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WTTW News (Chicago PBS) is seeking a Social Media Editor to innovate, expand reach, and increase the impact of news content through development of strategy and content for social and digital news platforms. This is a management level position.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• In collaboration with editorial, marketing, and digital colleagues, develop, refine, and execute social strategy and voice for news with the objective of achieving established metrics and audience growth goals.
• Pitch, create, produce, schedule, distribute, and test fresh, platform-specific social content for WTTW News including text, graphics, animations, and video.
• Be responsive to real-time social and search patterns; report on live events on designated social platforms.
• Create and manage audience-driven editorial and distribution calendar for social media content.
• Develop, document, and share analytics reporting; continuously analyze social performance and make recommendations for platform and content changes and improvements.
• Cultivate strategic external relationships with the goal of deploying a push-pull strategy to promote WTTW News content.
• Develop, follow, and share newsroom social media workflow, guidelines, and best practices.
• Supervise WTTW News social staff.
• Perform other digital production and website management duties for news as assigned.