Editorial Director

Editorial Director The Editorial Director owns how Unbound sounds. This role leads the development, creation and management of editorial content across the organization, and sets the language standard that every team draws from: the words we use for the families we walk with, for the people who support them, for our faith, and for the work itself.
Forty-five years of walking with families have taught us a great deal, and our language keeps evolving as we learn. We are clarifying what family sponsorship means and reaching audiences we have not historically reached: Catholics outside the pews, broader Christian traditions, and social-justice-oriented millennials and Gen Z. That work is a language problem before it is a marketing problem. The Editorial Director is the person who solves it, holding the fluency and reverence our Catholic roots require while writing in a register that welcomes people who do not share that vocabulary. Both audiences have to hear something true, and it has to be the same true thing.
This is a leadership role centered on a working writer. You will edit, you will write, and you will hold a high bar for accuracy, media law and ethics, and the dignity of every person who appears in our content. You will also lead a team that reports and gathers stories from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and serve as a trusted partner to colleagues across the organization who need language they can stand behind.
Unbound is an international nonprofit based in Kansas City, Kansas, and founded by lay Catholics grounded in the Gospel call to put the needs of the marginalized and vulnerable first. We build relationships of mutual respect that bridge cultural, religious, and economic divides. Working side by side with individuals and families in Africa, Asia and Latin America, we bring people together to challenge poverty in innovative ways.
Our mission is to support families and communities worldwide on their self-directed paths out of poverty.
Our vision is to build a world free from poverty where all people have access to resources, community support and the ability to make decisions that improve their lives and uphold human dignity.
Unbound offers a practical way for sponsors, donors and volunteers to make a personal and direct impact as partners in our global community. Through walking with a child and family, youth, elder or community on their path out of poverty, our supporters have an opportunity to expand their worldviews and be part of creative solutions to poverty.
Key accountabilities include defining and stewarding Unbound's voice, leading writing, editing, storytelling, and brand alignment, ensuring media law and ethics standards are followed, supervising media relations, and supervising global content gathering.
Essential duties and responsibilities include serving as lead editor for editorial content, owning the language, and providing department leadership.
Personal characteristics and competencies include responsibility, diversity, communication, adaptability, decisiveness, development of others, problem-solving, prioritization, teamwork, and respect for differences.
Qualifications and experience include a bachelor's degree, demonstrated excellence in writing and editing, working fluency in Catholic language, experience leading a team, knowledge of media law and ethics, command of AP style, media relations experience, understanding of Unbound's mission, strong organizational and interpersonal skills, project management skills, strong computer skills, comfort using AI tools responsibly, a positive attitude, and ability to establish credibility and build rapport.