We’re excited to expand our small team and share this job opening! OpenNews serves a community of journalists seeking to transform newsroom culture and the way we use technology in our field. Our purpose is to provide spaces where journalists can join a community, learn from each other, and take lessons back to their news organizations.

This is a part-time, temporary role that we hope to make permanent as funding allows. The person who joins our team as community manager will support our work on Emergency Mode for News, a project funded by Press Forward, as well as OpenNews’ community initiatives. This will include but is not limited to audience engagement, outreach, and facilitation for community or project-related events.

About The Work

Emergency Mode (60% of time)

• Support Emergency Mode team with project outreach and engagement efforts
• Develop and maintain engagement efforts for Emergency Mode peer learning cohort and assist peer learning leader with cohort logistics
• Support with in-person Emergency Mode events (based on availability)

OpenNews / SRCCON Community Support (40% of time)

• Coordinate with team to establish organizational and independent goals for community-building role
• Research, surface and help us highlight community-aligned projects and resources for OpenNews newsletter and community calls
• Schedule, agenda setting and monthly / bi-weekly logistics for community call
• Collaborate with co-directors and Source editor to maintain internal publishing and content calendar for newsletter, blog and Source, as needed
• Present and share back at team meetings to review progress on a recurring basis
• Support with in-person OpenNews events (based on availability)

About You

You might be a part of this community already, or you may bring a perspective from a totally different field. If you have experience with engagement, facilitation, event organizing, project management, or working on collaborative consulting projects, those are all pluses.

Skills we’re looking for:

• Writing clear, actionable documents
• Comfort working in a deadline-driven environment and strong skills at balancing deadlines with ongoing work
• Strong attention to detail and tracking different facets of project planning
• An interest in open source technology, peer learning, and journalism is a bonus

Compensation and benefits:

• $67/hr for up to 15 hours per week
• All-remote team
• Flexible work hours and team-wide support for work-life balance
• Part-time, temporary 6-month term (with possibility of an additional 6 months)

How To Apply

If you’re intrigued by this position, but don’t feel like you have the precise background listed, please still do apply. You can reach out with any questions or if you need any further information to feel able to apply. As a small team, we’re excited to bring on someone interested in building community and in order to do our work well, we need to ensure there are multiple backgrounds and experiences present. We especially encourage people of color, people with disabilities, immigrants, women, and members of other marginalized groups in journalism and technology to apply. At this time, we are only able to hire people who are based in the U.S. and who already hold authorization to work in the U.S.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the team. You can apply below or here (to open the application in a new page).