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**A little about ourselves: **Freelancers Union, a national non-profit organization, represents the needs and concerns of today's independent workforce through advocacy, information, and service. We offer health, life, disability, and dental insurance, as well as discounts and other resources, to freelancers, consultants, temps, part-timers, and the self-employed. We're passionate about our mission to improve working life for independent workers – a community representing 30% of the U.S. workforce – and we're the people behind all those insurance ads with the beehive that you see on the subway.

We offer an excellent benefits plan that includes health coverage, dental insurance, a 403(b) retirement plan, and TransitChecks. Our offices are located in DUMBO, one stop in Brooklyn off the A, C, or F subway lines and one block from the East River and Fulton-Ferry State Park.

**Our Culture: **Beyond our mission, we're also passionate about and proud of the culture and work environment we've created. We believe everyone has an important contribution to make toward achieving our goals, both through collaborative teamwork and independent initiative. The atmosphere here is loose, fun, and friendly.

+Community Manager

We are seeking a Community Manager to be an integral member of the Community and Social Media team and provide support for online and offline membership outreach across the organization. The Community Manager will provide support for events, online community, and membership engagement strategy. The Community Manager should be a strategic thinker, a positive, dynamic person and a strong writer. Get more details here.

+Marketing Manager

At a time of major growth and change for our organization, including the launch of a national membership and marketing campaign, Freelancers Union is looking for an exceptional Marketing Manager. If you are a transformational leader able to build and strengthen our marketing function and can take new labor concepts and encapsulate them into unforgettable brand presence that comes to life through creative media, then this job is for you. We are seeking a strategic and organized senior leader who understands social venture opportunities and has a proven record of success in an entrepreneurial environment. You will be expected to maintain the highest level of quality as well as the highest level of respect for fellow team members, and is liked and admired by senior-level peers for your professionalism, leadership, and generosity of spirit.

This position is ideal if you are passionate about work that is greater than yourself and want to use your skills to advance a new cause. This position reports to the executive director. Get more details here.

+QA Engineer

We are seeking a talented QA Engineer to help test various online applications and services. We work with a diverse set of technologies and our projects span multiple domains—from health insurance to political action. You’ll be working on projects like:

  • Automated and manual testing of member and insurance web apps
  • Test infrastructure maintenance and ongoing efforts to increase testing coverage
  • Validation of data transfers, file transfers, and data syncing

Get more details here.

+Senior Political Writer

We’re looking for a Senior Political Writer who can tell a good story, someone with demonstrated success translating complex ideas into compelling stories. We want someone whose passion about the issues can be heard from his/her words. We’re a mission-driven, social entrepreneurial organization and need a senior writer on our creative team who’s a quick study and can generate ideas and write pieces that advance our cause in the brand voice. Our new senior writer will help distinguish us with essays, op-eds, and other writing that is smart and clear, interesting, memorable, and, when appropriate, witty.

Specifically, this senior writer must be able to relate our vision and work to current cultural phenomenon, demonstrating our relevance and providing a visionary voice for where we’re going. We need the senior writer to apply a historical lens, looking to the past for insight and lessons learned, not nostalgia for days gone by. The writing should be as innovative and gripping as the ideas that inform our work and the concrete manifestations of our success thus far. Get more details here.

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