Senior Editor
Company: Harvard University
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: April 9, 2021
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Job Description:
The senior editor is the principal professional responsible for
assuring the quality and consistency of Harvard Magazine texts. On
this small, closely knit staff, the senior editor engages with all
the magazine's contents (staff-written and freelanced) from the
inception of assignments through production and publication. This
broad span of responsibility encompasses fundamental review of
drafts for structure and organization, logic, completeness,
clarity, order, voice and tone, and house style, through revisions,
copyediting and fact-checking, and print or online production and
publication. As a proxy for the magazine's educated, intellectually
engaged readers, the senior editor will work with a wide variety of
writers, covering an exceptionally broad range of subjects (across
the academic disciplines and the spectrum of professions), to
deliver outstanding journalism, profiles, essays, and other
contents. Those contents range from short news posts to 5,000-word
features; successful production requires meeting deadlines that
range from the requirements of immediate, breaking news to
long-form articles that evolve over many months. Job-Specific
Responsibilities Job characteristics. The senior editorship
requires demonstrated experience with in-depth, high-volume editing
and publication production; a passion for comprehensiveness and
clarity in expression-and a zeal for accuracy and fairness;
attention to detail; and ability to fulfill multiple overlapping
assignments on deadline. Ability to work very closely with all
editorial staff members, the art director, and multiple outside
writers; and with business staff colleagues on their written
materials-all of whom rely on the senior editor. Ability to reach
out to sources throughout and beyond the University to access
materials and check facts. Supervisory responsibilities. The senior
editor supervises the assistant editor/special sections manager
(who reports, edits, and assigns the contents of the alumni and
Harvard Squared sections in each bimonthly printed issue);
supervises the contractors who compile and prepare the class notes
and obituaries published in each issue (preparation of which
involves interaction with Harvard Alumni Association staff and
College class secretaries in particular); shares mentoring of and
works closely with undergraduate editorial fellows; and hires and
supervises the work of term-time editorial interns as needed. Basic
Qualifications Candidates must have a liberal-arts bachelor's
degree and a minimum of five years of professional editing
experience-preferably in a magazine, book-publishing, or academic
environment. Candidates must have had some experience fulfilling
management/supervisory responsibilities. Essential strengths
include strong grasp of fundamental characteristics of strong
writing (organization, logic, structure, etc.), plus English
grammar, diction, and style, and outstanding interpersonal skills;
ability to carry on multiple, overlapping assignments
simultaneously; attention to detail; and demonstrated ability to
work under frequent deadlines, take initiative, set priorities, and
work collaboratively in a team environment. Additional
Qualifications and Skills InCopy, InDesign, and Web competencies
are strong pluses. Familiarity with content-management systems
(Drupal, WordPress) a positive. Candidates will be asked to
complete editing exercises before interviews. We are an equal
opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color,
religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected
veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and
pregnancy-related conditions, or any other characteristic protected
by law.
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