Executive Editor, Policy and Regulation

1 week ago

Washington, United States American Chemical Society Careers Full time
Job Summary:

C&EN is seeking a talented Executive Editor, Policy and Regulation, to join our team of Executive Editors who lead teams on Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Business. The role will be a crucial part of a leadership team delivering content for a global audience in and around the global chemical enterprise.

Primary Job Accountabilities:
  • Coordinate C&EN's coverage of regulation and science policy, spanning national and international science policy, pollution control policy, major regulatory agencies, climate change, the energy transition, food and drug safety, laboratory and industrial safety, research funding and ethics, and scientific publishing.
  • Help conceive, shape, and edit content across a range of formats, ensuring that stories are accurate, balanced, and compelling.
  • Work with executive editors and platform editors to ensure C&EN is covering major news developments that cross disciplines.
  • Oversee the quality of work and professional development of the team of policy reporters as well as maintain a small network of talented freelance contributors.
  • Work with C&EN's art directors and creative team to deliver the optimal experience for our audience using a range of media.
  • Work with analytics and marketing teams to contribute to audience development targets and continued enhancement of our value proposition as a journalism outfit.
  • Nurture contacts in the regulatory and science policy communities and contribute to editorial strategy decisions across the newsroom.

What You'll Bring:
  • An undergraduate degree in chemistry or a related scientific field or equivalent experience.
  • Achievement in growing editorial coverage and developing audiences internationally.
  • Strong editorial judgment, journalistic values and ethics, and oral communication skills.
  • Knowledge of SEO and social media best practices.
  • Achievement in delivering compelling web-based journalism for an international audience.
  • Up-to-date knowledge of technologies for providing digital journalism in an effective manner in various delivery formats.
  • Dynamic and proactive self-starter with strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
  • Excellent organizational and time-management skills with the ability to thrive and lead in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
  • High comfort levels with change and occasional ambiguity.

What You'll Bring – Experience:
  • A minimum of 5 years of experience working as a government or policy journalist, including a minimum of 3 years of experience editing content across formats, with a preference for experience working principally in digital formats.
  • Experience conceptualizing, developing, and shaping powerful, engaging, and accurate stories that resonate with a scientific audience.
  • Experience managing journalists through organizational change is highly desired.
  • Experience in managing people, production, projects, and budgets with a record of success.

What You Can Expect:

ACS, C&EN's host organization, believes in the strength of diversity in all its forms, because inclusion of and respect for diverse people, experiences, and ideas lead to superior solutions to world challenges and advance chemistry as a global, multidisciplinary science. In turn, C&EN believes that to meet its mission to be the world's go-to source of news about chemistry, our reporting and our newsroom must include diverse perspectives and seeks to reflect these values in its coverage. Therefore, we strongly encourage people from global majority ethnicities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, and members of other historically marginalized communities in the global chemical enterprise to apply.

This role is based in our Washington, DC office. A reasonable rate of compensation for this position is between $136,000 to $150,000 per year. ACS currently provides the following benefits for this position: paid vacation leave, paid sick leave, paid holidays, health insurance, flexible spending account or health care savings account, dental insurance, life insurance, vision insurance, retirement benefits, short- and long-term disability, and 4-week work from anywhere; each benefit is subject to the terms of the applicable program. Additional benefits may apply based on skills, experience, and location.

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