Editor-in-Chief, CEF Weekly Briefing

CEF is an invitation-only senior executive network comprised of Fortune 500 companies spanning two dozen industries with combined revenues over $4 trillion. It provides a year-round neutral, pre-competitive space for Chief Sustainability Officers and other influential executives to exchange best practices, collaborate, and incubate new ideas to drive sustainable value creation and innovation. The CEF Weekly Briefing is a premier, highly trusted publication that synthesizes and summarizes key corporate sustainability-related news, research, and trends for thousands of influential senior executives. CEF Weekly Briefing archive.

Specific Duties

• Produce an outstanding, publication-ready edition each week of CEF’s flagship Monday-morning publication, The CEF Weekly Briefing.
• Write crisp, accurate summaries of content provided during the week by CEF team members.
• Review and line edit final copy.
• Prepare layout and e-distribution in Mailchimp.

Qualifications

• Education/training or work experience relating to business and sustainability; strong familiarity with a wide range of corporate sustainability and ESG-related topics and terminology.
• Superb writing, research and fact-checking skills; background or education in Journalism, Communications, English or relevant field preferred.
• Aptitude for distilling complex information into concise, clear, and accurate prose.
• Laser-like editing skills and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated capacity to be proactive, work independently, and self-manage.
• Desire to work remotely.

About the Role

• Part-time independent contract position.
• Approximately 20 hours per week, depending on the news cycle.
• Remote working opportunity.

 To Apply

Send the following items to CEF Deputy Director Mike Rama at mike@corporateecoforum.com. All items must be submitted for candidate consideration. Applications will be accepted until the role is filled. 

• Cover letter
• Resume/CV
• 2 unedited writing examples