Deputy Editor/Digital Director

Reporting to the Acting Editorial Director of The Yale Review, the Deputy Editor/Digital Director will work in partnership with the Acting Editorial Director to edit The Yale Review's print and digital magazine and help it continue to develop its identity. The Deputy Editor is a partner in long-term and short-term planning for both The Yale Review's content and its goals of expanding its operations and re-inventing itself as a top-tier national literary publication.

The Deputy Editor manages our part-time staff and runs our daily operations. Now that The Yale Review is online, it publishes several essays a week; the Deputy Editor will be responsible for overseeing that work and the editors working on it, in addition to working with our editors on assigning and editing pieces for TYR's print quarterly.

Key Responsibilities:
• Conduct The Yale Review's business and management operations as a strategic partner
• Strategize about and identify editorial mission and scope of TYROnline
• Identify, solicit and commission pieces for The Yale Review and TYROnline
• Identify new writers who will help create the identity and become TYROnline's stable of writers
• Help conceive of features/rubrics that will become core aspects of TYROnline's identity
• Strategically propose new ideas and events to assist the growth and larger exposure of The Yale Review
• Design and manage digital and social media strategies for The Yale Review's digital publication, website, social media channels and podcast
• Manage the TYROnline website, including posting pieces to the CMS and assigning/conceiving innovative digital features
• Provide reports on all social platforms, e-newsletters, and other audience engagement platforms
• Manage project budget including building, monitoring and validating appropriate expenses
• Create and revise proofs for print journal
• Primary liaison for communication with authors, agents, designers, webmasters, publishers, journalists
• Manage student interns and graduate workers
• Hire and supervise part-time staff and consultants including ongoing training and mentorship

Required Skills and Abilities:
• Excellent editorial acumen and judgement
• Demonstrated strong editing skills including structural revision, line editing and proofreading
• Advanced proficiency with Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Demonstrated experience with digital publishing and innovative thinking about literary publications
• Proficiency working with writers; demonstrated experience editing literary writers preferred
• Familiarity with contemporary literary writing and cultural journalism
• Highly organized with demonstrated ability to take initiative and work independently under deadline pressures
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to represent The Yale Review well in working collegially with peers and colleagues within and outside Yale University

Required Education and Experience:
• Four years of related experience in the same job family, including experience with digital publications and familiarity with contemporary literary writing and with editing
• Bachelor's degree in a related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education
• High-level digital skills are required

Work Model: On-site in New Haven