Manager - Editorial (Temporary Contract - 6 months)
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About the Role
Expo City Dubai is seeking a Manager - Editorial for a 6-month temporary contract to ensure high-quality communications across global initiatives. The role combines strategic planning with hands-on drafting and editing of outreach campaigns, newsletters, podcasts, publications, and thought leadership.
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Responsibilities
- Lead editorial review across all communications outputs, ensuring clarity, precision and alignment with Expo City Dubai’s brand and positioning
- Draft, refine and quality assure executive level content, including speeches, op eds, reports, forewords, communiqués and thought leadership pieces
- Lead and oversee end to end development and delivery of editorial publications including books, long form reports, whitepapers, newsletters, podcast and multimedia scripts, event programme narratives and digital content
- Shape and strengthen messaging frameworks across campaigns, platforms and global initiatives
- Support marketing communications initiatives, including web, email and social copy
- Work across teams to translate complex programme and technical content into clear, compelling and globally relevant narratives
- Maintain rigorous version control and editorial governance across content streams
- Balance strategic oversight with hands on editorial execution under tight deadlines
Requirements
- 6+ years’ experience in editorial, communications or publishing roles
- Proven ability to edit and produce content for governments, international organisations, C suite executives or large scale global platforms
- Native command of English, with exceptional writing, editing and narrative development skills
- Experience in corporate communications and/or large scale event communications
- Experience producing long form reports, digital editorial products and executive communications
- Strategic editorial judgement with strong storytelling instincts
- High attention to detail and consistency under pressure
- Comfortable working directly with senior stakeholders and sensitive content
- Agile, solutions oriented and able to deliver high quality work to tight deadlines
- Demonstrative and intelligent use of agentic AI
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Role Overview
- The Manager Editorial will be responsible for ensuring the highest quality, clarity and consistency of all communications produced by Expo City Dubai’s Global Initiatives & Advisory.
- This role combines strategic planning and delivery of communication and editorial products with hands on drafting and editing across outreach campaigns, newsletters, podcast and multimedia content, publications, event materials and thought leadership outputs.
Main Responsibilities
- Lead editorial review across all communications outputs, ensuring clarity, precision and alignment with Expo City Dubai’s brand and positioning.
- Draft, refine and quality assure executive level content, including speeches, op eds, reports, forewords, communiqués and thought leadership pieces.
- Lead and oversee end to end development and delivery of editorial publications including books, long form reports, whitepapers, newsletters, podcast and multimedia scripts, event programme narratives and digital content.
- Shape and strengthen messaging frameworks across campaigns, platforms and global initiatives to reflect Expo City Dubai’s authority as a global convenor.
- Support marketing communications initiatives, including web, email and social copy, ensuring consistency across marketing, programme and media outputs.
- Work across teams to translate complex programme and technical content into clear, compelling and globally relevant narratives.
- Maintain rigorous version control and editorial governance across content streams, supporting structured content workflows and efficient information management.
- Balance strategic oversight with hands on editorial execution under tight deadlines.
Knowledge, Qualifications and Skills Required
- 6+ years’ experience in editorial, communications or publishing roles, with a strong track record of high level content production.
- Proven ability to edit and produce content for governments, international organisations, C suite executives or large scale global platforms.
- Native command of English, with exceptional writing, editing and narrative development skills.
- Experience in corporate communications and/or large scale event communications.
- Demonstrated ability to balance quality, diplomacy and impact in written outputs.
- Experience producing long form reports, digital editorial products and executive communications.
- Strategic editorial judgement with strong storytelling instincts.
- High attention to detail and consistency under pressure.
- Comfortable working directly with senior stakeholders and sensitive content.
- Agile, solutions oriented and able to deliver high quality work to tight deadlines.
- Collaborative, yet able to operate independently with authority.
- Strong organisational discipline with the ability to manage multiple content streams simultaneously.
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