Community Leaders will:

• Grow multiple WEGO Health Groups by:
  • Maintaining an active WEGO Health blog
  • Starting Group discussions
  • Creating email digests
  • Welcoming new members
• Grow community membership through outreach to Health Activists and potential members
• Complete traditional community moderation tasks as needed
• Contribute to the community as a whole by interaction with other Community Leaders and WEGO Health members

You are:

• A Health Activist!
  • Not sure if you’re a Health Activist? Take the quiz: www.wegohealth.com/quick_quiz
• Familiar with social media tools and platforms—blogging, discussion forums/message boards, Twitter, etc. (Familiarity with Ning would be a plus.)
• Passionate about health
  • We want to hear from you regardless of whether you have a broad interest in health or are focused on a handful of specific areas of expertise
• Adept at online research and naturally curious
• A creative problem solver and networker
• Interested in a permanent, part-time position—this role requires between 12 and 20 hours a week
• Eager to be a part of a fun-loving, hard-working team

For consideration, please send us a cover letter, resume and links to the places where you participate online.

Online Community Marketing Manager

Work with the online community team to develop and execute overall online marketing and community strategies, plans, and communications, including:

1. Member Recruitment

• Implement social media marketing and online outreach focused on social networks, blogs, forums and groups, etc. to find and retain new community members
• Through customer relationship management, identify website users who could be considered for leadership roles in the community

2. Marketing

• Conduct research on online marketing best practices and find ways we can be more effective in community outreach
• Assist in customer acquisition and retention efforts, such as SEO, sweepstakes, cross-promotion initiatives and marketing partnerships
• Create and present community building strategy and plans

3. Editorial

• Engage community to and build community-specific newsletters
• Author interviews, content reviews, blog posts, meeting announcements and more

4. Production

• Monitor and contribute to user-generated-content
• Launch new health specific communities
• Coordinate online and offline community meetings, surveys, and polls

5. Management

• Lead, coach and manage a growing team of Community Moderators and Leaders

The ideal candidate will have:

• Boundless energy and intellectual curiosity
• 1-3 years experience as an online community manager or customer care
• A great sense of humor·
• Comfort with technology, tools and cool new stuff, bordering on geeky
• Good social skills online and in person - patience and wit are essential
• Strong, professional writing skills online and in the normal course of business
• Ability to work in a do-it-yourself, all-hands-on-deck startup environment

Social Media Account Manager

Execute and help evolve our innovative community sponsorship programs as a liaison between pharmaceutical/health companies and our community of online health community activists; support overall company marketing.

1. Sponsor Program Management

• Implement social media marketing programs working with some of the world’s leading pharmaceutical and health companies
• Execute all aspects of sponsor programs, working with our community team to find appropriate but effective ways to educate and engage
• Coordinate and participate in market research, community education, technical development and program tracking efforts
• Manage project plans and schedules, working with tech, community and product teams
• Drive our on-time, everyone’s-happy, under-promise / over-deliver approach

2. New Sponsor Development

• Develop program proposals and participate in new sponsor meetings
• Identify new sponsors through active research
• Brainstorm new program ideas to match community needs with sponsor goals

3. Company Marketing

• Engage potential sponsors through public relations, including online press releases, conferences, company events, and more
• Propose and try outlandish-yet-effective guerilla marketing ideas; live to tell the tale
• Leap head-first into online social media marketing

The ideal candidate will have:

• Relentless enthusiasm for our mission + energy and intellectual curiosity
• 2-3 years of account service experience, ideally at an online agency or publisher
• A strong working knowledge of health; pharmaceutical marketing experience a plus
• A great sense of humor·
• Comfort with technology, tools and cool new stuff, bordering on geeky
• Good social skills online and in person - patience and wit are essential
• Strong, professional writing skills online and everywhere else
• Ability to work in a do-it-yourself, all-hands-on-deck startup environment

Tell us why you’re the ONE, and send us a resume, at: careers@wegohealth.com

Boston-based WEGO Health is the first online home for consumer health activists, social media’s most active 10 percent, passionate about helping others lead healthier lives. Health activists – organizers, connectors, leaders and contributors – meet at WEGO Health, then carry knowledge, content and relationships back to the health social Web. In addition, WEGO Health’s Activist Social Network is the trusted community liaison to pharmaceutical and health marketers, familiar with professional key opinion leader programs. Marketers engage the Activist Social Network through innovative sponsorships, industry advisory panels, collaborative content development, widget distribution and more. Founded in 2007 and led by online health pioneers Jack Barrette and Bob Brooks, WEGO Health gives consumer health activists a voice to industry, and helps the world’s top health and pharmaceutical brands support, navigate, and participate in the evolving world of health social media.