Job: Community Manager – Discovery Channel Asia
This one might be fun -forums for the Discovery Channel for South East Asia, Australia/New Zealand and Taiwan. From Seek.com.au (but link may not work, they create them on the fly for email): Forum Manager Discovery Asia IncAt Discovery Networks Asia, a division of leading real-world entertainment company Discovery Communications, Inc., we live and breathe…
This one might be fun -forums for the Discovery Channel for South East Asia, Australia/New Zealand and Taiwan. From Seek.com.au (but link may not work, they create them on the fly for email):
Forum Manager
Discovery Asia Inc
At Discovery Networks Asia, a division of leading real-world entertainment company Discovery Communications, Inc., we live and breathe the atmosphere of discovery — constantly. With seven leading networks — Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Travel & Living, Discovery Science, Discovery Home and Health, Discovery Real Time and Discovery HD — reaching 325 million cumulative subscribers, each day is a new challenge as viewers across different cultures and 23 countries in Asia-Pacific tune in to explore their world and satisfy their curiosity. Ours in an environment that motivates people to achieve their best and discover their full potential.We are looking for a Forum Manager to develop and manage the Discovery Channel Forums.
The βforumsβ consists of the Discovery SEA, AUNZ and TW chat rooms.
Forum ManagerResponsibilities:Forum Structure
- Research and implement a more effective forum structure
- Introduce new topics
- Structure topics / content areas to generate discussion
- Localise threads
- Generate discussion relevant to local market and cultural sensitivities
- Includes managing TW forum moderator ensuring consistency but local relevancy across all forums
Forum Moderation
- Liase with internal staff to answer questions and post them in the forums
- Clean up forums
- remove any offensive threads
- Produce monthly forum report
Forum Promotion
- Develop partnership initiatives, competitions, promotions to drive traffic
- Work with online producers to ensure forums are fully integrated with the Discovery sites
Requirements:
- Experience managing an online community
- Technology and internet savvy with an understanding of social networking and community building online
- Requires daily moderation of the forums (at least 1hr)
- Excellent command of English
- Preferably an understanding of Asian and Australian online communities
Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
I expect you to build out the reach of the online community-ness to each one of those 325 million subs. Heh.
Don’t forget out deal: you have to let me know how you get on. π Good luck!