Develop and produce editorial content for conferences, webinars, workshops, and training programs. Recruit and collaborate with industry speakers, create compelling agendas and session topics, moderate live and virtual events, and serve as a subject matter expert for communications and marketing audiences. The role requires strong writing, editing, event production, project coordination, and occasional domestic travel.
Title: Editorial Lead, Conference Programming
Job Type: Full-time, remote with some travel
Ragan Communications is seeking an experienced content creator and event producer to join our fast-growing events division as the Editorial Lead of our highly successful conferences and other learning programs. Apply your content skills to create content for conferences, webinars and training that resonate with Ragan audiences for virtual and live events. This is an outstanding opportunity to be part of a vibrant community of communications, marketing and digital professionals who turn to Ragan for their learning, development and networking.
Core responsibilities:
Our core values – Connection, Curiosity, Innovation, and Integrity – guide all we do and help define what’s important to us at Ragan.
Ragan Communications is the leading media brand, and for more than 50 years, we’ve been serving communicators, marketers, and PR professionals at all stages of their career. We're proud to have landed on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Private Companies in the U.S. for the second year in a row! Everything we do at Ragan is in the service of giving communicators ideas, intelligence, resources, connections and inspiration to help them advance their brand’s mission and goals. Ragan Communications is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.
How to Apply
We're looking for an exceptional writer with an editor's instinct for what an audience actually wants – someone who can spot the story inside a topic and pays close attention to the details that make a session land.
To demonstrate that, please include a brief cover letter that pitches us one session:
Job Type: Full-time, remote with some travel
Ragan Communications is seeking an experienced content creator and event producer to join our fast-growing events division as the Editorial Lead of our highly successful conferences and other learning programs. Apply your content skills to create content for conferences, webinars and training that resonate with Ragan audiences for virtual and live events. This is an outstanding opportunity to be part of a vibrant community of communications, marketing and digital professionals who turn to Ragan for their learning, development and networking.
Core responsibilities:
- Recruit/liaise with industry experts as speakers for our live and virtual conferences, workshops and webinars.
- Write conference agendas that sell tickets and wow an audience.
- Become a subject matter expert to create highly engaging session topics and agendas that resonate with internal and external communications professionals alike.
- Take your agenda to the next level by working directly with your Ragan colleagues and relevant speakers to plan session(s), then moderate and host on the live or virtual stage.
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in communications, journalism, media or a related field.
- Minimum of 3 years producing content for live and/or virtual events.
- Minimum of 7 years of editorial/writing experience.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to juggle fast-moving projects.
- Ability to travel domestically 4-5x per year.
Our core values – Connection, Curiosity, Innovation, and Integrity – guide all we do and help define what’s important to us at Ragan.
- Comprehensive health benefits
- 401(k) with strong employer match
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance
- Flexible work environment
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Professional development support
- Early close Fridays all year
Ragan Communications is the leading media brand, and for more than 50 years, we’ve been serving communicators, marketers, and PR professionals at all stages of their career. We're proud to have landed on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Private Companies in the U.S. for the second year in a row! Everything we do at Ragan is in the service of giving communicators ideas, intelligence, resources, connections and inspiration to help them advance their brand’s mission and goals. Ragan Communications is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.
How to Apply
We're looking for an exceptional writer with an editor's instinct for what an audience actually wants – someone who can spot the story inside a topic and pays close attention to the details that make a session land.
To demonstrate that, please include a brief cover letter that pitches us one session:
- Give us a session title and a two-sentence description for a Ragan conference, plus the speaker you'd go after, why them, and how you'd get them to say yes. Tell us who in our audience it's for and why they need this session now.
Ragan Communications Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
Chicago, IL, United States
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