Media Content Specialist

Job Description

Position Title: Media Content Specialist (Part-Time or Contractor)
Location: Denver, CO - In office with some flexibility for remote
Hours: Approx. 20-24 hours/week
Salary: Estimated based on a $38,000
Reports To: Creative Director & Brand Strategist

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly creative and self-driven Media Content Specialist to take our digital presence to the next level. Collaborating with the Creative Director, this role will lead the charge in growing our social media and email audiences through strategic, mission-aligned content.
The ideal candidate has a warm, approachable personality and a gift for connecting with people to uncover the real, human moments that define our mission. This person will gather content from across our ministry-our missionaries, friends experiencing homelessness, volunteers, donors, and staff-and turn those stories into engaging digital content that moves hearts, builds community, and furthers our mission of encounter.
The ideal candidate has an established ability in content creation, social media management, and brand storytelling-and thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative, and highly missional environment. This role will collaborate closely with our communications interns and missionaries to translate real-life encounters on the street into effective, inspiring content.

Responsibilities

Content Creation & Strategy

Build relationships across the ministry (missionaries, staff, volunteers, friends in poverty) to uncover meaningful stories, quotes, and visuals.
Gather stories, photos, and videos from CITC's activities, missionaries, volunteers, and events.
Consistently attend CITC events, Lunch in the Park, and occasionally join street walks to gather first-hand content.
Create and manage a steady flow of digital content (stories, videos, photos, testimonials) for social media, email, and web platforms.
Capture and edit visual / written content (e.g. photography, short-form video, or graphics) based on areas of proficiency.
Develop and maintain a strategic content calendar aligned with organizational goals.
Leverage networking skills to initiate and maintain content collaborations with other Catholic and nonprofit influencers, creators, or mission-aligned organizations to expand reach.
Maintain brand consistency while adapting content style to fit each platform and medium.
Assist with podcast recording and editing when applicable.

Audience Growth & Platform Performance

Drive the growth of social media followers and email subscribers.
Monitor analytics and adapt content strategy based on performance.
Research and report on trends in nonprofit digital storytelling and faith-based media.
Share insights and inspiration from peer organizations and sector leaders.

Collaboration & Team Integration

Work closely with the Creative Director to ensure brand consistency across platforms.
Collaborate with and delegate tasks to communications interns to streamline production.
Help implement internal systems for effective content workflows.

Brand Stewardship

Uphold and evolve our visual and narrative brand identity across channels.
Ensure all content is on-brand, audience-appropriate, and missional in tone.

Qualifications

Professional experience in digital content creation or social media strategy. (~2-4 years)
Demonstrated mixed media proficiency in multiple of the following: photography/editing, videography/editing, graphic design, or illustration for digital platforms.
Strong copywriting and storytelling skills; comfortable editing and proofreading.
Support initiating and managing content collaborations or partnerships to grow audience reach.
Highly organized and self-directed, able to manage multiple content streams and deadlines with minimal oversight.
Warm, engaging personality capable of building trust and gathering stories from diverse audiences.
Familiarity with nonprofit or mission-driven marketing is strongly preferred.

Christ in the City seeks applicants who demonstrate a deep knowledge and love for the social and the moral teachings of the Catholic Church, and manifest those qualities by both their ability to articulate those teachings clearly, and by living their lives faithfully and fully in line with the Magisterium of the Catholic Church and its doctrines, morals, and official teachings.

Compensation & Perks
$38,000 annually
Part Time Hours: Approx. 20-24 hrs/week.
Remote Flexibility: In-person work is required due to the way content is gathered; however, some flexibility for remote work is possible.
Occasional paid travel to Philadelphia and conferences like SEEK is possible for content collection.
Opportunity to make a meaningful, creative impact in a growing nonprofit.

Tools We Use (Covered by Christ in the City)
Adobe Creative Cloud
Canva Pro
Constant Contact
Google Workspace
Podcast editing tools (Descript)
Possibility of other tools to be added as needed

To Apply:
Please submit your resume, a short cover letter, and samples of relevant content work (Instagram reels, email campaigns, short-form videos, photography or graphic posts etc) to jobs@christinthecity.org.

About the Employer

Christ in the City is a Catholic non-profit dedicated to forming missionaries, volunteers and communities in knowing, loving, and serving the poor. Our ministry is unique in that we specialize in not only serving the poor but in knowing, loving, and serving the poor. We have found authentic friendship can transform a life and often affect the following types of change in a person, namely: Freedom from addiction, meaningful work, housing and reconciliation with God.