Content Editor - Leeds, United Kingdom - 18Players

Description

Job title
Content editor


About Us
18Players are a fast-growing, full-service creative agency specialising in sport.

We offer a range of digital and print content services including contract publishing, web design and development, web hosting, brand development, graphic design, video production, copy writing, animation, social media and campaign management.

We create magazines, populate websites and write mailer copy on behalf of multiple members' organisations.

Our key proposition is that we find solutions, build them, nurture them and bring them to life. We have a heritage in golf - and a client book that extends throughout the world of sport.


The Opportunity
An opportunity to work with some of the UK's biggest sporting organisations, brands, venues and governing bodies.

You will pay a key role with some of our biggest clients as we expand our content team to meet a period of growth.

Responsibilities
As our content editor you will play a key role in ensuring that we deliver brilliant content.

You will report to the director of 18Players and work on a day-to-day basis with the Production Editor and Studio Manager, as well as the rest of the 18Players team and, of course, our clients.

On a day-to-day basis you will be:

• Producing features for our clients' magazines and websites
• these will typically
• but not always
• be about golf professionals, golf greenkeepers, golf businesspeople and golf club managers. The pieces will range from a few hundred words to full profiles
• Writing copy for mailers
• Writing headlines, standfirsts, subheads, cover lines and straplines for an array of content, both digital and print
• Working with the design team on selecting and sourcing images and briefing in page layouts
• Uploading content to websites
• Writing our internal press releases
• Helping to create advertorial content for our clients

Key Skills

• You must be an experienced and versatile features writer
• You must have knowledge of and an interest in golf it would be a massive advantage if you also played golf
• You must be equally comfortable interviewing in person, over the phone and over video calls
• You must be comfortable sourcing your own interviews
• You must be able to write to a brief
• You must be able to follow the house styles of various clients
• You will be comfortable in standard CMS programmes like Wordpress.
• You will be strong relationship builder, balancing the client, the work and the team on a daily basis
• You will be a flexible multitasker ready to turn your hand to the needs of the agency on any given day

You will report to the director of 18Players and work on a day-to-day basis with the Production Manager and Studio Manager, as well as the rest of the 18Players team and, of course, our clients.

The Details
Our offices are based in a leafy North Leeds suburb, close to Scarcroft.

We offer a flexible approach to office working and our staff work in a hybrid fashion, with days each week spent in the office and at home.

When in the office we can offer a state-of-the-art gym, Sky TV and proper coffee.

Salary is £26,000 - £36,000 DOE and comes with phone, laptop, pension and 23 days' holiday (excluding bank holidays)


Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent


Salary:
£26,000.00-£36,000.00 per year


Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Gym membership
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location:
Hybrid remote in LEEDS

Expected start date: 26/06/2023