Job: Community Moderator – About.com – New York

It’s in New York. If you are Australian, there is a special visa called the E-3 that is only for Australians to work in the US of A.

Job Description

Job Title:
Community Moderator – About.com
Job ID:
1000288
Location: NY-NY-About.com

The About.com Community Manager is part of a team that is responsible for building community, maintaining community standards and ensuring that user contributions to the site are in keeping with the site’s standards.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Build forum communities:
• Develop and implement consistent community policies
• Work with Guides to identify forum moderators to assist them
• Work with Guides to structure forums around topics that will appeal to users
• Target specific forums that have high growth potential, and work with Guides and volunteer moderators to build community
• Maintain community standards
• Work with Guides and Moderators on an as-needed basis to manage forum disruptions and deal with disruptive members
• Ensure quality contributions
• Screen user-contributed content for violations of site standards

Qualifications:

• Proven success building online engagement and community
• Must be well-versed in current trends and concepts relating to online communities
• Strong online communication skills via email, forums and other methods
• 3-5 years experience working with online community required

If you get the job, lemme know? I need somewhere to stay in NY. heh.