# Managing Editor

**Company**: London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
**Location**: Cairo, Plot 187- 90th North St
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

ZAWYA is seeking a Managing Editor, reporting directly into the Editor of the Capital Markets Group at LSEG. The successful candidate will oversee the strategic direction of ZAWYA, managing a team of editors and writers responsible for providing actionable insights covering Middle East and North Africa primary capital markets.

The Managing Editor will be a key driver of new initiatives, playing a crucial role in opening doors and establishing contacts and relationships with deal makers, bankers and policy makers to drive intelligence.

Responsibilities:

- Drive and develop ZAWYA’s content strategy to meet the needs of financial markets professionals

- Define the long-term strategic direction and editorial voice of Zawya

- Lead a ground-up rebuild of the ZAWYA editorial team

- Reorganise the newsroom footprint around Cairo and Dubai

- Maintain oversight of hiring, performance management and day-to-day operations within the newsroom

- Ensure editorial standards are maintained across all platforms

- Manage the editorial budget

- Own the connective strategy between ZAWYA editorial output and LSEG's broader D&A ecosystem

- Collaborate with colleagues within Commercial and Product on a regular basis

- Maintain and negotiate commercial arrangements with third-party content providers

- Establish rights/licensing standards for ZAWYA's proprietary content

- Maintain accountability for competitive positioning against other MENA financial media

- Contribute to events and thought leadership initiatives within the portfolio

Experience/Skills:

- Native-level mastery of English and Arabic language

- Demonstrable knowledge of global and regional capital markets

- Excellent writing and editing skills

- Strong knowledge of journalistic standards

- Deep sourcing network specifically in primary capital markets dealmaking circles

- Familiarity with content management systems

- Ability to understand and interpret analytics data to measure content performance

## Skills

### Required
- English
- Arabic
- capital markets
- journalism
- content management systems
- analytics

### Nice to have
- rebuilding editorial team
- primary capital markets dealmaking circles

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