Love FOIA, investigative journalism, and finding creative ways to get the public excited about both?
The MuckRock Foundation is seeking a part-time (generally around 3-4 hours per week) social media manager to help highlight our ongoing work, primarily via our existing social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook, as well as help identify and execute strategies to ensure that our public interest work reaches a wide audience and has lasting impact.
The social media manager must be able to gain a sense of the MuckRock style and tone, as well as the ability to identify and build on interesting angles within our ongoing reporting efforts to schedule a several dozen social posts per week. You’ll coordinate via Slack with our editorial, technology and operations teams to highlight efforts across the organization.
You should have an understanding of the key tenets of ethical, fact-based journalism, while also able to convey important stories in a way that is engaging, interesting and often fun. In addition to highlighting MuckRock’s own editorial efforts, you’ll also (with input and suggestions from our team) highlight other fact-based investigative work, transparency projects and key opportunities and events.
Key Responsibilities:
- Help solicit and review potential material to highlight from the MuckRock team, including links to stories, trainings, resources and site news and updates;
- Schedule out regular social media updates via Buffer; reviewing, proofreading and editing completed work before posting; and ensuring that key team members have an opportunity to review sensitive or high-impact posts before publication;
- Help identify new opportunities to promote our editorial work and build a strong journalism and transparency community through our social media efforts.
This role is generally expected to take 3-4 hours per week. For special projects and major launches there may be opportunities to extend these hours on a week-by-week basis. Compensation starts at $20.00 per hour and does not include benefits.