Company: America Online, Inc.

Location: Dulles, VA

Position: Programming Manager

Channel: AOL Black Voices (http://blackvoices.aol.com)

Environment: America Online is seeking an assistant programming manager. This is a great opportunity to work with a brand of Time Warner, the world’s largest media company. AOL is an equal opportunity employer and provides a great environment of enthusiastic, innovative employees. Conveniences such as managerial training, top chefs, gyms, day care, dry cleaners and much more are located right on campus.

Summary: Employee will manage some content for the number one African American portal and should have some familiarity of urban and international news and entertainment. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 2-3 years writing and editing experience in broadcast and/or print. Candidate will be responsible for providing timely, relevant content from our community of over 1 million users. In addition, candidate will provide reports on the performance of the key audience welcome screen and assist with programming content to our 1 million users. This position requires excellent time-management skills, ability to identify opportunities to grow our welcome screen audience and readers across the service. Assistant programming manager will report to the programming director.

Business Skills

• Microsoft Excel
• Some HTML
• Demonstrates strong writing, editing and promotional skills.
• Makes decisions that impact the work unit, a channel, or a complex sub-channel area.
Possesses the ability to develop and maintain networking relationships both internally and externally.

Creativity

• Assists with the promotion efforts of the channel.
• Works with other AOL channels to integrate their materials and content into the channel.
• Works with third-parties to develop and improve community activity

Personal Performance and AOL Valued Behaviors

• Demonstrates AOL’s vision, values and principles.
• Coordinates the activities of various professionals and individual contributors to meet project deadlines and budgets and resolves conflicting demands of internal and external customers.
• Conveys fundamental aspects of the job through verbal and written communication.
• Effectively establishes and meets deadlines as they evolve and shifts the priorities of the group accordingly.
• Observes quality standards.
• Interacts and works with other programming managers
• Ensures that developmental objectives are aligned with department goals.

Contact: Tiffani Allen (TiffaniLW@aol.com)