Writer, Content and Thought Leadership

2 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom AECOM Full time

Company Description
**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

**Job Description**:
We are looking for an ambitious and talented **mid-level writer **to join our growing marketing and communications team in Europe and India. Reporting to the regional Thought Leadership and Content Lead, you will support the strategic marketing team to plan and deliver content for the marketing strategy that supports both growth and positioning priorities across our region.

We are committed to advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion (ED&I) within AECOM so that our workforce truly reflects the diverse communities that we serve. If you think that your skill set is a good match for what we are looking for, we welcome and encourage you to apply.

**Roles and responsibilities**
- Assisting the regional Thought Leadership and Content Lead to create content in alignment with strategic marketing campaigns and priorities.
- Support the creation of videos, podcasts, infographics, animated social media tiles, and other assets.
- Act as a creative storyteller within brand guidelines, considering tone of voice, target audience and channel.
- Support marketing colleagues to write and edit marketing collateral ensuring that campaign messaging and brand voice are used consistently and creatively.
- Edit and proofread individual articles through to complex, multi-author, or high-profile documents.
- Assist with the management of complex, multi-author, multi-document projects.
- Make authoritative editorial and process decisions and recommendations.
- Upload articles to in-house CMS.
- Support Thought Leadership and Content Lead with content strategy and messaging for marketing campaigns and priorities.
- Support with SEO research and optimization, as well as tracking and measurement of content performance in Google Analytics.
- Maintain and advise on editorial standards as per house style and guidelines.
- Oversee development and maintenance of editorial administration.

**Qualifications**:
**Skills (essential)**
- Excellent standard of written English
- Excellent communication and interview skills
- Proven ability to write engaging, client-focused content
- Creative copywriting skills
- An eye for a good story
- Attention to detail
- Working Google Analytics and SEO knowledge

**We are looking for**:

- A strategic thinker
- Someone who is used to working independently and able to prioritise their workload
- A team player who understands the value of collaboration
- A writer who has the confidence to challenge and make well-informed editorial recommendations

**Experience**:

- A degree or similar qualification in English or journalism
- Minimum five years’ experience working in either a B2B content marketing or a publishing/journalist environment

**Requirements**:

- Portfolio of published work
- A written test will be required

Additional Information

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.



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