Editorial Assistant

Role Description

An established corporate communications and advisory consultancy is seeking a meticulous and articulate Editorial Assistant specializing in Corporate and Sustainability Reporting for a part-time, fully remote position, estimated at 10 hours per week. The successful candidate will work directly with the Managing Director to support the end-to-end development, refinement, and production of high-quality corporate literature. This includes integrated, sustainability, ESG, and annual reports for public entities and listed corporations. The position balances technical business writing with rigorous copy-editing and qualitative research, making it ideal for a professional who enjoys transforming complex structural information into precise, investor-focused narratives within a highly flexible framework.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in drafting and updating core narrative chapters for integrated, annual, governance, and committee disclosures.
• Develop targeted report sections focusing on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria, materiality assessments, stakeholder engagement structures, and risk disclosures.
• Convert intricate, highly technical operational or financial details into concise, accessible, and reader-friendly business narratives.
• Edit substantial documents to guarantee flawless grammar, consistent stylistic tone, absolute accuracy across cross-references, and optimal readability.
• Cross-verify narrative assertions against financial spreadsheets, ensuring alignment between general text disclosures, tables, charts, and data infographics.
• Collaborate in constructing professional stakeholder interview guides and content templates to streamline data collection pipelines.
• Gradually absorb and integrate modern corporate reporting guidelines—such as the International Integrated Reporting Framework, GRI, IFRS Sustainability Disclosures, JSE Guidance, and King V principles.

Key Deliverables

• Drafted components of Integrated, Sustainability, and Governance Reports.
• Professional stakeholder interview questionnaires and templates.
• Quality-assured and consistently formatted corporate data files.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 to 6 years of professional experience in corporate writing, institutional editing, or technical publishing.
• Demonstrated baseline business writing capability paired with exceptional English editing and proofreading skills.
• Proven competence in identifying key corporate themes, understanding value creation models, and demonstrating strong general business acumen.
• Meticulous attention to detail and a high standard of personal discretion when managing confidential information.
• Proven capability to remain organised under tight publication deadlines and manage multiple document iterations smoothly.

Preferred Qualifications

• A completed tertiary qualification in English, Journalism, Corporate Communications, Sustainability, Business Management, Finance, or Economics is highly advantageous.
• Prior practical experience editing or drafting integrated reports for JSE-listed enterprises.
• Direct familiarity with baseline global sustainability and ESG reporting frameworks.

Required Software Skills

• Microsoft Word (Advanced formatting, version tracking, style configurations).
• General business technology platforms and cloud file-sharing environment.

Benefits

• Complete remote workspace flexibility.
• Manageable part-time hours supporting healthy professional balance.
• Deep professional development pathway into specialised global ESG and sustainability governance standards without needing prior framework knowledge.

Work Type and Location

• Remote (Independent home-office setup).
• Part-Time (Estimated at 10 hours per week).