Senior Sub-editor at The Economist

Currently we are seeking a senior sub editor to work on a range of print and electronic products within the Country Publishing division.

Accountabilities

How you will contribute:

• Oversee Subedit operations in Johannesburg, influencing editorial standards and driving quality and excellence across teams and products
• Manage the Risk Briefing product, enforcing high standards and timeliness, resolving problems and anticipating bottlenecks
• Ensure metadata tagging is consistent and error-free
• Ensure that content is being updated regularly on the EIU websites by performing quality checks
• Influencing change to streamline processes
• Train and mentor new analysts and junior subeditors
• Subediting for grammar, punctuation, spelling, consistency, relevance and accuracy, in compliance with house style and according to deadlines
• Resolving ambiguous passages in conjunction with editors
• Checking internal consistency of statistical data, and that all content has been duly updated

Experience, skills and professional attributes

The ideal skills for this role are:

• A degree or equivalent (ideally in English, Political Science, Politics, Economics, International Relations or a related subject)
• Minimum 5 years' work experience in a subeditor role
• International commercial exposure within a publishing environment
• An interest in, or basic understanding of, macroeconomics, politics and international affairs
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
• Exceptional knowledge and use of English language and grammar
• Highly numerate
• Strong IT skills
• An ability to learn and understand complex processes involving Word and Excel templates and proprietary EIU publishing
• Solid experience working with HTML tagged data
• An ability to work autonomously and effectively under pressure
• Organised and able to prioritise
• A strong sense of initiative
• Team spirit
• An inquisitive nature