Description

Managing Editor

Application Deadline: 22 August 2024

Department: Marketing

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: South Africa

Compensation: R55,000 - R60,000 / month

Are you a managing editor who knows how to get results? 🤔

Results, you say?

Do you mean content that converts?….yes, please 👌

You mean content that ranks on search engines and is loved by people?……Yes that’s the ticket 🎟️

Look, we know there aren't many of you out there 👀

We know managing editors who can get content ranking, drive editorial standards, and manage a team are pretty rare

But for those who can, we have a ridiculously good role 💯

A role for a New York agency that does things, let’s say, a little differently

It’s a small team in a great niche (e-commerce) with an experienced and extremely likeable founder 💻

They need an experienced managing editor to come in and take the editorial function to the next level 📈

So if you want 👇

🚀 Collegiate environment with lovely people

🚀 Access to interesting work and great clients

🚀 Scope to put your own mark on a team

🚀 Stable role at an emerging niche market leader

Then get your reading glasses out this could be the gig of your lifetime 🔍

As Managing Editor, you’ll be responsible for:

Managing and leading the freelance writing team: Owning all processes for freelancers working on client projects, including hiring, onboarding, training, budgeting, and providing consistent and detailed feedback to writers on each piece.

Managing team workflow and content volume: Balancing the writing team's content workload to ensure sustainable content production, meet deadlines, and manage urgent requests efficiently.
Reviewing and editing 30+ articles per month: Making necessary revisions for readability and engagement, editing for grammatical, stylistic, and factual accuracy, adhering to each client's brand voice and guidelines, and optimising for SEO.
Increasing writer efficiency through process management: Empowering the writers to work efficiently, develop processes to support that optimisation, and ongoing training.
Client communication as-needed: Occasional regular communication with clients to refine content needs and preferences, discuss content strategies and updates, and address feedback and revisions promptly.

What Success Looks Like in 90 Days:

You will establish a quality metric and scoring system to measure content on clearly defined quality standards and report weekly on content velocity
You will execute developmental editing across the entire content pipeline, ensuring that all content is edited and delivered on time without pushing back deadlines.

You are very passionate about making world-class content that drives commercial results.
You have experience driving results on search engines using content marketing (agency side or in-house)
You have experience creating content for e-commerce brands will give you brownie points
You have experience managing content teams including building systems and processes to deliver outcomes
You have a good understanding of how content drives results in SEO (will need a working knowledge of SEO tools like Ahrefs and Surfer SEO)
You have demonstrable ability to deliver very high-quality content assets
You have a high level of developmental editorial experience
You are able to occasionally overlap with EST timezone

🏡Remote-First, Flexible Work Model

🏢Shared Office Space in Cape Town

💻A Slack Community of Marketing Professionals

🌍Global Visibility
🤝Your Own South African Talent Partner

🧑🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏾Social and Training Events
📑Full-time South African Employment Contract
🧾HR, Payroll & Taxes are taken care of!

Please be sure to read our Ts & Cs before submitting your application.

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