What Does a Managing Editor do Online?

Cut and pasted from the job boards on ProBlogger.

We’re looking for a content expert/managing editor to help with our content marketing strategy. You’ll work with a very talented team of people all around the country.
Key responsibilities

Creating high-quality, compelling content:

* Edit and rewrite articles and other types of content for tone, accuracy, and brevity
* Being able to manage content creation across a range of media types, including written, visual, audio-visual content (blog posts, ebooks, infographics, white papers, interviews with experts, survey reports, videos, webinars, etc.)
* Identifying and managing a team of writers and other contributors to produce high-impact, high-quality content
* Supervise and coordinate work of writers and other contributors
* Hire other writers as necessary
* Ensuring content is produced to a high standard, on time and on budget
* Developing and managing a content calendar
* Repurposing existing content for multiple uses
* Assist with e-mail marketing duties
Curating high-quality, compelling content:

* Working with the marketing team to understand the subjects of greatest interest to Treehouse’s members
* Identifying and curating content that matches those areas of interest
Engaging and researching community and social media:

* Suggesting the places where high-quality, compelling content can be promoted
* Planning, writing and managing social media posts including link posting, participating in conversation, commenting on content produced by others
* Planning and managing activities aiming to generate traffic from social media

Desired Skills & ExperienceAt least 3 to 5 years of proven experience in content editing and web-based content creation. Skills of copyediting, copywriting, and project management are a requirement.

Content editor experience:

* Knowledge of content production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes different ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media
* Proven ability to research and understand a wide variety of web design, web development, marketing, business and technological topics and bring them forward
* Have established relationships with journalists, writers and subject matter experts
* Great project management skills: ability to organize and prioritize work between different types of contributor
* Excellent copywriting and copyediting skills
* Ability to manage and process a variety of document and media files
* Very high level of accuracy and attention to detail
* Ability to take instruction and work independently
* Excellent oral communication
Content curator experience:

* Ability to identify target audience in online communities
* Ability to research ideas and topics for creation
* Experience in collating the existing content and reusing it
Experience in engaging online communities:

* Experience in managing an online community, moderating comments, overseeing social media communication.