Job Description

About the Opportunity Job Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: 30 September 2023



Title Assistant Editor

Department Editorial

Location London, but other Fidelity locations considered

Reports To Managing Editor

Level Associate Director

About your team

Editorial sits at the very heart of the company, tightly aligned with Sales and Marketing but working closely with Investment Management and Fidelity\xe2\x80\x99s leadership around the world. We create a wide variety of content from deep analysis white papers to award-winning podcasts to location shoots - and the variety is fun: we recently sent a crew to film in the Borneo jungle. We are a multi-disciplinary team of writers, editors and producers as well as the production team to run our state-of-the art studios in London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Our ambition is to create content that doesn\xe2\x80\x99t just lead the financial services industry, but rivals established publishing houses. And we keep winning prizes that suggest we\xe2\x80\x99re on the right track. Whatever we do, it\xe2\x80\x99s intended to engage Fidelity\xe2\x80\x99s clients, potential clients, and the people who influence them.

About your role
We\xe2\x80\x99re looking for a talented sub editor to join us as Assistant Editor. The successful candidate will fill a gap in the team to prepare content for publication. We have high standards and so should you: grammar geeks are welcome, all the more so if your attention to detail is married to an eye for clear and compelling writing. Most of our material is financial analysis for professional audiences, so a background in covering markets, economics and investment is important, although if you excel in other areas, we can offer training. You\xe2\x80\x99ll be working closely with the Managing Editor to understand schedules for delivery all our content, and then help keep the team to them, sometimes working under tight deadlines. The usual unflappable-under-pressure comment applies here.

You may have a background in journalism (many of us on the team do) and we apply the same rigour around accuracy and fairness but you\xe2\x80\x99d need to appreciate the commercial side to thought leadership as well. This role isn\xe2\x80\x99t just about preparing copy, we need a suite of material around each piece to help our colleagues in Sales, Marketing and Comms engage their audiences whether directly, on social or conventional media. If you\xe2\x80\x99ve worked across audio and video, all the better.

About you

What we want from our Assistant Editor:

• A speedy and accurate sub
• Our air traffic controller: a tight focus on deadlines, delivery and discipline
• An ability quickly to form an holistic view of editorial content and what goes on around the company
• Networking skills to coordinate content delivery at a large company in many markets
• Understanding of what differentiates editorial from marketing (or journalism)
• Above all: Intelligence, creativity, authority and empathy.

Feel rewarded

For starters, we\xe2\x80\x99ll offer you a comprehensive benefits package. We\xe2\x80\x99ll value your wellbeing and support your development. And we\xe2\x80\x99ll be as flexible as we can about where and when you work \xe2\x80\x93 finding a balance that works for all of us. It\xe2\x80\x99s all part of our commitment to making you feel motivated by the work you do and happy to be part of our team. For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.

For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit

As an international financial services organisation, we are in-scope of international regulations in the way that we carry out our work. This position is involved in work that is regulated by the FCA and/or the PRA and their Individual Conduct Rules (COCON) apply to it, along with any other regulation. We provide training on COCON and how it affects our employees. More information about COCON can be found in the Employment Handbook.

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