Audience Engagement Associate

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the 100-year-old news organization covering the Jewish world, seeks an Audience Engagement Associate to help distribute and promote our reporting, grow our audience, develop our community of readers, and make our journalism shine for digital news consumers. We're looking for somebody with an engaging voice who can adapt to a variety of styles and content, including everything from breaking news and politics to first-person essays, culture, and more. This person must also be willing and excited to try new platforms and techniques, keep up with what's new and exciting in social media, and be comfortable working collaboratively and autonomously. This position reports to the Director of Audience Development at 70 Faces Media, and works closely with JTA’s editor-in-chief.

Job Responsibilities:

Maintaining JTA’s presence on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and emerging platforms as appropriate.
Develop engaged communities of readers on JTA social channels, by creating content that resonates with our audiences, responding to readers and driving conversation.
Produce emails to deliver content to our audience and identify and execute on opportunities to engage subscribers through email
Manage some special projects and digital events so they achieve our editorial and engagement goals
Use site analytics to understand our audience and share takeaways and recommendations with our editorial teams.
Source ideas and insights from our communities of readers through social and direct outreach, and identify opportunities to reflect readers’ interests, questions and contributions in our coverage
Lead and participate in additional community engagement projects as they arise