Job Summary

Job Description

What you’ll do here

If you’ve read this far, we know that you want to know more. As Devex’s Managing Editor, you’ll directly manage a half dozen editors across time zones, who in turn manage a dozen full-time reporters and many more freelancers. You’ll own the newsroom culture, leading it to continue high-quality coverage across a variety of topics and increasing the energy and ambition behind our journalism. You’ll coordinate with other teams to further our multiplatform coverage, and be a key player in developing our news strategy.

Your first year will look a little bit like this…

In your first 90 days, you’ll get to know our news team and our broader news division (which includes special coverage, partnerships, and audience teams), learning how all the pieces fit together and work. You’ll edit stories and newsletters to support the team, learn how they work, and share your approach. You’ll spend time with our Senior Managing Editor and President & Editor-in-Chief to better understand the challenges and opportunities for the entire team and for individual team members.

After your first year, you’ll have helped to develop coverage plans for major events and issues, worked with editors to determine coverage priorities, edited major stories, developed series and reporting initiatives, and mentored and inspired your editors to raise the level of our journalism.

Qualifications

Here are the indicators that this could be a good role for you:

Significant experience as a digital-first, multiplatform editor

Significant management experience

At least 15 years of work experience as a journalist/editor

Strong editing skills and experience

The ability to write (and inspire others to write) engaging, compelling, conversational copy

Confident leading a newsroom and making decisions under time pressure

An undergraduate degree

Bonus

Besides the basics, here’s what we’d love to see:

You’ve worked at one or more high-quality media organizations

You’ve been involved in news, features, newsletters, events, and social media

You haven’t just heard of the World Bank and Gates Foundation; you know what they do and how they work