About 108 ideaspace: If you are familiar with the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail's Globefund/Globeinvestor, Workopolis, you probably know about our team's work - we put these, and 100+ other major organizations online, from 1994. Or you might have seen us in over 500 media mentions, 350+ articles, 180+ hours of video, 19 whitepapers, and 7 books. Content is critical, and we are looking for a community manager/blogger to work on our content team, serving some of our more exacting clients. More about us at www.108ideaspace.com.
Community Manager/Blogger
This is an on-site, full-time opportunity to join the 108 ideaspace content team. The role is based out of our downtown Toronto office.
Qualifications:
- Degree in journalism, english, PR, business, or related field
- Complete fluency in English is a key requirement; Fluency in French or Mandarin is an asset
- Strong copywriting/blogging skills and the ability to evaluate and proof copy, with exceptional attention to detail.
- Excellent verbal and visual document presentation skills.
- Minimum one-year post-graduation in a community management or corporate blogging role
- Ability to work to a deadline
- Experience working with social media venues and tools
- Solid understanding of basic HTML, and CSS
- Experience/knowledge of SEO, WordPress, PPC campaigns, Online promotions, developing email marketing campaigns, Website analytics.
- Loves to write, loves to interact with the general public
- Self-starter; takes the initiative
- A nice person
- Write daily blog, Twitter and other Social Media posts post on behalf of 108 ideaspace clients
- Respond to community questions, encourage engagement
- Create email campaigns, email copy, landing pages, and A/B testing, to improve conversion
- Create inbound marketing and CRM follow-up campaigns
- Maintain video upload process and YouTube page
- Coordinate design and technology changes with internal team.
- Client interaction and reporting
- Copywriting and content development for client web projects
- Monitoring the effectiveness of marketing activities through website analytics and inquiries.
- In addition to client responsibilities, participate in 108 ideaspace inbound marketing campaign development.
Please provide a resume, along with a cover letter. Within the cover letter, please clearly state the following:
- Your compensation expectations.
- Provide links to your Facebook profile, LInkedIn profile, and Twitter handle; if you have managed a blog or other social sites on behalf of others, please provide these links as well. (We are looking for evidence of fluency, posting style, and judgement.)
- Answer the following question in one paragraph: “How might Social Media be used to help young families lead more healthy lives?”
- List your favourite three content curation websites. List three sites that you use to keep up to date in your area of professional interest.
Please send your
completed application to careers@108ideaspace.com,
with the subject line "community manager".
Application deadline:
March 7, 2014, 2pm.
