Managing Editor
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About This Role
To build, lead, hire and coach a team into a high-performing, digital-first content team that delivers resonant, high-quality storytelling that drives measurable audience and partner impact. Then it becomes what we aspire to and stand for: Storymaking.
You are the committed anchor and passionate driver of CapeTownMagazine.com’s content engine, creating clarity, momentum, and accountability across the team. You don’t just commission, edit, and manage content; you help them ensure it performs, evolves, and contributes meaningfully to the business.
You are comfortable working with KPIs and performance metrics and use them to support, guide, and grow the team. You are excited to coach for performance, helping each team member understand what great looks like, where they are in their journey, and how to stretch into their potential.
You act as the integrator between content and the partner team, translating business priorities into clear editorial direction and ensuring that what the team produces is strategically relevant.
This is a role for someone ready to step into leadership. Someone up for a challenge to impact this place. And wants to be part of taking CapeTownMagazine.com into its next phase of growth. Managing not just content, but fulfilling its mission of unlocking a team’s potential, constantly refining the engine, and redefining a standard that can scale.