Developmental Editor

🕒 August 26

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✏️ Editor

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Yaqeen Institute

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2016

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

📱 Media

Non-profit • Education • Media

Yaqeen Institute is a nonprofit Islamic research and educational organization that produces scholarly, accessible resources on contemporary Islamic topics. It publishes research papers, eBooks, curricula, videos, podcasts, infographics, and training materials to address misconceptions, counter Islamophobia, and support faith development among Muslim youth and the wider public. The institute also offers interactive tools, apps, events, and membership/donation programs to engage communities and fund its research and outreach.

📋 Description

• Identify weaknesses in manuscripts’ overall arguments and structures, including research gaps, repetition, AI-associated distinctive language overuse, weak transitions, and sections requiring expansion or removal • Reorganize, tighten, and rewrite passages to strengthen structure, clarity, tone, and argument while preserving the author’s distinctive voice • Suggest or verify citations from classical or contemporary scholarship • Communicate directly with authors to suggest edits and collaboratively work through revisions • Incorporate peer-review feedback into subsequent drafts • Coordinate with the style and copyediting team to ensure manuscripts meet Yaqeen’s citation and transliteration standards

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience developmentally editing long-form, non-fiction, research-based manuscripts, preferably in religion, politics, or world affairs • Experience collaboratively working with authors and scholars through iterative revisions • Ability to independently manage a defined scope of work against a project timeline • Proven ability to adapt sophisticated theological, philosophical, ethical, or legal arguments into engaging prose for readers with different levels of Islamic knowledge and backgrounds • Ability to identify assumptions, overclaims, inconsistencies, weak evidence, anticipated objections, and areas requiring clarification • Ability to formulate sound and appealing arguments linguistically and structurally • Proven ability to preserve an author’s voice while improving clarity, authority, accessibility, and reader engagement • Proven grounding in the Islamic sciences, with ability to critically engage religious content, catch errors, and identify credible sources

🏖️ Benefits

• Three-month probationary period • Diversity, development, retention, and advancement within an empowered workplace culture

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