“Marketplace” is looking for a creative, dynamic social engagement coordinator.
We are the most widely heard business show in the country on radio or TV reaching more than 20 million people on air, online and on demand. We’re an innovative team in the middle of an exciting transformation that will allow us to reach even more people as an ambitious multi-platform organization. This is a place of creativity and unorthodox thinking. We don’t take ourselves too seriously, even though we understand the critical importance of our mission: connecting the dots to help people understand the economy and feel empowered to make smart financial and business choices.
“Marketplace” regularly engages our audience on-air and online, asking for questions, opinions, and contributions. Ongoing audience features include “I’ve Always Wondered,” “My Economy,” “Ask a Manager” and more. We are a public media organization, and we take great pride in the “public” part of our mission.
We’re looking for someone who can help us grow and reach more people by executing engaging and innovative social campaigns. You’ll optimize the editorial content that “Marketplace” produces across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and emerging social platforms. You have a strong visual design sense and know how to create content that pops in people’s social feeds. And you’re incredibly detail oriented you remember to fact-check and spell check before hitting that publish button.
Position Responsibilities:
- Concept, write, strategically schedule and publish content across all social channels.
- Help create highly shareable, mobile-first content for social platforms.
- Optimize stories for social in order to drive traffic and deepen engagement.
- Monitor conversations across platforms and manage the day-to-day community management with our audience.
- Collaborate closely with the Digital and Social Strategist to ensure executions are on-strategy for brand, positioning and voice.
- Stay up-to-date and ahead of the curve on social media best practices.
- Use data on a regular basis to inform how and why you post.
- Help cultivate and develop conversations between our audience, hosts and reporters.
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