Editorial Director of Content and Marketing

NEW JERSEY SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION

“Our mission is the advancement of public education in New Jersey”

JOB TITLE: Editorial Director of Content and Marketing

TERMS: Full-Time

MINIUMUM SALARY: $100,000-$110,000

EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Exempt

REPORT TO: Chief Public Affairs Officer

ABOUT THE ROLE

Provides editorial and writing services for all NJSBA internal and external communications. Edits, writes, conducts research and interviews, and performs fact-checking and proofreading for publications, reports, news releases and other print and online documents and web pages. Also assists in the planning, holding and moderating of on-site and/or virtual NJSBA events.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assists the Communications department and the Chief Public Affairs Officer with writing and editing all Association communication, including but not limited to publications, training announcements, press releases, broadcast emails, speeches, and other initiatives.
• Plans, researches, writes and edits the weekly electronic edition of School Board Notes – and also creates and posts the issue in WordPress.
• Develops lead stories for School Board Notes, often several weeks in advance.
• Coordinates with NJSBA staff member’s weekly contributions to School Board Notes.
• Creates submission guidelines for staff on contributions to School Board Notes.
• Assists with writing, editing, and coordinating writers for the Association’s quarterly magazine, School Leader.
• Works with the video producer to create the quarterly School Leader Up Close, a short video segment about an article in that quarter’s issue of School Leader – as well as any other video interviews deemed necessary to promote news and/or tout NJSBA initiatives.
• Assists the Chief Public Affairs Officer and marketing team in creating messages and finding prospects who will advertise in School Leader or other publications produced by the Communications

Department.

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