Digital Producer

Job Description

About This Role
CommonWealth Beacon, an award-winning non-partisan news organization covering statewide politics and policy in Massachusetts, seeks a self-starting, proactive digital producer to support our editorial and audience development work. This position will be key as the newsroom looks to expand its reach across Massachusetts and bring new audiences into the fold. We’re looking for candidates with top-notch organizations skills, the ability to keep track of multiple projects at a time, who can work at a fast pace on deadline, are fluent in today’s social media environment, and adhere to the highest editorial standards.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with the audience development strategist to shape, execute, and update our audience development plan
• Creating video, audio and other content for social media feeds
• Producing events in support of CommonWealth Beacon’s editorial calendar
• Writing explainers, short-form fact checks, and other articles as needed
• Assisting with the production of our current slate of newsletters – the Daily Download, The Saturday Send, the (Re)Publisher, and CommonWealth Voices as needed and helping to brainstorm other newsletter offerings to develop new audiences
• Working with editors to hone headlines, subheads and other display copy
• Updating our homepage and pulling wire copy
• Assisting the Director of Development to implement advertising campaigns and job board postings across the website, newsletters and other relevant platforms
• Tracking analytics to help better promote stories

Experience and Qualifications

• 2-3 years of digital production experience in a newsroom
• 2-3 years of experience editing and producing photo and video content for our website and social channels
• 2-3 years of experience working with SEO techniques, keyword research, and headline writing
• Experience with Newspack or other content management sites as well as an understanding of analytics platforms such as Google Analytics, Chartbeat and Parsely
• Excellent copywriting and editing skills
• Excellent organizational and communication skills 

Compensation, Benefits, and Work Arrangements

The salary range for this position is $60,000 - $70,000. MassINC provides a full suite of benefits including health care with HRA, dental insurance, 401K plus company match, FSA and DCA, unlimited vacation, generous parental leave, and 13 paid holidays throughout the year, among other benefits.

CommonWealth Beacon is currently a hybrid office based in Boston. This role will be expected to work in-person 3 days a week and attend in-person events as necessary.

To apply for this job
Please submit a cover letter, resume, and 3-5 content samples to MassINC COO, Maeve Duggan (mduggan@massinc.org). If possible, content samples should include writing and video samples.

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.

We are committed to advancing equitable access to opportunities and resources at CommonWealth Beacon and to addressing barriers and structural systems that perpetuate inequity. To achieve this, we encourage robust debate, shaped by a wide range of lived experiences and informed opinions.

At CommonWealth Beacon, we believe that diversity and inclusion is not only critical to our workforce, but to our overall mission and purpose to move the organization, and Massachusetts, forward. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.

About MassINC and CommonWealth Beacon

CommonWealth Beacon’s mission is to contribute to a more inclusive and vibrant civic culture that makes our government more responsive and effective by providing rigorous coverage of important issues affecting life in Massachusetts. CommonWealth Beacon is published by MassINC.

MassINC’s mission is to make Massachusetts a place of civic vitality and inclusive economic opportunity by providing residents the nonpartisan research, reporting, analysis, and civic engagement necessary to understand policy choices, inform decision making, and hold the government accountable. Along with our Policy Center, MassINC is home to the MassINC Polling Group, a for-profit subsidiary.

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