CapX is recruiting for a Deputy Editor.

You will be part of the CapX team, overseeing the website’s day-to-day output and helping to build new audiences. Your primary responsibility will be to edit and commission exclusive articles, as well as finding the best pieces from across the web and working on CapX’s popular daily newsletter. We are a small team, so there is considerable scope for the right candidate to make the job their own, writing their own op-eds, experimenting with new formats and contributing to overall strategy.

Based at the Centre for Policy Studies in Westminster, CapX’s mission is to publish and promote the best thinking and writing on policy, economics, technology and ideas. This is an exciting time to join, as we launch an updated website and refresh our popular daily email.

The site’s animating ideal is to make the case for “popular capitalism” – to identify and promote the kind of free-market policies that can deliver prosperity, freedom and choice for everyone in Britain. So while applicants do not need to be politically active, they should have a passion for communicating free-market ideas and some knowledge of the centre-right policy community.

This will initially be a six-month contract only, with the potential for a permanent role.

Skills and experience:

NECESSARY

• Experience of editing copy to a high standard
• Strong writing skills
• Experience with promoting pieces and building audience via social media
• A passion for communicating free-market ideas
• A voracious appetite for news and politics, both domestic and international
• A good understanding of economics and policy issues
• Compelling ideas for how CapX can grow its audience
• Great ideas about potential writers, topics and angles

DESIRABLE

• Skill with graphics and design, and/or at least a basic understanding of Photoshop/Canva
• An interest in using AI tools to improve productivity
• Experience of commissioning and a strong contact book
• A track record of publishing opeds/analysis
• Experience with online content production, especially WordPress
• Experience of public speaking and broadcast

The position is full-time and based primarily in our Westminster offices, though some remote working will be permitted.