Job Description Dirt Mountainbike Magazine: Website Editor
Dirt Mountainbike Magazine is seeking a professional and enthusiastic Website Editor to produce and manage a stimulating mix of gravity focused content from the UK and beyond. The main role will be to ensure the website is updated on a daily basis and refreshed with dynamic high quality content, making Dirt the leading site in its field. Maintaining a firm link with the magazine is critical, as is the delivery of cross platform content to ensure the two grow.
Working relationships
- Reports to the Editor–in–Chief
- Works day to day with the Editor–in–Chief and Deputy Editor of Dirt magazine and the Head of bike content on MPORA.COM
- Works with Advertising Sales Manager, SEO Manager and Digital Director
- Will have line management responsibility for an editorial assistant
Specific tasks
- Produce and circulate both long term and weekly editorial plans to the publisher and advertising team
- Post at least 5 editorial pieces on average per working day
- Supply content that optimises the time each user spends visiting the site
- Ensure that video content is delivered effectively and is of high quality
- Ensure the site has at least five pieces of content uploaded each day
- Produce news and feature articles that are optimised for search queries
- Monitor and participate in the site’s forums
- Produce high quality newsletters to registered users
- Liaise/recruit/monitor the quality of bloggers
- Commission content from freelance journalists within agreed online budgets
- Assist with updating advertiser micro–sites where required
- Work with the sales team to represent Dirt to advertisers
What you will need
- Strong attention to detail
- Effective time management and strong organisational skills
- A thorough understanding of the target market and their online media behaviour
- Excellent verbal, written and communication skills
- Must have a high degree of proficiency with Gmail, Twitter, Facebook and other social media products
- A knowledge of the Adobe Suite for both video and photography
- Some degree of familiarity with web development and other digital content related applications
- You must be eager to learn and relish a challenge
- The ability to innovate and come up with new ideas that will benefit the long-term success of the website
- Must be able to work independently, using own initiative as well as working as part of a wider team
- Good problem solving skills
- A keen interest in mountain biking
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