Responsibilities

• Write, schedule, and optimize daily posts across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X/Twitter, and emerging platforms like Threads, Bluesky and Reddit
• Translate Out's journalism into compelling social formats that drive engagement, community trust, and traffic
• Produce Out's daily flagship newsletter
• Assist with producing social video from concept to publish, collaborating with Out's editorial stakeholders and Video Lead
• Collaborate with editors on rollout plans for tentpoles, covers and special editorial packages
• Pitch social-first storytelling ideas that extend our reporting and mission
• Monitor LGBTQ+ news cycles and analytics to identify storytelling opportunities on and off platform
• Build creative assets for various social platforms when necessary
• Develop social calendars aligned with editorial plans, major cultural events, tentpoles, and sponsored campaigns
• Ensure talent, partners, and contributors are amplified appropriately across channels

Requirements

• Demonstrated success growing social media and building community engagement for a newsroom or media publisher
• Strong editorial judgment and writing skills
• Fluency in social video formats and editing video for social media; Must be open to appearing on camera
• Familiarity with analytics tools and ability to translate insights into strategy
• Organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable juggling multiple deadlines
• Self-starting, positive collaborator with a solutions-oriented mindset
• Ability to work some evenings and weekends as needed