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Senior Website editor

RTD is seeking a Senior Editor to lead our expanding web-team in Moscow. With strong journalistic skills the Editor will be responsible for managing and maintaining content quality and creating compelling stories for the site while leading and mentoring other writers. Working with our social media and documentary production teams, we want to develop our storytelling and expand our readership; the Senior Editor will play a significant role in achieving this.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Leading and mentoring our web writing team
  • Writing and editing high-quality content every day
  • Editing material generated by writers of varying skill levels
  • Identify new content topics
  • Manage the creative implementation of new content ideas
  • Monitor site performance and initiate improvement plans to extend user engagement
  • Working with external and internal providers to ensure consistent content quality
  • Work closely with our SM team on content distribution
  • Manage our constantly evolving content plan
  • Ensure RTD.RT.COM meets the highest editorial and journalistic standards

The ideal candidate will have:

  • Fluent and grammatically correct English, preferably a native speaker
  • A thorough knowledge of international news and current affairs
  • Ability to get new stories online as quickly as possible
  • An energetic and entrepreneurial spirit
  • Strong relationship building and collaborative leadership skills
  • 3+ years journalism or editorial writing, reporting, and multimedia producing online
  • Exceptional news and story judgment skills
  • Demonstrable ability to carve out distinctive angles on major news events
  • Flexibility to combine text, photos and graphics to creating engaging content
  • Hands-on web design is a strong plus
  • University degree, preferably in Journalism, Creative Writing or Communications
  • Passion for identifying top talent, building diverse and inclusive teams and designing effective organizational structures and workflows
  • Experience of driving and measuring journalistic impact using a variety of qualitative and quantitative metrics to chart progress and make informed data-driven decisions

Other information

  • Health insurance
  • Location: Moscow, Russia
  • Based near Semyonovskaya, Electrozavodskaya and Aviamotornaya metro stations
  • Shuttle to and from metro station
  • Full-time, 5/2

Send your CV: rtdocinfo@rttv.ru with the subject ‘RTD Writing Journalist (Senior Website editor)’

Senior social media editor

RTD is seeking a Senior Editor to join its growing team of creative digital video storytellers. The team seeks to use Social Media to tell complimentary stories that promote our documentary films. Working from our Moscow headquarters, the ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of experience writing, reporting or producing online videos content and have a strong interest in current affairs.

The Senior Social Content Editor is responsible for leading the SM team to ensure consistency across RTD‘s platforms and encouraging audience growth. The role requires sharp editorial skills to create engaging titles and descriptions of shared content.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage a dedicated video production team
  • Develop and distribute social media content across various online platforms
  • Curate and search for new content to promote high SM engagement
  • Develop creative ideas to enhance the user experience
  • Commission appropriate complementary content such as GIFs or memes to accompany stories
  • Collaborate with writers, producers and video editors to ensure documentary films are effectively promoted in SM
  • Develop new methods to drive and encourage audience interaction, proactively experiment to explore multiple directions
  • Take the lead in daily tracking of SM trends to identify emerging stories
  • Track and report video content performance across multiple platforms

Must-Haves

  • Fluent and grammatically correct English, preferably a native speaker
  • 3+ years journalism or editorial writing, reporting, and multimedia producing online
  • A passion for current affairs
  • Studio production skills
  • A strong grasp of high-quality video production, and the skills to make content look good
  • A flare for visual storytelling
  • Degree in Film, Communication, or related field
  • At least 2 years social media strategy experience

Other information

  • Health insurance
  • Location: Moscow, Russia
  • Based near Semyonovskaya, Electrozavodskaya and Aviamotornaya metro stations
  • Shuttle to and from metro station
  • Full-time, 5/2

Send your CV: rtdocinfo@rttv.ru with the subject ‘RTD Writing Journalist (Senior social media editor)’

Social Media Editor

Requirements

  • fluent and grammatically correct English, preferably a native speaker
  • extremely desirable: experience in video editing
  • understanding the specifics of news texts in social media
  • ability to work fast with large amounts of information
  • familiarity with the socio-political situation in Russia and worldwide
  • a flare for visual storytelling
  • readiness to work a non-standard work schedule and after hours
  • work experience in media is a must
  • at least 2 years social media strategy experience

Duties

  • managing RTД accounts in social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram)
  • writing scripts and curating video editing of the short facebook videos and stories
  • monitoring news feeds
  • finding and selecting content (UGC) for social media
  • interacting with correspondents, producers and output editors

Other information

  • Health insurance
  • Location: Moscow, Russia
  • Based near Semyonovskaya, Electrozavodskaya and Aviamotornaya metro stations
  • Shuttle to and from metro station
  • Full-time, 5/2

Send your CV: rtdocinfo@rttv.ru with the subject ‘RTD Writing Journalist (Social media editor)’