Responsibilities

• Work effectively with freelance and staff writers, including developing stories of appropriate scope and length, setting deadlines, working through edits, and creating engaging headlines and social trim.
• Support the development of publishing and content sharing agreements, collaborating with the Publisher and the CPG and legal teams
• Monitor partnerships with publications including performance tracking, editorial quality and workflow efficiencies, working closely with colleagues across C&EN and ACS
• Represent C&EN with publication partners, freelance networks and science journalism communities as per the objectives of CPG
• Support the maintenance of an adequate network of contacts and news sources, as well as attend meetings and conferences, to generate story ideas for the above work.
• Ensure freelancers have up-to-date contracts and statements of work.
• Work with freelancers and C&EN’s creative team to identify appropriate art for stories.
• Identify and champion opportunities to promote C&EN partnerships via C&EN’s homepage, social channels, newsletters, and other means.
• Write or edit other items for C&EN as appropriate. Cover relevant breaking news as appropriate.
• Mentor more junior staff.

Requirements

• Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 8 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 5 years of experience; or equivalent work experience.
• Strong knowledge of the scientific publishing landscape with demonstrated success in science journalism.
• Tech savvy with the ability to constantly learn/adapt to new systems and tools.
• Mature communications skills and relationship building savvy sufficient to seek and apply guidance in the performance of the job as well as to engage with C&EN and other staff to coordinate work.
• Continuous learner with the mentality to learn and apply accumulated experience.
• Ability to resolve complex problems independently.
• Financial savvy to understand operational activities in the context of the business.

Benefits

• 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