Editor, Motley Fool

About This Role

This editor role supports The Motley Fool Canada on an independent contract basis, focusing on polishing and fact-checking articles about Canadian investing and retirement planning. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, ensuring content is grammatically correct, flows well, and is factually accurate.

Responsibilities

• Support the free website
• Content-edit articles about investing and retirement planning to ensure they flow well, are interesting, and are generally well written and logically sound
• Copy edit articles to ensure they're free of grammatical and spelling errors
• Publish articles in WordPress after adding and checking required metadata (images, stock tickers, stock ownership disclosures, etc)
• Work with the managing editor to better understand investing concepts to identify factual errors or items that may be of compliance or regulatory concern
• Provide feedback to the managing editor about writers and the content that’s being created
• Provide feedback to writers to help them improve their writing

Requirements

• Prior experience as an editor, ideally of online editorial-style content
• Expertise in the realms of grammar, writing style and financial fact-checking
• High level of organizational skills
• Ability to self-motivate and stay on track to hit daily deadlines
• Curiosity, flexibility and a good sense of humor

Nice to have:

• Some prior knowledge of, or interest in, investing
• Familiarity with WordPress
• Some knowledge of SEO best practices
• Some knowledge of large-language model AI tools
• Experience with collaboration tools such as Slack and Google apps

Important Details

• Schedule: 20-25 hours per week, flexible
• Contract: independent contract basis

About the Company

The Motley Fool is a purpose-driven financial information and services firm with more than 30 years of experience focused on helping the world invest better. They help demystify the world of finance, beat the stock market, and achieve personal wealth and happiness through subscription-based investment advice. Though US-based, The Motley Fool has a thriving Global unit that serves countries including Canada and Australia.