Job Description
Title: Content Writer – Hybrid or Remote
Location: Hartford, Connecticut; United States
Overview
PLACEMENT TYPE:
Temporary
SALARY (USD):
$22.42 – $24.91 Hourly
Responsibilities:
- A writer/communicator at heart, who can adapt to our client’s content strategy to tell stories for and about our customers
- Able to easily adopt an editorial voice, and work within themes
- Skilled at understanding the needs of a variety of target audiences and the types of content that will help drive acquisition
- Uncompromising in their appreciation for quality strengthened by a creative talent for inspiring and educational storytelling.
- Patient and able to adapt, edit and integrate feedback into content as others weigh-in during the approval process
- Deadline-driven, takes responsibility for understanding content plans and timelines
Requirements:
- Write and copy edit for digital content to drive acquisition and engagement for our client’s products
- Formats include articles, landing pages, slideshows, videos, infographics, webinars, emails, and podcasts
- Adhere to tone of voice and messaging guidelines, ensuring content consistently delivers on brand promise
- Work with a design partner to deliver various content types
- Support production of new content and provide editorial support channel and product partners, ensuring all work meets brand guidelines and campaign timelines
- Ensure new content provides value helpful, actionable information and a distinct point of view that only our client delivers
- Adhere to the editorial calendar and timelines
- Maintain a content inventory to help identify gaps, build taxonomies, and optimize for SEO
- Communicate / Report to Content Directors and key stakeholders on progress and delivery of content
Experience And Technical Skills Required:
- 1-3 years of experience developing direct to consumer or business to business content across multiple channels and platformsbonus if you have experience marketing a mobile app, even better if you have knowledge of working in a regulated industry
- A track record of driving business results from content
- A strategic thinker, as well as a skilled and experienced writer
- Proven ability to work independently, juggle multiple priorities, and complete responsibilities in a fast-paced, agile environment
- Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Exceptional writing, grammar, and proofreading skills
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Ability to work successfully within with Content Directors
- Hard working, multi-tasker who enjoys taking ownership of projects
Preferred Skills:
- Experience working as a contractor
- Experience in the financial services industry
- Write and edit all content types for print, email, digital and social channels
- Craft unique, compelling, emotionally driven, audience-centric stories
- Participate in brainstorms and ideation sessions
- Continually advance understanding of SEO best practices
- Engage on a regular basis with workflow tool
- Contribute to editorial planning and content idea development
- Assist in the creation of content team slides in PowerPoint as a part of larger presentation decks
- Understand and reflect brand guidelines in assigned work