Executive

MicroSave Consulting Group; New Delhi; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

MicroSave Consulting Group is seeking an organized Copy Editor with 2–5 years of editorial experience to support the editorial team. You will fix errors, align with our house style, and work on blogs, decks, reports, campaigns, and social media deliverables using strong editorial judgment.

Familiarity with large language models (LLMs) and AI-powered tools is advantageous. The role requires attention to Indianisms, tight deadlines, and the ability to transform technical content into clear global

Qualifications

• Editorial experience of 2-5 years, preferably in print or online news media, nonfiction or general publishing, business editing, or technical editing.
• Work experience/internship with a media organization, publishing house, or other editorial functions are a must.
• Attention to detail, ability to pick out Indianisms, a strong sense of style and grammar, ability to work well under tight deadlines, editing to preserve meaning.
• Adapt to in-house editorial and brand guidelines, as well as client guidelines.
• Exposure to generative AI and large language models (LLMs).
• Ability to solve problems, stay organized, and track and prioritize tasks.
• Ability to multitask independently and be a self-starter.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and team-playing capabilities.
• Interest in development, poverty alleviation, environmental or gender issues.

Responsibilities

• Proof, sense check, and ensure consistency and alignment with MSC's editorial standards.
• Edit and rewrite content while preserving meaning and improving plain language.
• Track tasks and work in a self-managed way within the editorial team.
• Support documents across blogs, pitch decks, research reports, campaigns, and social content.

Skills

Editorial experience

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Multitasking

AI/LLM familiarity

Education

English / Mass Communication / Social Sciences / Media Studies degree

Tools

Microsoft Word (tracking changes)

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

• Mandatory Skills Editorial experience of 2-5 years with knowledge of Microsoft Word (including tracking changes), PowerPoint, and Excel.
• State/Province .
• Country India

About Us

MicroSave Consulting (MSC) is a boutique consulting firm that has, for 25 years, pushed the world towards meaningful financial, social, and economic inclusion. With over 350 staff of different nationalities and varied expertise, we are proud to be working in over 68 developing countries. We partner with participants in financial services, enterprise, agriculture and health ecosystems to achieve sustainable performance improvements and unlock enduring value. Our clients include governments, donors, private sector corporations, and local businesses. We can help you seize the digital opportunity, address the mass market, and future-proof your operations.

Job Description

The Executive (Copy Editor) will support the team lead at the Editorial to fix errors and align with our house style. The editor will work closely with the larger in-house communications team on documents related to the development sector at large. Documents the candidate can expect to work on include blogs, pitch decks, research reports, communication campaigns, and social media deliverables.

The role also requires familiarity with large language models (LLMs) and AI-powered tools. The ideal candidate should know how to use these tools responsibly to support research, summarize complex information, improve editorial efficiency, and refine content, while applying strong editorial judgment to verify facts, maintain context, preserve tone, and ensure compliance with MSC's editorial standards.

The edits will span proofing, sense check, checks for consistency, alignment with the MSC in-house style, and reader focus. Most edits involve preserving meaning while sharpening text into crisp plain language. Most changes include making sentences active, fixing Indianisms, doing a sense check, fixing logical inconsistencies, and hacking away non-sequiturs and danglers. The Assistant Editor should track their tasks and work in a self-managed way.

• Editorial experience of 2-5 years, preferably in print or online news media, nonfiction or general publishing, business editing, or technical editing.
• Work experience/internship with a media organization, publishing house, or other editorial functions are a must.
• Attention to detail, ability to pick out Indianisms, a strong sense of style and grammar, ability to work well under tight deadlines, ability to edit and rewrite content while preserving meaning.
• Quick to adapt to and apply the in-house editorial and brand guidelines, as well as client guidelines.
• Exposure to generative AI and large language models (LLMs).
• Ability to solve problems, stay organized, and track and prioritize tasks.
• Ability to multitask independently.
• A self-starter who takes onus and can adapt to a steep learning curve.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills and team-playing capabilities.
• Should be interested in areas like development, poverty alleviation, environmental or gender issues.
• Preferably a degree in English, Mass Communication, Social Sciences, or Media Studies.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word (including tracking changes), PowerPoint, and Excel.

If you hate being micromanaged, have a keen eye for errors, can follow a style guide, communicate well, and solve problems proactively—this role is for you. We seek an organized and diligent Copy Editor with 2-5 years of experience in our communications team at MicroSave Consulting.

Instead of a technical expert in banking or finances, we seek someone with a flair to comb through long and complex sentences and reshape them in plain English. An ideal candidate should transform Indianized/Africanized English text from our technical experts into quality global content to pitch to our international audience.