Editorial Quality Assurance Manager

We are looking for an Editorial Quality Assurance Manager who will review stories and posts on our Pulse websites across Africa for accuracy, to ensure that we deliver quality content consistently.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Oversee content published on the websites to ensure a high quality finished product
• Examine content for clarity, and consistency
• Identify and correct inconsistencies and errors in grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation
• Verify accuracy and check sources of content when necessary
• Ensure adherence to our content framework for consistency in hyphenation, capitalization, quotation, etc
• Edit and ensure the quality of online content, including text, multimedia, HTML, and XML assets
• Perform technical quality assurance to verify the functionality of online simulations
• Working collaboratively with the editorial team and resolving queries directly with the author, e.g. style and text inconsistencies
• Maintain awareness of new words or phrases coming into popular usage with a view to ensuring they’re appropriate for the readership
• Ensuring QA task deadlines are met
• Improve key editorial steps/processes and suggest improvements

Desired Skills & Experience

• A strong editorial/ journalism background in digital media
• Ability to edit stories quickly and with an eye for accuracy
• Knowledge of technical SEO to aid coordination with elements and structure of our web pages and in providing sound analyses and recommendations
• The ability to pay close attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills
• Reliability and efficiency in a fast-paced environment
• A lot of energy and enthusiasm