Senior Editor, Content-as-a-Service - Singapore - SPH Media

Description

About Us

SPH Media's mission is to be the trusted source of news and lifestyle content in Singapore and Asia. One of our core purposes is to produce credible, balanced, and objective news and analysis, always with a view to uphold the public good and fostering an informed, engaged citizenry.

We welcome talented individuals to join us and grow a career in a vibrant and collaborative environment built around a culture of respect and inclusivity.

As an employer, we are committed to rewarding our people fairly and developing them in their careers.

About the Role

The Senior Editor is the editorial authority for SPH Media's new Content-as-a-Service (CaaS) capability, based within the international-award-winning Content & Solutioning Division.

SPH Media is Singapore's trusted national media organisation, with a long-standing role in shaping public understanding through credible journalism and storytelling. CaaS builds on this trust by supporting public- and regulated-sector organisations with editorially rigorous, audience-focused content delivered across multiple formats.

This role is responsible for the quality, clarity and integrity of all content output produced under CaaS. While the role is primarily text-led, it is inherently multi-format – shaping narratives that extend across long-form editorial, design, video, audio and digital formats.

A core part of this role is the ability to translate institutional briefs into editorial work that resonates with real people. While briefs may originate from government or regulated organisations, the content is ultimately created for audiences across communities, demographics and levels of familiarity with the subject. The Senior Editor is responsible for elevating these briefs into clear, engaging and human-centred narratives, without losing accuracy, nuance or trust.

You will work closely with the Associate Director, Content-as-a-Service, as well as the Art Director and Video & Audio Lead, to ensure content is conceptually strong, editorially rigorous and delivered as promised. Much of the writing and production will be commissioned externally – your role is to shape, brief, edit and sign-off, not to produce everything yourself.

This is a 2-year contract, with renewal possibilities.

What you'll do

Own editorial quality and standards:

• Be accountable for the editorial quality of all CaaS content.
• Set and uphold standards for tone, structure, accuracy, clarity and accessibility.
• Ensure content meets institutional requirements while remaining accessible, engaging and relevant to public audiences across communities and demographics.
• Act as the final editorial sign-off on key projects.

Shape deep, narrative-led storytelling across formats:

• Design stories with longevity and adaptability in mind, so they can live as publications, digital content, video, audio or educational materials.
• Ensure long-form work is conceived as more than a single artefact, but as a foundation for wider public-education storytelling.
• Craft relevance, relatability and resonance – never just information.

Commission, brief and edit:

• Commission writers, researchers and subject-matter experts.
• Develop clear, thoughtful briefs that elevate institutional inputs into strong editorial propositions.
• Edit and refine externally produced content to meet SPH Media editorial standards.
• Manage revisions, approvals and version control with discipline and care.

Collaborate on multi-format output:

• Work hand-in-hand with the Art Director and Video & Audio Lead to ensure editorial intent carries through across formats.
• Shape scripts, outlines and narrative structures for video and audio outputs.
• Ensure consistency of story, tone and message across all deliverables.

Support delivery and governance:

• Work closely with the Project Management Lead to meet delivery timelines.
• Anticipate editorial risks and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Ensure commissioned content is delivered on brief, on time, on budget and to standard.

Build editorial capability:

• Mentor and guide the Deputy Editor.
• Contribute to the development of editorial workflows, templates and best practices.
• Help build and maintain a trusted network of external editorial contributors.

Who we're looking for

You're likely to have:

• Senior editorial experience in publishing, media, content marketing or commissioned content environments.
• A proven ability to take complex, institutional or policy-heavy briefs and turn them into editorial work that people actually want to read, watch or listen to.
• Strong experience shaping and editing long-form or narrative-led work.
• Comfort commissioning and editing others, not just writing yourself.
• Experience working with government, public-sector or regulated-industry stakeholders.
• Editorial judgement, taste and the confidence to push back when needed.
• Experience working across formats, even if your background is primarily text-based.

You care deeply about clarity, storytelling and audience relevance – and you understand how good content is actually made in the real world.

What this role is not

• Not a daily newsroom editor role
• Not a campaign copywriting role
• Not a purely hands-on writing role

This is a senior commissioning and editorial leadership role.

Why this role is interesting

You'll be shaping meaningful, high-impact work at institutional scale, backed by a trusted national media organisation and embedded within a high-performing, award-winning division. The role offers the freedom to experiment with form, format and approach, while working on public-interest stories, narratives and histories that matter. You'll collaborate closely with creative and production peers in a team that values judgement, rigour and curiosity – doing deep, ambitious editorial work without the grind of daily news or campaign-only constraints.

About SPH Media's Content & Solutioning Division

This is where editorial craft meets creative ambition. The division brings together Content Lab, Brand Newsroom and SPH Media's advertising capabilities to produce commissioned work that spans branded storytelling, native content in news environments, video, and integrated campaigns across social, digital, print, audio and out-of-home. The team's work has been recognised internationally by organisations such as The Drum, the Content Marketing Association, the Content Marketing Institute, and WAN-IFRA – including multiple wins for public-sector, video and multiformat work. It's a place for people who like ideas, enjoy solving complex briefs, and want to make work that is smart, credible, entertaining, and genuinely impactful.