Role Overview

The Editorial Specialist plays a key role in Citizen’s daily safety coverage in cities around the country through writing, editing and distributing notifications. This position requires a keen eye for detail, understanding of audience engagement and ability to work quickly to deliver critical safety information to millions of users.

Key Responsibilities

Editorial:

• Breaking Incident Coverage: Write and send notifications on developing large-scale stories which may include but are not limited to: crime, fires, weather events, and emergencies. Requires an understanding of credible sourcing and the ability to write and edit quickly.

• Following Ongoing Events: A keen understanding of large-scale and ongoing incidents spanning multiple days, to provide Citizen users with continuous real-time coverage of important events.

• Planning for Expected Events: Be Citizen’s point person for the editorial calendar, including distribution plans for expected events and determining how Citizen will cover them. These may include but are not limited to: major city events like parades or marathons, planned protests, etc.

Distribution & Engagement

• Distribution Decisions: Understanding what information is important to which Citizen users. Making rapid distribution decisions to determine which users and places should be notified about which events.

• Engagement: Understanding audience engagement metrics and using them to make decisions while keeping Citizen’s public safety mission top of mind.
  

Experience

• 3+ years of experience in journalism, digital media, news curation, or audience engagement.

• Proven experience in analyzing audience engagement metrics and applying insights to editorial decisions to build loyal audiences.

• Strong awareness of social, political, and cultural dynamics that may impact Citizen’s coverage.

• Demonstrated ability to deal with various types of news and content.

• Demonstrated ability to discern credible sources of information.

• Exceptional writing, editing, and headline-crafting skills, with the ability to distill complex incidents into clear, compelling notifications.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously within tight time frames, and make effective decisions as quickly as possible.

• Past experience writing notifications for an app/news organization.

Salary Range

• Between 85-100k, depending on experience

Hours/Schedule

• Sunday-Thursday or Tuesday-Saturday

• 11am - 7am EST