Executive Editor - News amp Views
Executive Editor - News amp Views
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Job Description
Salary: Competitive
Contract: FixedTerm for 12 months
Are you passionate about news features and opinion articles multimedia and infographics Were seeking an Executive Editor who will work closely with the Publisher and our section editors to improve content at all stages of the workflow to help reinforce The Pharmaceutical Journals position as one of the leading publications serving pharmacy and the pharmaceutical sciences.
Requirements:
- Graduatelevel journalism training and/or at least five years journalism writing experience.
- Undergraduate degree preferably in science pharmacy or medicine.
- Strong news sense with evidence of generating exclusive news stories.
- Experience in commissioning news features and opinion pieces.
- Excellent communication and writing/editing skills.
- Methodical and accurate approach to work yet able to work to tight deadlines.
- Experience working with online publishing tools multimedia content and data analysis is desirable.
The Directorate
PJ Publications is an integral department of Pharmaceutical Press the publishing division of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. The department comprises four business functions: product editorial business development and production with a brilliant team of editors journalists and product people constantly looking to do new things and improve our products and how we work.
We employ a mix of business models across our portfolio of products from membership subscriptions advertising and sponsorship ensuring that the portfolio remains fully aligned to the largerorganisational mission and vision of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
The Team
The Executive Editor will join our sixstrong news and views team who work closely together to break exclusive news conduct indepth investigations and showcase opinions thatchallenge and inspire change. We do this through both written and multimedia content includingpodcasts and interactive infographics. The Executive Editor will also work closely with colleagues in our learning and production teams to deliver relevant and accurate content to readers in a timely manner.
How we are currently working
RPS supports and works in a hybrid way which means you will be able to work from home however there will be an expectation for collaborative facetoface working on average and typically this may be something between 48 working days per month at our London Office.
Closing date: 7 March 2025
If you would like to learn more about the roleview our job description
Please attach your CV and Cover Letter
We are passionate about creating a culture of belonging inclusion and diversity these are part of our core values at RPS and we are striving to have an organisation that represents the diversity of the profession. At RPS we do not discriminate on the basis of race colour religion sex sexual orientation gender age or disability and we encourage applications from all backgrounds.
Employment Type
Full Time
