Main characteristics
- Location
- St Albans, Hertfordshire
- Company
- Charles Jenson Recruitment
- Salary
- £40000 - £47000/annum
- Employment type
- Permanent
- Category
- Media
Job summary
Copy Editor - Agency£40k - £45k
Hybrid 1-3 days a week in the office
Creative agency with big ambitions and a growing client base of national and international brands are expanding.
Copy Editors must demonstrate content editing and copy-editing experience.
As a Copy Editor you will work as part of a small marketing team managing all aspects of digital content for clients.
You will be working within the content and SEO teams, helping to produce a variety of on-brand, customer-focused content across different digital channels.
Youll be a brilliant communicator, working closely with our team of in-house content creators and external freelance writers, and with clients to ensure our content delivers at all levels.
Key tasks involve:
* Edit and create effective digital content for websites for both B2B and B2C audiences, with high frequency and an excellent attention to detail.
* Subedit content to strict client brand guidelines and to a very high standard.
* Ensure content for clients in regulated industries is well-researched and rigorously supported with trustworthy external references.
* Fact-check content, statistics, sources and quotes to ensure a high degree of accuracy.
* Ensure content meets tone of voice requirements, ensuring it is engaging, relevant and authentic for different audiences from business professionals to online shoppers.
* Capture and curate brand guidelines and client guidelines.
* Make client amends to content, manage content through an editorial workflow and upload final content to websites as required.
* Provide support and guidance to in-house and external writers to ensure continuous improvement to content quality.
* Create writing briefs for in-house writers and external contributors.
* Ability and willingness to write original content as required to a client brief.
Key Requirements:
* Degree in English/History/Media/Journalism or a similar subject.
* Minimum 5 years professional work as an editor, subeditor, production editor or managing editor.
* Flawless grasp of written English and meticulous attention to detail.
* Excellent research skills, able to translate data and information into engaging, accessible content.
* Flexibility able to edit copy across different styles and for different audiences.
* Understanding of SEO and its role in creating effective online content.
* Excellent communicator positive, engaging and able to clearly articulate complex processes clearly and without ambiguity.
* Truly love content you take pride in ensuring content meets the client brief, is error-free and smack-bang on brand.
* Robust knowledge of SEO and content marketing best practices.
* Organised and practical.
* Demonstrable creativity and innovation in a business context relevant to the role.
* A passion for content marketing.
* Can-do attitude and willingness to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in.
* An ability to work at pace and stay calm under time pressures.
It is essential that all candidates have first class communication skills written and verbal, time management, client care skills, well organised, show initiative, work to strict deadlines and work effectively under pressure.
For more information, please contact Charles Jenson Recruitment
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