Senior Editor, UATL (AJC)

Cox Communications • Atlanta, GA

19d • Hybrid

About The Position

UATL is a source for Black culture and community in Atlanta powered by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. We build community by connecting to the stories that matter, the journalism you want to support and the events you don’t want to miss. That’s where you come in. UATL is seeking an experienced Senior Editor to grow and guide coverage of Black culture and define and implement strategy for the AJC’s Black culture brand and product. The role is at the senior manager level and works with senior AJC leadership to establish the scope and vision of the brand and the goals and impacts that will determine success. This leader is also responsible for building and maintaining a team and establishing roles and responsibilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 8 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 6 years' of experience; a Ph.D. and 3 years' of experience in a related field; or 12 years' experience in a related field.
• 3+ years' experience in a management or leadership role
• Demonstrated strong news judgment and excellent editing ability.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams to follow standards and execute large-scale news initiatives.
• Strong ability to organize, analyze, interpret, and disseminate information.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Track record of effectively partnering with different teams across newsrooms and the entire organization.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills to work effectively across groups.

Responsibilities

• Brand strategy - Set the goals and vision for the UATL brand and designs systems and processes to ensure those goals and visions are carried out.
• Develop a high level of strategy expertise though reader research, audience analytics, government reports, study of coverage from other organizations
• Establish short-range and long-range content and audience growth plans through various avenues including brainstorming meetings, team meetings and consultation with leadership colleagues
• Act on and incorporate knowledge from audience metrics and research into the plan.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements.
• Collaboration - Collaborate with other newsroom senior editors and managers to calibrate and coordinate high-level changes in resources, priorities and plans.
• Effectively communicate upcoming plans and challenges through written and verbal communication and meetings
• Adjust priorities and resources according to changing circumstances, sharing resources with other teams when necessary
• Assist with identifying development opportunities for newsroom at large
• Team oversight - Coach and performance-manage a multi-disciplined, high-achieving team to ever improving results, managing productivity and quality of contributions to AJC & UATL journalism.
• Supervise day-to-day coverage and short and long-range content plans
• Create an environment focused on continuous learning and improvement, fostering close-knit collaboration.
• Inspire non-traditional thinking and risk-taking ideas and improvements; inspire team to reach higher for themselves and to participate in continuous improvement
• Identify and act on development opportunities for team members
• Fully embrace the AJC newsroom commitment to diversity and inclusion through recruiting, hiring and development practices
• Assist in recruitment to find quality talent and take a leading role on hiring practices and decisions for team openings.
• Other duties that may vary, including participation in special project teams, task forces and other activities that contribute to wider leadership of the business enterprise.
• Participate in newsroom editor rotation for periodic assignments on weekends and holidays.
• Maintain and cultivate relationships with AJC, CEI and other partners.
• Identify key community partners and opportunities to advance UATL’s mission and further relationships with diverse communities
• Maintain flexibility and embrace growth opportunities outside of core responsibilities
• Other duties may include broad leadership of profile writing and advance obituary writing across the newsroom.

Benefits

• The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
• Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees