Hybrid Senior Writer – The Village

Posted 2 months ago

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About the role

  • Senior Writer role initiating and writing parenting features for The Village. Part of Stylist's mission to support and empower women, ensuring engaging and timely content delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Originate and write compelling features and news stories with a parenting/motherhood angle for Stylist
  • Ensure all content is accurately written to brief and on deadline
  • Monitor all work using data platforms to ensure key digital targets are achieved
  • Generate forward-thinking, exciting and exclusive ideas, and see them through from pitch to publication
  • Ideate, write and publish content across all Stylist’s digital verticals: the website, our newsletters and social media
  • Write content for digital and print magazines and commercial requests, as required
  • Apply thorough SEO knowledge to all digital content published and monitor everything to get the widest reach possible
  • Monitor your work post-publication, and strive to hit personal and website-wide KPI targets
  • Create video and static content for Stylist’s social feeds, appearing in the content when required
  • Maintain Stylist’s competitive advantage in publishing the most relevant and timely stories
  • Stay abreast of all competitor activity and innovation across all platforms
  • Use forward planning tools and insights to ensure Stylist content remains ahead trends, events and cultural moments
  • Ensure there is adequate cover and a thorough handover when on annual leave

Requirements

  • Proven experience as a journalist or writer, ideally with a focus on parenting, lifestyle or women’s media
  • Strong digital publishing skills, including SEO, CMS and social media content creation
  • A keen understanding of Stylist’s tone, audience and editorial values
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
  • Confident in using data to inform content strategy and performance
  • Comfortable creating multimedia content, including video and appearing on camera when needed
  • A proactive, ideas-driven mindset with a passion for storytelling that informs, inspires and empowers

Benefits

  • 26 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Health cash plan
  • Gym discount
  • Excellent pension
  • Competitive salary
  • Many more staff discounts and benefits

Job title

Senior Writer – The Village

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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