The Urbanist is Hiring a Managing Editor

we are excited to announce that The Urbanist is hiring a Managing Editor to guide our publication. The Managing Editor will e book our coverage and editorial voice and uphold our requirements for journalism. The Urbanist is an influential book conventional with policymakers and advocates, and here is a different chance to influence the policy debate in Seattle, with victories often rippling around the location and the nation.

The Managing Editor would report to The Urbanist's government director and work with our gifted team of volunteers. experience mobilizing volunteer contributors would be a pleasant plus. It's a part-time position at 20 hours per week, but we hope to add hours as funding allows for.

The Managing Editor's simple accountability can be to edit articles earlier than they are posted on our website and aid establish and enhance stories for our team of writers to cover. As time makes it possible for, the managing editor would additionally pursue their own writing and reporting for our booklet.

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these interested in the place should follow by way of July 12th with a resume, cowl letter, and a portfolio of crucial work (may also be brief) emailed to jobs [at] theurbanist.org. candidates must be dedicated to The Urbanist's mission and our racial fairness and social justice principles. We motivate people of all backgrounds to practice.

take a look at the Managing Editor job checklist for greater particulars. And suppose free to attain out with questions.

20 hours per week ($25/hour)

The Urbanist is seeking an experienced journalist to lead our e-book as Managing Editor. qualified candidates ought to be in a position to edit articles for grammar and beauty and identify reviews imperative to our urbanism-concentrated audience. Our group is based in Seattle, but this is at the moment a work-from-home position.

tasks:

Edit articles before booklet to maintain our style and first-class.

identify essential studies to cover to satisfy our mission and dreams.

Recruit and mobilize volunteer contributors.

teach writers in our adaptation of AP trend and journalism basics.

Write reports as time permits and want arises.

Lead our PDR request application.

symbolize the publication at imperative press conferences and media movements.

assist in occasional fundraising actions in partnership with the government director.

requirements:

powerful writing and modifying potential.

knowledgeable communicator and volunteer supervisor.

Familiarity with urbanism and our core coverage areas of transportation and housing coverage, chiefly in Seattle's context.

dedication to our racial fairness and social justice goals.

Preferences

Transit rider. (No need to personal a automobile for this job.)

good at engaged on a closing date.

ability to take initiative and work independently.

To follow

Candidates might also post their cover letter, outlining their pastime and qualifications, along with their resume and a portfolio or writing pattern to jobs [at] theurbanist.org. We're accepting purposes via July twelfth.

The Urbanist is committed to hiring and advancing personnel from traditionally underrepresented communities with an specific regard to Black people, Indigenous people, individuals of colour, immigrants, LGBTQIA individuals, and disabled people.

Doug Trumm is The Urbanist's government Director. An Urbanist writer considering 2015, he goals of pedestrianizing streets, blanketing the metropolis in bus lanes, and unleashing a mass trees building spree to conclusion the low-budget housing scarcity and steer clear of our coming climate catastrophe. He graduated from the Evans school of Public coverage and Governance at the college of Washington. He lives in East Fremont and likes to discover the metropolis on his bike.