Community Engagement Manager; Remote

Job Category: Newspapers, Online | New Media, Public Relations | Marketing, Publishing, Corporate Publications/Newsletters,

Employment Type: Full time,

Salary: $75000-$80000 per year

Posted: 08.05.2026

This is a fully remote position within the US.

Muck Rock Foundation is a non‑profit, collaborative news organization that brings together journalists, researchers, activists, and regular citizens to request, analyze, and share government documents, making politics more transparent and democracy more informed. Our services, including Muck Rock Requests, Sunlight Research Desk, Document Cloud, oTranscribe, FOIA Machine, and more, provide a leading transparency suite used by thousands of newsrooms around the world.

Our platform offers tools to help acquire and analyze vital information, as well as a robust repository of hundreds of millions of vetted primary source materials and resources that help everyone understand how to put that information into context. Our Research Desk partners with local newsrooms to strengthen investigative journalism through collaborative research support, document analysis and public records expertise.

Muck Rock’s unique form of investigative and accountability journalism has been recognized by the New York Times, The Freedom of the Press Foundation, and hundreds of local and national news outlets for its groundbreaking work in areas such as COVID-19 response, surveillance, and public safety.

The Community Engagement Manager is the “front door” to everything Muck Rock does. They are responsible for the strategy and execution that connects our editorial content, products, tools and training programs to the people who need them and the audiences who support them. They make sure the content, tools and trainings reach and resonate with the right audiences. This role reports to the Chief Editorial and Programs Officer and is critical to Muck Rock’s growth, contributing to all of the organization’s strategic goals.

Muck Rock is a fully distributed team and this is a remote position – you can work from anywhere in the United States. Our executive team is based in California, Colorado, New Jersey and Philadelphia. You must be legally authorized to work in the United States to apply for this role.

Develop and maintain a forward-looking community engagement strategy with clear goals, metrics and quarterly milestones that account for all of Muck Rock’s audiences, including newsrooms, individual journalists, transparency advocates, data volunteers, donors and the broader public. Anticipate engagement opportunities around moments like partnership launches, product releases, dataset drops and events, and have plans ready before they arrive. Work with the Editor, Director of Training and Enablement, Head of Product, and Director of Development to ensure the strategy serves the full organization.

Own newsletters
, including For the Record and Sunlight Insights, driving editorial voice, subscriber growth, audience development and engagement optimization. Ensure that newsletters serve as effective distribution and engagement channels not just for editorial content but for product updates, training opportunities and fundraising appeals. Work with the Director of Development to ensure the audience is primed and engaged before major campaigns.

Own social media strategy and execution
, driving meaningful interaction. You’ll amplify editorial output, partner success stories, product launches, training opportunities, and Data Liberation Project releases, working with the Editor and the Service Design and Brand Strategist to maintain a consistent voice.

Build active Slack communities across the full Muck Rock ecosystem, including the Sunlight Members channel, FOIA community, and the Data Liberation Project volunteer community. You’ll make these spaces where member newsrooms have regular conversations with us and each other, where DLP volunteers are engaged and contributing, and where the broader community is interacting with our team and our work.

Drive traffic to Muck Rock’s news content, tools and events by owning the relationship between content…