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Fortune seeks editorial director for higher education coverage

November 25, 2020

Posted by Chris Roush

Fortune is launching a new, digital first brand to provide upscale, savvy business consumers with coverage and recommendations on life-long learning, education related rankings, and other related services and products. This new brand will generate revenue from affiliate commerce, lead generation and sponsorship.

Fortune seeks an ​​Editorial Director, Higher Education to provide the strategic content vision for this new brand as well as to supervise the daily content production of the site and supervise a medium size dedicated team of staff and freelancers.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop editorial vision and supporting organization to allow Fortune to become the leading online resource recommendation engine for relevant educational products and services.
  • Ensure that the content produced in on brand, well researched, reliable and insightful to make Fortune’s audience confident to take the next step, no matter what that might be
  • Oversee team of freelancers and staff
  • Oversee editorial coverage in various formats, including features, reviews, rankings and through various content channels including website, email, syndications and social
  • Track and use performance data to adjust editorial strategy and programming
  • Stay abreast of education industry trends
  • Understand SEO value and partner with SEO team to employ best practices
  • Be engaged on data-based results of the editorial coverage and use the data to make informed decisions about future content
  • Partner with business team to set an overall vision and strategy that helps readers and drives commercial success
  • Drive audience development and growth, ensuring that the content covered drives traffic goals
  • Define editorial guidelines and voice

Experience:

  • 6+ years of Editorial experience and leading teams
  • Service content experience and passionate about educational space for MBA and continued career development
  • Experience creating content via in depth explanations product reviews and ratings to enable readers to educate themselves and make decisions/take action
  • Comfort with chasing opportunities and solving problems with commercial functions
  • A data-informed approach to decision making where data influences and informs strategy
  • Experience working with remote freelancers
  • Process driven
  • Self-starter

To apply, go here.

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