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Reporting to The Board of Directors of The Catholic Messenger, the Editor oversees the day-to-day news and production operations of The Catholic Messenger and auxiliary news products, supervising all members, plus freelance personnel.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and/or Mass Communications. Progressively responsible experience in the field of journalism, including editing and management responsibilities.
A minimum of five years’ experience in weekly newspaper production, reporting, editing.
Efficient and effective organizational skills.
Strong communication skills, able to communicate with staff, sources, parish representatives and the public.
Practicing Roman Catholic who understands Church teaching.
Interpersonal professional relationships, both internally and externally to the Diocese of Davenport, which encourage openness, candor and trust.
Overall soundness of decisions, effective delegation and maintenance of confidentiality for all sensitive information.
Meet or exceed development objectives established in budgetary process.
Other specific duties and responsibilities can be found on our website at: https://tinyurl.com/ypak5pnr
Send resume and application, available at https://www.davenportdiocese.org/employment to:
The Director of Human Resources and Risk Management, Tiara Hatfield, at
hatfield@davenportdiocese.org.