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Charlottesville Tomorrow is growing our team in 2025 and seeks a community editor. This is the first time that the nonprofit news organization has an operational budget of well over $1 million.
The community editor will work across departments to communicate our impact, goals and processes to our stakeholders. The community editor reports to the CEO and works closely with the managing editor, director of development and product and tech lead, while also liaising with community members and our partners at Charlottesville Inclusive Media. This is a leadership role in the newsroom, ideal for a sharp editor who likes to work with people at different stages in their careers and wants to help build newsroom operations that support our mission.
We work hard to create a healthy and inclusive work environment that is rethinking how local news is produced, both for the sake of journalists and business staff doing the work and the communities we serve.
While we are outlining job responsibilities and skills here, above all we are looking for someone who wants to join our team to help build on that culture.
Here’s some of what the community editor will do
- Be the front line for communications with community members and stakeholders.
- Write internal and external communications, including From the Newsroom pieces, grant applications and reports, and narratives about our impact in collaboration with the team.
- Use qualitative and quantitative data to foreground community needs in editorial and operational decision-making.
- Run community listening and surveys, with editorial and product staff.
- Run and build out social media products with editors and the product and technology lead.
- Occasionally attend events as a representative of Charlottesville Tomorrow.
- Help with the overall development and direction of a growing news organization.
Here are some skills that will help
We do not expect any one candidate to have all of these skills or experiences, but here are some things we are looking for:
- Clear and convincing writing, including the ability to craft headlines and calls to action.
- Excellent communication skills, in writing, email and spoken communication.
- Project management or day-to-day production experience.
- Ability to meet tight deadlines and see the big picture of what we’re providing to communities.
- The ability to communicate with and earn the trust of people from diverse communities.
- Personal or professional experience in multiple cultural settings and/or non-English language skills.
- The ability to work with a diverse team, help boost colleagues and seek help when you need it.
- Comfort with websites, spreadsheets and technical tools, and the ability to learn new systems.
We are looking for someone who loves to take in a lot of information and make it accessible to our many stakeholders, from community members to donors to foundations. We are seeking an editor/writer who prioritizes what matters to our diverse communities, can effectively communicate what they learn from communities, and help steer decision-making in pursuit of our mission.
We seek someone who understands that being visible, present, and accountable with our community and knowledgeable about its people is core to any journalistic success. We are looking for a communicator who understands that all good work starts with being a good human being and that the future of local journalism relies on including a diversity of voices at every level.
About Charlottesville Tomorrow
Charlottesville Tomorrow is a community-driven, socially conscious news organization. We serve our neighbors by connecting them to each other and to the issues that affect them most.
This is a newsroom at the forefront of local news. It’s a place for talented journalists and big thinkers to dig into mission-driven work that impacts people’s lives regularly.
Our reporters and editors dig deeply into issues that affect our community, regularly producing work that highlights issues often ignored by other media. We center our organization and news processes on our values — truth, community, and equity — and we work to improve the health of our local news community and ecosystem through our inclusive practices in hiring, journalism and partnership.
Our newsroom covers the issues that are most important in our community with a focus on race and equity and reaches a large share of our market through our free email subscriptions, news apps, social media and events.
Location
Charlottesville is a college town with many opportunities for learning and recreation, and good quality of life. It is a competitive and fast-changing small media market with high visibility in state and national news cycles. And it is a fast-growing, multicultural node in the region’s knowledge and finance economy. The quality of living is high, and it is a short drive from Washington D.C. and Richmond.
This is not a remote position. Our team lives and works in the communities we cover in central Virginia and regularly spends time in our Charlottesville newsroom. This position will also require some travel for meetings and to represent Charlottesville Tomorrow at events.
Compensation
We are building compensation packages to help create equity in the news industry. Our pay is competitive for our local area and among nonprofit news organizations nationwide.
Salary: Starting at $65,000
Paid time off: 20 days, plus Virginia holidays.
Benefits: Medical, dental and vision insurance, health savings account, retirement plan with up to 3% match
Flexible hours: We pride ourselves on building a newsroom that allows you to do work in the ways and hours that are best for you and the community. You have the option of working where you like or in the newsroom most of the time. This is not, however, a remote position because we expect our team to spend time in person in the communities we serve. We conduct daily meetings by video and weekly or project meetings in person, and use Slack and phone to communicate throughout the day.
Career advancement: We invest in our team. You will have opportunities to develop your skills and broaden your networks through training and conferences. We support our team as they pursue fellowships and leadership programs and seek to grow as professionals.
