dandyhorse magazine is looking for a new web editor. This is a part-time position of approximately 10 hours per week working from home for a four-month term, with occasional team meetings. Deadline for application: April 25, 2014.
About you:
You have some writing/blogging/editing experience, you like bikes and you are
willing to learn and have the ability to focus your attention on details. The
ideal candidate would also have another job, and have experience working two
part-time jobs at the same time.
Details: The
web editor will produce approximately two or three self-generated stories per
month (including in total at least two Bike Spotting
sessions over four months) – leads, contacts and ideas provide (pitches always
welcome). PLUS you will copyedit and upload one or two stories per week from
other contributors. All stories must be posted to social media.
We work in WordPress and use
Dropbox and Gmail to liaise and coordinate with photographers and writers. Training
and style guide are provided.
Break it down: Approximately
3-4 hours a day @ 2-3 days a week for 4 months. You will be working with two
other part-time web editors. You will work with a variety of contributors; from
highly-skilled, established, regularly-published writers and photographers to
students and guest bloggers who work for bike advocacy groups or like-minded
environmental organizations who are looking to promote their good works and events.
The stipend is $300 with half
paid upon signing of the contract. Check in after first two month trial period
with publisher required.
You will:
- Gain experience editing and
producing stories for a magazine, online,
- Participate in marketing
campaigns and events for the magazine,
- Get copy- and web editing
experience, and;
- Help increase positive bike
culture, especially in Toronto!
- Participate in copy diting for print issue and
get a masthead title for our summer 2014 issue.
Other duties:
NEWSLETTER –this simple monthly aggregate or ‘round up’ of dandy
stories from the web and promotions (includes at least one partner/external
story). Done in MailChimp.
SOCIAL MEDIA: The web editors execute social media regularly, according
to dandy guidelines. Every story we produce must be posted to Facebook and must
be Tweeted twice and is the responsibility of the editor who uploaded that
story.
Interested candidates should contact Tammy Thorne at tammy@dandyhorsemagazine.com to
arrange an interview.
dandyhorse
magazine is Canada’s premier arts and advocacy cycling lifestyle magazine with
a bi-annual hard copy circulation of 7,000-15,000 (dependent on ad revenue). dandyhorse
magazine dot com received about 10,000 page views each and every month and we
have over 2,500 followers on Twitter.
