Deputy Managing Editor, Local and Engagement

Deputy Managing Editor, Local and Engagement
The Marshall Project is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to covering the U.S. criminal justice system.

We aim to create and sustain a sense of urgency about the criminal justice system.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
This editor will oversee TMP's local news operation through an engagement lens.

Work with a deputy to oversee a team of investigative reporters in TMP's local newsrooms in Cleveland, Jackson and St. Louis.

Deepen our engagement strategy in each city, working with reporters to establish relationships with members of the community and identify themes for accountability-driven stories.

Uphold high editorial standards for our local newsrooms, helping reporters to conceive and execute high-impact investigative work focused on inequities within the justice system, with the goal of driving meaningful change on the issues that matter most to our local audience.

Identify common themes from the local newsrooms that could lend themselves to joint efforts and potentially investigations on a national scale that hold the powerful accountable.

Collaborate seamlessly with departments across the newsroom in the production and dissemination of locally produced work, ensuring the coordination required to produce multimedia content on several different platforms.

Coordinate with editors and reporters across The Marshall Project newsroom on engagement efforts surrounding national investigative projects.

Coordinate closely with the director of audience on a plan to establish TMP - and, as appropriate, individual reporters - as a brand in each city, and develop a social media plan to drive local readership.

Travel on a regular schedule to the local newsrooms and to engage with local communities.

Required Skills and Experiences

Engagement work that can inform the journalism we produce, help readers process and understand the result through resource guides and takeaways, and ensure TMP's journalism is provided on the platforms and in the manner that our audience is most likely to respond to. Candidate should have 10 years of journalism experience, including 7 years of editing and news leadership, and 2 years dedicated to engagement work and a record of high-impact investigative work.

Investigative work that delineates systemic problems and holds the powerful accountable, using granular examples to illustrate major trends. We value impact, surprise, colorful writing and counter-intuitive analysis.

Familiarity with investigative tools including use of FOIA and state open records laws; analysis of legal and court documents, government reports, tax filings; data analysis; fact-checking and bullet-proofing stories. Experience with databases and basic analytic techniques is a plus.

Leading reporters and other editors to set goals, direct reporting and investigative tactics, and fine-tune the final product.

Overseeing deadlines on both long- and shorter-term projects.

Ensuring all content meets the highest standards of accuracy, rigor, and editorial quality.

Producing stories in the content management system.

Collaborating constructively with colleagues from different sectors of the news organization, including reporters, editors, data team, developers, designers, photo editors, video, and audience, and partner organizations across online, print, audio, broadcast and alternate story forms.

Who You’d Be Working With
You will report to the managing editor and will oversee a group of seven, with the help of the Senior Editor, Local and Engagement. This is a remote position, with periodic travel required to Cleveland, Jackson and St. Louis.

Compensation and Benefits
This job is full-time, with a competitive salary and benefits including 100% employer-paid medical, employer subsidized vision and dental insurance; matching traditional and Roth 401(k) (immediate vesting). Voluntary benefits include health and dependent care FSA, commuter benefits, pet insurance, short and long term disability insurance, employee and dependent life insurance, AFLAC accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness coverage, legal benefits, personal excess liability insurance, and employee discount marketplace. We also observe 17 days of paid time off each year (in addition to office closure between Dec. 24 and Jan. 2), and provide paid parental leave.

Annual Salary Range
$175,000 to $185,000

Location
This position is fully remote. Applicants must reside in the United States and possess the necessary authorization to work here. Remote work outside of the U.S. is not allowed under any circumstances.

Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity. We welcome qualified applicants of all races, ages, ethnicities, physical abilities, genders and sexual orientations, including people who have been incarcerated or otherwise involved with the criminal justice system.

We do not expect every candidate to be equally skilled in all these areas, and this is not a complete list of all relevant qualifications applicants might bring to the job. Please tell us about your other assets not mentioned here that may be valuable to this role. Reaching talent across a range of backgrounds and experiences is deeply important to us. If you do not have the exact combination of skills listed here, but are still interested in this role and/or in The Marshall Project, we'd love to hear from you.

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