Are You Ready?
If you have a passion for developing strong personal & community relationships, while also helping foster personal development strategies then you should be excited about this new opportunity at Gipper! We're hiring a Community Manager that will help bring together our core user base of K-12 Athletic Directors, connecting them with like-minded members looking to share their success and challenges, who also have a passion for scaling their own personal development.
This is an amazing opportunity to own the growth and overall engagement of our members. Implementing creative community-building techniques in order to foster a thriving online community of k-12 athletic directors.
What You'll Accomplish:
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Run the day to day operations of the Gipper's community, FieldHouse.
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Organize engagement activities that include online events and bi-weekly professional development workshops, webinars and online courses
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Work directly with the FieldHouse founders. A group of super-users within the Gipper community. Implementing incentives program to nurture and reward them
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Help build out workflows and processes for the healthy functioning of the community; identify ways to streamline existing processes and make those processes more efficient
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Scale our community growth from initial beta phase, leveraging our existing Gipper user base and the network of our community founding members.
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Work cross-functionally with customer champions, sales and product to develop impactful community tactics
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Develop and scale "Gipper Learn" a professional development function to our community, focused around creating a library of online courses.
Experience We Are Looking For
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1-3 years of experience moderating, managing and scaling successful online communities; previous experience as a community moderator is a plus.
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Deeply passionate about community building and an active member of an online community
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Track record of getting down in the trenches with the community, moderating forums and building deep relationships with members
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An understanding of how to nurture passionate super users within a community and empower them to moderate and keep conversations going
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A background in high school or college athletic departments, working directly with athletic directors or coaches is a plus
About You
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You are a people person that enjoys building thoughtful relationships
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You are comfortable in a fast-paced environment
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You are positive and committed with a 'can-do' attitude and a flexible approach
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You are a problem solver and a forward thinker
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You are a self-starter: you thrive on taking ownership of initiatives with limited oversight
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You have excellent time management and you know how to manage multiple priorities, breaking large projects into manageable pieces
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You have great communication skills, both verbal and written
About Gipper:
Gipper is a marketing technology platform that makes graphic design incredibly easy for non-designers. Focused in education, Gipper enables schools to create professional content for social media - in seconds, on any device, and without needing any design experience. Serving thousands of athletic administrators, coaches, principals, school communications professionals, and more - Gipper empowers anyone at a school to create effective and compelling content for social media in just a few clicks. With access to a wide range of ready-made templates and seamless social media sharing, schools can create and share more content than ever, all while spending less time and money. In doing so, schools are able to better grow their brand, improve stakeholder communication, and create additional revenue opportunities.
We are a rapidly growing, VC-backed startup based in NYC, loved by thousands of partner schools from middle school to NCAA Division 1, and backed by TIA Ventures and an amazing network of angel investors with over 75+ years of experience investing and building high-growth tech startups from concept to IPO.
Why Join Gipper?
- Fast-growth, VC backed startup 🚀
- Positive TEAM environment 🤝
- Remote - work from anywhere📍
- Tons of ownership in individual roles - learn by DOING 📙
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Gipper is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity, inclusion and belonging. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
