Part Time
$9/Hour
15
Aug 10, 2026
**YouTube Channel Growth & Management Specialist / Virtual Assistant — Long-Term Position**
### Position Overview
We are looking for a highly organized, experienced **YouTube Channel Growth & Management Specialist** to help manage and grow an established YouTube channel focused on retirement income, financial education, and retirement planning for Americans primarily age 55–75.
This is NOT simply a video-uploading position.
We are looking for someone who understands how YouTube works and can help improve:
* Click-through rate (CTR)
* Views
* Watch time
* Audience retention
* Subscribers
* Titles
* Thumbnails
* Video topics
* Shorts
* Channel organization
* Overall channel growth
The right person will be able to look at YouTube Analytics and explain **why a video performed well or poorly and what should be changed.**
This is intended to become a **long-term position** for the right person.
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# WHAT YOU WILL DO
## 1. YouTube Publishing & Channel Management
You will:
* Upload and schedule YouTube videos
* Create and format video descriptions
* Add chapters/timestamps
* Add end screens
* Add cards when appropriate
* Add videos to playlists
* Add subtitles/captions when necessary
* Upload approved thumbnails
* Schedule videos for publication
* Check videos after publication for errors
* Organize playlists and channel content
* Review and help manage comments
* Create or schedule Community posts
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## 2. Titles & Thumbnails
You will help develop:
* High-performing YouTube titles
* Thumbnail concepts
* Thumbnail text
* Alternative title ideas
* A/B testing ideas when appropriate
You must understand the difference between:
**Creating curiosity**
and
**Using misleading clickbait.**
Our audience values professionalism, authority, credibility, and trust.
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## 3. YouTube Analytics
You should understand and regularly monitor:
* Impressions
* Click-through rate
* Views
* Watch time
* Average view duration
* Audience retention
* Subscriber growth
* Traffic sources
* Returning viewers
* New viewers
* Top-performing videos
* Underperforming videos
You should be able to provide recommendations based on these numbers—not simply report the numbers.
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## 4. YouTube Shorts
You will review long-form videos and identify content that could become YouTube Shorts.
Responsibilities may include:
* Identifying strong Short clips
* Suggesting hooks
* Writing Short titles
* Writing captions
* Creating or coordinating Shorts
* Scheduling Shorts
* Tracking which Shorts generate the most engagement
Experience using tools such as CapCut, Descript, OpusClip, Adobe Premiere Pro, Canva, or similar software is helpful.
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## 5. Content Research
You will help identify:
* Video topics our audience is interested in
* Questions retirees are asking
* Competitor videos performing well
* Potential title ideas
* Thumbnail trends
* Content gaps
* Topics that could become future long-form videos
You should NOT simply copy competitors.
Your job is to identify patterns and opportunities.
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# OUR AUDIENCE
Our primary audience is:
**Americans approximately age 55–75 who are preparing for retirement or already retired.**
Topics include:
* Retirement income
* Running out of money in retirement
* Market risk
* Sequence-of-returns risk
* Social Security
* 401(k)s and IRAs
* Annuities
* Fixed index annuities
* Estate planning
* Long-term care
* Taxes in retirement
* Protecting retirement assets
Experience working with financial, retirement, insurance, investment, professional-services, or older demographic audiences is a major advantage.
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# REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
You should have:
* Previous experience managing YouTube channels
* Strong knowledge of YouTube Studio
* Strong understanding of YouTube Analytics
* Strong understanding of CTR
* Strong understanding of audience retention
* Strong understanding of titles and thumbnails
* Excellent written English
* Excellent attention to detail
* Excellent organizational skills
* Ability to follow Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
* Ability to work independently
* Reliable internet connection
* Ability to communicate clearly and consistently
* Ability to meet deadlines
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# STRONGLY PREFERRED
Experience with:
* Canva
* CapCut
* Adobe Premiere Pro
* Descript
* OpusClip
* TubeBuddy
* vidIQ
* Google Drive
* ChatGPT/AI tools
* Keyword/topic research
* Thumbnail development
* YouTube Shorts
* Content repurposing
You do NOT need to know every program listed above.
We care more about **results and your understanding of YouTube** than the number of software programs you know.
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# IMPORTANT
We are NOT looking for someone who only knows how to:
* Upload videos
* Add tags
* Copy descriptions
* Perform basic SEO
* Follow instructions without thinking
We are looking for someone who can eventually say:
**“This video is getting impressions but the CTR is too low. I believe the title and thumbnail are the problem. Here are three changes I recommend.”**
OR:
**“The CTR is strong, but viewers are leaving during the first 60 seconds. We should improve the opening hook.”**
That is the level of YouTube understanding we are looking for.
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# HOW TO APPLY
Please answer ALL of the following questions.
Applications that do not answer the questions may not be considered.
### Question 1
Give us links to **2–3 YouTube channels you have personally worked on.**
Explain specifically what YOU did for each channel.
### Question 2
What measurable improvements occurred while you worked on those channels?
Examples:
* Views
* Subscribers
* CTR
* Watch time
* Retention
* Impressions
Please provide actual numbers if possible.
### Question 3
A YouTube video has:
* 50,000 impressions
* 2.2% CTR
* Good audience retention
What would you investigate or change first, and why?
### Question 4
Another video has:
* 8% CTR
* Strong initial views
* Major viewer drop-off within the first 60 seconds
What do you believe is happening?
What would you recommend?
### Question 5
What are the **three most important factors** you look at when determining why a YouTube video underperformed?
Explain why.
### Question 6
Describe your process for creating or recommending a YouTube title.
### Question 7
Describe your process for developing a thumbnail concept.
### Question 8
What experience do you have turning long-form YouTube videos into Shorts?
### Question 9
What experience do you have working with audiences age 50+?
### Question 10
What experience do you have with financial, retirement, investment, insurance, legal, medical, or other professional-services content?
### Question 11
What software and AI tools do you regularly use for YouTube?
### Question 12
How many hours per week are you available?
### Question 13
What hours do you normally work in Philippine time?
### Question 14
What hourly or monthly compensation are you seeking?
### Question 15
Why do you believe you are a particularly good fit for this position?
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# APPLICATION ATTENTION-TO-DETAIL TEST
At the very beginning of your application, before anything else, write:
**RETIREMENT NAVIGATOR**
Applications that do not begin with those two words may not be considered.
This tells us whether you carefully read instructions.
Thank you.