Senior Editor, Energy and Sustainability, Deloitte Global Insight

Reference Code 5245 | Locations: Birmingham, AL; Cincinnati, OH; Cleveland, OH; Colorado Springs, CO; Columbus, OH; Davenport, IA; Dayton, OH; Des Moines, IA; Grand Rapids, MI; Hermitage, PA; Jacksonville, FL; Kansas City, MO; Louisville, KY; Memphis, TN; Nashville, TN; New Orleans, LA; Omaha, NE; Pittsburgh, PA; San Antonio, TX; Tampa, FL

About the role

Deloitte Insights is Deloitte's global publishing imprint for business research and insights. We publish 400+ articles, reports, and multimedia projects annually with the goal of educating, informing, and inspiring Deloitte clients and prospective clients on the business issues that matter most to their strategic agendas. From leadership and workforce evolution, to AI and emerging technologies, to energy resilience and decarbonization, and beyond, Deloitte Insights (DI) publishes data-driven thought leadership for global C-suite and board-level executives across industries.

As a global senior editor and content strategist covering sustainability, energy resilience, and decarbonization for Deloitte Insights, you'll work with subject matter specialists, researchers, data science and visualization professionals, designers, video strategists, and production specialists to develop research and insights projects ranging from reports and articles to infographics and videos.

Responsibilities

• Leverage your own subject matter expertise as a sustainability editor, as well as your overall business understanding and content skills when collaborating with Deloitte business leaders, internal and external thought leaders, research professionals, and publishing and marketing colleagues to strategize, develop, and execute research and insights projects on prioritized topics for the Deloitte global member firm network.
• Act as a “journalist” covering a global beat—building and nurturing a network of Deloitte professionals working in the given topic area and finding opportunities to amplify their thinking and ideas, and serve as their trusted advisor on content planning and insights opportunities.
• Ensure the intellectual rigor and credibility of all published insights by applying a journalist's curiosity and skepticism—asking tough questions about data sources, methodology, and conclusions; maintaining precision in language around claims and statistics; and challenging assumptions before publication, working collaboratively with researchers and subject matter experts to strengthen the work.
• Evaluate insights projects' novelty in the generative AI era, along with their alignment with both target audiences' informational needs and Deloitte's expertise and business priorities, to help find the sweet spot where Deloitte can offer clients insights of unique value.
• Serve as a storytelling strategist, advising on optimal ways to communicate the given insights—including determining the right content type(s) for the given insights, and leveraging multimedia or multimodal storytelling and communication skills to develop copy to suit the medium (reports, articles, infographics, videos, dashboards, etc.).
• Adapt to the needs of the given project, and serve as anything from ghostwriter to editor to infographic copywriter to scriptwriter to help tell the story successfully; when editing, have the perspective and agility to know how to calibrate your effort based on the state of the copy and the realities of the project—sometimes digging deep and suggesting developmental edits and sometimes just giving copy a light polish for grammar and style.
• Respectfully and diplomatically help authors tell their own stories effectively given their messaging objectives, target audiences, and personal voices as writers, while also advising them on how to ensure their insights' novelty, accuracy, clarity, utility, and audience engagement, and adherence to editorial best practices; demonstrate an expert ability to improve someone else's work without leaving your own mark on it overtly.
• Act as a champion for business audiences, with a deep understanding of their content consumption behaviors, and advise authors accordingly.
• Steward each project through the full content development process, coordinating with authors, designers, marketing, and other internal teams to ensure that project objectives are accomplished, expectations are clear, and timelines are accurately set and met.
• Edit copy for factual accuracy, grammar, punctuation, readability, flow, and style, and apply SEO and GEO best practices.
• Leverage generative AI per firm and team policies and standards, as a supplemental tool to increase your efficiency, while still ensuring that all projects are still thoroughly human-designed, -developed, -led, and -vetted.
• Coach Deloitte content creators on language usage, writing style, storytelling effectiveness, and Deloitte Insights' production processes.
• Lead and contribute to team-wide initiatives focused on storytelling innovation, quality control, or continuous process improvement.
• Guide junior editors and review their work.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience in writing, editing, and copyediting content in American English (business journalism experience preferred).
• Bachelor's degree (preferably in English, literature, journalism, communications, or similar).
• Deep experience in and familiarity with editing energy, sustainability, and decarbonization articles and research reports.
• Exceptional editing and copyediting skills, and mastery of US English grammar, conversational phrasing, and Associated Press style, and the ability to clearly and influentially explain edits to authors.
• Exceptional writing and oral communication skills; proven ability to translate complex concepts into easily digestible terms.
• Excellent attention to detail, laser focus on quality, and demonstrated ability to clarify a story's main message.
• Journalist's instinct for fact-checking and critical thinking; ability to read research with healthy skepticism, ask probing questions about data and methodology, spot logical gaps or overstatements, and ensure precision in language around statistics and research findings.
• Outside-in orientation, considering all content projects from the perspective of the target audience and their needs/interests.
• Versatile editing and writing skills, from writing engaging headlines and short-form web copy to developmentally editing long-form research reports on complex topics.
• Experience with creating multimedia content.
• Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, including the confidence to interact with and influence personnel at all levels, as well as listening skills, responsiveness, flexibility, initiative, decision-making, conflict resolution, and tact.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, content management systems, and workflow and collaboration tools such as Workfront, Microsoft Teams, etc.; knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with quick turnaround times simultaneously.
• Ability to work independently, as well as with a larger, multifunctional team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working for a business news publication or in a publishing house.
• Experience with corporate thought leadership and global, cross-industry content.
• Experience working remotely with a global team.
• Experience in the energy and sustainability sector is strongly preferred.

Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.

Culture

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Professional Development

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Benefits

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