Managing Editor

🔍 Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford, California, United States

📁: Communications

📅   : Oct 09, 2024 Post Date

📅   : 104885 Requisition #

This position is based on Stanford’s main campus with consideration given to the option for a hybrid work schedule (partially onsite and offsite), subject to operational need. Interested candidates must include a resume and cover letter to be considered for this position.

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About Us

The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability strives to create a future when humans and nature thrive in concert and in perpetuity. The school is made up of a three-part structure to drive global impact: Our academic departments and programs educate students and create new knowledge across areas of research that are crucial for advancing the long-term prosperity of the planet and people; Institutes bridge scholarship at Stanford and beyond, bringing multiple viewpoints to bear on urgent challenges; The Sustainability Accelerator drives new policy and technology solutions through a worldwide network of partners who work with our teams to develop solutions at a global scale. The school is dedicated to creating and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, and to creating solutions that benefit all people, particularly those most affected by environmental damage and climate change.

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A new, global-facing publication to be based at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability aims to become a go-to platform for ideas from sustainability change-agents – a platform that broadens the sustainability conversation, helping to clarify actionable approaches for impact.

The publication seeks a full-time managing editor to work with the editor-in-chief to shape the publication. This is an opportunity to help create and help run a global publication featuring frontier ideas, diverse voices, innovative analysis, and illuminating debate about one of the most crucial and complex issues of our time – a publication based at Stanford, which has a new sustainability school that is plowing fresh intellectual ground.

The successful candidate for managing editor will have compelling experience conceptualizing, commissioning, and editing complex pieces; a facility for managing people; a knack for reframing critical questions and exploring them in new ways; a commitment to facts and a distrust of ideology; and a passion for building something bold and new. Experience launching a publication and writing about sustainability is preferred but not required.

Your Responsibilities will include:

Working with the editor-in-chief as part of the senior management team to shape the publication.
Managing, on a daily basis, the editorial process, from commissioning of pieces, to editing, design, production, and publication.
Managing staff, including senior editors and a multimedia director.
Managing relationships with outside authors and other contributors.
Ensuring deadlines are met.
Working with the editor-in-chief on organizational strategy and on hiring plans.
Coordinating management of the publication’s electronic systems and platforms.

To be successful in this position, you will need:

Education & Experience:

Bachelor's degree in English, communications, or journalism, and eight years of relevant work experience, or a combination of education and relevant experience.

Extensive knowledge and skill in all editorial processes including story development, quality control, design, and collaboration.
Ability to provide recommendations for long-range strategies.
Ability to synthesize complex material from multiple sources to identify and resolve key editorial and publication issues.
Ability to work effectively and provide leadership to a team under stringent deadline requirements.
Ability to work effectively with senior organizational leaders, scientists, and faculty.
Demonstrated project-management skills and ability to plan, budget, and track resources.
Demonstrated ability to apply discretion and judgment in evaluating implications of publication and information release to internal and external audiences.

In addition, preferred qualifications include:

Experience launching and managing a global-facing publication.
Subject-matter expertise with sustainability.

The expected pay range for this position is $144,288 to $168,181 per annum.

Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location, and external market pay for comparable jobs.

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How to Apply

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The job duties listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification and are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Specific duties and responsibilities may vary depending on department or program needs without changing the general nature and scope of the job or level of responsibility. Employees may also perform other duties as assigned.

Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should contact Stanford University Human Resources by submitting a contact form.

Stanford is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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