Senior Editor

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🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

💵 $62.8k - $97.8k / year

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🟠 Senior

✏️ Editor

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Duke Careers

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1924

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📚 Education

Consulting • Healthcare • Education

Duke Careers is a platform connected to Duke University's rich legacy, established in 1924. It aims to celebrate the centennial of Duke University while providing resources, stories, and interviews that reflect the university's history, current achievements, and future aspirations. A key focus of Duke Careers is to engage with alumni and the community, showcasing the transformative impact of education and leadership within the university.

📋 Description

• Identify timely, relevant, and newsworthy research stories from leading universities and research institutions • Evaluate submissions and develop story angles, headlines, framing, and audience-focused narratives • Manage and maintain a balanced editorial calendar across multiple institutions and subject areas • Contribute to special editorial initiatives, thematic coverage, and multi-institution research features • Edit stories for accuracy, clarity, readability, engagement, and accessibility • Transform complex scholarly research into clear and compelling content for general audiences • Verify facts, study findings, quotations, sources, links, and attributions • Apply editorial, ethical, legal, and style standards consistently • Provide constructive feedback to contributors • Publish and manage content within Futurity's content management system • Optimize headlines, summaries, metadata, images, captions, and content presentation • Ensure stories meet accessibility, SEO, usability, and mobile-readiness standards • Monitor and update published content • Partner with university communications teams, researchers, writers, and institutional contributors • Coordinate publication materials, permissions, visuals, and supporting assets • Support story distribution through newsletters, social media, search, and emerging channels • Analyze audience engagement, website performance, and content effectiveness • Manage editorial workflows from submission through publication • Maintain and improve editorial standards, processes, and quality controls • Contribute to multimedia storytelling, newsletter initiatives, and digital content innovation

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Communications, Science Writing, English, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience • Three to five years of experience editing or producing digital content in journalism, science communication, higher education, research communications, or related environments • Exceptional editing, proofreading, fact-checking, and headline-writing skills • Strong news judgment and ability to identify compelling stories from complex subject matter • Demonstrated success writing and editing content for broad public audiences • Experience managing multiple deadlines while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail • Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, and communication skills • Commitment to accuracy, fairness, transparency, and responsible research communication • Preferred: experience working with universities, research institutions, or academic organizations • Preferred: background in science journalism, research communications, or scholarly publishing • Preferred: familiarity with digital publishing systems, analytics platforms, and search optimization practices • Preferred: experience using audience insights to inform editorial strategy • Preferred: knowledge of AP Style or similar editorial standards • Preferred: experience editing multimedia, newsletter, social media, or visual content • Preferred: understanding of accessibility standards and inclusive digital publishing practices

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental care programs • Generous retirement benefits • Family-friendly and cultural programs • Remote work arrangement

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