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Assistant Engagement Editor
The Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) is looking for its next Assistant Engagement Editor.
FERN, an award-winning non-profit news organization, has been producing independent, non-profit journalism at the intersection of food, agriculture, and the environment for well over a decade. FERN is currently seeking a highly creative, highly motivated person to fill the Assistant Engagement Editor role. The Assistant Engagement Editor supports FERN’s social media/audience engagement and will focus on creating and posting content across FERN’s social media/audience platforms and monitoring daily activity on those platforms, including audience listening and analysis. This role requires an ability to balance the daily work of posting FERN content across social media networks with sustained effort to stay on top of best practices.
- You’ll need to be a strong writer. You’ll be writing frequent posts for FERN content, which will draw from articles from our daily Ag Insider newsletter, FERN stories, blogs, podcasts, and more (even better, if you’re fluent with graphics, photo, and video tools).
- You should be dependable and consistent with your output, but also adaptable to the potential changes that come along with working in the world of social media.
Requirements:
- Two or more years experience in social media in a professional capacity.
- Comfort working in a virtual environment. Able to communicate well via messaging, as well as in video calls.
- Passion and enthusiasm for food and agriculture issues, and for reaching and engaging new and existing audiences.
Preferred:
- Experience in a remote work environment.
- Experience in a social media role at a non-profit or news organization.
- Experience producing video content, such as Instagram reels and YouTube shorts.
- Fluency in multimedia tools, such as Photoshop, Canva, ProTools, AfterEffects, or Premiere.
This is a full-time (5 days, 40-hr work week) fully remote position with benefits. FERN is a virtual organization and the FERN team is predominantly based in the Eastern Time zone. You will report to FERN’s Audience Engagement Editor.
Salary: $40,000-$50,000, commensurate with experience.
FERN believes a diverse, open and inclusive environment is essential, and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
To apply, please upload a letter of interest and resume to this link.