Editorial Copywriter

**ROLE**:Editorial Writer - 12 month FTC

**LOCATION**: Flexible - we'd expect you to be in the office 1-2 days a week - this can be in Northampton or London (Canary Wharf).

**ROLE MISSION**:
Working in partnership with our client, the Editorial Writer will be focused on content creation, ensuring quality and timely delivery. It's really critical that you are willing and able to get stuck into the day-to-day of the job - this role is primarily for an Editorial Copywriter with excellent interviewing skills, but you need to be multi-skilled and excited about different content formats and a variety of channels, as well as managing editorial calendars and processes.

**THIS ROLE IS RIGHT FOR YOU IF...**

You're a strong writer, editor and interviewer who works well with senior stakeholders, web teams, agency partners with a good grasp of digital content, as well as other digital channels including social media, including content creation and publication. You're an editorial writer who can combine best in class writing, with sound and logical research, deep questioning of the challenge and highly effective working practices.

**ABOUT THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING**:
***You'll be working directly with our client team as part of their digital content team and they will manage your workload. Barclays have an Editorial Head of department, and this role would report into them, so we would expect you to be comfortable having work peer-reviewed and willing to engage positively with feedback and insight.

**WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLE**
- As part of your role you'll be responsible for creating and managing editorial content for our website. You need to be confident in working with various stakeholders and agencies, and for the work to be effective, you will also need to work closely with the SEO and UX specialists, sharing your content ideas with them early in the process to make sure they can add value from synopsis stage.
- You may also work with agencies to create social media assets and posts to support editorial activity.
- Ensuring communications are on message, aligned to client brand values, adhere to regulatory requirements, and empathetic to the economic and social environment
- Develop relationships with key colleagues and stakeholders across the business to ensure all content meet business requirements
- Working with agencies to create audio and visual assets for web and social channels

**WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL**
- Working within your team, with agencies and with the wider marketing team, you'll be conceptualising and creating content for the website and potentially non-Barclays media including social. This means you need to be highly skilled at interviewing and creating long-form copy, as well as confident in short-form copy for social assets and posts. You'll also be able to spot opportunities to collaborate with other parts of the business to increase content reach and engagement, as well as on the ball with industry trends and opinion.
- Hold a customer-centric mindset - deep questioning of the brief, skilful editing and simplification of message
- Excellent liaison skills; talk directly to client as well as manage own timelines
- Articulate the rationale for their work, challenge assumptions, negotiate changes and advocate best practice; essentially create 'bomb-proof' work
- Engage confidently with stakeholders to understand a brief, quiz them for detail (producct and legal) needed to produce great content
- Comfortable having work peer reviewed and willing to engage positively with feedback
- Initiative, decision making, creative thinking, curiosity, performance mindset
- Resilient and able to deal with changing priorities, lack of clarity and difficult feedback

**ABOUT OUR COMPANY**

Lots of agencies say they're different. OLIVER is.

OLIVER believes that agencies work better inside a brand's organisation; delivering more effective work at the speed required to drive modern businesses forward. Using our unique Inside Intelligence methodology, we build specialist, dedicated in-house agencies that collaborate with clients to form better marketing solutions.

Established in 2004, our model is now driven by over 2000 people, working across more than 200 in-house agencies globally. Clients include The Guardian, Unilever, Barclaycard, PepsiCo, AXA, The AA, Adidas, BMW, Post Office, and 3M. OLIVER is part of the Inside Ideas Group (IIG), which also includes a global content agency to Adjust your Set, design, experience, and engineering company DARE and property marketing specialists Aylesworth Fleming.

**OUR VALUES**

We are a company built on our values, we have given you a brief overview below but would love to tell you more.

Be** Ambitious** to succeed

Be **Imaginative** to push the boundaries of what's possible

Be **Inspirational** to do groundbreaking work

Be **always learning and listening** to understand

Be **Results-focused **to exceed expectations

Job Id: 4137