Betterhumans is a membership-driven website that relies on the efforts of members for success. While all members can contribute through blog posts, forum posts and other such contributions (such as word-of-mouth marketing--tell your friends!), we rely on several members to take on additional responsibilities. All members are invited to volunteer for open positions below. Volunteers are eligible to receive a Betterhumans email address, access to staff forums, and other benefits--including greater involvement in steering a course for Betterhumans and, ultimately, humanity.

Executive

Editor-in-chief (filled)

Description: Drive Betterhumans' success through successful and innovative content creation, design, production, planning, coordination and staffing.

Duties:

• Oversee quality of all areas of the site.
• Develop and maintain all site policies, rules, staff conduct, member conduct, and visitor access.
• Generate new ideas and projects of interest to site members and visitors.
• Assist staff in day-to-day functions, as well as long-term goals.
• Assume final authority for all matters related to the Betterhumans site, content, name, image, and policies.
• Motivate staff, site members and the general public to meet ideals for which Betterhumans stands.
• Represent Betterhumans to the media as required.

Deputy Editor (filled)

Description: Advise and aid Editor-in-chief in all editorial duties, originate ideas, gather and commission contributions.

Duties:

• Assist Editor-in-chief with development of site policies, content, and strategic direction.
• Generate new ideas and projects of interest to site members and visitors.
• Assist staff in day-to-day functions, as well as long-term goals.
• Manage staff, projects and production schedules.
• Assume duties of the Editor-in-chief as required .
• Represent Betterhumans to the media as required.

Editorial

Editorial Assistant (filled)

Description: Assist the Editor-in-chief and Deputy Editor in carrying out editorial and administrative tasks.

Duties:

• Contribute to the creation and management of website content.
• Aid in the development of new site features and functionality.
• Spur member participation in forums, blogs and other areas of user-generated content.
• Uphold editorial integrity, accuracy and overall quality.
• Carry out tasks as requested by Editor-in-chief or Deputy Editor.

News Editor (open)

Description: Develop Betterhumans into a leading resource for breaking news of meaningful scientific and technological advances

Duties:

• Enhance Betterhumans news production with diverse resources and lessen reliance on lower quality automated feeds.
• Monitor news feeds to ensure quality and eliminate duplication.
• Post original contributions and summaries.
• Categorize news items with consistent, meaningful and useful tags .

Features Editor (open)

Description: Augment Betterhumans content and discussions through the production of original, high-quality, feature-length articles.

Duties:

• Developing ideas for feature articles.
• Commissioning, writing, and editing professional-quality feature articles, including citation/links for all sources.
• Coordinating community interviews with various leaders in scientific fields.

Featured Blogger (open)

Description:  Provide elevated commentary and spur thinking and discussion with high-quality, insightful, authoritative, expert opinion and alternative perspective; reserved for forward thinkers who are well-known professional bloggers or authors, are prominent figures in the broader scientific futurist movement, or are outstanding Betterhumans content contributors.

Duties:

• Make at least two featured blog posts per month.
• Strive for highly original, insightful, accessible, readable and compelling contributions.
• Motivate discussion about issues related to (1) personal, societal and species progress; (2) the impact and ethics of advances in science and technology; and (3) other subjects related to Betterhumans' mandate and mission.

Forum Moderators (filled)

Description: Facilitate and ensure the submission of relevant, useful, and intelligent forum posts in an organized fashion.

Duties:

• Move discussions to more appropriate forum locations.
• Delete "flaming" submissions (comments/posts/blogs that contain insults, spam, garbled text, etc).
• Update "moderator log" with all actions taken.
• Answer questions concerning what is acceptable behavior.
• Assist with the tagging of posts as appropriate to improve organization and searchability.

Arts and multimedia

Arts Editor (open)

Description: Supplement Betterhumans textual content with superior art and graphics.

Duties:

• Curate multimedia gallery (currently comprising visual art only).
• Keep community apprised of important art and artistic events related to Betterhumans' themes.
• Develop and maintain relationships with relevant artistic organizations and artists.
• Drive Betterhumans to feature and express leading-edge graphic design trends reflective of its mandate and mission.

Marketing

Marketing Manager (filled)

Description: Coordinating with the EIC, manage and maintain all marketing, advertising, and promotional activities of the site.

Duties:

• Develop marketing campaigns to increase site traffic.
• Analyze and develop new sources for internal revenue streams (advertising, etc.).
• Develop promotional activities for the site to increase member contributions and involvement.
• Assist Editor-in-chief in securing media coverage.

Activism

Change Leader (open)

Description: Manage and contribute to an activism project sponsored by Betterhumans.

Duties:

• Spearhead and motivate positive change related to Betterhumans' mandate and mission.
• Coordinate with internal staff development of project.
• Coordinate with external organizations any necessary actions.
• Encourage/facilitate member involvement in the project.
• Answer questions concerning the project.

Technical Development

Technical Lead (open)

Description: Manage and contribute to Betterhumans' technical enhancements

Duties:

• Propose and contribute to the development and integration of technological solutions that help fulfill Betterhumans' mandate and mission.
• Coordinate with internal staff development of project.
• Coordinate with external organizations any necessary actions/permissions.