Job description

ACT Communications Contractor Scope of Work (Part-Time, $3–4K/month)

Overview: American Circular Textiles (ACT) is seeking a high-performing, execution-focused communications contractor to support our growing visibility across policy, media, and industry platforms. This is a part-time, monthly retainer role for someone with strong media instincts, writing skills, and an ability to manage logistics across a fast-moving, founder-led organization.Contractor should be comfortable with 

Commitment:

  • Part-time contractor role

  • Monthly retainer: $3,000–$4,000 depending on experience and availability

  • ~15–20 hours/month, with flexibility depending on key moments (e.g., events, speaking engagements)

Key Responsibilities:

1. Media Alerts & Press Releases (1–2/month)

  • Draft or edit content in collaboration with founder

  • Send through ACT’s media list

  • Manage responses and follow-up coordination

2. Event Support (2–4/year)

  • Assist in coordination, communications, and event asset development

  • Draft event descriptions, press blurbs, and talking points

3. Founder Speaking Engagements

  • Coordinate logistics for founder speaking opportunities (travel/lodging/payment)

  • Support topic alignment, talking point editing, and positioning strategy

4. Marketing Committee Management

  • Help run ACT’s bi-monthly Marketing Committee meetings (with ACT members)

  • Support with planning ACT-led webinars, events, and collaborative promotions

5. Inbound Press Support

  • Support drafting or editing founder press responses and positioning

  • Help manage press follow-up and coordination with professionalism and discretion

6. Proactive Media Outreach & Pitching

  • Pitch founder thought leadership to relevant podcasts, panels, and broadcast media

  • Secure visibility for ACT’s larger policy and advocacy work

7. Internal Communications & Updates

  • Join ACT’s monthly all-team calls to share comms updates

  • Participate in weekly team check-ins (typically under 30 mins)

8. Media Coordination & Membership Alignment

  • Coordinate messaging with ACT membership where appropriate, ensuring alignment and professionalism

  • Maintain and help build ACT’s press/media contact database, with the clear understanding that this database is ACT-owned and maintained solely for ACT use

  • Support the founder in managing media and member-facing communications, ensuring alignment and discretion at all times

Important Notes:

  • This is a contract support role within a small but highly visible organization working directly with lawmakers, national media, and executive-level stakeholders

  • Discretion, professionalism, and respect for boundaries around ownership of media, member, and policymaker relationships are critical

  • All relationships cultivated through ACT events, projects, or positioning are considered ACT and/or founder relationships—not contractor-owned

You Are:

  • A communications professional with demonstrated media experience—this is not a fit for aspiring publicists or those just starting out

  • Comfortable leveraging existing media relationships and building new ones to support ACT’s visibility

  • A confident and collaborative communicator who takes initiative

  • Results-oriented, not just a strategist

  • Comfortable supporting a fast-moving founder and aligning your work to hers

  • Ego-free and professional—you’re here to lift the mission, not center yourself

  • A fast learner who can pick up complex and nuanced topics quickly

  • Ideally, you have working knowledge or fluency in one or more of the following areas: federal and state policy, circularity, fashion/retail, or domestic manufacturing. You don’t need to know it all—but you need to be sharp enough to dive in fast.

To Apply: Send a brief intro email to rachel@circularservicestroup.com with 2–3 examples of past comms/media work, LinkedIn profile, monthly rate, and availability through Summer 2025. Bonus if you include 1–2 sentences on why your past experience directly supports our mission.

ACT is a mission-driven organization with a high-output, policy-forward approach to circularity and textile reform. We are looking for someone who can match our pace with clarity, professionalism, and care.