Platforms Editor & Community Coordinator

BehanBox | Full-time | Remote

BehanBox is a feminist media organisation working to shift power to historically marginalised communities. We center their lived experience, expertise, and solutions. Through rigorous reporting and evidence creation, we expose how opaque caste-class-gender and State systems perpetuate inequality, document both institutional failures and community-led innovations, and create pathways for accountability, structural reform and civic action.

We want people to act on the evidence and narratives we surface. We are building an ecosystem that equips citizens, researchers, lawyers, activists, grassroots workers, and policymakers to close the gap between rights on paper and rights in practice.

BehanBox is in a formative moment. We are transitioning from a journalism platform to a media organisation that foregrounds impact and community. We are looking for someone who can handle ambiguity, help create systems where none exist, and shape this work alongside us.

We are looking for someone to lead our short-form editorial across platforms and coordinate our growing community.

We see social media as short-form publishing: a distinct editorial craft that makes people stop, think, feel, and act. The person in this role will build and nurture an audience that doesn’t just “follow” us but feels connected to what we are building, and eventually becomes part of it. Community coordination is central to our mission: to build relationships and nurture connections among the various sets of people building an India without margins—where power, resources, and dignity belong to everyone.

What you will do

Platform Storytelling & Audience Building (60%)

You will own BehanBox’s voice across platforms (currently Instagram, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Whatsapp, Substack). You will work closely with the editorial team to plan content around story rollouts, coordinate timing, and ensure platform strategy is integrated with editorial planning. You will also support flagship projects (like The ASHA Story) and other initiatives where short-form editorial is part of a larger impact strategy.

Sometimes this means translating investigations and longform features into content that lands without flattening complexity. Other times it means creating social-first coverage where the platform is the primary format. A single story might spin off into deeper dives, explainers, community conversations, or calls to action.

You will write captions that work differently on each platform, know when a carousel serves a story and when a reel does, and develop an instinct for what makes our audience stop scrolling versus what helps them understand an issue.

You will coordinate video work across platforms – managing timelines, working with teammates who front videos, collaborating with editors on production. You don’t need to be a video editor, but you should know what makes a video work and be able to give clear feedback. You should be open to occasionally being on camera yourself.

You will think about growth as finding the right audience – not just people in metros on English-language Twitter, but journalists in district towns, nursing students in Guwahati, union organisers in Surat, law students in Patna. Where are they? What formats work for them? What makes them stick around?

You will experiment. What does feminist journalism look like on LinkedIn? How do we make reels that stay with people? When do we respond to trending discourse and when do we let it pass? You will track what works without being enslaved to metrics – some content builds slow trust rather than immediate engagement.

Social media is where people first encounter us. Your job is to help turn followers into community.

Beyond platforms, you will think about how to make our work travel. This includes producing (not writing, though you can pitch in) and scheduling newsletters on Substack. It also might mean identifying 5 researchers who should see a data story, and making sure it reaches them, or making our work usable in other contexts: a quote card for an advocacy organisation’s policy presentation, a fact sheet a union can print, a summary formatted for WhatsApp forwards.

Day to day: Ideating and writing short-form editorial content, briefing graphics, scheduling, responding to comments and DMs, monitoring conversations, maintaining the content calendar, reporting on performance, staying current on platform changes

Community Coordination (40%)

BehanBox is building a network of people who want to do something about the injustices we document—journalists covering gender with more rigour and less like a “lens”, lawyers using our evidence in their cases, researchers finding collaborators, activists and advocacy groups using our reporting to build policy arguments, and citizens participating in government consultations and in their own neighbourhoods, family and peer groups.

You will coordinate the infrastructure: events, webinars, WhatsApp groups, newsletters, feedback loops. More importantly, you will help us understand what our community needs to take action. What would actually equip someone to become a changemaker?

You will notice when a post sparks real conversation and figure out how to deepen it. You will spot the journalist in Lucknow trying to cover ASHA workers and connect her with our archive. You will remember that a member mentioned working on maternal health in Jharkhand and loop them into a relevant convening.

This is the online-facing layer of a larger community and impact strategy that includes grassroots engagement, policy work, and direct partnerships with marginalised communities. The work is still being shaped, and you will have room to define what community means at BehanBox.

You will report to the Head of Strategy & Community.

Who you are

Knowledge & Experience

  • 3-5 years in social media, community management, editorial, or communications. Ideally in journalism, advocacy, or mission-driven organizations
  • Demonstrated engagement with gender, caste, labour, health, climate, or development issues through previous work, studies, personal writing, volunteering, or simply being someone who follows and thinks about these issues. You don’t need a degree in gender studies, but the thematics of BehanBox’s work should not feel foreign to you
  • Strong understanding of how Instagram, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Substack, Whatsapp work differently algorithmically and culturally
  • Experience writing for social media in English (must-have) and Hindi (good to have)
  • Familiarity with social media tools (scheduling platforms, basic analytics, Canva or similar); we use Notion, Slack and Google Workspace day-to-day

Skills

  • Exceptional writing instincts: You can make a complex policy story accessible without making it simplistic, you know when to be warm, when to be sharp and when to be a little cheeky
  • Visual eye: You may not design, but you can brief a designer well and know what looks right
  • Video sensibility: You don’t need to edit, but you can give clear creative feedback and know what makes a video land
  • Editorial judgment: You can read a 3,000-word investigation and identify the hook
  • Organised without being rigid: You can maintain a calendar and pivot when news breaks
  • Comfortable with data: You can read analytics, spot patterns, and make arguments for what to try next
  • Interpersonal warmth: People feel welcome when they interact with you

Disposition & Interests

  • Already in conversation with these issues You follow accounts, read newsletters, or listen to podcasts about gender, marginality, labour, caste, policy. You have had opinions about how mainstream media covers (or fails to cover) the issues and communities that matter to you. When you read a BehanBox story about ASHA workers or gig workers, something clicks because it is work you already care about.
  • Actually enjoys social media as a creative medium, not a necessary evil. You have opinions about what makes a good carousel. You notice when an organisation does something clever.
  • Curious about people Community coordination appeals to you because you like understanding what makes people tick, what they need, what brings them together. You remember details.
  • Has feminist sensibilities You don’t need all the language or theory, but our worldview resonates. You notice who's missing from conversations. You are uncomfortable with content that punches down.
  • Self-starter with a collaborative spirit You will often work independently and don’t want to be told what to do every day - you take ownership, spot what needs doing, and do it. But you are also excited to be part of a small team building something together.

What we offer

  • Salary: ₹7.2–9.6 LPA (placement within the range is based on years of relevant experience and demonstrated skills)
  • Menstrual leave + paid time-off
  • A small team where your voice actually shapes decisions and real ownership over your work; this role has creative and strategic room to grow
  • Learning and growth within India’s feminist media and civil society ecosystem

To apply

Fill out this form. We will review applications on a rolling basis.

BehanBox is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage applications from Dalit, Bahujan, Adivasi, and Muslim communities, as well as trans and gender non-conforming people, people with disabilities, and people with experience of the criminal justice system.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview and a short assignment. We will review applications on a rolling basis.