Volunteer Positions Open: Reading Panel, Content Marketing, Design

Hippocampus Magazine, 100% volunteer-run and funded, is looking to welcome some new members to our team. A magazine focusing solely on CNF should reflect the full spectrum of human truth; as we expand our staff, we are especially interested in broadening its perspective, too.

We’re looking for help in these areas:

• Marketing and community engagement – content marketing/social media writer
• Marketing and community engagement – visual content creator
• Editorial – reading panel

Full descriptions below.

Deadline to apply for all: August 17, 2020 Sept. 15, 2020

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MARKETING & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Content Marketing Specialist, Creative
Content Marketing Specialist, Community

Help us tell the Hippocampus Magazine story, promote our contributors, and engage with the literary community.

One prong of Hippocampus Magazine’s three-fold mission is to engage with readers and writers of creative nonfiction—that is, to create and participate in conversations with our audience. We’re seeking to fill two new volunteer content marketing/social media positions.

Each of these positions will focus in a different area, either to create content that encourages visits to our current issue, therefore promoting our contributors and their work, or to create evergreen content related to the literary community, writing life, or our magazine in general.

Responsibilities

• Position 1 (CREATIVE) – create compelling Twitter and Facebook post(s) for each work of creative nonfiction per bi-monthly issue, about 10-15 pieces per issue
• Position 2 (COMMUNITY) – craft 10-12 social media posts (evergreen content) of interest to readers and writers of creative nonfiction or that apply to the greater literary community
• Time commitment: 3-4 hours per month
• Note: This position involves creating content and does not entail managing social media accounts (posting, responding, etc.).

Desired Skills and Experiences:

• Ability to write succinct, engaging copy meant for a general audience.
• Familiar with Google Drive and comfortable with project management software to communicate and track milestones. (We use Trello)

Term/Details:

• This is a volunteer position
• Six months, initially – renewable from there on a year-long term basis
• Content creators writers will be listed on masthead in our Community Engagement section

To Apply:

Send an email to hippocampusmagazine (at) gmail (dot) com with the following:

• Which content creator position interests you that most
• Brief letter of interest explaining your desire to volunteer with Hippocampus in this capacity; letter can entail any relevant experience
• Sample Facebook post promoting any past Hippocampus story
• Sample Tweet promoting any past Hippocampus story
• Sample social media post of your choice highlighting something relevant to creative nonfiction writers (this could be an article, a resource, a call for submissions, etc.)

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Visual Content Creator

Help bring the Hippocampus Magazine story to life through visual content. We’re looking to add a design-savvy content creator to our volunteer team.

Responsibilities

• Create graphic elements (some using an established template for brand consistency) to support social media, email, and other content marketing efforts, such as an image announcing our new bi-monthly issue
• Time commitment: 3-4 hours per month
• Note: This position involves creating content elements and does not entail posting/sending

Desired Skills and Experiences:

• Ability to create compelling graphics within established brand identity and to spec for various platforms
• Familiar with creating alt-text, and the reasons for doing so
• Familiar with Google Drive and comfortable with project management software to communicate and track milestones (We use Trello)

Term/Details:

• This is a volunteer position
• Six months, initially – renewable from there on a year-long term basis
• Content creators will be listed on masthead in our Marketing & Community Engagement section

To Apply:

• Brief letter of interest explaining your desire to volunteer with Hippocampus in this capacity; letter can entail any relevant experience
• Link or attachment(s) of some recent visual work of any kind

 

EDITORIAL

Reading Panel Members

We’re looking to add a few dedicated volunteers to our essays and memoir reading team; we’re especially interested in expanding and broadening perspectives of our reading panel so that we may uncover CNF work that captures the full spectrum of human truth.

To Apply:

If you want to help shape future issues of Hippocampus, please send a brief note expressing your interest to hippocampusmagazine (at) gmail (dot) com, and we’ll be in touch with more details!

Term/Details:

• This is a volunteer position
• Six months, initially – renewable from there on a year-long term basis
• Reading panel members will be added to masthead after being active for about a month