Job Summary:
The Senior Digital Editor is responsible for prioritizing and serving WPR’s digital audiences. This is a position for someone with a passion for building digital audiences across a variety of platforms, who excels at working in coalition with a wide range of stakeholders. The editor works closely with the Director of Digital Media to evolve, communicate and execute on WPR’s digital strategy. Their work includes managing projects and workflows across WPR departments and serving as a regular digital content editor and producer. They will supervise an engagement editor and digital editor. This position reports to the Senior Content Director.
WPR’s on-air and digital services each reach more than 400,000 people across Wisconsin every month. Serving and reflecting the state’s diverse communities is essential to our work. Applications from Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) individuals, LGBTQ+ and non-binary identities, women, persons with disabilities, military service members and veterans are strongly encouraged.
Responsibilities:
Reviews, edits, produces, and troubleshoots content for websites, blogs, and online presence across different platforms. Assists with overall planning for website maintenance, expansion, and reorganization, keeps current on digital trends, and engages in forward thinking about upcoming content needs.
- 35% Reviews, edits, produces, and troubleshoots content for website and online presence
- 10% Defines content requirements, gathers website update content from internal and external partners, and performs content updates
- 20% Determines strategy for website content
- 5% Acts as a training and trouble-shooting resource for staff
- 5% Develops blog and social content based on local programming, events, and educational services
- 5% Pitches creative online projects which support the unit in its mission and goals and engage the audience
- 20% Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent employees
Institutional Statement on Diversity:
Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background – people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.
For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion
Education:
Preferred
Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism, Communications, or related field
Qualifications:
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
– Significant experience producing and/or editing content in a fast-paced, deadline-driven media environment
– Demonstrated experience conceiving, launching and managing digital content products
– Excellent communication skills including experience writing and editing online news or feature content
– Proven ability to work in both independent and collaborative settings
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– Experience in a daily media environment
– Previous supervisory experience
– Experience working in public media
Work Type:
Full Time: 100%
This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.
Appointment Type, Duration:
Ongoing/Renewable
Salary:
Minimum $70,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
Additional Information:
We expect to pay in the lower-to-mid $70,000’s for this role. Actual salary will depend on experience and qualifications.
The person in this position will be required to comply with the Ethical Guidelines for All Staff of Wisconsin Public Radio and Television located here: https://www.wpr.org/wpr-ethical-guidelines, in addition to the UW-Madison code of ethics.
The University of Wisconsin is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.
Please note that successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment.
How to Apply:
The following must be received for your application to be complete: 1) Resume; 2) A cover letter describing how your experience relates to the listed required and preferred job qualifications.
Finalists will be asked to provide a list of at least three professional references with titles, emails, and phone numbers (include at least one supervisory reference). Note that references will not be contacted without your prior knowledge.
Contact:
Erin Cook
erin.cook@wisc.edu
608-263-0477
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.
Official Title:
Online Content Editor(CM039)
Department(s):
A46-PUBLIC MEDIA/WPR
Employment Class:
Academic Staff-Renewable
Job Number:
277914-AS
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, including but not limited to, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, disability, or status as a protected veteran and other bases as defined by federal regulations and UW System policies. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.
If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website: https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/
Employment will require a criminal background check. It will also require you and your references to answer questions regarding sexual violence and sexual harassment.
The University of Wisconsin System will not reveal the identities of applicants who request confidentiality in writing, except that the identity of the successful candidate will be released. See Wis. Stat. sec. 19.36(7).
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Applications Open: Apr 18 2023 Central Daylight Time
Applications Close: May 18 2023 11:55 PM Central Daylight Time