Position Available at Community Media Workshop:
New Media Manager (Apply by: Friday, Oct. 20)

About the position:
We’re looking for a tech visionary/people person. The New Media
Manager plays several key roles in our small office: managing and
innovating our online presence and building an online community of
nonprofit communicators, leading production of our annual media
guide, and overseeing our database and office technology. The ideal
candidate will have experience in and familiarity with both
nonprofits and the news business.

About the Workshop
At Community Media Workshop, journalists and communications experts
connect the community with the media to promote news that matters. We
offer media and public relations coaching to nonprofit communicators
and serve as a matchmaker between those who have stories to tell
about making communities stronger or better places and journalists
looking for sources off the beaten track. We do this through training
and consulting nonprofits and by providing background on nonprofit
groups to news media, and through a Making Media Connections event
that brings together nonprofit communicators and journalists. Started
in 1989, the Workshop is based at Columbia College Chicago in the
South Loop.

Responsibilities:

1. Build community online:
• Strengthen existing and develop new relationships with nonprofit
communicators and journalists in Chicago and the Midwest,
• Lead initiatives to communicate via diverse new-media platforms
with appropriateness, accuracy, and clarity—both traditional (eg Web
site, CMS, Listserv) and Web 2.0 (eg RSS, audio/video, mobile);
• Produce and edit content and supervise web site’s back end
including some e-commerce functions, and
• Manage IT consultants as needed.

2. Lead production of our annual media guide, Getting On Air & Into
Print:
• Oversee all aspects of production, from setting annual schedule to
research to data entry to formatting, page layout, and printing,
including supervising staff and consultants’ contributions;
• Ensure guide accuracy, timeliness, and usability in CD-ROM plus
print editions, and
• Contribute to marketing efforts.

3. Manage office IT:
• Manage office technology including server, regular back ups, and
oversee purchases of all software/hardware.
• Maintain healthy database (FileMaker 6.0v4 currently, upgrade to
FileMaker 10 planned) including supervising staff members’ input and
use of data, and
• Oversee technology consultants as needed.

4. Other:
• Train nonprofit communicators on new media; represent organization
locally/nationally as needed, and
• Other projects as appropriate.

Qualifications:
• Demonstrated expertise with Web publishing technologies (social
networking tools, content management systems, image optimization,
message boards and forums, etc.);
• Demonstrated expertise with online style guidelines and online
community standards;
• Ability to actively participate in problem resolution, reacting
positively and quickly to changing dynamics;
• Ability to work independently or collaboratively within strict
deadlines;
• Self-motivated creative mind who values collaboration and working
with a diverse team;
• Exceptional organization skills, high attention to detail and
excellent communication;
• Comfortable in a Mac environment; experience with graphic design a
plus;
• Familiar with both nonprofits and journalism ideal; Good sense of
humor.
• Bachelor’s degree required

Compensation/Application information:
Depends on experience; with benefits. This is a full-time position.

Email resume and cover letter to: Gordon Mayer, Vice President/Senior
Trainer, Community Media Workshop at Columbia College, 600 South
Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60605, 312-344-6404 fax,
gordon@newstips.org. Email preferred; no calls, please. Women and
people of color are strongly encouraged to apply.