Ypulse Jobs: Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, Iridescent & More
Posted by meredith on 04-30-2010
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!
Social Media Marketing Manager at Barnes & Noble College Booksellers
Industry: Book Publishing/Marketing
Location: Basking Ridge, NJ
Description: This is a fantastic opportunity for a talented and self-directed professional to lead and develop the company’s social media content strategy, program development, editorial content and community engagement. We are looking for someone to actively participate in social media conversations as the eyes, ears and voice of our brand. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, operates over 600 college bookstores serving nearly 4 million students and over 250,000 faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States including: Columbia University, California State University at Los Angeles, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, and the Coop at Harvard. More (via Mediabistro, reg. required)
Vice President, Series Development at VH1
Industry: Television/Creative Development
Location: New York, NY
Description: VH1 is seeking a Vice President, Series Development, to bring a steady flow of quality ideas, projects and formats to the network. S/he will supervise the development and production of concepts through pilot stage; as well maintain the quality of current series through production and delivery. Charged with bringing new series to life on VH1, this programming executive will need to have the ability to identify the writers, producers and talent necessary to develop innovative new programming as well as the capacity to recognize projects in the conceptual stage that have the potential to be the next hits for VH1. More
Director of Communications at The Higher Education Program
Industry:Marketing/Nonprofit
Location: Washington, D.C.
Description: Higher Achievement provides a rigorous after-school and summer academic program that gives youth from at-risk communities their best opportunity to succeed in middle school — and in life. The ideal candidate will be a seasoned and entrepreneurial communications leader possessing the strategic and operational skills required to create a national communications office that will work in partnership with an increasing number of affiliates. S/he will understand the unique communications challenges facing an organization during its expansion will demonstrate savvy in launching a branding campaign and will utilize skill and dexterity in developing a communications strategy that accomplishes program goals and external visibility. More (via Idealist.org)
Director of Online Community at GreatSchools
Industry: Social Media/Education
Location: San Francisco, CA
Description: We’re looking for a Director to lead, shape, and manage all things community on GreatSchools.org and on our recently launched College Bound site, an online parent training program for low-to-moderate income families. This person will be responsible for managing all activity that involves directly interacting with our users, from building a robust parenting community on GreatSchools, to managing a team of online coaches for College Bound, to overseeing our help desk for both. The Director will be responsible for helping define our community-building strategy as well as for how the community team is organized. More (via Mediabistro, reg. required)
Associate Producer, Children’s Publishing Group at Random House
Industry: Book Publishing/New Media/Marketing
Location: New York, NY
Description: Random House Children’s Books digital marketing department is seeking a new Associate Producer to join their team. The associate producer will be responsible for creating, managing, and maintaining web content across our network of sites geared towards our key audiences: kids, teens, parents and educators. The Associate Producer will also support our producer team in the launch of major digital initiatives and campaigns. An interest in children’s products and media is a plus. More [Editor's Note: Reference Ypulse as how you found this job]
Program Development Director at Iridescent
Industry: Education/Development/Nonprofit
Location: New York, NY
Description: Iridescent’s Program Development Director will develop and oversee the organization’s education and outreach plans and activities. The Program Development Director will be responsible for raising his/her salary with the President’s help. The Program Development Director will develop compelling, robust and multi-part science and engineering programs that help Iridescent achieve its mission. Building upon Iridescent’s past experience the Program Development Director will develop successful education programs for the various stakeholders. The Program Development Director will develop and implement ways (such as online and social networking tools) to effectively and efficiently involve volunteers. More (via Idealist.org)
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