Editorial Specialist

Center For Congregations is seeking an Editorial Specialist to enhance the Congregational Resource Guide and support the broader team by improving resource accessibility for congregational leaders. The role involves resource discovery, curation, writing, editing, and maintaining database content to ensure clarity and usability for users.

Responsibilities

• Source and evaluate new and updated resources (e.g. books, articles, organizations, media, web resources) aligned to congregational needs and CRG standards
• Strengthen “findability” by applying consistent topics/tags/keywords/categories and improving how resources are labeled and organized for effective search and browsing
• Support the creation and refreshment of curated collections to make discovery easier and more convenient for users
• Collaborate with CFC resource consultants to ensure curated resources reflect real congregational questions and lived needs (rooted in CFC’s “listen first” approach)
• Write resource annotations from a variety of sources such as resource discovery projects and workshop presenters
• Copy edit CRG resource pages for accuracy, clarity, usefulness, tone, and consistency with CRG and CFC content
• Perform data maintenance functions to ensure data presented to CRG users is current, consistent, and accurate in both style and content by reviewing/updating previously published information and ensuring newly posted information is in keeping with current writing and publishing standards
• Review and update resource content of internal resource database
• Maintain a steady editorial workflow for reviewing, improving, and refreshing CRG content (especially high-traffic topics and collections)
• Flag recurring user friction (confusing instructions, unclear annotations, inconsistencies) and propose improvements that reduce confusion and improve the user experience

Skills

• 1–4 years of experience in editing, writing, content operations, communications, library/information work, research, or similar
• Strong writing and editing skills with a demonstrated ability to turn complex information into clear, helpful content using an authentic voice that is appropriate for congregational audiences
• Ability to adapt to established writing conventions determined by the Center
• Comfort working in a structured content environment (CMS/database fields, tags/topics, consistent formatting)
• High attention to detail, strong, reliable follow-through, and ability to manage multiple workstreams calmly
• Expert level experience with appropriate grammar and punctuation, familiarity and comfort with Chicago Manual of Style
• Experience with resource curation, content tagging/taxonomy, knowledge bases, or 'resource hub' environments
• Familiarity with congregations, nonprofit work, education, or community-serving settings
• Comfort partnering with developers/data teammates to improve content systems and related processes

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