Project Leader & Strategist

We're looking for a creative, savvy, person who's passionate about helping world changing organizations improve their communications to work as a project leader and social media strategist for our team.

Part of your time will be spent acting as a bridge between our clients and our engineers. You'll manage your projects from their conception and our initial discussions with clients to their delivery. You will be responsible for making sure our clients get a product that achieves their real world goals and that our engineers get the work done on time and on budget. In addition to interfacing with clients and developers, you'll also take a lead role in the conceptualization of the project and will bring in the right players at the right time to maximize efficiency. In addition to great people and communications skills, you'll need a solid understanding of website technology.

The other part of your time will be spent researching social media tools and coming up with great ideas for helping our clients use them to change the world. You'll be our go to source to answer questions about what these and other mediums look like, who's using them, and what can be done on them. We are doing serious work right now with news monitoring systems, so if you are into aggregation, data visualization, and semantic analysis, this position will be especially exciting. We are also building SMS/IM apps to better integrate our tools with mobile devices, continuing to improve multilingual systems, and designing really smart knowledge management tools as custom solutions and in the near future as a hosted service.

Above all else, we're looking for someone who enjoys thinking creatively about to handle anything that comes their way.

Required Skills

• Excellent communication skills in general. You'll need to be able to explain details about technological tools to people who aren't tech savvy, and take non-technical comments back and explain them in a technical way to engineers.
• Superb people skills
• Strong writing skills
• Proven researching skills
• Demonstrated interest and knowledge of social media
• Avid blog reader. Please include a list of your must read technology blogs.
• Creative thinker
• Ability to work in an extremely fast paced and flexible environment
• Desire to make the world a better place — and to seriously push the limits doing it both on and off the clock.
• Follower of GTD (Getting Things Done)

Other Desired Experience

• Campaign experience +
• Interest and experience in international development +
• Desire to use maps and/or cell phones for mass communications
• You’ve read The Tipping Point, Made to Stick, and Edward Tufte’s work
• Speaks multiple languages
• Likes traveling
• Likes photography
• Likes commuting by bicycle

This position is located in Washington, DC. The salary is competitive and includes health insurance, and we require that all employees take three weeks of vacation each year. If this sounds like you, please send a note and resume to jobs@managingnews.com.