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The Online Community Manager and the Job Search

I often get asked the best places to look for Community Manager jobs. As this role grows I am seeing more and more jobs posted all over the internet. As yet I am not aware of one main central place where Community Manager jobs are listed. However I will try and give you some ideas of where to start looking.

So in no particular order here are some great places for you to peruse:

1. LinkedIn is a great place for tracking down OCM jobs. I've seen some companies that only list available positions on LinkedIn and no where else. You can also use LinkedIn to search for jobs that are listed elsewhere.

2. Jake Mckee, Chief Strategy Officer at Ant's Eye View, whose background is with online communities and community management, has a great jobs board on his site.

3. Jeremiah Owyang, Web strategist and partner at the Altimeter Group also has a large array of OCM jobs listed on his job board.

4. Forum One Communications, a company that is deeply involved in Social Media and online communities. You can find a list of OCM jobs on their Online Community Report site.

5. The Community Roundtable, a peer network for community managers and social media practitioners, is often contacted by companies looking for community managers. In response to that they have implemented a great idea. If you let them know your skills and experience they can pass along your details to companies who contact them.

6. Search Twitter. Many, many, many people will share jobs they've seen posted elsewhere on Twitter. Run a search using the search function, and you will be surprised by the amount of jobs that you will find. Search phrases such as:

• online community manager,
• web community manager,
• online community management,
• online community moderator,
• online moderator,
• etc, etc.

7. Set-up Google Alerts using the search phrases I've listed above.

8. Last, but by no means list, I am constantly keeping an eye out for OCM jobs and try to list as many as I can on OCMForum. However it is by no means an extensive list. My community manager duties means I do not have as much time as I would like to list all that I see.

These are just a a few things to jump start your job search, but hopefully it will get you on the right path, and will reap the reward of that special Online Community Manager that you have been looking for.

If you know of other OCM job resources that I can add to this list please let me know.

Community Manager Gigs

I haven't posted any new jobs for a while so are a couple of the most recent ones I've come across.

Online Community Manager - The BluePrint - London, UK The BluePrinst PR client is looking to recruit an experienced community manager to help tell their clients’ stories. Someone who understands the crucial role of relationships in the digital economy the same way they do. Someone who can identify where the communities their clients want to reach gather online, and how to communicate with them. Someone who can listen, as well as talk.

Online Community Manager - Blackstone Technology Group - Redwood City, CA, USA The Online Community Manager will augment and broaden the scope of Client*s communities and blog to better serve customers, prospects, partners, press and more. You will also be expected to help broaden the coverage by bringing new ideas to manage communities, maintain relationships with industry bloggers, developers* network and customers. You will be responsible for much of the day-to-day logistical operations and executions within the scope of the Client communities, user groups, blog, and various social media marketing.

Community Manager - Online Games Industry - Santa Clara Are you an avid online gamer and/or social networker and fairly tech savvy with online tools? Are you looking for a fun, interesting career opportunity to join a successful, award winning start up? The community manager will wear a variety of hats, ranging from managing forums, to developing promotions, rewards programs and partner co-marketing activities to helping grow and engage our gamer and virtual world audience in a new form of social commerce that we are pioneering, www.playspan.com.

Two More Community Manager Jobs

As promised here are a couple more Community Manager jobs that I've come across during my daily browse of the Internet.

Online Community Marketing Manager (North of Boston)

Senior Community Manager at Lunch.com (El Segundo)

Look what I ' ve found!

As social networking, and social media continues to grow and grow, so does the need for people to manage these communities. So periodically I will try and list some of the jobs I come across whilst on my internet travels. So to start, here goes:-

Online Community Manager for a Crime Website - Based in Los Angeles.

Social Media Community Specialist - Based in Wilmington, DE.

Online Community Manager - Based in London, UK

Dust of that resume and apply ... what have you got to loose?