Managing Editor, Development

Organization

Stand Together

Location

Arlington, Virginia

Job Description

Stand Together is a dynamic and mission-driven organization committed to driving positive social change and empowering individuals to overcome barriers. Join our team and be part of a collaborative community that values innovation, personal responsibility, and the power of bottom-up solutions. Together, we will create a society that fosters opportunity, dignity, and well-being for all.
Stand Together is seeking a highly experienced Managing Editor to lead our content team focused on donor-facing communications. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in writing and editing for a high-profile audience, with a strong emphasis on donor engagement and fundraising communications across multiple channels. This individual will play a critical role in shaping how our partners experience Stand Together, ensuring all communications align with our vision and values. 

Responsibilities Include

  • Exceptional writing and editing skills: Impeccable knowledge of grammar and attention to detail.
  • Leadership throughout the editing process: Must have both confidence and tact as content works through a complicated editing process. To be successful, they must have an approach that both drives results but also exhibits passion and coaching. 
  • Being a principles-driven supervisor: Demonstrate the aptitude to operate within our complex organization as a supervisor. This requires unique skills such as entrepreneurship, and the ability to coach employees to maximize their potential.
  • The ideal candidate will be a seasoned editorial professional with a deep understanding of donor communications and fundraising strategies. Have a proven ability to lead and inspire a team, ensuring the highest standards of quality and consistency in all content.
  • A strategic thinker, able to translate complex organizational goals into compelling narratives that resonate with high-dollar donors.
  • Partner with email, web, and print content channel owners to track key metrics to benchmark and improve Stand Together’s engagement and brand positioning; identify and assess opportunities suggested by data when adapting strategy.    
  • Edit a variety of content including partnership proposals, marketing and campaign collateral, email and print correspondence, speeches, and stewardship reports ensuring all products reflect organizational brand, voice, and messaging.  

Knowledge and Skills You Bring to the Organization

  • A minimum of 10 years in editing high-profile content, particularly in journalism, media, or communications. 
  • At least 4 years in a leadership role, demonstrating the ability to build and manage a dynamic team of content creators. 
  • Proven track record in creating and editing donor-facing content, with experience in fundraising communications. 
  • Excellence in writing and editing.  

Stand Together helps social entrepreneurs supercharge their efforts to help people improve their lives. We connect them with passionate partners and the resources necessary to make a greater difference.  Through our philanthropic community, we tackle some of the nation's biggest challenges so that every person has the opportunity to realize their extraordinary potential. Stand Together partners with people from diverse perspectives and backgrounds—including people in education, business, community non-profits, and public policy—to accomplish more together than any of us could on our own.   
  
Our Values Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on a business philosophy called Principle Based Management® (PBM®). Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, PBM® prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.    
  
We believe that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of color, race, religion, religious creed, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), military and veteran status, genetic information, marital or familial status, political affiliation, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.