Senior Editor, Content Partnerships- C&

Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the award-winning news organization of the American Chemical Society, is seeking a dedicated Senior Editor, Content Partnerships to expand the reach and impact of C&EN's journalism through strategic content distribution and publishing partnerships. This role will oversee the editorial strategy, governance, and performance of C&EN content appearing on third-party platforms, ensuring that the right content reaches the right audiences while maintaining the organization's high editorial standards.

The role is co-lead on the development and delivery of the portfolio of news and feature stories produced by the content partnership group.

This position combines editorial expertise, content distribution management, and strategic partnership development. The Senior Editor, Content Partnerships will identify and cultivate external publishing relationships, optimize content delivery workflows, analyze performance metrics, and support audience growth initiatives that extend the global reach of C&EN's journalism.

Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) produces authoritative, award-winning journalism from around the world of chemistry, covering research, education, industry, funding, policy, and innovation. As the news organization of the American Chemical Society, C&EN serves a global audience of scientists, researchers, educators, industry professionals, and policymakers.

ACS Publications is a Division of the ACS and has all the characteristics of a medium-large scientific and technical publishing organization. It is one of two Divisions charged with serving the dual function of generating a reliable annual surplus to support the Society’s programmatic activities, while also fulfilling a core goal of the Society in advancing knowledge in the field of chemistry and the chemical enterprise.

The Division publishes 90+ high-quality peer-reviewed journals covering the breadth of chemistry and allied fields, as well as numerous other products and services of benefit to the global community.

Additionally, ACS Publications is the owner of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) which produces authoritative, award-winning journalism from around the world of chemistry, covering research, education, industry, funding, and policy.

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is the world's largest scientific membership association, with a mission to advance the broader chemistry enterprise and its practitioners for the benefit of Earth and its people. The ACS Strategic Plan  is guided by core values that include a passion for science, lifelong learning, inclusion and belonging, and sustainability.

• Work effectively with freelance and staff writers, including developing stories of appropriate scopeand length, setting deadlines, working through edits, and creating engaging headlines and social trim.
• Support the development of publishing and content sharing agreements, collaborating with the Publisher and theCPG andlegal teams
• Monitor partnerships with publications including performance tracking, editorialqualityand workflow efficiencies, working closely with colleagues across C&EN and ACS
• Represent C&EN with publication partners, freelancenetworksand science journalism communities as per theobjectivesof CPG
• Support the maintenance ofan adequate network of contacts and news sources, as well asattendmeetings and conferences, to generate story ideas for the above work.
• Ensure freelancers have up-to-date contracts and statements of work.
• Work with freelancers and C&EN’s creative team to identify appropriate artfor stories.
• Identify and champion opportunities to promoteC&ENpartnershipsviaC&EN’s homepage, social…