Job Details

Job Location

In Business - Madison, WI

Position Type

Full Time

Education Level

4 Year Degree

Travel Percentage

Negligible

Job Category

Media - Journalism - Newspaper

Description

Overall Responsibilities:

Manage editorial department functions across all platforms: print, digital, and social media, with a focus on creating, producing, and maintaining high-quality journalism standards.
Editor-in-chief role has community-facing responsibilities. These include:
- Participation and attendance in all IB Madison led public and private events
- Regular participation in other community and business centric events
- Forge and maintain cordial and professional relationships with local business leaders. These include public and privately held companies, non-profit organizations, government, and higher education institutions, as well as local chamber of commerce organizations.

Specific Responsibilities

Develop short- and long-term direction and creative strategies for all editorial products, which promotes significant audience engagement, and growth across all platforms.
Assign stories, photographs, photo captions and graphics — for print and digital assets — and edit this material for news value, accuracy, clarity and timeliness.
Overall responsibility for daily e-newsletter publication.
Check and/or review editorial material for libel, taste, style, accuracy, fairness and reader interest.
Ensure that the Editorial staff are providing consistent and timely updates to the IB-Madison digital site, and associated social media accounts.
Monitor regional and statewide business, government, and community news and associated issues relevant to our current and desired audience base.
Assist with hiring, evaluating and training new employee owners across other departments.
Manage editorial department budget. Monitor and report budget projections and variances.
Maintain and process necessary records.
Coordinate planning and production of editorial content, ensuring that standards of quality, editorial direction, and style are met for all products.
Coach, train, and evaluate performance of editorial employee owners.
Suggests and initiates programs and procedures to enhance products, efficiency and morale.
Adheres to company and departmental policies.
Adheres to standard practices and ethical standards of the industry.
Positive representative of department, company and industry at all times.
Attends and participates in corporate initiatives such as Great Game of Business, ESOP meetings, safety training, etc.
Provides quality customer service via phone, email, and face-to-face interaction to both internal and external customers.
Communicates information to the appropriate individuals and/or departments in a timely manner, such as news tips, source suggestions or real or potential customer-relations issues.
In addition to editorial staff, Works in collaboration with all departments and staff.
Other job-related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Behavior: Commitment to quality and service. A leader and role model. A positive representative of the company, corporation and profession. A team player. Dresses appropriately for the job. Maintains a valid driver’s license.

Skills: Planning, management and organization, editing, writing, spelling and grammar. Ability to track and incorporate analytics into news placement decisions. Ability to learn and use new technology. Meets deadlines.

Knowledge: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent. Five years of media and/or publishing leadership experience.

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