MileSplit State Editor - Pennsylvania

Do you LOVE track & field and cross country? Do you eat, sleep, and breath running? Then we want you!
MileSplit, the leading scholastic track network in the country, is looking for a full-time state editor to lead our coverage team in Pennsylvania, a Top 5 state in our network.
The state editor is an organized ideas generator, an all-around track and field expert who produces content that is best in class and relevant to athletes, parents, coaches, and fans, and is dedicated to making MileSplit Pennsylvania the go-to source for all important information in high school track & field and cross country in the state.
The ideal candidate is Pennsylvania-based, a passionate, and curious subject matter expert who is excited to get out to cover meets weekly and craft all types of content in a state, and sport, rich with stories, celebrities, events, and history. This is a job for an experience creator, memory maker, and an individual passionate about growing the sport.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Develop and execute great daily web content, both written and video, from the idea phase to publishing. You will spotlight the top athletes and coaches in your sport with interesting stories.
• Create compelling premium content that grows the subscribers in your state and supports our meet registration partners.
• Recruit and manage a team of local contractors to help extend your video, photo, and written coverage.
• Manage a budget and content plan
• Work with the National content team to cross-promote the most powerful content throughout the network.
• Build relationships within Pennsylvania’s community of coaches, officials, timers, associations, parents, teams, clubs, and athletes.
• Represent MileSplit in Pennsylvania with the highest integrity when dealing with event directors, coaches, athletes, parents and the T&F/XC community at large.
• Provide the most accurate and in-depth offerings in Pennsylvania, including results, team and event rankings, meet calendars, team associations and athlete profiles.
• Travel throughout Pennsylvania to create engaging on-site coverage of top events. Broadcast the events, film races, interview athletes, write compelling recaps and feature the biggest stories of each event.
• Be a news hound, staying on top of every story and news item unfolding in your state to ensure you provide comprehensive coverage to your readers.
• Be a social media influencer, actively participating in your community while marketing the content you create to those who seek it.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
• You are an expert on the sport in your state and obsessive about staying on top of the latest developments and news.
• You have the bandwidth to work weekends and travel throughout Pennsylvania to cover the top high school, middle school and club track and cross-country meets.
• You are organized. You know how to prioritize your time. You manage multiple projects with ease.
• You are creative and analytical. You enjoy coming up with unique takes on stories and refuse to do something that has been done before. You thrive on taking an idea and making it a reality.
• You understand the importance of communicating properly to a young audience and can tailor your content appropriately.
• You’re a social media savant. You know how to write creative and engaging tweets that burn like fire in your community.
• You are creative, competitive, and driven to be the best.
DESIRED:
• Highly organized, self-motivated, and adaptable to change.
• Knowledge of HTML, photo editing tools (e.g. Photoshop, Pixelmator) and MS Office.
• Knowledge of video editing tools (Final Cut, Premier).
• Pennsylvania based.
GOALS:
• Quarterly subscription and traffic growth goals
• Quality and volume of content produced
• Retention of subscribers
• Social media growth goals
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY:
At FloSports, we are bonded by our passion for sports and our purpose to unite communities around experiences that finally give underserved sports the love they deserve. We recognize the need to build a company that seeks out, embraces, and celebrates our individual differences, ideas, and talent. FloSports is committed to the pursuit of a fair, equal and inclusive workplace where everyone is given the opportunity to grow to their fullest potential. As such, we are intentional in our hiring practices in an effort to overcome systemic biases we may be blind to. FloSports has adopted the “blind recruiting” process, which aims to open our opportunities up to more candidates, help us be more objective in how we review applicants and mitigate bias in our decision-making processes.