Assistant Audience Editor (Term-Limited)

The Pew Charitable Trusts

96d • $61,000

About The Position

This is a term-limited, grant-funded position expected to extend 15 months. The Assistant Audience Editor will help connect Pew Research Center’s work with the public by supporting content creation, community engagement, and the day-to-day execution of our audience strategy. This junior role will focus on producing and adapting research content to text, graphics and short-form video for a variety of digital platforms and ensuring that the Center’s findings reach and resonate with broad and diverse audiences. The position will also play a key role in moderating conversations, fostering respectful engagement, and spotting opportunities to bring the Center’s research into discussions of current events. This position reports to the associate director, digital outreach. The ideal candidate is an adaptable, curious, and detail-oriented collaborator with strong communication and task management skills, driven by a passion for providing nonpartisan information to the public.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, media studies, public relations, political science, sociology, or a related field — or equivalent work experience.
• One to two years digital media experience including managing branded social media accounts, ideally at a think tank, research or news organization.
• Strong news judgment and writing skills; able to translate complex findings into clear, engaging content.
• Experience crafting platform-appropriate messaging for social media (e.g., X/Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube Shorts).
• Basic multimedia production abilities, such as shooting/editing short-form video or using design tools (Canva, Adobe Express, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.).
• Understanding of online community dynamics and best practices for fostering respectful, productive discussion.
• Ability to respond thoughtfully to questions and feedback in a professional, nonpartisan tone.
• Familiarity with social media scheduling and monitoring tools (e.g., Hootsuite).
• Basic understanding of analytics tools (e.g., native platform insights, Parse.ly, Hootsuite) and how to apply them to content strategy.

Nice To Haves

• Interest in current events and Pew Research Center’s wide-ranging research topics.
• Enthusiasm for experimenting with new and emerging platforms to share data and research.
• Awareness of how AI tools are shaping content creation and audience engagement, with openness to using them responsibly to support (not replace) human-powered workflows.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with researchers, designers, producers, communications strategists and video editors to create text posts, infographics, and video to communicate the Center’s day-to-day findings to a general audience on social media.
• Craft social messaging that makes complex research findings engaging and understandable while adhering to institutional voice and brand values of accuracy, humility and rigor.
• Manage social media content calendar, promoting new content as it is published and resharing news-relevant research findings as appropriate.
• Support major campaigns with first-pass drafts, campaign prep, and monitoring audience engagement.
• Monitor social media channels for audience comments, questions, and discussions.
• Respond to community inquiries or escalate questions to the appropriate team when necessary.
• Moderate community conversations to ensure they remain respectful and aligned with Pew Research Center’s standards.
• Track social media conversations to spot emerging trends and public sentiment related to Pew Research Center’s work and key research topics, and use these insights to guide future content creation.
• Help with meeting prep (gathering examples, organizing assets).
• Maintain shared content folders and archives.
• Capture notes during project check-ins as needed.

Benefits

• Affordable, comprehensive health care that includes medical, dental (including adult orthodontia) and vision benefits.
• Generous paid annual leave plan, including a winter break between Dec. 25 and Jan. 1.
• Employer-paid disability, life insurance and paid family leave plans.
• Up to a 12% employer 401(k) contribution, with vesting at the end of the first year.
• A 37.5-hour workweek.
• Health savings or flexible spending account options with employer funding component.
• Flexibility to telework a portion of each week, with an additional four telework “flex weeks” each year for most staff.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees