Copy Editor - Agency

Copy Editor - Subeditor

£45k - £50k

Hybrid - 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.

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.
• RobustknowledgeofSEO andcontentmarketingbest practices.
• Organisedandpractical.
• Demonstrablecreativityand innovationin abusiness contextrelevant tothe role.
• Apassionforcontentmarketing.
• Can-doattitude and willingness toroll up your sleevesand get stuck in.
• Anabilityto workat pace and staycalm undertime 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