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Senior Communications Officer, Editorial & Production

GiveWell· Outreach
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Hybrid (United States)$250kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior leadership role responsible for editorial quality and production of GiveWell’s communications, building and scaling the editorial function, standards, workflows, and team to deliver high-quality content across channels.

Responsibilities

  • Own the editorial quality and production of GiveWell’s communications, ensuring work is clear, accurate, useful, carefully reasoned, and delivered on time.
  • Build and manage workflows, editorial standards, review processes, and production systems to scale content production.
  • Lead planning, prioritization, and resource allocation for owned-content portfolio, managing dependencies from concept through publication.
  • Uphold GiveWell’s voice and editorial standards across all publishings; help colleagues write within them.
  • Develop recurring communications and reporting products; turn priorities and messaging into clear content.
  • Personally create, edit, or shape complex, sensitive, or high-priority content.
  • Oversee website content operations, including publishing processes to ensure accuracy and editorial consistency.
  • Serve as senior editorial and production partner to teams, shaping high-priority projects early and establishing timelines and review paths.
  • Oversee production of design, visual, and multimedia assets and management of internal team and external contractors.
  • Manage and develop one or two team members initially and plan for future growth of the function.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience leading editorial and content-production work, setting and maintaining editorial standards, managing writers and editors, and building systems for high-quality output.
  • Hands-on leadership with ability to work across writing, editing, design, audio, graphics, websites, and other formats.
  • Exceptional editorial judgment with ability to understand audience, context, risk, timing, and substance; ability to escalate as needed.
  • Experience advising executives or senior decision-makers directly.
  • Experience building or substantially rebuilding a team or function, hiring and developing people.
  • Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and with rigor; capable of rapid upskilling on new subject matter.
  • Strong alignment with GiveWell’s mission and values (truth-seeking, transparency, accurate and thoughtful communication).
  • Proven ability to produce direct, factual, engaging content that relies on substance and clarity rather than embellishment.

Skills

Required:Editorial leadershipProject and production managementEditing and writing

Benefits

  • Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (100% premiums for you and dependents in the US)
  • Four weeks of paid time off per year plus an annual summer break
  • 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
  • Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships
  • Automatic 5% of gross salary into US 403(b) retirement plan
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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