Managing Editor

Job description

Mission of the 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 Cape Town Magazine.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 Cape Town Magazine.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.  

Outcomes of the role – what success looks like

1. Content is consistently resonant because it’s performance-driven

• Commissioned, edited, and signed off with performance in mind:
• Reflects our Storymaking Cape Town Mag brand & content wisdoms
• For audience engagement, shareability, resonance across digital platforms

• Edited to Cape Town Magazine.com standards, to resonate across:
• Website
• Social platforms
• Discovery channels such as Google and ChatGPT

• The team produces content that is both well-written and digitally resonant

• High editorial standards are enforced across all outputs

• Clear ownership of the quality and effectiveness

2. Performance-coached, energised content team

• Consistent delivery of high-quality content, on time and to standard

• Clear and enthusiastic ownership across all team members and projects

• Logical culture of accountability and growth, as per our core values

• Performance elevated through stretch opportunities for them to shine even more

• Underperformance identified early and constructively coached

• Full responsibility for the team’s output, performance, delivery, successes & failures

3. Structured, scalable content engine

• KPI-tracking performance-based coaching embedded into the operating rhythm 

• Weekly, monthly and quarterly planning and execution rhythms across the team

• Workload is prioritised based on impact and business priorities

• Team capacity and delivery are visible through systems (e.g. Monday.com)

• Effective leveraging of freelancers and contributors to unlock capacity and quality

• Continuous improvement of systems, workflows, and output for team effectiveness

4. Alignment between the content and the partner team

• Business and partner needs are translated into clear, actionable editorial direction

• Content output supports editorial, partner success & strategic campaigns

• A healthy, collaborative relationship between content and partner teams

• Content team with clear context for work that is business-relevant

Closing date for applications: 30 April 2026 at midnight, but interviews start now.

Key competencies (what you bring)

• Proven experience writing and editing digital content to a high standard

• Strong track record in planning and managing workflows (using a planning tool)

• Experience coaching or managing people, with exposure to KPIs and performance tracking

• Strong ownership mindset and takes responsibility for output, team, and results

• Clear drive and grit shown through momentum in your career 

• Adaptable and flexible. Able to hold strong standards while remaining open to change, feedback, and new ways of working and unlearning

Advantageous (nice to have)

• Experience using Monday.com (or similar tools)

• Strong content judgment and instinct for what resonates

• Exposure to analytics and content performance metrics

• Experience working across multi-channel content (web + social)

• Naturally collaborative and able to work across teams

Posted on 14 Apr 09:32, Closing date 30 Apr