Editorial Director

Department: Antonin Scalia Law School

Classification: Public Relations & Mktg Spec 4

Job Category: Classified Staff

Job Type: FullTime

• Work Schedule: Full-time (1.0 FTE, 40 hrs/wk)

Location: Arlington, VA

• Workplace Type: On Site Required

Sponsorship Eligibility:

Pay Band: 05

• Salary: Salary commensurate with education and experience

Restricted: Yes

• Criminal Background Check: Yes

About The Department:

The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State is dedicated to fostering significant legal scholarship on new and timeless questions about the modern administrative state, in order to elevate and improve debates occurring in the courts, in Congress, in the executive branch, and in the broader public.

About The Position:

The Editorial Director creates the Center’s book and pamphlet publishing program. The Director works with the Center’s Executive Director to identify key regulatory and legal issues that will be debated in the coming decade to serve as publication subject matter. This position recruits, edits and advises authors, leading academics from universities around the country, ensuring that the publications are on point and targeted towards key audiences, including judges, their chambers, policymakers and academia. The Director works with publishers on the production of the publications. This position also oversees the Center’s other means of distributing the latest in research, including email and social media publishing and the Center’s website.

Responsibilities:

Books and pamphlet publishing

• Commissions and publishes books and pamphlets on relevant subjects in administrative law, in consultation with the Center’s Executive Director;
• Works with the Center’s Executive Director to identify key regulatory and legal issues that will be debated in the coming decade to serve as publication subject matter;
• Recruits, edits and advises authors, leading academics from universities around the country, ensuring that the publications are on point and targeted towards key audiences, including judges, their chambers, policymakers and academia; and
• Works with publishers on the physical production of the publications.

Email Publishing

• Utilizes the Center’s email database to spread the Center’s research, events and other relevant publications and developments in the field; and
• Develops and expands the database to include more relevant recipients, including judges, judicial clerks, academics and legal practitioners, who are interested in receiving the Center’s insights in the administrative state.

Materials for conferences and roundtables

• Assists with producing materials, such as summaries of research, agendas and invitations, that work to spread the Center’s research through materials used to promote and at Center conferences and roundtables.

Website

• Uses the Center’s website as both a library for the Center’s research as well as to promote the Center’s research. 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work and education experience;
• Considerable experience in editorial and publishing, preferably on legal or regulatory subjects (typically 5 years);
• Experience popularizing complicated concepts for a wider audience;
• Knowledge of the American regulatory system and/or administrative law;
• Editing skills which include editing and publishing books, pamphlets, polemics or periodicals; and
• Ability to collaborate with a team focused on an organization’s well-defined mission.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in related field;
• Extensive publishing, including either legal or regulatory subjects (typically 10 years);
• Considerable experience overseeing social media and email efforts focused on academic or other serious subjects, such as the law (typically 3 years); and
• Some experience with email or social media communications of serious policy and legal concepts and arguments (typically 2 years).

Instructions To Applicants:

For full consideration, applicants must apply for Editorial Director at https://jobs.gmu.edu/. Complete and submit the online application to include three professional references with contact information, and provide a Cover Letter/Letter of Intent with Resume for review. 

• Posting Open Date: October 7, 2025
• For Full Consideration, Apply by:  October 21, 2025
• Open Until Filled:  Yes