Global Newsroom Content Specialist (6 Month Contract)

Location: Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines

Compensation: Paid on a per-output model; 6-month engagement, approximately 30–40 hours per week.

Company

Canva is a design platform with a global Newsroom and PR & Comms team focused on product launches, leadership announcements, press-facing content, and thought leadership.

What you will do

• Build and launch a Monday editorial operations tracker for the Newsroom and podcast pipeline, covering deadlines, shoots, contributor deliverables, and approvals.
• Manage day-to-day CMS publishing using metadata, tagging, alt text, and formatting checklists.
• Manage the editorial calendar and tracking system for leadership social content, including shoot schedules, video editor turnaround, and content status.
• Design a structured story intake system for GTM, product, and marketing teams and deliver a weekly triage digest.
• Coordinate scheduling, contributors, internal communications, and cross-team dependencies for a season of the Prompted podcast.
• Build a performance dashboard for Newsroom, podcast, and leadership social metrics and document SOPs and recommendations for the following 6–12 months.

Requirements

• Experience with task tracking and organizing fast-moving, high-profile programs.
• CMS experience, ideally publishing on an editorial or news-style website.
• Experience coordinating shoots, booking executive time, liaising with video editors, and tracking turnaround.
• Ability to follow up persistently and diplomatically with multiple stakeholders to secure approvals.
• Working knowledge of SEO/AEO basics, including metadata, alt text, and tagging.
• Ability to manage fast-moving news cycles and shifting schedules under pressure.

Culture & Benefits

• Six-month contractor engagement with approximately 30–40 hours of availability per week.
• Payment is based on output.
• Contractor-accreditation meetings are conducted virtually.
• Reasonable adjustments can be requested during the contractor-accreditation interview process.

Hiring process

• Contractor engagement decisions are based on experience, skills, and passion.
• Candidates should provide their pronouns and any reasonable adjustment requirements for the virtual contractor-accreditation interview.