Important notice: this is an Internship opening

Department: Communication & Marketing

 

Summary

This piece-work position requires a high-energy, self-directed, deadline-oriented individual who has exceptional communication skills. The successful candidate will research and write articles in a conversational, engaging style. Each blog entry will reinforce Space Hub’s main objectives: offer best practices information, create a sense of community, offer business opportunities information, and create an opportunity for industry insiders’ reader comments.

Must have genuine curiosity for many things and a love for writing and a comprehensive understanding of the Aeronautics and Space industries, exponential technologies, business ecosystems, entrepreneurship.

You will be responsible for writing interesting and engaging articles geared for a specific target audience and have the ability to come up with original, relevant and timely topics.

 

Qualifications

The successful candidate must possess the following core skills:

  • Excellent writing, editing and proofreading skills
  • Proficient in English and Romanian grammar and punctuation
  • Must be creative and able to come up with relevant, interesting topics
  • Ability to know the audience’s needs, wants and problems and able to address them successfully
  • Have a professional, consistent, and sometimes witty writing style that encourages subscribers to share on social media and elsewhere

 

Other possible skills:

  • Research
  • Fact checking
  • Interviewing
  • Take interesting photos and shot good quality video

 

Specialized skills:

  • Need knowledge or interest of Space industry developments at global level.
  • Possess engaging “conversational” writing skills with a professional posture.
  • Effective and efficient self-starter.

 

Job Duties/Responsibilities

  • Write and publish content on the Space Hub blog under the direction of the Chief of Marketing
  • Conduct research to obtain factual information and authentic detail
  • Choose Space related subject matter that interest readers
  • Work with editors and clients to shape the material so it can be published
  • Manage the blog community by moderating and responding to comments
  • SEO implementation
  • Handle social media marketing activities such as posting to LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook
  • Answer emails on behalf of the blog
  • Perform blog maintenance activities such as updating plugins
  • Write content for the blog
  • Analyze web analytics data to gauge content performance
  • Manage split testing and other content performance tests
  • Manage subscriptions, syndication, and email newsletters
  • Manage guest posting requests
  • Perform other content creation duties as assigned

 

Project Management

  • Ability to effectively manage time and multi-task.
  • Ability to work independently and as a member of a team.
  • Present professional, but friendly posture with blogosphere colleagues and the Space community.

 

Business Savvy

  • Understand mission of Space Hub

 

Required equipment

  • Desktop computer
  • Internet connection
  • Telephone
  • Skype, GoToMeeting, WhatsApp, Google Hangouts useful for interviews

 

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