Job Description
About Janes:
Janes enables militaries, governments, and defence companies to make critical decisions. Our expert-driven tradecraft, developed over 120 years, combined with human-machine teaming, delivers assured open-source intelligence across military capabilities and order of battle, equipment, events, countries, companies, and markets.
Linking millions of assured data points, Janes data model creates a framework of interconnected open source defence intelligence. This allows our customers to integrate all relevant data and connections into a single intelligence environment to deliver a more complete and accurate answer. Using Janes, our customers can use their scarce resource more effectively, to get to better decisions with higher confidence, more quickly.
JOB PURPOSE
Janes is looking for an experienced Content Editor with a keen eye for detail to join our established team based in Bangalore. The Content Editor will be part of a global team of copy editors working on content from across the entire Janes portfolio.
HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE AT JANES
• Communicate within the company with researchers, analysts, and journalists via email, telephone calls, or in person.
• Ensure Janes world-leading content and analysis is accurate and up to date, follows Janes house style, and is free from grammatical errors.
• Proofread and edit text at various stages of the process.
• Ensure that the content reflects the brand voice of the company.
THE IDEAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE FOR THIS ROLE
• Demonstrable copy-editing experience
• Proficiency with applying the principles of style guides to different types of writing
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in the English language
• Ability to remain detailed-oriented and focused when processing large amounts of text
• Willingness to collaborate with a creative team of editors, graphic designers, and others
• Strong computer processing skills
• Basic knowledge of legal issues involved in publishing, such as libel and plagiarism
• Mastery of spelling, grammar, and punctuation, and the ability to make constructive suggestions
About Janes
In a world crowded with increasingly unreliable information, our customers require timely, verified, validated, unbiased, and relevant defense, threat, and equipment intelligence. The interconnectivity of Janes assured open-source intelligence and analysis enables us to provide you with the unique insights required to make mission-critical decisions.
Our Purpose
To improve global security through trusted intelligence.
Our Vision
The trusted global agency for open-source defense intelligence.
Our Mission
The Janes stamp of trust means supplying our customers with timely, validated, unbiased, and relevant intelligence in a world crowded with increasingly unreliable information.
With an unmatched legacy of more than 120 years, Janes has adapted, expanded, and developed its unique tradecraft whilst transitioning from a traditional military publisher to the leading global agency for open-source intelligence.
Today Janes partners with global government agencies and leading military manufacturers across the world and is at the forefront of analysis in the open-source intelligence domain.
While open-source data is readily available to analysts and decision makers, it can be unmanageable in structure and volume, is not assured, and can be manipulated either intentionally or unintentionally. Our human-centric tradecraft, developed over 120 years, delivers the highest levels of assurance.
