Editor/sub-editor (Ft)

**Stratgeist**
***is a full-service digital consultancy specialized in social media content and strategy. Our clients include major lifestyle and consumer electronics brands, pharmaceutical & healthcare companies, medical centers as well as private specialists and clinicians. Our team has over 30 years of combined experience in marketing and media production and our goal is to help our clients maximize digital platforms such as virtual meeting services, social media channels and websites, to fully leverage digital marketing for growth. With an exciting and dynamic team environment, Strategist offers great prospects for growth and expansion. Training included for all employees.

The Editor’s job description involves checking and proof-reading written content before it's published on websites, social media or any form of collateral. The content may include articles, press releases, headlines, social media posts, video subtitles and other forms of writing meant for publication and distribution. They are responsible for ensuring the correct grammar, spelling, house style and tone of the published work. Editors make sure that the copy is factually correct and that it suits the target market. They also lay out the story on the page, write headings and may be involved with overall article design before publishing the content.

**Responsibilities**:

- Checking facts and stories to ensure they are accurate, adhere to copyright laws, are not libelous or go against the publication’s policy.
- Ensuring that a story fits a particular word count by cutting or expanding material as necessary.
- Manipulating on-screen copy using appropriate desktop publishing or video editing software.
- Writing headlines that capture the essence of the story or are clever or amusing.
- Writing stand firsts or ‘sells’ (brief introductions which sum up the story, underneath the headline).
- Liaising with journalists, content creators and other editors.
- Proofreading complete pages.
- Working to a page plan to ensure that the right stories appear in the correct place on each page.
- Rewriting material so that it flows or reads better and adheres to the house style.
- Keeping up to date with sector issues, e.g. by reading related publications.
- Laying out pages and, depending on the nature of the role, playing a part in page design.
- Cropping photos and deciding where to use them for best effect, and writing picture captions.
- Editing copy, written by reporters or features writers, to remove spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.

**Qualifications/Skills**:

- Minimum two years' experience working directly for an advertiser, agency, ad tech or social media platform.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; effectively communicate with internal stakeholders at all levels of the organization, vendors and team members.
- Ability to deliver engaging, creative content (graphic, image and video) and familiar with web design/digital design.
- Superior collaboration and teamwork skills; experience working with cross
- functional teams.
- Project management experience and adaptability: Ability to re-prioritize while operating within a fast paced environment, while continuously maintaining attention to detail, establishing priorities and meeting deadlines
- Must be a positive, hardworking and self-motivated person.
- Intermediate level in MS Office software (Excel, Powerpoint) and/or Google for Work products (Google Analytics, Sheets, Slides).
- Minimum Polytechnic qualification in English, Journalism and Mass Communication background.
- Solid prior experience as a sub editor or journalist.
- Exceptional writing skills in the relevant language (English).
- Organized and with a high attention to detail to be able to deliver high-quality work while meeting tight deadlines.

Complete the following Editorial tests:

- Choose one** **of the following articles to edit
- Hyaluronic Acid: All You Need To Know About It
- Monkeypox - should those in Asia be concerned?
- Create and save a copy of the article and edit your own version of this article.
- Edit the article by finding all the issues or mistakes, as well as proposing a new headline and craft a social media post copy for sharing the article on Facebook.
- Mark all your edits clearly in the document.