Ref: RP239-11

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Role:

The role of Editor is to be responsible for the Editorial element of Augustus brand, Lovin Saudi. The editor will report to the Country Manager and will be based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Key Skills Required:

• 3 - 5 years experience required in writing
• Journalism background, strong editorial judgement and natural storyteller
• Journalism background, strong editorial judgement and natural storyteller
• About fours years experience as a digital editor
• Knowledge of digital marketing tactics, including SEO, email marketing, and web analytics is a plus
• Track record of driving audience development through social networks
• Interest in food and past experience is a benefit
• Self starter, motivated and ambitious
• Saudi National
• English language is a must
• Excellent organizational, problem solving, presentation and time management skills
• Ability to work on multiple projects at once, often to short deadlines
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Editorial planning for all the content on the site (Arabic)
• Leading a team of full time writers, freelance writers, business development, social media and events
• Writing, editing and proofreading text
• Researching and developing content
• Attend Weekly Meeting Calls
• Prepare Monthly Content Calendar

People:

• Assist in fostering a high performance led culture
• Bring along a positive, collaborative, ready to learn attitude always
• Develop SMART performance objectives alongside your line manager
• Promoting Augustus as a great place to work, ensuring positivity is championed and your team feels prepared to live out the 3 core values

Professional Development:

• Build on your emotional intelligence and self-awareness
• Grow your presence in the industry, including relationships within agency partners and
• Industry bodies to support professional stature
• Complete mandatory training

About Augustus:

The consumption of media is ever present, yet the mediums and the means are ever evolving. We are a ‘New Media’ company, born in one of the most dynamic and vibrant cities in the Middle East. Our vision is to establish and maintain a ‘New Order’ of media advertising with data and content at the heart of everything we do.

Augustus is a Middle Eastern digital media company based in Dubai and Riyadh and has been designed to adapt and evolve to this perpetually changing media environment. Our mission is to be the ‘New Media’ company of choice in the Middle East by generating profitable growth through innovation and breaking the mold in marketing communications.

Values

We understand that achieving our mission is based upon strong values and we have identified

Three that sit right at our core.
• Ingenuity: There is a bit of genius in everything we do. We take pride in our creative originality.
• Tenacity: Good things come to those who work for them. We always persevere and persist.
• Velocity: High level performance is about speed and momentum. We are fast and agile in how we think, operate and how we act

About the Company

About Augustus

We are a ‘New Media’ company, born in one of the most dynamic and vibrant cities in the Middle East. Our mission is to be the ‘New Media’ company of choice in the Middle East by generating profitable growth through innovation and breaking the mold in marketing communications.

Augustus established in 2015 with offices in Dubai & Riyadh, recognised as SME company of the year at the 2018 MENA Effies. Current portfolio of brands includes Lovin Dubai, Lovin Saudi & SMASHI TV.

Values

We understand that achieving our mission is based upon strong values and we have identified three that sit right at our core.

  • Ingenuity: There is a bit of genius in everything we do. We take pride in our creative originality.
  • Tenacity: Good things come to those who work for them. We always persevere and persist.
  • Velocity: High level performance is about speed and momentum. We are fast and agile in how we think, operate and how we act.

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