Oklahoma Sooners Site Writer/Editor - Minute Media

FanSided is one of the fastest growing networks of fandom-focused sports, entertainment and lifestyle sites on the internet. FanSided consists of a thriving collection of more than 300 communities dedicated to bringing together fans to share their common passions.

FanSided is looking for its next professional Oklahoma Sooners fan! 

We are looking for a creative-minded college sports specialist who thrives in an exciting, fast-paced environment to join our FanSided editorial team as an Oklahoma Sooners Site Editor. 

As a College Sports Editor, you’ll provide wall-to-wall sports coverage, ensuring fans stay informed with timely news coverage and excellent analysis. Your primary goal will be to build the best fan community on the internet. You will do this by posting multiple viral/trending topics and opinion articles daily, interacting with fellow fans and managing social media platforms, monitoring web traffic, and working with multiple contributors and staff writers to ensure informative, entertaining, and timely content is delivered to readers.

What You'll Do

• Inform and entertain fans while building a strong and engaged fan community on all site-associated social media platforms, with a particular emphasis on X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook. 
• Write and oversee daily website content of 25-35 articles per week with an emphasis on clean, engaging, and interesting copy. You’ll largely focus on covering Oklahoma, but you may also cover other schools as needed.
• Build a strong sense of community and pride around your site with your audience and contributors through friendly communication. Tap into your fan base by understanding the way they follow their school(s) and how they react to the news, wins, losses, etc. on social media.
• Strive toward audience development on both the website and social media by growing users, sessions, page views, and followers. Be goal-oriented and strive for year-over-year improvements. 
• Collaborate with your fellow editors and team leaders to develop effective content strategies, and optimize content for search engines (SEO), social influencers, and other referral sources. 
• Be a great teammate – support your fellow editors, assume positive intent, and approach your work with enthusiasm and a positive attitude.
• Work with site contributors and edit their content for publication. 

The expected salary range for this position is between $45,000 and $55,000. Actual pay will be determined based on skills, experience, and location. This position is also eligible for performance-based compensation. The benefits available for this position include flexible vacation policy, 15 paid holidays, paid parental leave, health insurance, 401(k) with company match.

Requirements:

• You have 1-2 years of digital sports editorial writing experience, with a deep knowledge of Oklahoma Sooners sports, a basic knowledge of SEO and a passionate love of college sports. Your fandom isn’t seasonal, it is year-round. 
• You’re a thorough leader. You don’t want to just pass along news, you want to push the conversation forward, tell fans what the news means, and share your educated opinions and analysis of the team. 
• You’re one of them. You don’t create content that talks at fans, you create content that talks to them. You are jumpstarting the conversation and are comfortable being out front as a fandom leader who interacts with their fellow fans. You aren’t afraid to criticize the team but you do so fairly and accurately. You believe in the positive power of fandom and the positive experiences it brings to people’s lives and communities. You don’t feed the trolls. 
• You’re agile. You have the ability to quickly brainstorm, produce, and edit clean and interesting analyses on a variety of trending/viral topics, multiple times a day in a timely manner.
• You’re social. You have experience on social media engaging with fan communities. You know how to attack one topic and make it relevant across multiple social platforms.
• You’re multiple. You have the ability to multitask and prioritize different objectives utilizing both a content schedule and flexibility to cover necessary breaking news stories outside its confines.
• You’re flexible. You know working in sports means sometimes needing to work nights, weekends, and holidays, especially during the football and basketball seasons and big events like March Madness.

Not sure that you're 100% qualified but are up for the challenge? We want you to apply!

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