Managing Editor, ProMarket

Department

Booth Stigler Center: Stigler 1

About the Department

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and second to none when it comes to influencing business education and business practices. Since 1898, the school has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Their rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education transforms students into confident, effective, respected business leaders prepared to face the toughest challenges.

Chicago Booth has the finest set of facilities of any business school in the world. Each of the four campuses (two in Chicago, one in London, and one in Hong Kong) reflects the architectural traditions of its environs while offering a state-of-the-art learning environment.

Chicago Booth is proud to claim:
-an unmatched faculty.
-degree and open enrollment programs offered on three continents.
-a global body of nearly 56,000 accomplished alumni.
-strong and growing corporate relationships that provide a wealth of lifelong career opportunities.

As part of the world-renowned University of Chicago, Chicago Booth shares the University's core values that shape the distinctive intellectual culture. At Booth, they constantly question and test ideas, and seek proof. This extraordinarily effective approach to business leads to new ideas and innovative solutions. Seven of the Booth faculty members have won Nobel Prizes for these ideas - the first business school to achieve this accomplishment.

For more information about the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, please visit: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/.

Job Summary

ProMarket is the digital publication of the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. ProMarket discusses, analyzes, and debates issues connected to the field of political economy and has published over 1,000 articles by more than 500 contributors that includes Nobel laureates, legal scholars, economists, industry experts, historians, policymakers, and journalists. ProMarket continues to leverage its strengths (brand, contributors, topics, analytical rigor, and programming), while striving to remain accessible to audiences beyond academia.

To that end, the Center seeks a Managing Editor. The Managing Editor will have editorial responsibility for content published and for maintaining the publication’s ideological neutrality, along with directing its strategy and vision. Along with Stigler Center leadership, the Managing Editor will also be responsible for fostering a growing and diverse network of scholars, partners, and potential supporters.

Responsibilities

• Full editorial and management responsibility for the content published on ProMarket, including implementation of ProMarket’s long-term strategy.
• Prepares the editorial plan of all content in conjunction with other staff members.
• Supervises work of affiliated writer/editors, including assigning writing and editing tasks and guidance. Assists in editing and publication of articles in conjunction with contributing editors, affiliates and freelancers.
• Supervises and helps write ProMarket’s weekly newsletter, Special Interest.
• Supervises work of graphic designer and webmaster. Makes sure website is up to date and functioning appropriately.
• Coordinates the promotion of content with communications staff and other relevant team members; monitors data/traffic trends.
• Identifies, recruits, and maintains relationships with academics and other experts as contributors to ProMarket
• Manages relationships with ProMarket Editorial and Advisory Board.
• Promotes ProMarket/Stigler Center externally by raising its profile, liaising with peer audiences, and representing ProMarket at industry events/conferences as needed, etc. With Stigler Center comms team, enhances and manages media relationships to grow ProMarket’s brand and visibility.
• Along with larger Stigler Center team, provides coverage of Stigler Center events/conferences, working papers, and other  initiatives.
• Coordinates ProMarket’s role in Center-wide content and strategy initiatives with rest of Stigler Center team. Assists other initiatives of the Stigler Center, such as its Capitalisn’t podcast and conferences, with content production.
• Manages freelancers and other operational/administrative support for ProMarket in cooperation with the Stigler Center leadership.
• Designs and maintains editing schedules and manages the proofreading, review, and correction of page proofs and additional proof stages.
• Works directly with writers, editors, and others involved in projects. Ensures the quality of editorial work of others and adv