Editor, Quality & Digital (Q&D), Americas

The Team: The Quality & Digital Editing Team ("Q&D team") is a global group of editors tasked with ensuring content generated by S&P Global Commodity Insights (CI) market and news reporters meets our high editorial standards. The team drives long-term improvement and excellence, playing a central role in coaching and mentoring reporters in their journey to becoming strong content creators. You will sit within the Q&D team, which is part of the wider news team at CI, working with global commodity editors and content creators in a real-time publishing environment, editing news stories, market commentaries/rationales, and thought leadership reports, among others.

The Impact: To ensure quality, consistency, and adherence to CI's News Essentials and house style.

What’s in it for you: This role offers the opportunity to learn about the many commodity markets CI covers, as well as various types of content we create. You'll play a central role in ensuring CI content meets the highest editorial standards, is free of errors and libel risk, and is structured to have maximum impact. You'll develop strong written and spoken communication skills, digital and visualization skills and will learn to work within tight deadlines with a global mindset.

Responsibilities:

Edit a high volume of wide-ranging, complex, often sensitive content, at speed and under pressure

Ensure all content meets CI's News Essentials principles and house style

Send content back for rework with constructive feedback when needed

Ensure all content is market relevant, accurate, legally compliant, and concise

Display strong degree of flexibility while working under pressure

Work a later US shift for handover to editors in Asia

Support editing workflow during US public holidays

What We’re Looking For:

Basic qualifications:

A Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism or English Language/Literature or Communication and Publishing or Business/and Finance

Minimum 3-4 years of experience in news reporting/and or editing

Understanding of journalistic best practices and media laws

Excellent verbal and written English-language skills

Attention to detail and good multitasking skills

Ability to act both independently and as part of a team

Excellent interpersonal skills -- must work harmoniously with other editors across regions and time zones

Preferred qualifications:

Prior experience working as an editor, particularly for a financial publication or a real-time news wire, is preferred

Working knowledge of energy and commodity markets will be very advantageous

Proficiency in desktop publishing software, different types of content management systems, data visualization and working knowledge of social media posting and publishing is a plus

High degree of literacy and numeracy is a plus