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Here’s a gig where I’m sure lots of folks wish there was a telecommute option. Unfortunately for you, (or fortunately for the folks in these areas) the job is an on-site position in either Omaha or Mountain View, CA.

LinkedIn is looking for a Community Manager. Check out the details:

Job Description

The Group Community Manager can be located in either our Mountain View, CA office or our Omaha, NE office and is the primary resource for LinkedIn’s group managers, helping them build thriving, successful professional communities on LinkedIn. The manager guides and develops managers, addresses problems, represents group managers and their needs to LinkedIn’s product development organization, collects and provides tools and information about effective group management.

Responsibilities:
· Market research & community listening (inbound)
· Company/product education & evangelism (outbound)
· Identify/amplify community cheerleaders (both)
· Support internal customers – Executive team, Senior Management team, Omaha, and California offices
· Drive engagement among managers through online events
· Serve as the primary point of contact and provide best practice guidance in the areas of content and service development, event programming, online facilitation, member outreach, etc.
· Drive to completion, from investigation to delivery, initiatives that use community, social networking, and other technologies to increase community participation, in collaboration with community managers.
· Develop and post interactive content that encourages participation and the development of member-generated content to ensure that the community is achieving its objectives
· Drive processes that encourage member-to-member interaction
· Lead the day-to-day operations of the managed community in conjunction with internal community owners
· Monitor and moderate community participation to ensure that rules of engagement are adhered to
· Assist in the development of the Community platform and ensuring that it meets the objectives of the Community
· Provide tracking and metrics to communicate and validate the Community interaction
· Community Advocate – Actively engaged with community members by representing and building relationships in both directions. Strong listening skills are a must
· Brand Evangelist – will promote events, products, and upgrades to customers and will build trust with the community
· Savvy Communicator – ability to mediate and communicate utilizing various communication tools
· Gathers community input for future product and services – Responsible for gathering the requirements of the community in a responsible way and presenting back to the product teams. Feedback conduit for company and community and sync up the two.

Want to learn more? Visit the job description page at LinkedIn.

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So you dig communities and think you’d make a decent Community Manager. There’s just one problem, you’re not sure where to find the gigs. Community Manager jobs aren’t plentiful at the moment, but there are several places to subscribe to or bookmark to land these types of jobs.

Check it out:

1. Social Networking Jobs - A job board listing various social networking gigs, including community management.
2. Community Guy - Jake McKee’s community building blog also rocks a job board.
3. Craigslist - No, really. I landed on my community management job by accident. I was looking for leads for my Freelance Writing Jobs blog and saw the full time community gig nestled in among the blogging gigs.
4. The Net-Savvy Executive - Has a social media job board.
5. ProBlogger- Darren Rowse has the occasional community management gig listed at the ProBlogger job board.
6. Online job boards - Online job boards such as Monster, Hot Jobs and Career Builder list the occasional community manager gig here and there.
7. Google Alerts - Set up a Google Alert for “Community Manager” to receive updates in the mailbox every time the Google spiders pick up a community manager jobs listing.
8. Social networks - Many community manager gigs aren’t advertised. Instead, The Powers That Be put out word on various social networks. Do a search and see what you come up with
9. Websites - Many of your favorite websites and social networks hire community managers but they don’t announce it in big flashing letters. Instead they quietly post it to their websites under the “Jobs” or “Work for Us” sections. Do a regular patrol of your favorite communities, as you never know when one of the jobs will turn up.
10. You! - That’s right. You. Do you know of a community in need of management? Contact them regardless of whether or not they placed an ad and convince them of why they can benefit from your services.

Tagged as: Community Manager Jobs, social media jobs

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