Senior Editor, Energy and Sustainability, Deloitte Global Insight

Reference Code 5245 | Locations: Birmingham, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado Springs, Columbus, Davenport, Dayton, Des Moines, Grand Rapids, Hermitage, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Louisville, Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans, Omaha, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, Tampa

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 subject matter expertise in sustainability, business understanding, and content skills to collaborate 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 in the topic area, finding opportunities to amplify their thinking, and serving 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 in collaboration with researchers and subject matter experts.
• Evaluate insights projects' novelty in the generative AI era, along with their alignment with target audiences' informational needs and Deloitte's expertise and business priorities, to identify unique value for clients.
• Serve as a storytelling strategist, advising on optimal ways to communicate insights—including determining the right content type(s) and leveraging multimedia or multimodal storytelling to develop copy suited for reports, articles, infographics, videos, dashboards, etc.
• Adapt to project needs, serving as ghostwriter, editor, infographic copywriter, or scriptwriter to successfully tell the story. Calibrate editing effort based on the state of the copy and project realities—from developmental edits to light polish for grammar and style.
• Help authors tell their stories effectively while respecting their messaging objectives, target audiences, and personal voices. Advise on ensuring insights' novelty, accuracy, clarity, utility, audience engagement, and adherence to editorial best practices.
• Act as a champion for business audiences, understanding their content consumption behaviors and advising authors accordingly.
• Steward each project through the full content development process, coordinating with authors, designers, marketing, and other internal teams to ensure objectives are met, expectations are clear, and timelines are accurate.
• Edit copy for factual accuracy, grammar, punctuation, readability, flow, and style, applying SEO and GEO best practices.
• Leverage generative AI as a supplemental tool per firm and team policies to increase efficiency, while ensuring all projects remain 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, mastery of US English grammar, conversational phrasing, and Associated Press style, with 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 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.

Benefits

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Professional Development

From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe in investing in you, helping you identify and hone your unique strengths at every step of your career. We offer opportunities to build new skills, take on leadership opportunities, and connect and grow through mentorship. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career.