Meet The Team
Job Title: Owner, Editor, Office Manager (take your pick!)
Responsibilities
Overseeing the direction CJS takes, website content
and general design / shape. Promotion and social media strategy. News
collation. Accounts. CJS Professional publication.
Working pattern
In the office most days. Sometimes Kerryn starts work before
the office opens so don't be surprised to receive emails in the early
morning.
Contact: Kerryn@countryside-jobs.com
If Kerryn's not in the office you'll probably find her out on the
moors with her dogs, often with a camera, or up to her elbows in flour
(gluten-free these days) busy in the kitchen.
Read about the office dogs here
Job title: Features Commissioning Editor and Focus Co-ordinator
Responsibilities
Amy Is responsible for the In depth and features section, commissioning articles and publicising these across our social media. CJS Focus, commissioning articles, sourcing adverts, editing the final publication. Overseeing the day to day running of the office and line managing staff. Amy handles our news collation on some days each week.
Working pattern
Usually Monday, Tuesday and Friday. With extra hours in the run up
to CJS Focus editions.
Contact: Amy@countryside-jobs.com
When Amy is not occupied with CJS she is kept busy running a small holding and with family life. For insights in to Amy's life click here, here & read more about her summer here
Job title: Data Manager
Responsibilities
Managing the databases for our newsletters, both CJS Weekly and CJS
Professional as well as the records for advertisers. Carla is also
one of your first points of contact handling our communications on a
daily basis (email and phone) as well as posting recruitment adverts to
our website and sharing that information though our social media
channels.
Working Pattern
Tuesday and Thursday
Contact: Ranger@countryside-jobs.com
Carla has a busy family life out of the office with most of her time being filled keeping her daughter out of mischief!
Job Title: Sub-editor and Training Directory Co-ordinator.
Responsibilities
The editing and setting of CJS Weekly content. The approval and publication of listings within the Training Directory and manages the Volunteers section and database. Katie is also one of your first points of contact handling our communications on a daily basis (email and phone) as well as posting recruitment adverts to our website and sharing that information though our social media channels.
Working Pattern
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday (half day) and Friday
Contact: Ranger@countryside-jobs.com or for training enquiries: training@countryside-jobs.com
When Katie is not here at CJS she runs her family's genealogy business Yorkshire Ancestors which you can find here: www.yorkshireancestors.net
Job Title: Newsletter compiler.
Responsibilities
Tracey sources and types up the majority of the standard linages in CJS Weekly.
Working Pattern
The majority of Tracey's work has always been done from home (or on a laptop from her stables!) and works flexible hours to suit her other commitments.
Tracey is also a qualified reflexologist and practices reiki, she is currently taking dressage lessons to get the best from her morgan horses.
Find out more about Tracey's horses here
Job title: Editorial Assistant.
Responsibilities
Emily sets most of the features, helps promote many of them and is responsible for all the lovely graphics you see on our social media streams.
Working Pattern
Emily is currently a bit of a nomad and works flexible hours from where ever she happens to be.
When not obsessing over font size and layouts, Emily is often found with a cuppa in front of a microphone recording podcasts, playing in audio dramas, and narrating audiobooks. Listen to her podcasts here: www.unbalancedencounters.com
Whilst Niall and Anthea may no longer be part of the daily office routines it was they who created CJS and it is their vision that guides us still.
Find out what Niall is up to these days by looking at his website or checking out his blog (he's busier than ever!).
Kerryn's labradors are an integral part of the Team providing light
relief and occasional stress busting services! (you really, really need
my very stinky soft toy!!, I'm desperate to go out and I think you need
some fresh air too...) Keep up with them on instagram here. Since we converted to mainly remote working Katie and Amy's dogs have become office dogs too! News of the office dogs is tagged on the blog as Office Dogs.
During the Covid-19 lockdown everyone worked from home, which we're found works really well for us, allowing us the flexibility to manage other responsibilities outside of the office. We've altered the 'official' office hours to 10-4 but we work hours to suit: Kerryn's often at work early and taking a long break in the middle for dog walks, Katie and Amy frequently prefer to finish things in the evenings. The main office remains in Goathland acting as a remote hub and hosting the central CJS server and network.
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