Social Media Assistant

District of Columbia, USA (Remote)

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Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Grow audience for a nonprofit media brand by executing a platform-centric social strategy that publishes content, highlights events, and aligns with editorial guidelines to boost reach and engagement.

  • Scale followers and engagement by publishing content across the candidate’s chosen platform and optimizing posts for each channel.
  • Publish past and current content and highlight events to broaden visibility and strengthen brand.
  • Collaborate with senior editors to maintain editorial standards while driving growth.

Job Description

  • Publish past and current content on social media
  • Highlight Fair Observer events
  • Draw up a growth strategy
  • Implement this strategy and build the brand
  • Increase followers, engagement and audience
  • Liaise with senior editors and follow Fair Observer’s editorial guidelines
  • The main job is to increase our audience
  • The primary focus to begin with will be the platform of your choice: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or LinkedIn
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Fair Observer

Fair Observer is a citizen journalism media outlet. We publish all perspectives and strive to educate citizens of the world. Fair Observer is an independent, reader-funded nonprofit that engages in citizen journalism and civic education.Our digital media platform has 2,500 contributors from 90 countries, cutting across borders, backgrounds and beliefs. With fact-checking and a rigorous editorial process, we provide diversity and quality in an era of echo chambers and fake news. Our education arm runs training programs for young people on subjects such as journalism, digital media, sustainable development and more. In particular, we inspire young people around the world to be more engaged citizens and to participate in a global discourse.As a nonprofit, we are free from owners and advertisers. When there are six jobs in public relations for every job in journalism, we rely on your donations to achieve our mission.

Founded in 2010
Mountain View, California, USA
52 employees (43 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
208.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$70.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
60%
Direct
29.8%
Referral
7.2%
Social
2.3%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~52

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
41 (79% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$60K
Last Raise
$60K
Seed, 16 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2010
    Seed • $60K