Position: Blog Writer

Location: Virtual

Hours: 5-10 per week

Job Description:

The Blog Writer is responsible for producing at least one blog per week, upon assignment. We are recruiting 1-3 bloggers to commit to at least 1-year of writing for our website (www.breakthesilencedv.org). In addition, all blog writers must be available for weekly team reviews of blogs and quarterly reviews of blog topics. All volunteers must be involved, engaged, and committed to volunteer at least 3-5/hr per week. Blog writers are also responsible for promoting blogs on all social media channels, linkedin, tumblr, and major blog sites. Blog writers have the opportunity to have their work exposed to 50,000 + followers from our website and social media pages.

Responsibilities

• Edit and publish content on the BTS blog(s)
• Create and generate blog topics to write on. Choose subject matter that interests readers
• Measure and track the effectiveness of blog topics based on number of viewers and number of comments.
• Conduct research to obtain factual information and authentic detail.
• Write content for the blog.
• Conduct interviews for blogs.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Prior experience in blog writing.
• Bachelor's degree in Journalism, English, Communications, Creative Writing, etc. highly preferred.
• Possess engaging "conversational" writing skills with a professional posture.
• The successful candidate must be computer and Internet savvy.
• Photography skills a plus.