Rewire.News is hiring a social media manager to help us expand an inspired and interactive online community, and increase awareness, readership, and sharing of our work. The social media manager will create, edit, produce, and promote digital content. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with a great sense of humor who can function as both a one-person show and as part of the broader team. 

Preference will be given to applicants well-versed in the issues we cover, creative and detail-oriented, committed to evidence-based journalism, and able to move swiftly in a fast-paced environment. 

The Social Media Manager will:

• Develop strategic plans for online social engagement;

• Manage/create and increase our presence and profile on social channels like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and others through community engagement and by sharing content (original and sourced) with and from partners and like-minded individuals and organizations to help others use Rewire.News as a resource;

• Develop and execute social media outreach strategies around topical issues, specific articles, series, and themes on which we work – to include developing social ads across all channels;

• Curate, conceive, and create professional quality digital images and infographics to help promote content, ideas and facts on social channels;

• Monitor, moderate, and participate in conversations among our readers on various platforms; 

• Develop content-appropriate outreach messaging on a daily and weekly basis;

• Manage regular reporting and provide recommendations for content and strategy optimization based on KPIs, benchmarks and further analysis of content;

• Work with other staff as appropriate to create, articulate, and carry out comprehensive short- and long-term social media strategies, and to integrate social online efforts in tandem with our other off- and online strategies; 

• Build and strengthen our relationships with other online communities, writers, and publications in order to expand the reach of our content and community;

• Represent Rewire.News in social media, media outreach and at conferences and other events as approved and according to company policy;

• Perform other duties and projects as assigned.