A Little Beacon Blog is Hiring - Part Time Editorial/Production Assistant
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We're hiring! Looking for a part time editorial production assistant to help keep A Little Beacon Blog up to date with guides, social media, and some graphics work. Ideal candidate lives in or near Beacon, and loves Beacon and all of the neat things going on here. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to experience the business of blogging, and what's involved with running and growing a blog, which is one of today's most trusted media sources by readers. This is a production position, so some writing skills are required, but mainly in the form of writing descriptions of classes or events and short social media posts. Familiarity with social media such as Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook is a must. You will be working virtually at your location, so self-motivation and dedication is a must. This is contract, part-time work.
Responsibilities include (but not limited to):
BONUS:
If you have graphic design skills, this job can involve some low level designing for a different rate.
If this floats your boat, please email Katie@alittlebeaconblog.com with your interest, why you want this job and why you'd be great at it.
We're hiring! Looking for a part time editorial production assistant to help keep A Little Beacon Blog up to date with guides, social media, and some graphics work. Ideal candidate lives in or near Beacon, and loves Beacon and all of the neat things going on here. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to experience the business of blogging, and what's involved with running and growing a blog, which is one of today's most trusted media sources by readers. This is a production position, so some writing skills are required, but mainly in the form of writing descriptions of classes or events and short social media posts. Familiarity with social media such as Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook is a must. You will be working virtually at your location, so self-motivation and dedication is a must. This is contract, part-time work.
Responsibilities include (but not limited to):
- Researching current dates for Guide pages, such as Kids Classes, Weekend Festivals, Best Brunches in Beacon, Swimming Classes for Adults and Kids, etc. and making edits to those Guide pages on the blog.
- Linking and writing some descriptive copy for Guide pages.
- Pinning blog posts to pin boards in Pinterest.
- Scheduling photo and plain text tweets in Twitter.
- Bonus (but not required)! If you have graphic skills and can crop photos using a basic photo applications like Preview and Grab (in Macs) and creating photo collages using Fotor.
BONUS:
If you have graphic design skills, this job can involve some low level designing for a different rate.
- Design banner ads for sponsors who place ads on A Little Beacon Blog.
- Design branded graphics for A Little Beacon Blog to feature special Categories and highlighted pages.
If this floats your boat, please email Katie@alittlebeaconblog.com with your interest, why you want this job and why you'd be great at it.
