What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Reporter position at Green Street?
Description
The North American Senior Reporter will be a vital member of the IJGlobal team, driving a busy news beat. This role will see the successful candidate take over coverage of the booming energy and infrastructure market in North America and tracking developments. This is an exciting opportunity to write about the financing of important projects across this region.
As a journalist on IJGlobal – Infrastructure Journal – you will be required to write business news articles with rolling deadlines throughout the day, building a network of high-level market contacts through daily telephone calls (including investors, developers, bankers, lawyers and regulators). IJGlobal has an established reputation in the region and a contacts book that is constantly evolving.
This is one of the most active news beats for greenfield and brownfield infrastructure and energy projects, driven by some of the biggest companies in the world and financed by the largest institutions. These are impactful deals with massive significance on the ground.
In addition to daily news reporting responsibilities, the journalist will produce regular analysis content. Other responsibilities include writing case studies and supporting the data team as well.
Responsibilities
- Pitching and writing at least 3-5 exclusives per week and/or 6-8 other proprietary content per week
- Write news stories leveraging IJGlobal data
- Maintaining broad and high-level contact with the market through daily telephone calls and frequent face-to-face/virtual meetings
- Collaborating with other team members and other functions
Requirements
- Excellent written English
- Min. 2-3 years of experience as a financial journalist
- Strong reporting and interviewing skills
- Infrastructure project finance knowledge/experience is advantageous but would also consider experience in debt capital markets, structured finance or asset-backed finance
- Able to network well and build a strong book of contacts
- Willing to make cold calls
- Efficient, organised and able to meet deadlines
- Team player
- Strong communicator
About Green Street
Green Street provides preeminent and actionable commercial real estate research, news, data, analytics, and advisory services in the U.S. and Europe. For more than 35 years, Green Street has delivered unparalleled intelligence and trusted data on the public and private real estate markets, helping investors, banks, lenders, and other industry participants optimize investment and strategic decisions. The firm delivers exclusive market information, conclusion-driven insights, and predictive analytics through a SaaS platform. The company is headquartered in Newport Beach with offices in Summit NJ, New York, Canada, London and Utrecht, Holland. To learn more, please visit www.greenstreet.com.
About Green Street News
Our mission is to drive real estate action via market-leading news, insightful analysis and comprehensive content in every sector in real estate. Green Street News delivers the best coverage in the UK, and continental Europe – day in, day out. Run by the UK’s most experienced journalists, with a proven track-record of breaking the biggest real estate stories in the market, Green Street News is the only place to find crucial, business-sensitive information before the competition. Packed with breaking news, features, interviews and exclusive analysis, Green Street News’ 2-4 daily email alerts deliver content you are not able to read anywhere else.
Green Street’s Infrastructure brands include IJGlobal and Power Finance & Risk (PFR). IJGlobal is a comprehensive source of in-depth news, data and analysis covering all aspects of the Global Infrastructure & Energy Finance Market. IJGlobal tracks Infrastructure & Energy projects throughout the entire transaction lifecycle, providing detailed information, via 50 unique data points, on financial structure, pricing and key players influencing transactions and market trends. The IJGlobal database consists of over 45,000 transactions and 34,000 assets with over 15 years of historical data, as well as comprehensive company data across all infrastructure transaction participants, exclusive daily news, and live League Table rankings. IJGlobal serves the entire Infrastructure & Energy market ecosystem including lenders, financial & legal advisers, multilaterals, projects sponsors (equity providers), Funds/Institutional Investors, Development Finance Institutions and more.
The success of Green Street is directly attributable to the strength of our people. We attract high-quality applicants due to our reputation for excellence and our commitment to train and retain talent. Our collaborative work environment provides team members with opportunities to develop professionally and play a central role from day one. At Green Street, we are all about providing unique insights. A diverse and inclusive work environment where top talent can thrive, think freely and offer different perspectives makes our insights even stronger. We’re building a company culture where differences in gender, race, age, religion, ethnicity, identity, physical ability and perspectives are celebrated and valued.
Green Street does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.
