Job title: Community & Content Strategist
Company information:
Name: CommonSource
Location: San Francisco, CA
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Job title: Community & Content Strategist
Location: San Francisco, CA
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Nonprofit Online Magazine Seeks Community & Content Strategist.
Are you interested in redefining the good life in a way thats in line
with the needs of people and planet? Do you want to guide people to an
emerging, positive future that prioritizes sharing, community
self-sufficiency, and well-being? Do you want to build a movement?
Tasks to include:
Your main responsibility will be to build a community to support the
operation of the magazine. You will use open source practices to achieve
your goals. The goal of the community is to bring sharing as a lifestyle
into the mainstream and create a useful how-to resource for those
interested in sharing.
Online Organizer (40%)
-Develop strategies that increase engagement in cause & catalyze action
-Develop a community to create and promote the magazine
-Create content and distribution partnerships with key sites
-Grow the magazines social media community, RSS feed, and e-mail list
-Foster intelligent dialog on the site
-Develop earned revenue model & establish new distribution channels
Editor (40%)
-Develop editorial strategies that bring our point of view into the
mainstream
-Shape the site into a useful resource for those interested in sharing
-Manage the day-to-day production of a provocative, high quality stream
of content
-Scan media for relevant stories to respond to or republish on Shareable
-Assign, edit & develop important pieces
-Manage editorial budget and all administration related to editorial
functions
-Optimize editorial based ongoing analysis of traffic
-Engage key project stakeholders on editorial issues with project director
Writer (20%):
-Write key thought pieces to round out the magazines point of view
-Regularly contribute posts that track projects, current events & people
in the movement
About the candidate:
-At least one year online community management experience
-At least two years professional experience as editor and writer
-At least a Bachelors degree in English, Journalism, or related field
-A demonstrated interest in our topic area
-An experienced blogger, social media user, and multimedia content producer
-Ability to prioritize and deliver on deadline
-Excellent attention to detail
-Demonstrated thought leadership
-Experience addressing a young adult audience
-Self-starter used to a startup environment
About the organization:
CommonSource is a Tides Center project and publisher of Shareable
Magazine. Shareable promotes sharing as empowering lifestyle & high
impact social change strategy. CommonSource is an equal opportunity
employer. We strongly encourage and seek applications from women, people
of color, including bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as
members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities.
Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion,
sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, political affiliation,
sexual orientation, gender identity, color, marital status, medical
condition (cancer-related) or conditions Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related conditions (ARC). Reasonable
accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may
participate in the application process. Please advise in writing of
special needs at the time of application. Learn more about Shareable at
. How to Apply: Please follow these instructions to apply:
Send a one page e-mail application to [click on "Apply Online" button]
with the following:
-APPLICANT: COMMUNITY & CONTENT STRATEGIST in the subject line
-A brief cover letter in the body of the e-mail no more than three
paragraphs long
-E-mail should be more than one page when printed out
-PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE ATTACHMENTS
-Below your signature include the following:
-one link to an online resume
-Up to three links to sample articles most like those on Shareable.net
-And one sentence about salary requirements
Note: Shareable is San Francisco Bay Area based, but is considering
applications from other cities in the United States.
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