We’re Hiring! Join Our Team!
We are moving from a purely volunteer organization to an organization with a few staff folks! Want to be a part of Kaur Life expanding to the next level? Apply now! Join our team!
Job Description:
Kaur Life is looking to hire a magazine editor with outstanding writing, editing, and creative skills. The magazine editor is expected to possess fantastic planning, organizational, and staff management skills that will increase Kaur Life’s reception and readership across its platforms. To ensure success, magazine editors should demonstrate a superb command of English with a keen interest in shaping Kaur Life to distinguish its content to its target audience of multilingual speakers. As part of the Kaur Life team, the magazine editor would work with the social media manager.
Notes:
This is a one year, contract position starting January 2024 and ending in January 2025 Position may be extended based on available funds and job performance.
This is a remote position that requires an internet connection.
You will be working with one or two other people, who will also be remote.
This is a position that requires initiative and self-direction.
Must be legally authorized to work in the USA.
Apply by June 1, 2023.
Responsibilities:
- Recruit and manage contract writers and photographers
- Generate story ideas for writers and/or brainstorm topics with writers
- Copy-edit content
- Approve & publish content
- Develop writer and style guides
Requirements:
- In addition to English fluency, an ideal candidate would have workable skills to either read or write in Gurmukhi and/or Punjabi in order to reach our target audience.
Shared Orientations for Working with Kaur Life:
Feel free to share how you strive for any of these values in your cover letter.
- You’re on the Sikh path and strive to be Gurmat-oriented (based on your interpretation). Since Kaur Life seeks to be an organization that empowers Kaur with self-confidence and the spirit of Sikhi to embrace challenges and pursue their dreams, it is essential that whomever we hire is also excited about this vision.
- You work towards being an intersectional-feminist meaning that you understands that different forms of historic and contemporary discrimination combine in people’s experiences, while practicing a belief that every person is equal; want for all people to be liberated from sexist and misogynist roles, patterns, domination, exploitation, and oppression.
- You can and are willing to learn quickly.
- You’re patient, cool-tempered, and polite (even in the face of online hate)
- You demonstrate empathy, patience, advocacy, and conflict resolution.
- You are balanced in how you tackle problems drawing from logic and facts along with emotions and imagination.
- You can manage yourself.
- You enjoy engaging with people and building community.
- You’re constantly seeking to learn and improve.
- You’re kind, creative, and passionate.
- You pay attention to detail.
- You are a critical-thinker and problem-solver.
Hours: Be able to commit 20 hours/week towards this position
Salary: 20 hours/week = $23,000/year
How to apply:
By June 1, 2023, please send the following to [we will publish the email address shortly] with the subject line “Editor Application”.
- Cover letter or portfolio that includes:
- Links to social media profiles you manage
- Why you want the position
- What drew you to apply
- What has been your experience with Kaur Life
- What skills, experiences, and values make you a good fit
- What your vision is for Kaur Life, and Kaur Life’s writing pool and articles
- CV/Resume
- 3 writing samples of at least 1,000 words in length.
- Your samples can be anything non-fiction. Examples include but are not limited to papers written for class, articles written for newspapers or magazines, or blog posts that cover current events, opinions, lifestyle, human interest stories etc. Please do not submit fiction, short stories, poetry, or book reviews.
- We will be looking for structure, grammar, spelling, flow, tone, and how well you explain the subject matter while substantiating your thoughts.
- If you do not have any writing samples, you can write a mock article for Kaur Life on a Sikh Kaur topic. For more guidance, review our “Writing Guide”.
Apply by June 1, 2023