Youth Media & Marketing Jobs: Penguin Group, Scholastic, Nick Digital, and more

Today we bring you our weekly sampler of the cool youth media and marketing gigs. If your company has an open position in the youth media or marketing space, we encourage you to join the Ypulse LinkedIn group, if you haven’t yet, and post there for focused career networking!

Publicist — Young Readers at Penguin Group
Industry: PR, Book Publishing
Location: New York, NY
Description: Penguin Group has an exciting opportunity for a dynamic publicity professional to join our Young Readers PR team. Promote an exciting list of books ranging from board books through Young Adult novels. The publicist pitches for feature and review coverage to national and regional TV, print, radio and online media outlets; works with booksellers across the country to book multi-city national author tours; writes press releases, targeted pitch letters, author bios, and other publicity material; creates targeted mailing lists & assists with maintaining the publicity database; cultivates and maintains author relationships; and works closely with publishers/editors, sales and marketing. More (via Bookjobs.com)

Director of Multi-Platform Development at Scholastic
Industry: Book Publishing, Online
Location: New York, NY
Description: The Director of Multi-Platform Development is responsible for directing all multiplatform projects for Scholastic’s Trade group; coordinates and collaborates with editorial and marketing on the design and development of cost effective, financially viable products; creates business cases, financial projections and oversee P&L’s for new multiplatform projects; monitors, informs, and collaborates with the editorial and marketing teams on new digital technologies and trends which may serve as the basis for new publishing programs; manages all web/digital development and operations of www.the39clues.com by working with eScholastic; informs the digital product definition “The 39 Clues Part 2,” incorporating new technical innovations; and collaborates with editorial and marketing in the development and management of new and existing multi-platform relationships. More (via Mediabistro, reg required)

Field Marketing Manager at an advertising and marketing services company
Industry: Marketing
Location: Washington, DC, Baltimore, MD, and Richmond, VA
Description: Seeking a field marketing manager with knowledge of youth culture in sports to establish the local face of an international brand, translating our client’s global strategy to a key market. This position is responsible for executing our client’s marketing strategies through athlete marketing, events, opinion leader marketing, and consumer collecting, maximizing local communications output within a geographic market area. All Field Marketing activities adapt national strategies for relevant local sports, disciplines and scenes. More (via Ad Age, reg required)

Senior Publicist at MTV Networks
Industry: PR, Television
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Description: MTV is seeking a Sr. Publicist, TV Publicity who will be responsible for developing and implementing communications strategies for MTV programming, working daily with a broad range of media outlets covering television, music, entertainment, business, politics, and advertising.  Internally, this candidate will work closely with other communication staff, as well as executives from programming, production, online, business development, ad sales, marketing, and other areas to compose press announcements, internal communications, press strategies and presentations.  This person would also contribute press support on various MTV tent pole events including the Video Music Awards and the Movie Awards. More (via Cynopsis)

Manager, Content & Programming at Nick Digital
Industry: Online
Location: New York, NY
Description: Nickelodeon is looking for a manager to oversee the animation properties on Nick.com. The manager keeps a detailed programming calendar for all show site plans, develops digital content around on-air programming events, and takes initiative in proposing new programming and promotional strategies. Along with animation property planning, the manager will work with a cross-functional team on Nick.com’s immersive Club experience. This includes setting and communicating a programming agenda, maintaining the Club hub and related promotions, coordinating content rollouts and keeping a Club programming calendar, requesting new avatar and room items and overseeing item inventory, and generally providing editorial guidance to the creation and management of new and ongoing Club initiatives. More (via Cynopsis)