Writer, Editor

Title: Writer, Editor

Division: Marketing and Business Development

Status: Full-time, must be eligible to work in US without sponsorship

Level: Senior Coordinator, Specialist

Direct Reports: None

Location: Washington, DC, hybrid only local candidates will be considered

*** Only resumes with cover letters will be considered! ***

CASE is a global not-for-profit and membership association whose vision is to advance education to transform lives and society. Its mission is to inspire, challenge, and equip communities of professionals to act effectively and with integrity to champion the success of their institutions. Advancing education in over 3,600 member institutions, CASE has 85,000 members in 82 countries.

Broad and growing communities of professional practice gather under the global CASE umbrella. Currently these include advancement services, alumni relations, communications, fundraising, government relations, institutional leadership and marketing. Individual members are at all stages of their career and may be working in universities, schools, colleges, cultural organizations, or other not-for-profits. CASE membership also includes many corporate partners. CASE uses the intellectual capital and professional talents of an army of volunteers to advance its work.

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., CASE works across all continents from its regional offices in London, Singapore and Mexico City. CASE works to achieve a seamless experience for all its stakeholders, particularly its members, volunteers, and staff. Working together across time zones and borders, CASE staff in all offices seek to make the ambitious OneCASE aspiration a reality.

CASE’s Writer/Editor identifies topics, issues, and story ideas of interest to CASE’s global audiences. The Writer/Editor develops compelling pieces to be published, packaged and deployed in support of CASE’s strategic efforts to serve and engage members, support new membership growth, and advance education around the world.

• Contribute to the development of compelling, timely, on-brand editorial content for a wide range of digital, print, and social channels. This involves researching and writing original content; commissioning and editing content from others (practitioners, members, staff); and shaping and redeveloping content packages to be deployed on multiple channels.
• Cultivate relationships with in-house subject matter experts, field practitioners, and thought leaders for content knowledge, story ideas, and sources.
• Adapt content (long and short form) into content packages as appropriate to audience and channel: digital, social, and print.
• Produce four to six original, feature-length articles per year, as assigned and on deadline.
• Commission two to four feature articles per year, as assigned and on deadline, including identifying appropriate content creator, providing guidance, editing drafts, guiding rewrites, and delivering edited copy.
• Develop short content (blog posts, member profiles, magazine departments).
• Ensure that the global interests of CASE members are reflected in the magazine, website, social, and other media.
• Contribute to the development Currents magazine, including writing and editing features, columns, captions, headlines and subheads, as well as editing and proofreading at various stages of magazine production.
• Stay informed of news and trends related to global education by reading publications, attending conferences as designated by supervisor and communicating directly with CASE staff and members, advancement practitioners, and subject matter experts.
• Identify writers and expert practitioners at all levels of the advancement profession and recruits them as authors and sources.
• Keep up with editorial details and paperwork, including queries, contracts, and other correspondence with authors, sources, and freelancers.

• Exercises fiscal responsibility in the utilization of all CASE resources.

• Works cooperatively and…