intersection of digital engagement and community organizing, with a focus on our 2STGNC+ community. The person in this role will engage in communications tasks, while building relationships in and among communities that helps tell the fuller story of what it is to be Two Spirit, transgender, gender nonconforming+ in Oklahoma, rooted in the lived experiences of 2STGNC+ Oklahomans. 

The person in this role will need to be able to balance working remotely, engaging with staff through virtual meetings, slack, and managing tasks through Trello. A disabled-led staff, we’re looking for someone who can navigate accessibility, and who is willing to navigate a pandemic-conscious work environment. We root our work in shared values, and our ideal candidate would bring a values based lens to this work. We feel like the person in this role is likely someone who gets excited about how to share folks stories, and doing community building with people, while also having a curiosity or interest in digital media trends, audience engagement, and narrative shift.  

What you will do in this role: In this role, you will help build capacity for telling the story of 2SLGBTQ+ Oklahomans and the work of Freedom Oklahoma. This will involve a combination of community engagement at and beyond events, working to build systems and tools to support storytellers, fundraising narrative support, graphic design, and engaging with tools in a variety of mediums to balance narrative development with 2SLGBTQ+ safety across a shifting digital and policy landscape. 

Qualifications and Skills:

• Familiarity with and a passion for working for 2STGNC+ liberation and among 2STGNC+ community. 

• Proficiency in Google Suite. 

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, in a virtual office environment. 

• Comfortable working with people of diverse lived experiences, including initial outreach and relationship building. 

• Flexibility to work evenings or weekends for events and community response. 

• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. 

• Comfortable drafting materials, receiving feedback, and crafting written and visual materials individually and as part of a team. 

• Interest in narratives, and how we most clearly and authentically communicate people-centered stories. 

• Strong writing skills, with an ability to convey complex ideas in plain language for maximum accessibility. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Passionate about 2STGNC+ liberation, rooted in the leadership and expertise of 2STGNC+ people.

• Committed to centering and building the leadership of 2STGNC+ people within the movement. 

• Proficiency in social media management tools (such as Zoho) and graphic creation (through Canva or other tools). 

• Basic skills in photography, videography, and photo and video editing. 

• Experience working within Everyaction. 

• Fluency in talking about HIV and engaging in public health education. 

• Community organizing experience. 

• Experience in digital and media accessibility to include image description drafting and captioning. 

Salary and Benefits: A salary of $50,000 with health care (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma) and dental (through Delta Dental) benefits, 3 weeks of annual office closure, and flexible paid vacation that includes 9 annually observed holidays. 

You’re interested but not sure you tick every box: If you’re excited about this role but do not feel you meet every single criteria outlined above, we encourage you to apply anyway! Research tells us that individuals from historically excluded and marginalized groups tend to self-select out of opportunities at higher rates. We are interested in finding the best fit for this work, someone who is aligned with our mission, goals, and values, and while we have a good idea of how we want to do this work, it’s possible that in drafting this description, we didn’t realize YOU were actually the ideal candidate. Let us have the chance to see if this is the right fit for both of us. 

Equal Opportunity Statement: Freedom Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer to all regardless of gender identity, gender presentation, sex, sexual orientation, race, national origin, immigration status, tribal citizenship, ancestry, marital status, parental status, disability, religious or political affiliation, age, veteran status, or history of arrest or conviction. We encourage Two Spirit, transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming+ folks to apply. 

Hiring Process Expectations: We’re accepting applications on a rolling basis, and will review a first round of submissions by December 13, 2024. We understand that the end of the year can make scheduling capacity difficult, and we hope to be able to work with candidates to schedule December interviews with the goal of a mid-January start date. Beyond the submission of the materials initially requested, we anticipate an initial screening (by phone or video) and a virtual interview, with a possible final round of interviews as needed. We will provide interview questions in advance of the interview space, and if we find the need to engage in any skills based interview work, will compensate interviewees for that labor. If expectations around timing or process change, we will communicate that with you in as close to real time as possible. If there are accommodations you need or clarification regarding the interview process, please feel free to name those with your application submission and/or by reaching out to info@freedomoklahoma.org with a subject line that includes DIGITAL ORGANIZING JOB POSTING. 

How to Apply: We’re accepting applications via JotForm. We’d like a resume saved as a PDF with a file name including your name and FOK DIGITAL ORGANIZING, and formatted in whatever visualization you find most accessible, that shares a brief employment history, any educational background you find relevant, and relevant details about your experience and skills related to communications and/or organizing, or any of the qualifications or skills outlined above. In addition to your resume, we’ll need something like a cover letter. This can be a standard letter that presents us with more context as to why you’re interested in and would be a good fit for this role. And, we welcome video, visual design, or other mediums sharing this information if you have a preference to share that information in some format different from a letter. The form will also request a best email address, phone number, your name, and pronouns, so that we can connect with you about scheduling screenings and next steps in December. If you have any issues with the JotForm or questions, please email info@freedomoklahoma.org with a subject line that includes DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS AND ORGANIZING ROLE JOB POSTING and we’ll do our best to get you a prompt response.