Senior Editor, Content Partnerships- C&EN
About The Position
Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the award-winning news organization of the American Chemical Society, is seeking a dedicated Senior Editor, Content Partnerships to expand the reach and impact of C&EN's journalism through strategic content distribution and publishing partnerships. This role will oversee the editorial strategy, governance, and performance of C&EN content appearing on third-party platforms, ensuring that the right content reaches the right audiences while maintaining the organization's high editorial standards. The role is co-lead on the development and delivery of the portfolio of news and feature stories produced by the content partnership group. This position combines editorial expertise, content distribution management, and strategic partnership development. The Senior Editor, Content Partnerships will identify and cultivate external publishing relationships, optimize content delivery workflows, analyze performance metrics, and support audience growth initiatives that extend the global reach of C&EN's journalism.
Requirements
- Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 8 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 5 years of experience; or equivalent work experience.
- Strong knowledge of the scientific publishing landscape with demonstrated success in science journalism.
- Tech savvy with the ability to constantly learn/adapt to new systems and tools.
- Mature communications skills and relationship building savvy sufficient to seek and apply guidance in the performance of the job as well as to engage with C&EN and other staff to coordinate work.
- Continuous learner with the mentality to learn and apply accumulated experience.
- Ability to resolve complex problems independently.
- Financial savvy to understand operational activities in the context of the business.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with content partnerships, syndication, audience growth initiatives, scientific or technical publications, and working with complex subject matter for professional or general audiences.
Responsibilities
- Work effectively with freelance and staff writers, including developing stories of appropriate scope and length, setting deadlines, working through edits, and creating engaging headlines and social trim.
- Support the development of publishing and content sharing agreements, collaborating with the Publisher and the CPG and legal teams.
- Monitor partnerships with publications including performance tracking, editorial quality and workflow efficiencies, working closely with colleagues across C&EN and ACS.
- Represent C&EN with publication partners, freelance networks and science journalism communities as per the objectives of CPG.
- Support the maintenance of an adequate network of contacts and news sources, as well as attend meetings and conferences, to generate story ideas for the above work.
- Ensure freelancers have up-to-date contracts and statements of work.
- Work with freelancers and C&EN’s creative team to identify appropriate art for stories.
- Identify and champion opportunities to promote C&EN partnerships via C&EN’s homepage, social channels, newsletters, and other means.
- Write or edit other items for C&EN as appropriate. Cover relevant breaking news as appropriate.
- Mentor more junior staff.
Benefits
- paid vacation leave
- paid sick leave
- paid holidays
- health insurance
- flexible spending account or health care savings account
- dental insurance
- life insurance
- vision insurance
- retirement benefits
- short- and long-term disability
- 4-week work from anywhere
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
