Audience Editor

Core responsibilities:

• Develop and implement a strategy for growing, retaining, and deepening engagement with Jewish Currents' audience across platforms including social media, newsletters, and emerging channels
• Oversee Jewish Currents' social media accounts and develop email strategy with an eye towards both growth and serving readers' needs
• Track, analyze, and interpret audience data across platforms including web, social, and email
• Regularly communicate audience insights to editorial and organizational teams to inform editorial strategy, programming, and institutional decision-making

This role helps grow and deepen engagement with Jewish Currents' audience, enabling the magazine to expand its reach and influence in covering important social justice issues including antisemitism, Israel/Palestine politics, race, climate, incarceration, immigration, and feminism.

Required qualifications:

• At least 2 years of experience in audience development, engagement, social media editing, marketing, or similar role
• Deep familiarity with social media and email platforms, expertise on current best practices in audience development
• Comfort with tracking and interpreting audience metrics and analytics, and experience translating data into clear insights and recommendations
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, strong initiative and comfort with self-direction
• Familiarity with some or all of our beats: American Jewish politics, Jewish art and culture, left politics and/or Israel/Palestine

This position is covered under the Writers Guild of America, East Collective Bargaining Agreement. Jewish Currents is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.

Jewish Currents is a magazine founded in 1946 committed to the rich tradition of thought, activism, and culture on the Jewish left and the left more broadly, covering topics including antisemitism, Jewish communal organizations, Israel/Palestine politics, race, left movements, the far right, diasporic culture, labor, climate, incarceration, immigration, and feminism.