Junior Editor

CMC431: Junior editor - Opto

Department Marketing

Reporting to Head of content - Opto

Since launching in 1989, CMC Markets has become one of the world's leading online CFD and financial spread betting providers, with nearly 66.8 million trades executed annually across Europe, Asia Pacific and North America.

CMC Markets’ success is founded on its ability to deliver a wide range of trading products to customers, from single equities to indices, currencies and commodities. This means our clients don’t need to go to a forex broker, futures broker or a commodities broker to trade these different instruments, they can trade them all through one trading platform. CMC Markets has pioneered the development of online trading in markets around the world to become a world leading spread betting and CFD provider.

Based in the city of London we are at the heart of both the financial service and technology industries. We're a growing team, currently investing heavily in digital people and technology. If you're looking to accelerate your career and be part of something special this is the role for you.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

As Junior editor you will help drive the performance of CMC Markets’ investment content channel,
_Opto_.
_Opto_ is a

website

, daily

newsletter

, quarterly

magazine

,

podcast

& host of live on/offline events, delivering stock market-focused content to active investors. You will lead on the publication of daily content across the aforementioned mediums, focusing heavily on the distribution of unique editorial authored by industry thought-leaders. You’d be joining at an exciting time, too - Not only has
_Opto_ reached close to 100,000 subscribers to its daily newsletter,
_Taking Stock_, the team are also developing a mobile App to take the channel to the next level.
- Support the daily creation of articles, videos, eBooks and podcasts, for CMC Markets' content channel, _Opto_.
- Edit and critique _Opto’s_ daily article output.
- Publish _Opto’s_ articles via CMC’s CMS to our global websites and the _Opto_ App, as per the team’s editorial calendar and in line _Opto’s_ OKR targets. Implement article edits and updates as/when required.
- Track the news and performance of the stock market’s biggest firms (think Amazon, Tesla, and Microsoft), and conduct SEO research to ensure _Opto_ articles cover the most searched-for companies, funds and investment themes.
- Bring ideas to _Opto’s_ weekly editorial meetings, and help to align the team’s editorial direction with department and business objectives.
- Report on article lead generation by analysing Google Analytics data to identify top-performing pages, to hit _Opto’s_ critical OKR target - Optimise lead generation conversion rate based on this analysis.
- Manage _Opto’s_ outreach to industry experts and thought-leaders, tracking communication, maintaining relationships, and helping to commission engaging article briefs.
- Support the team’s social media presence across Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram & Facebook, by publishing daily posts to engage an audience of active investors. Nurture that audience with frequent interaction in the form of polls, surveys and online Q&As.
- Support paid social media campaigns.

KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Skills and competencies:

- Exceptional attention to detail
- An interest in stock market investment and Finance more broadly
- An exceptional writer of both marketing and editorial copy
- A self-starter and comfortable working autonomously
- Good project management and organisational skills
- A team player, keen to collaborate with _Opto_’s_ growing team of Social media, Events, Digital and Design executives.
- Adaptable - ability to work in a dynamic, fast-changing working environment

Experience / requirements:

- A 2:1 or above in a relevant degree (e.g. English Literature, History, Journalism, etc.)
- 2 years’ experience in a relevant role/industry
- Basic technical SEO knowledge

KEY OBJECTIVES/KPIS
- As per performance review

The Company reserves the right to review, alter and amend job descriptions from time to time in line with business requirements
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