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Remuneration: R20000 - R25000 per month basic salary

Province: Gauteng

Job description

Our client a leading South African multi-media magazine Publisher, Conference and Exhibition company focused on Building Services, Building Design and Mining Industry sectors is Looking for an editor to manage the specific editorial of publications, ensuring editorial is supplied on time, meeting the high standards of the publication and industry requirements making the business a success. Get involved and maintain good working relationships within the industry, used to obtain good quality editorial for all the publications and the implementation of editorial policy. To be the person all industry players know and associate with the client successful publications further opening up opportunities for the development of current and possible publications.

Dynamic motivated individual with a design and creative interest to take new publications to the next level.

• Implement and maintain a minimum of four month publication planning and delivery of material to ensure deadlines are met four issues ahead
• In conjunction with group editor and prepare and document six monthly strategic views on all the publications, ensuring the strategy is successfully implemented
• Produce the quality of material for the print and online publications ensuring relevance, accuracy, quality, truthfulness and innovative
• Responsible to collate and pull all info together to ensure a complete publication within agreed timeline
• Check all work submitted by the department before submission to layout
• Proactively review the look and feel of the publications to maintain market leaders
• Pro-actively liaise with production and layout departments in order to achieve the job function.
• Proof and edit all editorial prior to being published
• Attend editorial and operational meetings and ensure accurate reporting on progress of publication.
• Co-ordinate contributors (Staff writers and external contributors) where applicable and their output for the specific industry/publication in line with departmental and company strategy maintaining the highest quality required by the company and the industry
• Define and document staff measurement in line with company goals
• policies and strategy revised annually
• Define and document staff development criteria
• Verbally and in writing continually assess staff as per company policy against the measurement and development agreed to
• Implement / maintain and enhance required controls and processes within the department to create efficiency and effectiveness of the output of the editorial department in line with company policies and procedures
• Implement all required incentives, corrective action and performance management as required including the initiation of disciplinary action
• Document and recruit staff per the requirements following all necessary company policies
• Proactively and continuously assess department capacity, implementing necessary actions to minimise the impact to staff, department and the company
• Review and Sub-Edit ALL work supplied by department ensuring the correctness, accuracy, relevance legality
• Implement and report on metrics for the department monthly management meeting

• Edit online articles
• Administration and management of online content and users
• Increase and Develop online readers / community / users
• Interaction between sales and editorial for developing and maintaining online advertising
• Define and carry out online publishing requirements as required by directors

• Excellent technical writing / editorial
• Staff management (where applicable)
• Information sourcing and correct interpretation skills
• Prioritisation
• Organisational and planning skills
• Administration skills
• Building of positive long lasting working relations associated with job function
• Decision maker