Next American City Seeks Audience Engagement Editor

Job alert! Next American City is seeking an Audience Engagement Editor to help leverage our content for greater impact and influence.

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Next American City is seeking an Audience Engagement Editor for a full-time, one-year contract position. The Editor’s responsibilities will be split between developing Next American City’s domestic audience and developing the social media output of a grant-funded project based in six rapidly urbanizing cities abroad (Accra, Bangkok, Chennai, Lima, Manila and Nairobi). This international project will explore the interface between the formal and informal in local economies, infrastructure, healthcare and culture.

The Editor will work closely with our new International Editor to develop robust social media coverage of the projects underway in these six cities, while also working closely with the Executive Editor on domestic audience growth.

The Audience Engagement Editor’s primary responsibility will be to leverage content generated by Next American City for greater impact and influence. This means using Next American City’s online presence and social media to:

  • Build new domestic and international audiences through Next American City’s and partners’ websites, e-newsletters and social media accounts;
  • Engage local stakeholders in the direction of their cities by encouraging them to generate their own social media, which will be amplified by Next American City;
  • Create partnerships with international websites and distribute Next American City content on multiple social media platforms;
  • Extend readers’ interest in free editorial content toward subscribing to Forefront.

The position will require an Internet-savvy journalist who has:

  • Excellent editorial judgment and a sense of urgency commensurate with the 24-hour, international news cycle;
  • Experience using social media to grow engagement in urban policy (or other issues);
  • A passion for building audiences and meeting quantitative and qualitative audience targets;
  • Strong competency in using blogging software, social media sites and publishing multimedia content.

Next American City is based in Philadelphia, and prefers local candidates, but is open to candidates for this position who are based remotely, in the United States or abroad.

The salary for the year-long contract is commensurate with experience and includes health insurance and paid vacation.

All candidates should submit an application by email to info AT americancity.org with a cover letter pasted in the body of the email and a resume attached. Please make sure the subject line includes “Audience Engagement Editor.”

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Diana Lind is the former executive director and editor in chief of Next City.

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