UPDATE: the role has been filled - tba shortly!
My company, The Futures Agency, is hiring a talented and creative Content Curator. This position is virtual i.e. not in our office, so you can be based anywhere. Start date is January 10, 2012.
The Futures Agency and its 25 partners helps companies, organizations and individuals to better understand - and then, act upon - the challenges and opportunities facing us in the next 2-5 years. We aim to develop and make tangible the most important foresights, and work with our clients to imagine and create their preferred futures. We are structured as a virtual organization with global reach, and offer a variety of unique and customized services to our clients, worldwide, such as think-tanks and seminars, keynote speeches and provocations.
To enhance our online presence and to better contribute to the conversations via our many social media platforms we are looking for a part-time, freelance digital media expert to serve as content curator for our various online channels such as our blog, our various Twitter channels, Youtube, Tumblr, Facebook and Slideshare.
Your role:
- Research, identify and evaluate suitable sources (including those run by TFA's partners)
- Publish the best and most relevant content (i.e. realizations, stories, bottom-lines and other valuable nuggets) via our various online / social media channels, as well as on our mobile apps
- Occasionally write summaries of posts and essays submitted by our team members
- Develop and implements strategies to build TFA's relationships and visibility online
- Follow new media developments and introduce new tools to enhance TFA's global reach
Your skills
- Deep interest and some experience in discovering future trends and delivering foresights, specifically in digital media, content and communications as well as in the topics listed below
- Excellent understanding of social media and online publishing platforms
- Ability to work fast and curate a large number of incoming content on many different topics (including video)
- Excellent command of the English language (you don't have to be a native speaker but flawless English is required)
- You must be able to work independently i.e. remotely with our CEO (Gerd Leonhard) and the team in Switzerland as well as with our partners, globally, and in various time-zones
Some of our topics
- The Future of Business
- Media / Content
- Social Media, Social Networking & Social Commerce
- eCommerce and Retailing
- Telecoms & Wireless
- Advertising, Marketing & Branding
- Public Relations & Communications
- Copyright and IPR
- Recorded Music & Music Publishing
- Radio, TV & Broadcasting
- Online Gaming & Virtual Worlds
- Film / TV / Video
- Print / News / Journalism
- Education & Training
- Cultural Policy
- Travel & Tourism, Future of Conferences & Conventions
- Banking and Financial Services
We offer an exiting, open and highly interesting work environment with a high potential for learning, self-realization and growth and are open to candidates from any and all global regions. This position is being offered on a flexible free-lance basis at an estimated 10-12 hours per week. You will be working from your own (home) office and bill us by the end of the month.
Please send your Resumé/CV and a brief summary of our qualifications for this position to [email protected]
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