Producer-Editor, Center for Racial Justice

Desired Skills and Qualifications

We are looking for a dynamic and skilled individual with an accomplished background in writing, producing and editing along with excellent academic credentials. In this position, you will report to the Executive Director of the Center.

The successful candidate will develop and produce educational content and news about innovative ideas and research and coordinate and collaborate with our Law School Communications Team to distribute that content to target constituencies and audiences and to advance SCRJ’s ongoing strategic goals and communication planning efforts.  The Producer-Editor will attend monthly Communications Team meetings to stay connected with other communications staff on communications best practices, to leverage tools/resources, and to coordinate/collaborate where appropriate.

The position will require you to interact with Stanford faculty, researchers, and Center staff to develop ideas and plan, write and edit accessible user-friendly content for distribution. Deliverables include generating articles, blog posts, newsletters, YouTube videos, and online and social media content. You will also develop materials for public authorship by faculty and others affiliated with the Center.

In collaboration with the Executive Director and Faculty Director, you will prepare position statements for the Center or occasionally university officials or faculty regarding emerging public events that intersect with racial equity and the Center’s mission and develop a strategy for communicating those positions.

The position is responsible for reviewing and editing all Center publications and public communications.

In addition, you will be responsible for helping the Center create a national network of trusted relationships and followers and producing content to keep them engaged.

The successful candidate should have knowledge of and familiarity with the history of racism in the US and its consequences, including income and wealth disparities, housing and education segregation and disparities, mass incarceration, violence, and the history of tension and violence between police and Black communities and other marginalized groups, and contemporary debates about racial equity and solutions.

Job Description:

Core Duties:*

• Research, plan, write, and edit original/complex publications for style and substance.

• Develop and publish sensitive policy statements and publications for internal and/or external audiences.

• Ensure adherence of editorial content to guidelines and oversee the work of other editorial staff or free-lancers.

• Recommend changes and amendments to communications or publications.

• Work within deadlines and cost constraints of clients.

• Advise and collaborate with clients on editorial and publication methods.

• Communicate with writers, editors, photographers, vendors, and contractors, and review the publication process.

• Serve as a resource in developing strategies that promote effective delivery of publications/editorials to target audiences.

*Other Duties: Other duties consistent with the position may be assigned.

Minimum Education and Experience Required:

Bachelor’s degree and five years of relevant work experience or combination of education and relevant experience.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Demonstrated understanding of the principles, terminology, procedures, and best practices of communications, public relations, and editorial content.

• Extensive experience in planning and implementing complex publications/editorial projects.

• Demonstrated ability to synthesize and coordinate materials from multiple resources.

• Demonstrated ability to edit complex stories for both style and substance.

• Exceptional attention to detail and thorough command of editorial and proofreading skills.

• Experience producing highly effective work within the deadline and cost constraints of clients.

• Extensive experience and understanding of job-required software applications.

• Demonstrated ability to apply ingenuity and creativity in solving complex problems.

• Demonstrated ability to apply discretion and judgment in evaluating implications of information released to internal and external audiences.

Additional Preferred Skills:

• Collaborative work style, and experience working with teams.

• Experience working with complex ideas and research and ability to translate ideas for different audiences.

• Demonstrated ability to engage with a wide range of constituencies including scholars, researchers, policymakers, community groups, nonprofit leaders and government officials.

• Experience with social media distribution techniques.

• Experience with producing video content.

Working Conditions:

• Occasional work on evenings and weekends

Work Standards

• Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.

• Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety; communicates safety concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned.

• Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University policies and procedures, including but not limited to the personnel policies and other policies found in the University’s Administrative Guide https://adminguide.stanford.edu/

About Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School is one of the nation’s leading institutions for legal scholarship and education. Its alumni are among the most influential decision makers in law, politics, business and high technology. Faculty members argue before the Supreme Court, testify before Congress, produce outstanding legal scholarship and empirical analysis, and contribute regularly to the nation’s press as legal and policy experts. Stanford Law School has established a new model for legal education that provides rigorous interdisciplinary training, hands-on experience, global perspective and focus on public service, spearheading a movement for change.

Stanford Law School seeks to hire the best talent and to promote a safe and secure environment for all members of the university community and its property. To that end, new staff hires must successfully pass a background check prior to starting work at Stanford University.