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Social Media Specialist

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ORGANIZATION: Youth America Inc.

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High School Intern

Social Media Specialist

We’re looking for a social media specialist to grow our followers, engage and retain them, and help convert them into leads, customers, and active fans and promoters of our social entrepreneurship venture, Brooklyn Vogue, a women's clothing boutique located in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. You should have command of best practices and trends in social media marketing, enjoy being creative, and understand how to both build and convert a digital audience.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and manage the company’s social media profiles and presence, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, and potentially additional channels (Snapchat, Instagram, Vine, etc.).
  • Create shareable content appropriate for specific networks to both spread our brand and our content and links.
  • Listen and engage in relevant social discussion about our business venture, competitors, and/or industry, both from existing customers and leads and from brand new audiences that don’t yet know us.
  • Run regular social promotions and campaigns and track their success, ranging from Twitter chats, to Google+ Hangouts, to LinkedIn conversations, as well as the content and links posted through these and other channels.
  • Drive consistent, relevant traffic and leads from our social network presence.
  • Explore new ways to engage and build meaningful connections that encourages our target buyers to take action.

Requirements:

  • BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience.
  • Active and well-rounded personal presence on social media, with a command of each network, their best practices and social analytic tools knowledge.
  • Excellent communicator and creative thinker, with an ability to use both data and intuition to inform decisions.
  • Adequate knowledge of CRO and SEO.
  • Bonus experience and skills include Adobe Creative Suite, demand generation marketing, inbound marketing, and blogging.

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About Youth America Inc.

Location:

777 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217, US

Mission Statement

Youth America, Inc., (YAInc.) is a not-for-profit, 501(c)3, Brooklyn-based community organization that was founded in 1984. Keith Lewis is the Executive Director and Founder of the organization. After graduating from Hampton University, where he played basketball on scholarship with former NBA star Rick Mahorn, Keith decided to start a summer basketball league for kids in his old neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn. This eventually led to the launch of Youth America, Inc., a multi-service agency that annually provides programming to more than 7,000 underserved Brooklyn youth and their families. The organization’s mission is to assist in the creation of a better society by administering a wide range of educational, cultural, recreational, workforce-development, health, and social activities for the enrichment of community residents.

Description

In 2004 Youth America created its Brooklyn Vogue initiative to provide high school students with career readiness training and paid internships at our organization's social entrepreneurship venture, Brooklyn Vogue, a women’s clothing store located in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Brooklyn Vogue's Bridge to Business Internship Program annually services 100 high school students and represents a best practices model for assisting students in meeting the career readiness objectives of the New York State Common Core Learning Standards. The program provides real-world experiences in fashion retail operations and student interns graduate with strong business acumen and a heightened sense of their ability to succeed in careers and business. www.Facebook.com/brooklynvogue

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Children & Youth
Employment
Children & Youth, Employment

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