What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Editor Job at Cross Catholic Outreach in Pompano Beach position at Cross Catholic Outreach?
Job Description
Job Description
Position Title : Lead Editor
Department : Marketing
Reports to : Director of Creative Communications
Position Summary :
The Lead Editor is responsible for leading Cross Catholic Outreach’s team of writers. This role is crucial in translating campaign and fundraising plans into compelling written content that aligns with our mission, brand identity / guidelines, and strategic direction. In addition to editing written content and providing support and oversight to the team, this position will also create and produce written content as needed with a journalistic and marketing focus. The position is remote-based and will report to the Director of Creative Communications.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Conceptualize, review, and edit editorial content to ensure adherence to ministry style and voice according to guidelines and reshape for clarity.
- Copy-edit and proofread marketing deliverables, ensuring editorial improvements to flow, style, tone, grammar, usage, logic, sense, and placement.
- Collaborate with writers and strategists to conceive and develop compelling written content.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to coordinate project kick-offs, status checks, internal handoffs, and final deliveries.
- Ensure milestones are achieved on a day-to-day basis, communicating schedule and creative scope changes to ensure consistent team alignment.
- Build and foster internal relationships through effective communication and management of expectations.
- Develop deep knowledge of organization history, philosophy, ministry partners / programs, and places we work via ongoing participation in program and team meetings, field visits, and active information seeking.
- Stay updated on industry trends, best practices, and emerging storytelling fundraising, communication, and marketing techniques to continually enhance the quality and effectiveness of our work.
- Collaborate with team members to achieve common goals and meet deadlines.
- Onboard new staff to become familiar and comfortable with ministry, brand voice, processes, etc.
- Advocate for storytelling and marketing best industry practices.
- Develop basic design and print awareness, as needed (pagination, visual content flow).
- Make recommendations to improve organization efficiency and productivity with good stewardship in mind.
- Serve as MarComm representative on special organization projects and / or serve as MarComm project manager as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
Educational or Certification Requirements
Experience Requirements
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required / Preferred
Other Requirements
We are a Catholic ministry with an ecumenical staff of Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox believers working in unity to provide food, water, housing, education, orphan support, medical care, micro-enterprise, and disaster relief — and the love of our Lord Jesus Christ — to the poorest of the poor in more than 30 countries around the world. We believe strongly in unifying Christians in this mission of mercy, and we believe that creating a welcoming work environment for all Christian faiths is essential to achieving our ministry goals.
To apply send your resume to hr@crosscatholic.org and put the job title in the subject line.
Company Description
Cross Catholic Outreach is a 501c3 Catholic relief and development ministry that provides food, shelter, medical care, water, education, self-help programs, care for orphans, and emergency relief to the poorest of the poor around the world in the name of Christ.
We mobilize the global Catholic Church to transform the poor and their communities materially and spiritually for the glory of Jesus Christ. Cross Catholic Outreach’s priority is to help “the poorest of the poor.” Our efforts reach those suffering extreme poverty in countries throughout the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Projects include relief for earthquake, flood, and tsunami victims, care and education for orphans and other vulnerable children, housing for the homeless, medicines and health care for the indigent, food for families suffering extreme malnutrition, and clean water for communities that have none, as well as micro-enterprise programs and other long-term development efforts to break the cycle of poverty.
In every case, our method of outreach is the same : Cross Catholic locates needy Catholic-based ministries serving the poor and distributes material aid through their existing programs. In this way, we can supply meaningful help where it is needed most. In all our work we remain dedicated in our service to the Lord as good stewards of His resources in every challenge we seek to overcome. We partner with Dioceses all over the world.
Company Description
Cross Catholic Outreach is a 501c3 Catholic relief and development ministry that provides food, shelter, medical care, water, education, self-help programs, care for orphans, and emergency relief to the poorest of the poor around the world in the name of Christ. We mobilize the global Catholic Church to transform the poor and their communities materially and spiritually for the glory of Jesus Christ. Cross Catholic Outreach’s priority is to help “the poorest of the poor.” Our efforts reach those suffering extreme poverty in countries throughout the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Projects include relief for earthquake, flood, and tsunami victims, care and education for orphans and other vulnerable children, housing for the homeless, medicines and health care for the indigent, food for families suffering extreme malnutrition, and clean water for communities that have none, as well as micro-enterprise programs and other long-term development efforts to break the cycle of poverty. In every case, our method of outreach is the same : Cross Catholic locates needy Catholic-based ministries serving the poor and distributes material aid through their existing programs. In this way, we can supply meaningful help where it is needed most. In all our work we remain dedicated in our service to the Lord as good stewards of His resources in every challenge we seek to overcome. We partner with Dioceses all over the world.
