I used to feel smart, like I could take on management projects and reach whatever goals I could see from where I was. Nowadays I feel like I need to stay within my abilities and if I were to stretch, I would break. I don’t want a project management job or anything I haven’t done before.

With that in mind, I was browsing Aquent job listings and saw the following listing for a community manager. I have a hard time seeing this as a real job. It seems so… so… background type of work. Something you do when you have time between other projects. I don’t think I have a clue how to even what I could repackage of my experience that would be relevant. This social media seems to creating a niche for things that were threaded through other jobs before.

I am pretty sure yndy and brittgeek would fit this well.

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Community Manager Social Media

City: Pleasanton, CA

Salary: DOE

Start Date: 07/26/2010

Job Description:
The part-time community manager for our client will be the lead moderator in the Employee, Partner, Inventor and Consumer online communities.

Scope:
The Community Manager position will require 20 hours/week.

Responsibilities:
The Community Manager will be responsible for growing, maintaining and nurturing a vibrant online community by employing a host of industry-standard community engagement practices. These practices will include:
• Initiating discussions
• Moderating discussions
• Encouraging participation
• Fostering a respectful community environment.
• Holding competitions
The Community Manager will also develop and employ new engagement tactics to further bolster community engagement.

Other Requirements:
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have exceptional communication skills and be able to effectively moderate multiple online communications at once. He or she should also be an innovative thinker, and be able to apply standard AND new community development practices at various times to various communities as the need arises.