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Title: Editor II, Global Health Digital – Temporary

Location: Remote

OVERVIEW

A thriving, mission-driven multimedia organization, NPR produces award-winning news, information, and music programming in partnership with hundreds of independent public radio stations across the nation. The NPR audience values information, creativity, curiosity, and social responsibility and our employees do too. We are innovators and leaders in erse fields, from journalism and digital media to IT and development. Every day, our employees and member stations touch the lives of millions worldwide.

Across our organization, we’re building a workplace where collaboration is essential, erse voices are heard, and inclusion is the key to our success. We are committed to doing the right thing in our journalism and in every role at NPRThis means that integrity, adherence to our ethical standards, and compliance with legal obligations are fundamental responsibilities for every employee at NPR.

NPR is looking for a smart, enthusiastic leader to help guide our coverage of global health and development with an emphasis on enterprise journalism and high-impact stories.

The Editor for Global Health will have a strong vision and a nuanced understanding of this vital beat. The successful candidate will challenge us as we strive for new, creative ways to report on this dynamic area of coverage.

This person will be a key member of the decision-making team on the Science Desk, which is composed of more than 40 correspondents, editors and producers working across platforms news magazines, newscasts, digital and podcasts.

The successful candidate will be a creative editor and project director with significant experience in journalism and the social media realm.

A key responsibility for this position is editing global health content for digital, social and emerging platforms. The Global Health Editor will track relevant health news and trends, brainstorm compelling, enterprising story ideas with reporters and freelancers, and edit their copy. On a daily basis the Editor will work in partnership with the senior editor of our successful blog Goats and Soda and with other staff editors and reporters as well as with freelancers, partners and members of the desk’s visual, digital and social teams. This editor will report to the deputy senior science editor for global health.

The second key responsibility is as a social media strategist, in which the editor will build authentic connections between the GHD (Global Health and Development) team and its audience. The Editor will work with NPR staff to develop plans to engage our audience on multiple social platforms and measure the performance of those plans. The Editor must be able to offer guidance on effective use of social media around editorial projects, help execute those plans and lead the tracking of metrics.

This is a union represented role covered under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with SAG-AFTRA.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Working with the senior editor, the Editor identifies, evaluates and assigns stories involving global health and development news and features. The Editor:

  • Maintains highest-quality journalistic content standards.
  • Maintains broad and deep expertise in global health and development coverage.
  • Edits and writes engaging, accurate text and headlines that appeal to both search engines and humans — as well as conform to NPR and AP styles.
  • Helps brainstorm, produce, edit and report special series and projects on the global health and development desk.
  • Reports for digital, and occasionally for radio, as needed.
  • Ensures digital stories produced by staff, freelance correspondents and partners are accurate and grammatically correct, performing copy editing, fact-checking and research, as needed.
  • Recruits and cultivates top-notch freelance contributors

As a social media strategist, the Editor uses a broad range of digital media platforms to engage the audience and help build a community around NPR’s global health coverage.

The Editor:

  • Works with the NPR global health and development team to create effective social media content and plans.
  • Develops and shares social best practices based on data and insights.
  • Coordinates content with relevant NPR teams for major social channels: Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Instagram.
  • Experiments with emerging tools and platforms to bring new audiences to public media and further engage our existing audience to contribute ideas and stories to our blog.
  • Collaborates with other NPR social editors on standards, best practices and experiments.
  • Collaborates with analysts and product managers to track key social metrics.
  • Cultivate, promote and advance ersity, equity, and inclusion in one’s work and in the workplace.
  • Demonstrated awareness of intersectional identities and ability to collaborate with people from erse backgrounds.

The above duties and responsibilities are not an exhaustive list of required responsibilities, duties and skills. Other duties may be assigned, and this job description can be modified at any time.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • 3+ years professional experience engaging with audiences on multiple social platforms.
  • Proven ability to see around corners in the social media space, identifying actionable trends and intriguing technology.
  • Experience implementing sophisticated social media tools and techniques.
  • 3+ years experience in a daily news organization.
  • Proven ability to translate complicated concepts for a general audience across platforms.
  • Proven ability to create, plan and lead projects.
  • Ability and willingness to travel outside the U.S.
  • Ability and willingness to work varied shifts.
  • Ability to relocate. In the future, NPR may choose to transfer employees to other geographic locations. Severance provisions of the AFTRA collective bargaining agreement will apply should you choose not to accept a transfer.
  • Proven ability to document internal processes in story creation, editing and promotion and to analyze audience data.
  • Knowledge of news and feature reporting and online production techniques.
  • Ability to handle multiple and complex projects simultaneously under stringent time frames and changing priorities/conditions.
  • Proven ability to consistently work well with others, demonstrating at all times respect for the erse constituencies at NPR and within the public radio system.

PREFERRED SKILLS

  • Demonstrated excellence in editing, reporting and writing for the web and radio.
  • Ability to analyze social science and medical research and explain global developments and trends.
  • Knowledge and experience in global health and development, including familiarity with:
    • leading global health and development thinkers, journals and websites.
    • key private organizations.
    • trends within global health and development.
    • international and domestic health and development agencies and organizations.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENT

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. Degree in science or public health preferred.

WORK LOCATION

  • Remote Permitted: This is a remote permitted role. This role is based out of our Washington, DC office but the employee may choose to work on a remote basis from a location that NPR approves.

JOB TYPE

  • This is a temporary full time position until Oct 31, 2023

COMPENSATION

Hourly Rate: The U.S. based anticipated hourly rate for this opportunity is $49.27 – $57.69 per hour. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum hourly rate NPR expects to provide for new hires for the position across all US locations.

Benefits: NPR offers access to comprehensive benefits for employees and dependents. Regular, full-time employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week are eligible to enroll in NPR’s benefits options. Benefits include access to health and wellness, paid time off, and financial well-being. Plan options include medical, dental, vision, life/ accidental death and dismemberment, long-term disability, short-term disability, and voluntary retirement savings to all eligible NPR employees.

Does this sound like you? If so, we want to hear from you.

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