Title: Associate Editor
Part-Time, Hourly (20 Hours per week)
Reporting To: Deputy Executive Director
Salary Range: $27 - $38 per hour
Direct Reports: No staff reports. Coordinates inputs from freelance writers and editors.
Posted: March 27, 2025
Position Overview
Greater Greater Washington (GGWash) is hiring an Associate Editor to manage the day-to-day operations of its publication. We are a mission-driven organization advocating for more housing, more affordable housing, fewer trips by car, frequent and reliable public transit, and fairer land use patterns. Publishing posts about those topics on our blog on ggwash.org is one of our most prominent tools.
GGWash’s blog features news, analysis, advocacy, and opinion pieces intended to advance racial, economic, and environmental justice in land use, transportation, and housing policy throughout Greater Washington. The blog reflects and supports the organization’s overall work, which includes policy, advocacy, education, and engagement programming.
This position is the right fit for someone capable of coordinating the day-to-day needs of a blog that publishes volunteer, paid, and staff contributions. You will prepare, and sometimes edit, written pieces for publication; liaise with writers, contract editors, and staff about pitches and drafts; write headlines, summaries, and social media posts pertaining to articles; and prepare and send our daily and weekly newsletters.
We encourage those who can bring a diverse perspective to our organization and our work, in terms of race, socioeconomic status, geographic diversity, sexual orientation, or gender identity, to apply.
Responsibilities
Copy production (60% of time)
- Review submitted articles and work with GGWash’s contracted editors and staff to ensure that they edit articles for clarity, grammar, and to match the GGWash style guide; communicate edits to writers.
- Draft headlines, summaries, and social media posts to maximize post quality, reader interest, and social media referrals
- Enter text and images in the back end of our website to prepare articles for publication
- Ensure consistent daily publication of breakfast links through the coordination of volunteer curators and editing of posts.
- Edit weekly posts (National Links and Photo Friday), liaising with writers as needed
- Assemble and send daily and weekly newsletters to readers
Editorial planning and coordination (20% of time)
- Manage editorial calendar and pipeline to ensure consistent publication schedule (typically one story per day), plus breakfast links and other bonus features)
- Communicate with freelance writers, including: processing pitches, tactfully communicating with writers about publishing decisions, and setting and monitoring deadlines
- Work with deputy executive director to update, maintain, and uphold editorial standards
- Provide input on policies, voice, style guidelines, and procedures for adhering to editorial standards
- Manage special editorial projects as agreed with deputy executive director
Audience engagement (10% of time)
- Support efforts to cultivate a strong, invested, and active readership
- Track weekly metrics including those related to traffic, engagement, and the diversity of topics and authors
Other duties (10% of time)
- Engage in cross-organizational projects and processes as required
- Participate in weekly staff meeting
Required Competencies
You should apply if you meet at least 80% of the following criteria:
- At least two years of professional experience in policy, journalism, communications, or a related field, with experience writing, editing, and finalizing written text for publication
- Confidence with managing daily and long-term deliverables
- Excellent time management skills
- Top-notch writing and editing skills
- Ability to quickly and precisely edit pieces to conform with in-house style guides
- Familiarity with website content management systems
- Working knowledge of basic HTML
- Experience updating and maintaining websites
- Experience coordinating among people, including volunteers and contractors, who are responsible for different component parts of a set process
- The ability to build relationships that are mutually beneficial and constructive, especially in a professional environment
- The ability to communicate clearly and directly in a timely fashion
- The self-awareness to know what you don’t know—and the interest to find it out
- A commitment to racial, social, and environmental justice, and sensitivity to the ways in which structural inequities permeate power dynamics and decision-making structures in local government and society
- An affinity for the Greater Washington region and a desire to help it become greater
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with daily written deliverables, whether from working at a daily publication or elsewhere
- Comfort with using an in-house style guide that references AP style
- Professional experience in housing, transportation, land use, and/or local or state government issues, particularly in the Washington region
- Experience with EveryAction or other constituent relationship management platforms is a plus
Salary and Benefits
This is a part-time (approximately 20 hours/week), salaried position with compensation from $27 - $38 per hour depending on experience.
Greater Greater Washington offers a comprehensive suite of benefits for this position, including employer-sponsored health, dental, and vision insurance with employer contribution; an employer-matched 401(k) plan (up to 3%); a transit commuter benefit; and cell phone subsidy. Paid time off includes: up to 80 hours per year for vacation on an accrual basis, up to 80 hours per year for sick leave, numerous holidays, winter break, and other forms of leave, including an optional paid sabbatical after five years of employment. All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions in the applicable plan documents and/or Greater Greater Washington’s employee handbook and other policies, as modified from time to time.
Work Environment
At this time, GGWash has a flexible, hybrid work environment, with some in-person work required at the GGWash office in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington, DC. Access to a car is not required.
The schedule for this position is generally 8:00 am to noon, Monday to Friday, with occasional evenings for special events.
About Greater Greater Washington
Greater Greater Washington is a nonprofit organization that works to advance racial, economic, and environmental justice in land use, transportation, and housing throughout Greater Washington.
Our work builds civic capacity and moves the needle on important issues, in service of a broader vision of a dense, growing Washington region with an abundant supply of quality housing, attainable at all income levels, and a regional transportation network that prioritizes the needs of underserved users and makes it safe and easy to travel without a car. We work in support of public processes, plans, and policymaking that embrace both our responsibility to care for people we don’t know personally, and the need for cities to be shared among people who are here now and who will come in the future.
To Apply
Please email a cover letter that specifies why you feel this is a great position for you, resume, and two samples of your writing and editing work to jobs@ggwash.org with “Associate Editor” in the subject line. Applications will be accepted through 11:59 pm on Sunday, April 20, 2025.
Please direct any questions about the position to Caitlin Rogger at crogger [at] ggwash.org.
Greater Greater Washington provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, military status, marital status, or disability.
