Editor in Chief

**Department**: International Business Times

Full-Time

**Job Title**: Editor In Chief (EIC) United Arab Emirates

**Overview**:
**The Role:

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The right person for this role should also feel comfortable being the face of a brand internally and externally, on social networks, at industry events, to partners and to other media.

**Responsibilities:

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- Build out news operations with staff, freelancers, contributors and experts
- Cultivate an innovative culture keeping IBT’s newsroom and operations on the forefront
- Balance commercial needs and that of the newsroom, managing budgets, with an eye for ROI
- Smartly Integrate new forms of technology (AI,MR,VR etc) and story telling (social, video, etc)
- Grow audience among retail investors, and professional markets
- Represent IBT to partners and other external parties
- in addition to daily coverage, build out special projects: rankings, event coverage, special reports, newsletters, etc

**Core Competencies:

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- Vision: Should be able to plan and execute creative solutions to grow IBT’s reach and influence
- Digitally Savvy: Be comfortable with external data — I.e. economic indicates, stocks, social trends etc, and internal ones, such as analytics data and real-time readership data
- Domain Expertise: In depth local general news experience with a slant to financial, business and investor news.
- Operational Expertise: Ability to build and organize a 24/7 newsroom, balancing commercial needs
- Multimedia Expertise: Comfort in text and vision for video, graphics, podcasts, etc

Editor-in-Chief will have a relevant bachelor's degree journalism, finance, business or a related field. Graduate or post-graduate degree a plus.

**APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE COVER LETTER TO BE CONSIDERED**

**About IBT**

IBT Media is a fast growing global digital news organization, delivering news and insight to over 20 million monthly readers across the world. With innovations across the newsroom and the platform, we are engaging a new generation of readers with content that speaks to their interests, analysis that serve their businesses, and insight to make sense of a globally connected world.