Senior Editor Job Description
Senior editor
provides direction and guidance on MS PowerPoint briefings, graphics formats, based on customer policies, procedures, and guidance.
Senior Editor Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
With the Executive Editor, formulates and executes a distinct and salable vision for the imprint
Rethink the way we tell stories
Write on tight deadlines
Appear on camera
Solicits, acquires, evaluates and develops high profile manuscripts
Manage the production of individual titles and series
Supervise freelancers and editorial staff, providing feedback as needed
Generating ideas specifically for work and money print coverage, including FOB, well, and multi-platform packages
Work independently to edit high-quality videos for internal and external audiences
Create motion graphics as needed including title cards, slates and lower thirds
Senior Editor Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Editor
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ELS, MWC, PMP, IAM, IAT
Education for Senior Editor
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior editor job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Journalism, English, Communications, Education, Editing, Writing, Science, Graduate, Marketing, Technical
Skills for Senior Editor
Desired skills for senior editor include:
Biological and medical sciences
InCopy
Microsoft Office
PPM
Client’s process/procedures for all submissions
MS Office
Music and culture
EES
MS Word
AP style
Desired experience for senior editor includes:
A love of, and passion for style, typography and graphic design
Understanding of usage and clearance requirements for music, images and footage
A natural ease and confidence when directing on and off camera
Experience of uploading video to the web
A good journalistic understanding of video and TV content
Experience within TV or production would be desirable
Senior Editor Examples
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Senior Editor Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a senior editor. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior editor
- Execute “macro” edits as assigned
- May work with authors and agents to secure permissions and releases and to obtain approval for content
- The position may serve as an internal editorial managing editor on proprietary titles as directed by Supervisor
- Act as a senior figure when incidents arise to investigate and report back to other stakeholders, take corrective action and create incident reports
- To help in the planning and execution of the publishing program in keeping with the market trends
- To maintain cordial and good working relations with various authors, reviewers, in-house teams and freelancers
- Liaise with the author(s) and editor(s) in response to feedback from reviewers and partner with the publishing product manager in reviewing the competition for improving the quality of each manuscript with a distinct competitive advantage over other publishers’ books
- To support the publishing product manager in visualizing and delivering the final product working closely with the Design, Production and Manufacturing departments
- To ensure, in consultation with the publishing product manager that backlist titles are kept up-to-date and are managed effectively so that they provide maximum profit
- May need to undertake official travel to support the sales and marketing functions for promotions and retentions of the titles
Qualifications for senior editor
- A great idea generator who won’t shy away from getting big gets
- Published clips demonstrating the ability to weave a compelling, literary story that evokes a strong sense of place and captures the essence of an experience
- Shows initiative the ability to work as part of a team
- We’re searching for a Video Editor whose work reflects masterful editing of intense, high-action scenes that demonstrate superb capture of battle, and adventure gameplay
- You should possess deep knowledge of Adobe Premiere and demonstrate solid knowledge of Creative Suite, with After Effects expertise strongly preferred
- You must be technically inclined and a strong trouble shooter
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Our company is hiring for a senior editor. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior editor
- Pursues an active and efficient acquisitions policy through correspondence, required meetings/trips, telephone, consultations with advisors, Approximately 20%-40% travel strong initiative and independent functioning
- Handle all aspects of photo production, including booking photo shooting resources, talent, locations, catering, securing releases, travel accommodations, maintaining budgets, global edit job set up, editing and archiving
- Manage photo editing staff for Creative and Marketing Groups
- Estimate image costs
- Offer creative input and editing as requested
- Stay current with photographic property rights, creative trends, technical formats and brand requirements
- Work independently on assigned projects to deliver quality images on time and budget
- Collaborate with multiple teams, including design, application engineering, business development, business intelligence, International, and others to manage relevant and compelling solutions that help drive product adoption and optimize the customer experience
- Define guidelines, goals, checklists and best practices for template creation, testing and publishing
- Work across the Office organization (PM/SWE, CSS, PMG) to ensure a holistic, end-to-end process for creating and publishing templates
Qualifications for senior editor
- Solid structure, whether an energetic trailer or a well executed story
- Motion Graphics illustrating strong design aesthetics/sensibilities
- Specific game capture/game industry/technical experience
- Color treatment, high quality packaging
- Experience editing sports news, features and projects, social media
- Demonstrated expertise in editing sports news and features, along with several major projects, with an emphasis on quantitative journalism
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior editor. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior editor
- Pitch, write and edit content in the news, life and self-improvement space
- Reach out to external contributors and work with them on new and existing content
- Develop new series, packages and programs
- High quality of output under pressure
- Have 5+ years of digital writing and editing experience for the business and finance sector
- Collaborate with a team of Editors and Writers, using your excellent news judgement to assign, edit and optimize content across numerous platforms (web, social, print)
- Grow audience engagement across the site
- Drive integrated print and digital content experience initiatives
- Oversee all aspects of production for the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
- Write and edit documents for the School such as advertising copy, article, brochures, letters, bulletins, press releases, proposals
Qualifications for senior editor
- Proven mastery of Office applications incl
- Ability to influence, without authority, other functional areas within the company
- Minimum 3 years of experience, including editorial, marketing or sales with a proven record of successful performance
- All-around love for the Internet
- Knowledge of launches in the beauty, style, and/or culture categories
- Established relationships within the above industries
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a senior editor. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior editor
- Receive manuscripts from neurosurgery faculty and residents
- If changes are requested by the journal, or if a rejected manuscript needs to be submitted to a different journal, support the author(s) in the revision and/or resubmission process (cross-check changes, format, and edit revised manuscript as needed)
- Supports OSC's internal communications efforts through editing of content, idea generation, and support of curation of key internal websites, newsletters, and other vehicles
- Assists in content creation—assigning, editing, writing, and using multimedia skills—for a wide variety of print- and web-based vehicles
- Shared oversight of photo assignments, coordinates with other photo staff to obtain, organize and publish the world's best photojournalism
- Advocate for outstanding photojournalism across CNN departments
- Demonstrate to world's top photojournalists the importance of CNN as a platform for their work
- Delivers complex projects at high quality and on deadline
- Edit photo content focused on a user-driven strategy that understands the nuances of packaging content for the web, mobile web, social and apps
- This involves initiating assignments adhering to editing standards, maintain relations with agencies, handling contract negotiations as needed, developing relations with freelancers
Qualifications for senior editor
- Ability to manage self and others, and projects
- Minimum of 3-5 years experience as an editor at a consumer-facing or B2B site with a robust social and newsletter audience
- High comfort level with learning various technologies, including web applications, content management systems, spreadsheets, Acrobat and SMART Notebook software
- Deep content analysis and metrics-reporting skills
- Fluency in social media landscape and expertise using various social media/web outlets and analytics tools (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Google Analytics )
- Interest in and knowledge of both U.S. and international higher education is a plus
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of senior editor. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior editor
- Conceive and sustain original text & video franchises that can thrive online, across social platforms and on air
- Work closely with broadcast bookers, producers and correspondents to tell food stories across the brand’s platforms
- Translate show segments into digital wins
- Act as a digital stakeholder during multi-day show series and events
- Fulfill sponsorship needs including contributing to section social accounts
- Editing level is determined by time and budget available
- Dealing with multiple offshore companies - supplying content for ongoing projects
- Liaison with several teams throughout the business including Atkin’s Court Forms, Content Solutions, Business Analysts the project/program team, lawyers, Editorial, Fabrication and Content Acquisition to encourage best practice across the business, where necessary
- Styling documents according to EF&P house style in Word and XML
- Editorial content tasks - including Converting Word documents into XML, adding excerpt links, correcting broken links, current awareness conversion and publishing
Qualifications for senior editor
- Sound knowledge of the global fashion industry, its designers, brands and key players
- Extremely well organised, energetic, self-motivated
- Understanding of the digital landscape and social media sites, SEO practices
- Creates and edits digital copy to drive sales and conversion and to optimize usability, accessibility and SEO
- Optimize merchandising and marketing copy for an interactive digital environment for large promotions and campaigns
- Synthesize and analyze relevant content, traffic and sales metrics to improve the effectiveness of commerce page content