Overview

Lifeway is seeking a Content Editor that will edit assigned products to ensure the development of trustworthy content that fuels ministry through the local church. The Content Editor ensures biblical accuracy and edits to the Baptist Faith and Message and conservative evangelical theology; ensures instructional soundness and relevance of the content to the target audience; and manages the production cycle of assigned product line and ensures all deadlines are met.

Why Lifeway?

Lifeway is a place where you can bring your faith and work experience to join in the most important mission in the world: making disciples of Jesus Christ. Whether you’re a creator or storyteller, data guru or problem-solver, or anywhere in between, if you’re passionate about serving the church, we have a place for you. Lifeway has a strong Work from Anywhere (WFA) culture that is deeply focused on our mission and values. While headquartered in Nashville, TN, many of our positions are remote-eligible and have autonomy and flexibility with work hours. We provide equipment and resources to ensure team members have access to a productive and ergonomic workspace. We believe building relationships and community is essential to how we work together, so Lifeway hosts all-team meetings several times per year and provides travel for key team gatherings for remote-based team members. Full-time employees are eligible for enrollment in our comprehensive benefits plans including healthcare, vacation and sick time, holiday pay, care days, 401(k) plan, maternity and paternity leave, adoption assistance, mission trip time, and more. If this sounds like a place where you would be excited to serve the kingdom of God, we would love for you to join our team.

Learn more about our culture at team.lifeway.com/culture-code

This is a remote position in the U.S. with occasional travel to Nashville for in-person team gatherings. #LI-Remote

Responsibilities

• Lives out Lifeway’s mission and values, showing deep commitment to Kingdom work
• Ensures biblical fidelity by creating trustworthy content in agreement with the Baptist Faith and Message and conservative evangelical theology. Generates original content and significantly rewrites/adapts authors' submissions as needed.
• Makes copyfitting decisions; responds to appraisal reader evaluations; edits with sensitivity to potentially controversial issues; edits to ensure conservative evangelical theology; receives author submissions and initiates payments; generates original content; applies Lifeway’s style manual and grammar rules to the production of assigned resources; collaborates with other team members to develop a design that equips church leaders to make disciples.
• Develops relationships with authors and procedure writers to train them and sharpen their skills as they make contributions in leader and learner guide content, articles, and other product features.
• Regularly engages in conversations with church leaders—listening, encouraging, and discovering church practices—to understand customer needs.
• Takes the initiative to participate in ongoing training to more fully understand editorial processes, updates to current technologies used, digital delivery of products, and leadership principles. Participates in ongoing team and/or department meetings, plus other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education

Bachelor's degree in English, Theology, Communication, Christian Education, etc.-required

Masters degree in English, Theology, Divinity, Communication, Christian Education, etc.- preferred

Advanced graduate degree (PhD, etc.)- not required

Skills, Knowledge, & Experiences, required

• Written and verbal communication - Advanced
• Word processing software such as Microsoft Word, Adobe InCopy, etc. - Intermediate
• Ability to create original content - Intermediate
• Experience working with children in the local church – Intermediate

Active membership in a Southern Baptist Church

Skills, Knowledge, & Experiences, preferred

• 5 years of Editorial work