Full job descriptionIMPORTANT: Your proposal must answer ALL of the questions in this advert. We read these answers first, before looking at your CV, so any proposals without them will not be considered.
Community Engagement Executive (Community Manager)
Remote, freelance (self-employed), part-time to start at around 8 to 10 hours a week, with scope to grow as the community grows. UK and European working hours.
ABOUT I TURN PAGES
I Turn Pages is a newly launched home for book lovers, built to connect readers and authors through daily book discussions. We have a large reader and author base from our other sites.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We need an energetic, book-obsessed Community Engagement Executive to get our members commenting, reviewing and coming back. Your main work happens inside the I Turn Pages website, where you build the conversation between readers and authors. Social media posting is a small part of the role. You will work alongside our genre leaders, who welcome readers and start conversations in their genre.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Plan and publish daily discussion prompts, polls and debates
- Join comment threads, ask follow-up questions, and make sure no post goes unanswered
- Keep the community welcoming, safe and respectful
- Run live Q&As, author or publisher takeovers, buddy reads, read-a-thons and genre events
- Find, thank and reward our most active members and top reviewers
- Track daily active commenters, thread depth and return rates, and report weekly on what works
- Make onboarding a "Wow" experience for new readers and authors, and help us create a "Wow" re-onboarding process for previous joiners
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- Genuine bookish passion: you follow literary trends, understand indie and traditional publishing, and know TBRs, BookTok, Bookstagram and book clubs
- 1 to 3 years in community facilitation, customer engagement, forum moderation or digital events, with numbers to show for it
- A good sense of how to build a community inside a website, where daily conversation matters more than broadcast reach
- Excellent written English, with a friendly tone for readers and a professional one for authors
HOURS AND TIME ZONE
We are based in Europe and work UK and European hours. Ideally you are based in the UK or Europe, or can work UK and European daytime hours.
HOW TO SEND YOUR PROPOSAL (PLEASE READ)
The questions below are the most important part of your proposal. Please answer every one, in about 200 words each, and include your CV or a short summary of your experience. Proposals without these answers will not be considered. We read your answers first, and they decide who we invite to interview. Please base every answer on what you would do inside the I Turn Pages community, where members talk to each other on our website, and leave social media posting out of your plans for now.
1. Your activity plan. Name three to five activities you would run to get our existing members commenting, reviewing and coming back. For each, tell us what it is, how you would run it, when you would launch it (week one, month one or month three) and the result you expect.
2. Readers and authors together. How would you get readers and authors talking to each other? Give two or three ideas that cost nothing, and describe one initiative you have launched that brought creators and their audience together.
3. Engaging publishers. Who would you approach first, what would you offer, what would you ask them to do, and how would you show them it was worth their time?
4. Low response. When an activity gets almost no response, what do you check first, what do you change, and how long do you give it? Please use a real example if you have one.
5. A new book site. A new book site has a few thousand sign-ups and almost no comments. What would you do in the first 60 days? Which ideas would you borrow from successful book communities?
6. Your biggest community result. Tell us about the biggest community you have helped grow (forum, group, membership site or book club): its name, platform, size, your role, what you did, the tools you used and the result, with numbers. If you have worked with a book or reading audience, tell us about that too. Include links to your work.
7. Your reading. Which genres do you love, and where do you talk about books? Optional: join I Turn Pages, click your profile icon, copy the URL from your browser and include it in your proposal.
8. Practical details. Hours a week you can offer; your hourly rate and whether it is open to discussion for a start of 8 to 10 hours a week; your time zone and hours online in UK time; when you could start; and where you saw this advert.
Proposals close on 15 December 2026.