Industry: Online Media, Non-Profit

Position: Staff Writer
Location: Madison, Connecticut

Job Status: Full-time 


National non-profit consumer news and advocacy website based in Connecticut seeks an energetic and motivated staff writer to cover daily stories, work on in-depth investigations, respond to reader inquiries and tips and write blog posts for this growing organization that is capturing increasing national attention.

Candidates must have English or journalism degree or related field, demonstrated ability in WordPress and Basic HTML, as well as database skills such as LexisNexis, Excel, and Microsoft Office Suite. Video skills are a plus.
Candidate has to think creatively about compelling ways to present news online for consumers. Ideal candidates will also have a strong interest in consumer advocacy issues, experience in covering business news, and the interview skills necessary to ask tough questions of regulators, businesses and companies to get at the truth.
Preferred candidates will also have these qualifications:
· A demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative startup environment
· Attention to detail and fact checking
· Organization and time management skills
· Initiative, flexibility and a willingness to learn and take direction

Salary: Commensurate with experience.
Must be willing to relocate to CT.
Interested candidates should send cover letter, resume, and three writing samples to jobs@truthinadvertising.org
TINA.org is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes a diverse candidate pool.

W.W. Norton & Company is seeking an Editorial Assistant to work in the College Department. The position involves supporting the two editors of our college political science list.

Essential Job Responsibilities:
• Management of manuscripts in all stages of production- Sending manuscript to be reviewed by college instructors. Setting and adhering to schedules. Preparing manuscript for copyediting and production. Checking art manuscript and creating photo logs for manuscript.
• Telephone and message management – Professionally interacting with authors, college faculty, marketing, and sales staff to relay messages, follow-up on requests/information and in general, anticipating when to proactively act on messages (including relaying messages with a sense of urgency).
• Document management – Faxing, copying, printing, emailing. Organizing and maintaining files.
• Creating and editing Excel and Word documents to support projects and/or office responsibilities.
• Auditing – Applying for book ISBN numbers and copyright. Checking textbook and ebook prices across sources.
• Data Management – Extracting data from internal web based information portals. Aggregating data from various sources. Information gathering and following up.
• Coordinating text and illustrations programs.
• Corresponding with authors, college faculty, marketing, and sales staff.

Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Employment eligibility to work with W.W. Norton & Company in the US is required.
• Must be able to work full business hours.
• Excellent organizational, verbal and written communications skills.
• Must be able to anticipate needs and deliver timely, relevant solutions and actions.
• Must be able to develop rapport and relationships with all levels of employees. Must be seen as knowledgeable and capable of handling sensitive, critical information.
• Must be proactive, flexible and adaptive in a rapidly changing environment and adjust with a “can-do” attitude.
• Must be self-directed and independent.
• Must have good time management skills, be organized, and be capable of multi-tasking across departments, activities, and projects.
• Must be detail-oriented, making sure that all aspects of their daily activities are handled with accuracy, with minimal mistakes.
• A social science background and/or passion for social science and social science education strongly preferred.
• Mastery of email and calendar management tools, specifically Outlook.
• Proficiency in Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

CultureIQ is creating an online platform to help strengthen company culture. The Research & Writing assistant will help research and write original content related to company culture initiatives for our online platform. This is a part-time position until the spring semester ends and potentially a full-time summer position.

Elland Road Partners, a boutique NYC-based consultancy specializing in editorial and content execution, including journalism, is looking for one or two paid (!) summer interns to help with research, reporting, and possibly some short writing projects for our clients.

Applicants should be self-starters who are excellent at idea generation, interested in marketing, communications, advertising, or a similar field and, frankly, not boring (we are happily distracted here).

Start and end dates are flexible, but ideally we're looking for someone to start May 1, and work 10-15 hours per week through August 31. Pay is $10/hour.

The Communication for Education and Gender Equality (CEGE) group is a team within the Public Advocacy section of UNICEF’s Division of Communication (DOC) dedicated to supporting UNICEF’s priorities in Basic Education and Gender Equality.

Under the direct supervision of the Communication Specialist for Education and Gender Equality, and working closely with the other team and section members, the consultant will provide project assistance to various education priorities as well as administrative support to the CEGE group.
• Completion of tertiary education, preferably in a field related to the work of the organization, e.g. Social Sciences, Education, Communication
• At least two years of progressively responsible working experience, preferably in support of communication activities
• Interest in education and gender equality essential, experience a plus
• Strong organizational skills and drafting ability
• Demonstrated success in networking and working in a team
• Strong web skills. Experience with web content management systems such as WordPress and RedDot a plus
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Fluent English both written and oral
• Knowledge of French language considered an asset
• Knowledge of UNICEF and the UN System desirable
• Tact, discretion, initiative, good judgment and ability to work independently
• Ability to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment
• Ability to handle multiple tasks under tight deadlines

Etsy is seeking an Editorial Director who is creatively-gifted and business-minded to lead a team of writers, editors and producers. Your voice and editorial vision is authentic, fun, moving and relevant to our time. You are also strategic, building an operation and story platform that can scale globally to help drive a growing business. This full-time position is based in Brooklyn, NY and reports to the Communications Director.

We're looking for a star Social Media & Community Manager for W&P Design, the makers of The Mason Shaker (www.masonshaker.com). This individual will work directly with the founders at our Brooklyn offices, focusing on creating content for our website, blog, Instagram, and Facebook and also handling the day-to-day marketing efforts for the Mason Shaker and our other products. Our dream candidate is passionate and knowledgable about the food and drink industry; has a good eye for design, a strong voice, and excellent writing skills; and wants to learn about starting a company and building a lifestyle brand, while having a lot of fun doing it all.

Our Social Media & Community Manager will:

- Create engaging and creative content around our cocktails, products, and daily office life

- Develop and execute marketing campaigns over all our social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter)

- Assist with cocktail events and photo shoots

- Participate in strategic planning for the long-term brand-building efforts of W&P Design and The Mason Shaker

Ideal candidates will have:

- A creative passion for the lifestyle consumer/retail industry, specifically food and drink

- Proven experience with all major social media platforms, particularly Instagram

- Excellent writing skills

- Proficiency in the Microsoft Office product suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

- Self-starting work style and eagerness to succeed at every task at hand

My Visual Brief (http://www.myvisualbrief.com) is a design briefing tool with a mission to help designers communicate better with their clients. We are looking for a native English-speaking student or recent grad good at writing and interested in design to help us shape and grow our blog. At the moment our blog is very young and still needs shaping, but you can have a look at what we have so far here http://www.myvisualbrief.com/blog

You will be working together with our design researcher who will assist you with the research and provide you with the raw content so you could focus on the writing and planning new blog posts. Topics for writing include: design, styles, visual trends, design briefing, branding across cultures, interviews with designers.

Your main role will be writing but to be a good writer for an online publication you need to understand well how to optimize content for the search engines and social media. So we’d be expect you to be willing to roll-up your sleeves and help us with these aspects too, especially the social media marketing. Training will be provided.

This is a remote working opportunity for at least 10 hours per week. Competitive pay.

UNICEF, the world’s leading organization working for the rights of children, seeks a communication consultant to support evidence-based public advocacy through the development and implementation of key external and internal communication initiatives, in support of the organization’s vision and strategies.

As a member of the Public Advocacy section in the Division of Communication and working closely with the Knowledge Management focal point in the Education Section, the consultant will be responsible for managing key communication initiatives to ensure external visibility and internal awareness of the organization’s vision and strategies in education. This includes sourcing and repackaging case studies, publications, best practices, and other research or programme-based evidence materials into different formats relevant for public advocacy and internal communication. Issues and topics include, but are not limited to: Access and Equity in Education, Education in Emergencies, Girls’ Education, Quality Learning, Innovation and the Post-2015 agenda.

The consultancy includes the following components:

• Sourcing and developing story ideas for dissemination of research findings, best practices, and innovations in basic education and gender equality through UNICEF’s external and internal communication channels.
• Acting as a point person for internal communication matters for Education, managing and implementing key communications activities in support of the rollout of the new Strategic Plan 2014-2017.
• Re-packaging case studies, research and/or policy papers on education issues into different formats, such as one pagers, features and news articles, PowerPoint presentations and other content tailored to key external audiences.
• Supporting the development of key messages, talking points and communication materials on a range of education issues geared for UNICEF’s global campaigns, initiatives, and events in this area.
• Supporting content development and regular update of the UNICEF education web-platforms.
• Developing ideas for infographics, factographs and images to creatively convey research findings and education programmes’ results through both online and offline communication materials.
• Working with internal and external editors, copy editors, translators and designers and coordinating with PD colleagues for education-related publications, brochures and other communications materials.
• Contributing to other communication activities and deliverables of the CEGE Group as needed.
• Performing other tasks as required.
• May be requested to work on weekends and holidays.

Future Teachers of America has an exciting job opportunity for a student who is ready to hit the ground running as a professional multimedia journalist. You will begin doing print and video interviews with education, political and business leaders in New York. The contacts you make will be invaluable to advancing your career.

The ideal candidate must have great interview, writing and communication skills. You must have an engaging on-camera presence to produce compelling video interviews. We’ll pay between $25 and $40 per hour based on interview experience, quality of work and creativity.

This is a part time position with flexible hours. You can make your own work schedule. The start date is April 1st or sooner and work will be available during the summer. For additional information, send your resume with a cover letter to careers@futureteachers.org. Please include links to any online interviews that you have done.