Community Manager, Forbes Communities

The Community Manager is responsible for engaging ForbesCommunities members via programmatic, partnership, and communication strategies (with a priority focus on the Forbes Under 30 Alumni Community).On a day-to-day basis, the Community Manager will work together with the Head of ForbesCommunities to implement a range of programmatic, partnership, and communications initiatives for the overall ForbesCommunities. The Community Manager will also work in coordination with partners across the Forbes corporate and partner ecosystem to help implement a wholesome strategy for addressing the needs of two audiences – ForbesCommunities members and the “Rest of the World” (ROW) that wants to engage/partner with ForbesCommunities. 

Responsibilities

• Work with Forbes staff and, in particular, the Head of ForbesCommunities to increase the number of (relevant) opportunities available for ForbesCommunities members; create targeted communications, where appropriate; expand the reach of various ForbesCommunities member benefits.
• Support the content and communications strategies related to engaging ForbesCommunities Members.
• Continuously work with ForbesLive team members with respect to ForbesCommunities events and experiences.

           Specifically with respect to Forbes Under 30 Community:

• Manage Forbes’s “voice to members”, including but not limited to, moderating and/or coordinating Forbes’s presence in social networking, including Slack and WhatsApp channels and LinkedIn.
• Manage Forbes Under 30 Alumni Community Hubs and Hub Leaders.
• Respond to inquiries from members and prospective members.
• Coordinate Forbes Under 30 partnership opportunities.
• Create a plan for learning and tracking the needs and the developments of members. In tandem, work closely with the Forbes team members staff to devise methods for responding to the needs of members and for harnessing the talents, skills and capabilities existent in the Community.
• Develop a plan and create opportunities for ‘member-matching’.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Communications skills in Spanish (preferred but not required).
• The ability to infuse creativity, enthusiasm, innovation and insight into project management.
• Strong interpersonal, organizational and administrative skills necessary to develop cooperative working relationships with supervisory personnel, co-workers, colleagues, community members and the general public.
• High degree of flexibility in order to achieve organizational objectives and meet its demands/needs.
• Willingness to travel both domestically and internationally. Approximately 30%.
• Also, an ideal candidate must function productively in a non-bureaucratic environment, in which a wide variety of tasks is expected of each employee and the ability to work collegially is extremely important.

The annual base salary range for this role is $80,000 - $100,000

Forbes has estimated the compensation range set forth above in good faith.  The compensation range is what we believe we will offer, and ultimately pay, a successful candidate.  In determining this range, we consider the experience, level of education (if applicable to the role), knowledge, skills, and abilities required to be had by a successful candidate as well as the budget and the company’s pay rates, generally. This said, we may have to make changes to our compensation estimates and job descriptions from time to time and we expressly reserve the right to do so.  Should we make any such changes, this advertisement will be revised to reflect such revisions.  We encourage you to occasionally re-visit this advertisement to ensure that you are abreast of any changes.  Thank you for your interest in joining Forbes!

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