Managing Editor - TOB
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About the Role
VAP Group seeks a Managing Editor to oversee editorial calendar, edit articles, manage writers, and coordinate content for a digital media site. Requires 5+ years of editorial experience, strong copyediting skills, and WordPress proficiency.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Manage the daily and weekly editorial calendar, assigning stories across news, insights, guides, and other site verticals
- Edit and copy edit articles for accuracy, clarity, structure, SEO, and adherence to house style before publication
- Coordinate real time coverage of breaking news and time sensitive developments relevant to the vertical
- Manage the CMS publishing workflow (WordPress), including scheduling, categorization, tagging, and featured image/metadata quality control
- Supervise, coach, and give regular feedback to staff writers, reporters, and freelance contributors; set individual output targets
- Responsible for the comprehensive management and oversight of the Global Blockchain Show's event agenda
- Ensure clear labelling and separation of press releases, sponsored posts, and editorial content per the site's Editorial Policy
- Liaise with the Chief Editor on story approvals for sensitive, legal risk, or high visibility pieces
- Track content performance (traffic, engagement, rankings) and adjust assignment priorities and headlines/structure accordingly
- Coordinate with SEO, social media, and newsletter teams to ensure timely distribution of published content
- Maintain the contributor/freelancer pipeline, including onboarding, style guide training, and invoice/payment coordination
Requirements
- 5+ years of editorial experience in digital media, with at least 1 2 years in a story assigning or team lead capacity
- Strong copyediting and headline writing skills, with an eye for SEO best practices
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple writers and competing deadlines in a fast paced newsroom environment
- Hands on experience with WordPress or a comparable CMS, plus basic familiarity with analytics tools (Google Analytics, Search Console)
- Solid understanding of journalistic sourcing, fact checking, and editorial ethics
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
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Location and Employment Type
- Location: Hybrid (Dubai)
- Employment Type: Full time
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the daily and weekly editorial calendar, assigning stories across news, insights, guides, and other site verticals.
- Edit and copy edit articles for accuracy, clarity, structure, SEO, and adherence to house style before publication.
- Coordinate real time coverage of breaking news and time sensitive developments relevant to the vertical.
- Manage the CMS publishing workflow (WordPress), including scheduling, categorization, tagging, and featured image/metadata quality control.
- Supervise, coach, and give regular feedback to staff writers, reporters, and freelance contributors; set individual output targets.
- Responsible for the comprehensive management and oversight of the Global Blockchain Show's event agenda www.globalblockchainshow.com
- Ensure clear labelling and separation of press releases, sponsored posts, and editorial content per the site's Editorial Policy.
- Liaise with the Chief Editor on story approvals for sensitive, legal risk, or high visibility pieces.
- Track content performance (traffic, engagement, rankings) and adjust assignment priorities and headlines/structure accordingly.
- Coordinate with SEO, social media, and newsletter teams to ensure timely distribution of published content.
- Maintain the contributor/freelancer pipeline, including onboarding, style guide training, and invoice/payment coordination.
Requirements
- 5+ years of editorial experience in digital media, with at least 1 2 years in a story assigning or team lead capacity.
- Strong copyediting and headline writing skills, with an eye for SEO best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple writers and competing deadlines in a fast paced newsroom environment.
- Hands on experience with WordPress or a comparable CMS, plus basic familiarity with analytics tools (Google Analytics, Search Console).
- Solid understanding of journalistic sourcing, fact checking, and editorial ethics.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Working knowledge of the specific subject matter covered by the site, sufficient to evaluate story pitches and technical accuracy.
- Experience managing a distributed team of freelance writers across time zones.
- Familiarity with structured data / SEO plugins (e.g., Yoast, Rank Math) and basic image optimization workflows.
- Experience coordinating coverage around live events, product launches, or market moving news.
Success Metrics / KPIs
- Publishing cadence: number of stories published on schedule vs. planned calendar.
- Content quality: error/correction rate, average edit turnaround time.
- Team output: writer productivity, freelancer retention, and quality consistency.
- Performance: pageviews, average engagement time, and search ranking movement on managed content.
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