Associate Editor

At the heart of our company is our people. People from many different backgrounds with different vantage points, opinions, and experiences. We strive to continually lead with our IMPACT values and empower our employees to develop their full potential on a team that is passionate about acceptance, inclusivity, and achievement. Our employees are the driving force for the innovation, collaboration and creativity that enables our organization to deliver strategic success.

The Associate Editor is responsible for creating, editing, and managing content for online and print products. This position will delve into a topic area and break down complex ideas into simple terms. This role works in a team environment and contributes content to other related products.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Write and edit clear, informative, and engaging content in a variety of formats (e.g., news, feature stories, reports, infographics, etc.) according to company’s standards for quality, style, and voice
• Manage products through the editorial and production process, including sourcing material, editing and formatting text, and shepherding content through review, proofreading, design and final production
• Upload relevant content to applicable Web properties through the content management system and ensure content displays and functions correctly
• Maintain social media activities as assigned
• Adhere to strict deadlines and budget requirements for all assigned products
• Strengthen market knowledge and cultivate relationships with sources and customers to ensure products address the issues challenging readers
• Track market trends and collaborate with colleagues to brainstorm new products
• Propose new product ideas in your area(s) of expertise across all product lines, and manage all content-related phases of the new products process, including conducting research, writing proposals, and presenting the finished concept
• Work collaboratively with other content specialists in the peer editing process
  
  

Additional Responsibilities:

• Additional duties as assigned
  
  

Critical Competencies:

• Ownership & Execution – Demonstrates a sense of ownership to drive issues to closure, maximizes the use of existing processes while continuously pursuing ways to improve efficiencies, sets aggressive goals, monitors progress, and delivers results, seizes more opportunities than others
• Collaboration & Team Building – Builds and maintains relationships to successfully work toward common strategic goals, creates strong morale and spirit, fosters open dialogue, creates a sense of unity among team
  
  

The Individual:

• Strong verbal, written, analytical, research, and communication skills
• Self-motivated with ability to juggle and meet multiple deadlines
• Demonstrated ability in time management, multitasking, and project management
• Strong organizational skills and ability to work in a highly collaborative environment
• Attention to detail, accuracy
• Ability to think logically, classify content, and apply taxonomy
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, Communications or related fields
• 2 to 5 years of experience in reporting, writing and editing a weekly or monthly publication
  
  

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

All external applicants must be legally eligible to immediately work in the country of hire without current or future sponsorship.

If you require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act or similar law in order to apply for employment at Simplify Compliance, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team 1.800.727.5257, ext. 8101.

Job applicants may request to review the company's Affirmative Action plans by contacting the talent acquisition team/recruiter, Human Resources department or Chief People Officer.

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