Condé Nast is a prominent media company known for its food-focused brands, Bon Appétit and Epicurious. They are seeking a proactive and organized Editorial Assistant to support the Content Team with tasks such as writing, editing, and assisting with the daily workflow across platforms.

Responsibilities

• Broadly support the Content Team across subject areas and platforms, including (but not limited) to pitching, writing, and editing stories and newsletters; building content in our CMS and newsletter platform; assisting with data entry for our edit calendar; packaging display copy for digital; helping to schedule meetings; and more
• Support our content refresh operation, including taking on updates of articles and galleries across topic areas
• Assist with organizing our ideas process, including setting up brainstorm meetings; ensuring prompts and pitch documents are circulated in a timely fashion; cleaning up and archiving ideas documents as needed; and supporting with launching production on any greenlit stories
• Support the operations team with processing invoices and contracts, inviting freelancers to our contributor system, maintaining our budget-tracking system, updating internal team documentation, and more
• Support ad-hoc admin requests within the team at large
• Additional responsibilities as assigned

Skills

• College degree in journalism or related field and/or 1–2 years of equivalent work or internship experience at a fast-paced media or lifestyle company or brand
• Strong writing, editing, copy-editing skills, and attention to detail
• A self-starting team player, detail-oriented, efficient, organized, and able to problem-solve and multitask
• Experience proactively and effectively communicating and collaborating across departments and levels within a team
• Experience with fact-checking and research is a plus
• Proficiency with GSuite (Mail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc.). Tech savvy with the ability to quickly learn and navigate new software tools, technologies, and processes
• Prior experience with digital and print CMSs
• Comfort with, and interest, in appearing on video and audio
• A passion for cooking, food, and service journalism

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