"Deputy Editor/Digital Director"

Overview

Reporting to the Acting Editorial Director of The Yale Review, the Deputy Editor/Digital Director will work in partnership with the Acting Editorial Director to edit The Yale Review's print and digital magazine and help it continue to develop its identity. The Deputy Editor is a partner in long-term and short-term planning for both The Yale Review's content and its goals of expanding its operations and re-inventing itself as a top-tier national literary publication. The Deputy Editor manages our part-time staff and runs our daily operations.

Now that The Yale Review is online, it publishes several essays a week; the Deputy Editor will be responsible for overseeing that work and the editors working on it, in addition to working with our editors on assigning and editing pieces for TYR’s print quarterly. The Deputy Editor/Digital Director works closely with the managing editor/digital director to make sure that the magazine and web site are running smoothly and are published on time. The Deputy Editor runs the day-to-day work of the magazine since the Acting Editorial Director is part-time. In consultation with the Acting Editorial Director, the Deputy Editor/Digital Director will ensure that TYR and its staff have conceived and built out editorial assignments and look ahead to meet goals; the Deputy editor will help plan new initiatives and execute current ones as well as oversee the process of commissioning, editing, and publishing on schedule, with the assistance of The Review's graduate student fellows. The incumbent is responsible for managing TYR’s copy editors, fact checkers, and social media fellows, as well as our senior editors and freelance consultants. As Deputy Editor/Digital Director, the person holding this position will oversee our student programs, both graduate and undergraduate, as well as events within and outside the university.

The work of the Deputy Editor/Digital Director is performed on-site in New Haven.

Required Skills and Abilities

1. Excellent editorial acumen and judgement. Demonstrated strong editing skills including structural revision, line editing and proofreading. Advanced proficiency with Outlook, Excel, Word, Power Point.
2. Demonstrated experience with digital publishing and innovative thinking about literary publications. Proficiency working with writers; demonstrated experience editing literary writers preferred.
3. Familiarity with contemporary literary writing and cultural journalism.
4. Highly organized with demonstrated ability to take initiative and work independently under deadline pressures. Excellent attention to detail. Ability to work successfully in a fast-paced and changing environment. Some travel required.
5. Ability to represent The Yale Review well in working collegially with peers and colleagues within and outside Yale University.

Principal Responsibilities

1. As a strategic partner and while advancing the mission and objectives, conduct The Yale Review’s business and management operations.
2. As a strategic partner with the Executive Editor, strategize about and identify editorial mission and scope of TYROnline.
3. Identify, solicit and commission pieces for The Yale Review and for TYROnline that will help shape the journal’s new identity and establish TYR’s online identity.
4. Identify new writers who will help create the identity and become TYROnline’s stable of writers.
5. Help conceive of features/rubrics that will become core aspects of TYROnline’s identity.
6. Strategically propose new ideas and events to assist the growth and the larger exposure of The Yale Review; also responsible for oversight and management of special events.
7. With the goal of improving audience engagement and attracting new subscribers, design and manage the digital and social media strategies for The Yale Review’s digital publication, website, social media channels and podcast; responsible for proactive and reactive audience engagement strategies including continuous review and reporting of analytics and metadata.
8. Manage the TYROnline website, including posting pieces to the CMS and assigning and conceiving innovative digital features.
9. Posting to and providing reports on all social platforms, e-newsletters, and other audience engagement platforms (forums, comments, etc.), with a strategic focus on growing and nurturing core audiences online and in print.
10. Responsible for project budget management including building and monitoring and validating appropriate expenses for processing hiring.
11. Create and revise proofs for print journal.
12. Primary liaison for communication with authors, agents, designers, webmasters, publishers, journalists.
13. Manage student interns and graduate workers and other specialized services by offsite typesetters, printer, designers, and the publisher.
14. Hire and supervise part-time staff and consultants including ongoing training and mentorship; also responsible for managing the team and overseeing daily production and meeting of deadlines.
15. Maintain accurate and well organized record-keeping practices.
16. Other duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience

Four years of related experience in the same job family, including experience with digital publications and familiarity with contemporary literary writing and with editing. A Bachelor’s degree in a related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education; high-level digital skills are required.