Description
ZAWYA is seeking a Markets Editor, reporting into the Managing Editor of ZAWYA. The successful candidate will oversee coverage of capital markets in the MENA region, ensuring that ZAWYA remains the leading provider of news and intelligence that market professionals rely on.
Responsibilities:
- Drive ZAWYA's coverage of market news, producing a mix of breaking news and feature-level content across various asset classes including ECM, DCM, Leveraged Finance and loans, Project Finance M&A and macroeconomic outlooks
- Work regularly with the Managing Editor, editors and other team members to identify content ideas and ensure editorial projects progress on schedule
- Maintain strong relationships with the regional financial community to cultivate sources across senior bankers, c-level executives, financial analysts, and wealth and fund managers
- Optimise content using best practices in tagging, keyword usage, headline creation and SEO
- Edit content for style, grammar and factual accuracy
- Monitor content feeds and update spreadsheets, databases and other related content repositories for news and story development as required
- Ability to understand and interpret analytics data to measure content performance, using this information to inform editorial decisions
- Contribute to events, podcasts and various thought leadership initiatives
Experience/Skills:
- Experience as a financial writer, journalist or editor with a local or global publication
- Ability to translate complex financial concepts into clear, engaging content for both market professionals and lay readers
- Strong knowledge of journalistic standards, including sourcing, verification, attribution, corrections and media ethics
- Excellent time management skills and the ability to work under deadline
- Basic understanding of HTML and SEO
- Proficiency with content management systems
- Arabic language is a plus
- Experience in multimedia content creation is a plus