ION: Associate Editor - Private Equity Law Report
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Client: ION
Location: New York, United States
Contract: Part Time
The Role
The Private Equity Law Report has an immediate opening for an experienced, enthusiastic associate editor to join the team on a part-time basis, with expected hours of 25 to 30 hours per week. Hourly rate will be $45 to $50 depending on skills and experience. The role can be remote but will be based on EST hours.
Responsibilities
- Researching and writing articles of various types – including our feature thematic, Q&A, analysis and “People Move” articles – based on extensive interviews and other interactions with industry experts.
- Working with our editorial team to put together our feature thematic articles (5,000-8,000 words) by conducting interviews and contributing quotes to those articles.
- Identifying article topics, themes, trends and ideas that are central to the day-to-day business practices of our subscribers – primarily through engagement with sources and secondarily through reading, attendance at conferences, and other information gathering.
- Editing articles for publication – including by contributors – and assisting the team in the closing process of the publication each week.
- Collaborating on planning of issues, including the content and order of each issue.
- Maintaining relationships with key private equity industry participants with the goals of: understanding the “pain points” experienced by private equity managers (particularly legal and compliance personnel), cultivating sources for articles, developing a pipeline of contributed articles, gathering industry intelligence, and exploring event and other collaboration opportunities.
- Attending and writing up panels and webinars.
- Helping manage selected freelance writers, including assigning them articles and helping them develop questions and sources.
Required Experience, Skills and Education
- Juris Doctor or equivalent law degree preferred, but not required.
- At least three years of experience either (1) as a practicing lawyer in the private funds industry or (2) as a full-time reporter covering legal, business, or financial topics (coverage of the private funds industry is required).
- Substantial experience writing long-form (i.e., 3,000+ word) legal or financial articles.
- Excellent reporting, writing, research, organizational, and analytical abilities, with a demonstrated capacity to consistently create engaging, thorough, sophisticated articles under deadline that require minimal editing.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent computer skills across major software and applications.
$45 - $50 an hour
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