
Copywriter – Freelance
Healthy Minds Project
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Location Type: Remote
Location: New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $25 - $35 per hour
About the role
- Write clear, engaging, and accurate articles and educational content on mental health topics, services, and care navigation
- Translate clinically reviewed concepts into accessible language
- Collaborate with PHM’s clinical network to source quotes, insights, and ensure factual accuracy
- Partner with clinical reviewers to incorporate feedback and ensure content meets PHM quality standards
- Use SEO tools to review drafts for keyword usage, readability, and search optimization, and revise accordingly
- Work with PHM’s Creative team to help shape supporting visual assets (photography and occasional video concepts) that align with written pieces
- Revise and iterate on content based on editorial feedback, performance insights, and evolving priorities
Requirements
- Proven experience writing about mental health, healthcare, or health education topics for a general audience
- Strong ability to explain complex or sensitive topics with clarity, empathy, and accuracy
- Excellent writing and editing skills, with attention to tone, structure, and audience fit
- Experience working with subject-matter experts (e.g., clinicians, researchers) and incorporating feedback
- Familiarity with SEO best practices and use of SEO tools to optimize content
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage drafts, revisions, and deadlines independently
- Comfort working in a collaborative, feedback-driven environment
- Deep familiarity with one or more mental health topic areas (e.g., therapy modalities, psychiatric care, youth mental health, substance use, trauma, or care navigation)
- Experience writing for digital health, healthcare, or nonprofit organizations
- Familiarity with content performance metrics and basic analytics
- Experience collaborating with designers, photographers, or video teams
- Background in journalism, communications, public health, psychology, or related fields
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