CLTR Publications Editor (contractor) – now closed

Deadline: Application has now closed.

Summary:

The Centre for Long-Term Resilience, a leading think tank transforming global resilience to extreme risk, is seeking an efficient, confident and experienced editor to work with us on a contractor basis.

The role involves editing, proofreading and formatting policy reports, website articles and briefings, online and print publications, liaising with authors and operational staff about scheduling, sequencing and expectations, all whilst maintaining clear communication and providing high-quality and reliable turnarounds when needed.

Job title: CLTR Publications Editor

Point of Contact: Policy and Operations Strategist

Salary: Competitive hourly rate, depending on experience.

Hours: Flexible rolling contract.

Location: This role is fully remote. Successful candidates will be entitled to use our fantastic office space in Whitehall, London and encouraged to meet the team to gain a thorough understanding of our work.

Application: Apply here.

Application deadline: This is a rolling application.

If your initial application is successful, we will then ask you to complete a short copy-editing exercise based on a hypothetical example of CLTR writing that will not be used in future publications.

Full Details:

Key Responsibilities and Skills

• Exceptional and rapid copy-editing and proofreading services in support of a full range of CLTR policy and research publications and briefings, from 1-pager policy recommendations to 80+ page reports (see examples of our work here).
• Applying CLTR’s style and format guides to all written work for online and printed publications.
• Editing complex figures and tables and helping embed prepared linked multimedia content, such as embedded video.
• Writing headlines, subheadings, and figure and table captions.
• Liaising with authors to question and clarify structure and content, and ensure completeness and consistency of written work, such as adequate referencing.
• Liaising with Unit Directors, authors and operational teams on communicating and adjusting timelines.
• Synthesising dense technical information into clear, concise content that is suitable for technical and generalist audiences, and which builds trust without oversimplifying the challenges.
• Additional surge support as required with uploading publications to the CLTR website.

What we’re looking for

An ideal contractor would have:

• Demonstrable experience in science communications, technical, policy and/or writing and editing.
• Experience using Zotero or other citation software, as well as AP and Chicago style guides.
• Familiarity with our priority areas (biosecurity, artificial intelligence and management of extreme risks) is a plus.
• Ability to manage multiple writing projects simultaneously with tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work within a team environment, sharing editing tasks with colleagues where necessary, and to be self-directed, managing own daily and weekly or fortnightly deadlines.
• Experienced in using Google Workspace, Canva, WordPress and Asana.

We welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds and do not discriminate based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We also warmly welcome applicants returning to work after career breaks.

CLTR is an independent think tank with a mission to transform global resilience to extreme risks.