Contract Editor, Personal Finance, Investopedia
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Investopedia is seeking an experienced contract editor to help our readers understand how to navigate their personal finances, including taxes, retirement, and budgeting. We seek a finance journalist passionate about educating and empowering others to take control of their money to join our core content team. This contract editor must have a solid background in personal finance and digital publishing.
Assignment Details:
20-40 hours per week
Start date:10/1/24
End date: 12/31/24
Hourly Rate: $50
Location: New York DDM Office/Remote - US
Assignment Responsibilities:
As a contract editor at Investopedia, you will help ensure we have the most well-researched, trustworthy, and inclusive financial education content around personal finance topics. You will help create and improve upon our best-in-class library, editing topics such as understanding income taxes, how to save money in today's economy, and how to properly prepare for life after retirement.
- Edit and publish educational content to help readers understand personal finance topics such as retirement planning, taxes, and budgeting.
- Follow Investopedia and Dotdash Meredith's best practices and styles
- Develop search-friendly stories that take advantage of all our best SEO practices
- Work with the Investopedia staff, as well as freelance writers and editors
Skills/Experience:
The ideal candidate is an experienced personal finance journalist with a history of working with well-recognized business and finance outlets.
- 3 to 5 years of publishing experience specifically working on personal finance content with well-respected outlets
- Superb editorial skills, including demonstrated experience line editing for content improvements, grammar, and AP style
- Excellent editorial judgment
- Experience with SEO best practices
- Available consistently for between 20 to 40 hours per week.
- Deep knowledge of personal finance topics, with a particular background in retirement planning and/or taxes
- Well-informed of current events, trends, and news about personal finance topics like tax rates, COLA adjustments, and IRA contributions
- Superior organizational skills with a keen attention to detail
- Technological savvy required
- Experience with Airtable and Slack a plus
- Open to coming into the NYC offices a plus
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