Editorial Director

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Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
New York, NY, USA
Full-time

NRDC is looking for an experienced editor and manager with knowledge of environmental issues to lead the organization’s editorial team. The Editorial Director oversees the editorial strategy of NRDC.org, ensuring that it ladders up to NRDC’s larger content strategy and that the stories selected and produced are engaging and compelling while accurately portraying the institution’s mission and delivering on advocacy goals. This position reports to the Senior Director, Content.

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Oversees and top edits editorial content for NRDC.org, ensuring consistency of quality and voice
  • Directs a team of writers and editors to craft compelling stories conveying the organization’s priorities, approach, and expertise
  • Builds relationships with scientists, lawyers, and policy advocates across the organization to stay abreast of ongoing work and to ensure that NRDC’s editorial reflects the organization’s policy priorities and advocacy goals
  • Works with the analytics team to ensure that digital content is smart, optimized, and shareable
  • Collaborates with social media director to create smart sharable editorial for NRDC’s social media platforms
  • Works with content management director on content governance and to optimize timing of content as it relates to larger initiatives or campaigns
  • Identifies narrative opportunities for video storytelling and works with multimedia director to execute
  • Directly manages three senior editors
Educational Background: 
Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, English, or Communications
Skills/Experience: 
  • At least 10 years experience editing digital editorial and/or branded content
  • At least 5 years experience managing a team of content creators, including experience managing managers
  • Ability to juggle multiple projects and priorities at once
  • Deep knowledge of and passion for environmental and public health issues
  • Strong communication skills
  • A collaborative, creative spirit
How to Apply: 

https://careers-nrdc.icims.com/jobs/4153/editorial-director/job

Job Function: 
Communications & Public Education

Organization Info

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

Overview
Headquarters: 
New York, NY, United States
Website: 
nrdc.org
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1970
About Us
Areas of Focus: 
Environment
Legal Services / Justice System
Mission: 

The Natural Resources Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends.

We work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life -- air, land and water -- and to defend endangered natural places.

We seek to establish sustainability and good stewardship of the Earth as central ethical imperatives of human society. NRDC affirms the integral place of human beings in the environment.

We strive to protect nature in ways that advance the long-term welfare of present and future generations.

We work to foster the fundamental right of all people to have a voice in decisions that affect their environment. We seek to break down the pattern of disproportionate environmental burdens borne by people of color and others who face social or economic inequities. Ultimately, NRDC strives to help create a new way of life for humankind, one that can be sustained indefinitely without fouling or depleting the resources that support all life on Earth.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Feb 18 2019
Active Until: 
Mar 18 2019
Hiring Organization: 
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
industry: 
Nonprofit