Publications Editor

Employer: Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility

Work Type/s: Permanent, full time, 0.8 FTE considered

Salary: $110-130K + super depending on experience [pro rata if part time]

Sector/s: Not For Profit (NFP)

Location: any Australian location, working from home; or Sydney, Melbourne or Canberra office.

Job posted on: 17 October 2025

Applications close: 9am AEDT on 7 November 2025

●     Likely interview period:24 November 2025 - 5 December 2025

Role: ACCR seeks to meaningfully accelerate fossil fuels phaseout, through catalysing effective action by institutional investors to mitigate physical and systemic climate risk. This includes surfacing scientific, analytical, legal and strategic insights, and ensuring they are understood and acted on. This new role will take those insights and turn them into written content for publication. The role will work closely with ACCR’s Research and Publications Manager as part of the Analysis and Communications division to ensure our publications have their desired impact in the financial and corporate sectors.

Staff at ACCR are based across Australia and Europe so this role will need to be available to work regularly until 6pm AEDT/5pm AEST, and for some evening meetings (up to 3 evenings/week, especially during the Australian summer months), with flexibility for hours around these commitments. Travel within Australia for up to 5 days up to 4 times a year is part of the role.

You’ll love this job if:

●     You enjoy writing and editing strategically, for high impact. You write quickly and accurately and are skilled at synthesising complex research into clear and compelling content.

●     You are interested in the role that listed companies and institutional investors can play in phasing out fossil fuels. You understand the corporate/finance world and the energy transition and are comfortable writing for that context. Ideally, you are already familiar with key issues relating to the energy transition.

●     You get energy from working with others, working in multi-disciplinary environments, and supporting colleagues to write and edit complex content. You can listen well, navigate and problem solve when perspectives differ, and show sound judgement.

Responsibilities

The role will include the following types of tasks:

●     Writing high-impact content for institutional investor audiences, drawing on insights and analysis from colleagues e.g. reports, slide decks, investor briefing notes

●     Copyediting and proofreading ACCR outputs for publication

●     Collaborating with colleagues to produce strategic content for publication

●     Managing risk in preparing written material for publication e.g. being alert to risks of defamation, ensuring rigour and accuracy

Criteria

We’re looking for someone with the following skills and experience:

●     Exceptional communication and writing skills, particularly an ability to engage with complex scientific/financial/legal written material and convert it to clear, valuable outputs for investor audiences

●     Substantial (7+ years) experience in a writing-heavy role (e.g. journalism, written communications or editing). Experience in a corporate, finance and/or climate related role would be a strong advantage.

●     Agility & accuracy – able to turn copy around quickly while maintaining a high standard and attention to detail

●     Excellent interpersonal skills, particularly an ability to drive a collaborative process, working with analysts, climate scientists and strategists (individually and in groups) to produce strategic, publication-ready content, and doing so with tact, patience, flexibility and teamwork

●     A commitment to ACCR’s mission and values including demonstrating respect and genuinely valuing diversity

●     Flexibility to work overlapping hours with colleagues in Europe and travel occasionally

●     Comfort working in a remote virtual context – connected to colleagues elsewhere, possibly with some colleagues and an ACCR office within the same region depending on location, but also able to work from home, and thus having an ability to operate fairly autonomously

If you don’t meet every point above, please still apply if you can see your skills well used in this role.Accountable to: Research & Publications Manager

Key Relationships: Strategic Communications Lead, Chief Scientists, Analytical Insights team

Background: ACCR is a non-profit shareholder advocacy and research organisation founded in 2012. We seek to meaningfully accelerate fossil fuels phaseout, by catalysing step-change across industries and financial markets, in the interests of investors, planetary systems and people. More information about our latest work can be found in our FY24 Annual Review.

ACCR has a dynamic team of almost 40 staff, mostly based in Australia, working globally. Our growing team has a wide range of expertise - climate science, communications, engineering, law, equities analysis, finance, investor relations, IT and more.

What we offer:

●     Flexible work hours and supportive home-based working.

●     Personal leave is double the statutory requirement, plus additional paid leave from Christmas to New Year. Option to purchase additional leave.

●     Peer learning. Each of us has a professional development budget.

●     An Employee Assistance Program which includes a discount for friends and family.

●     Accessible ACCR offices – further detail can be provided.

Application Guidelines

We use Applied as our recruitment platform, helping us reduce the risk of unconscious bias in our hiring process.

We will ask you to answer 3 questions designed to test your ability to do the job. Please give it your best effort, your scores on these questions will be the primary consideration in whether you are invited for an interview. To avoid bias, we do not look at CVs until later in the process.

Once started, you can save and return to your application before submitting. For example;

●     Describe a time when you have successfully communicated complex material to a non-expert audience. What made it successful and how did you measure success?

Please note, for this role, ACCR is only able to employ those who have the pre-existing legal right to work in Australia.

We value diversity, equity and inclusion in our workplace. ACCR encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people of all cultures, abilities, sex and genders.

ACCR is committed to improving accessibility to enable the full participation of a diverse workforce. If there are any alterations to this recruitment process that would assist you in applying, please let us know.