Content Editor

Content Editor, Education Marketing ¦ IRIS Software Group

Location: United Kingdom / Remote
Type: Full-time ¦ Permanent

We're looking for a confident, creative, and collaborative Content Editor to join our Education Marketing team at IRIS Software Group. You'll help shape how we communicate with schools, trusts, and education leaders across UK State, Independent, and International education markets.

You'll play a major role in writing, editing, and optimising high-impact content that drives demand, retention, and growth across our education portfolio—including MIS, HR, finance, parental engagement, and analytics solutions.

This is an exciting opportunity to join us as we elevate how IRIS Education delivers content across products, teams, and regions.

What You'll Do

Content Development & Delivery

• Write, edit, and optimise long-form and high-value content: whitepapers, customer stories, blogs, newsletters, thought leadership, and product pages.

• Shape tone of voice, messaging frameworks, and campaign goals with the Director of Marketing.

• Localise content for key segments (MATs, Independent schools, International).

• Repurpose long-form content into multi-channel assets.

• Explore the smart use of AI tools for workflow, ideation, and optimisation.

Content Operations & Workflow

• Own and maintain the editorial calendar aligned to campaign plans.

• Upload, edit, and format content across CMS platforms (HubSpot, WordPress).

• Collaborate with product, sales, design, and marketing to deliver content on time.

• Lead content QA, ensuring consistency across all customer touchpoints.

SEO, AEO & Performance

• Conduct keyword + topic research (SEMrush).

• Optimise content for search visibility and engagement across emerging discovery platforms (AEO).

• Track, analyse, and report on performance metrics.

Customer & Campaign Support

• Develop customer-facing content (onboarding guides, newsletters, how-to articles).

• Coordinate with partners and associations for features and advertorials.

• Write case studies, working closely with account managers and customers.

What You Bring

Must-Have

• Proven experience in content writing/editing (B2B or SaaS preferred).

• Strong understanding of SEO and content optimisation.

• Hands-on CMS experience (HubSpot, WordPress).

• Exceptional written English + superb attention to detail.

• Ability to manage multiple projects and work independently.

• Comfortable collaborating with multiple stakeholders.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience in the education sector or public/regulated markets.

• Familiarity with marketing automation (Marketo, Campaign Monitor).

• Understanding of design briefing, video scripting, and content repurposing.

• Knowledge of accessibility and content governance best practices.

Tools You'll Use

HubSpot
• WordPress
• SEMrush
• Asana
• MS Planner
• SharePoint
• Campaign Monitor
• Marketo
• Vimeo
• YouTube
• Google Analytics

INDLOW

About IRIS

As one of the UK's largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.

IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.

Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child's school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.

Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers' businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.

It's vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time.

That's why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time – so they can focus on productivity and growth.

IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.

They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today.

We're delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Women.

These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.

IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do.

This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.

Why work for IRIS?

The Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Charity / volunteering days

Income protection insurance

Life assurance

Employee Assistance Program

Private healthcare

Enhanced maternity pay

Additional discount
schemes

Cycle to work
scheme

Developing your career

We believe in creating a culture of engagement and reward to develop your potential and offer long-term career success. We do this by:

Supporting our managers to be great leaders, providing inspirational management resources and offering dedicated management development training.

Rewarding individual excellence through dedicated initiatives and Employee Awards for demonstrating our values.

Offering regular training and development programmes tailored to each employee's development needs and providing a commitment to a 'learning culture' which shares knowledge, best practice and our long-standing expertise between employees.

We're committed to a culture of continuous improvement and listen to our employees via regular feedback sessions and employee engagement surveys.

Our employees love the colleagues they work with. We promote a positive environment where our people feel comfortable, make friends and support each other.

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