Atlas of the Future is looking for a dynamic and results-driven Community Manager based in Barcelona to develop and execute an exciting social media strategy.

We map innovative, future-focused, socially impactful projects and people around the world and our mission is to ‘democratise the future’. This means making sure developments are understandable and entertaining – not just in science and tech, politics or culture, urban planning or education, arts and design – but stories in every area of human activity. Here is some recent press.

We want you: You should have command of best practices and trends in social media marketing, enjoy being creative and understand how to both build and convert a digital audience into active fans and promoters of Atlas of the Future.

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Responsibilities:

Social Media Manager – Build and manage the company’s multiple social media profiles, including Facebook, Twitter and potentially additional channels (LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, Snapchat, Instagram, Vine, etc.)

Content – Create shareable content appropriate for specific networks to grow engagement that aligns with our brand.

Social discussion – Listen to and engage in chat relevant to Atlas of the Future, ‘democratising the future’ and the future in general terms – from existing readers, leads and new audiences. Empower the audience to give it a voice.

Community development – Promote, respond and take care of people who upload projects and engage fans in conversation. Help the community to improve their content and raise its profile. Build relationships with key influencers to create impactful collaborations.

Promote Atlas content – Reach out to the institutions and people relevant to each piece.

Explore – Look into new ways to engage and new social networks to reach our target readers.

Newsletter – Manage the MailChimp account in order to achieve the maximum views (manage the database, fill in the template, suggest topical themes and ideas.)

Analytics – Assess effectiveness.

Manage calendar – Stay on top of upcoming future-focused international events, conferences and hangouts to keep in the loop.

Source of ideas – We’re all about future-focused people and projects and encourage editorial enthusiasm. We’re happy you’re keen to write pieces for the Atlas to expand your online journalistic portfolio.

Editorial assistance – Ability to occasionally support editor with uploading on WordPress, changing the home page and occasional picture sourcing.

A robot could never replace you

A robot could never replace you

Requirements:

BA/ BS degree or equivalent work experience.

Active and well-rounded personal presence on social media, with a command of each network and their best practices.

Natural networker, excellent communicator and creative thinker, with strong people skills and an ability to use both data and intuition to inform decisions.

Organised self-starter at ease managing multiple platforms.

Bonus experience and skills include Adobe Creative Suite, demand generation marketing, inbound marketing, iMovie, WordPress and blogging.

Fluent spoken and written English – comfortable with ‘communicating’ in the Atlas voice and tone (see existing FB and Twitter feed.)

Passion for the brand!

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We are offering: Part time job

Position commencement: April 2016

If you are interested in working with us, send your CV/ LinkedIn to Oriol@atlasofthefuture.org (cc-ing lisagoldapple@atlasofthefuture.org). Please include the following:

– Suggest 3 projects that could be on the Atlas and meet our criteria of being real, innovative, long term and with lasting positive impact. See the site for examples.

– Write a tweet for each. Each should include the link, a photo and a sentence about each project in the Atlas tone. (See our FB and Twitter feed for egs.)

– Choose one and write 100-200 words about it in the Atlas style.

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We look forward to you joining the team.

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Main image: Brendan Ó Sé – Committed to the future