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Department Overview:
The Audience Team focus is to ensure the delivery of brilliant daily experiences. Our leitmotif is “The right thing, on the right place, at the right time”. The team will support the need for localization and production tasks that are critical for the right product experience. The team is also responsible for defining the editorial voice and ensuring that it is performed in all markets.
We're looking for a creative and versatile Social Media Editor for Yahoo! Middle East. The ideal candidate will have a good background in the online Media industry, excellent editorial skills, a feel for the types of content that are successful on Social Platforms and strong understanding of the Social media sphere and how to use it engage users and increase the reach of Yahoo! Maktoob properties. You should be flexible, quick-thinking, energetic, efficient, and able to work independently under pressure while maintaining attention to detail. Excellent interpersonal skills are a must, for interacting with fellow editors, users, and employees throughout Yahoo!
Responsibilities:
* Manages Yahoo! Maktoob’s social media pages, including Facebook, Twitter, Flick, etc.
* Maintain events diary in consultation with the editor in chief
* Making relevant editorial choices, crafting appealing headlines and teaser copy, choosing and prepare appropriate imagery that would suit social media users
* Create user experiences which encourage repeat use and adoption of social media pages and drive repeat visits to Yahoo! Maktoob properties
* Understanding the Yahoo! audience, and its interests, and feeding these back into product plans and tactics
* Driving Sensing the Social Pulse (SSP) initiative by developing feature and special execution ideas in coordination with Yahoo! Maktoob media property editors
* Liaise with the communities and forums team to highlight the input of Yahoo! Maktoob users on media properties and promote media properties on communities and forums
* Manage competing priorities, budgeting time
* Providing editorial support where required, particularly on content provision, acquisition and sourcing.
* Contribute ideas to the content and product development process for various editorial initiatives and projects.
* Meet targets and deliver on traffic performance indicators
* Cover for editors in different properties
* Work closely with internal product, packaging and marketing teams as well as external content partners.
* Reports to Editor in Chief for Yahoo! Middle East.
Requirements:
* Language skills: Fluent Arabic (written and spoken)
* Very good knowledge of modern standard Arabic grammar
* Experience in editing, re-writing in an Arabic media production environment.
* Strong passion and understanding of the social media sphere in the Middle East region
* English highly competent (written and spoken)
* A solid grounding in basic principles of writing for the Web and editing experience in a dynamic online editorial environment
* A thorough understanding of editorial best practices and priorities
* A keen understanding of news, business, entertainment and popular culture
* Demonstrable headline writing, image selection and content packaging skills
* Experience with online publishing tools
* University degree or equivalent required
Summary of Role:
We're looking for a creative and versatile Projects Editor for Yahoo! Middle East. The ideal candidate will have a good background in the online Media industry, excellent editorial skills, a feel for the types of content that are successful on the Web, a thorough grasp of the competitive landscape and a passion for news, entertainment and popular culture in general. You should be flexible, quick-thinking, energetic, efficient, and able to work independently under pressure while maintaining attention to detail. Excellent interpersonal skills are a must, for interacting with fellow editors and employees throughout Yahoo!
Location: Cairo
Contact Information:
For submissions: apply here
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