Editor - London, United Kingdom - ACT Climate Labs

Description

We're Media Bounty, and we're working to become the UK's most ethical independent creative and media agency by 2026.

ACT Climate Labs is powered by Media Bounty. ACT create innovative and impactful creative campaigns around social issues and climate change. Our mission is to supercharge the effectiveness of climate communications with advertising techniques that allow us to make climate action mainstream, and get others to follow our lead


Editor, ACT Climate Labs

(part time, fixed term contract)

A bit about us
We're Media Bounty, and we're working to become the UK's most ethical independent creative and media agency by 2026.

Our team delivers award-winning strategy, brave creative and transparent media for brands and organisations that want outstanding integrated ideas to grow businesses and create a better future.

Our actions shout much louder than our words. We donate to our charity partner, World Land Trust, for every campaign we do. Each team member gets five days off every year to volunteer for good causes. Our flexible working policy is actually flexible - not just for the bosses. Our media offering is completely transparent, always passing on rebates to clients and never charging mark-ups.

And no matter how big the budget, if a brand's ethics don't match our own - we won't work with them.

Because we know if we want an industry to be proud of, and a fairer, equitable planet tomorrow, we have to start today.

ACT Climate Labs

We are a group of advertising and climate experts with a track record of creating innovative and impactful creative campaigns around social issues and climate change.

Powered by Media Bounty, our mission is to supercharge the effectiveness of climate communications with advertising techniques that allow us to make climate action mainstream, and get others to follow our lead.

This starts with climate communicators breaking out of our bubble.


Role summary
We have been running a content platform, ACT Intelligence, for about 6 months.

ACT Intelligence publishes fortnightly newsletters on topics to do with climate misinformation, audience insights and advertising techniques for a network of communications experts within NGOs, charities and ethical businesses.

ACT is all about reframing climate action for our Persuadables, the 69% of people in the UK who are worried about climate change, but for whom tackling it isn't yet a priority.

We are looking for a creative, collaborative and versatile editor to help diversify and bring this content to life.

You'll own our content planning and development process and use your attention to detail to ensure all our communications are of the highest standard.

As ACT focuses on our Persuadables, we're ideally looking for someone who also fits into this category, and has experience of bringing compelling stories to mass audiences.

This role will report into the project lead, and work closely with the wider team - particularly our Intelligence Lead.

It's a part time role of 4 days a month, for a fixed term contract of one year, and the day rate is £200 - £300 pending experience


Responsibilities
Your regular responsibilities will be focused on editorial excellence across all of ACT's content:
Editorial leadership

• Owning the regular content calendar for our newsletters, working with the Strategy team, Partnerships & Network Coordinator and the Intelligence Lead to create written and visual content, on impactful topics
• Diversifying our content topics and formats to increase engagement and readership, using insights to learn and improve our newsletter content
• Commissioning and copyediting 2 newsletters per month, plus daily Slack and LinkedIn posts
• Ghost writing one oped per quarter for our Strategy and Project directors
• Working closely with the Strategy Director and Researcher & Copywriter to ensure all content aligns to the wider intelligence gathering work
• Updating our editorial guidelines, ensuring all content aligns with them and the team produces content which follows them
• Editing and signing off all newsletters, and social media posts to an excellent standard
• Inputting into the content of regular webinars and online events to engage our network

Our dream hire will have:

• Strong commissioning and subediting skills
• Strong editing skills, able to shape raw copy into a punchy stories
• Strong copywriting skills, with proven experience in communicating effectively with different audiences
• Topnotch organisation skills, with a proven ability to manage editorial timelines
• An ability to manage internal teams and third parties, holding people to account, challenging ideas and delivering recommendations to improve operational efficiency
• A track record of excelling when working to KPIs
• Extensive skills in online publishing platforms and design products, preferably Ghost and Canva
• The goal of working within an organisation that prioritises its people and