Content Editor
Law Business Research
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Manchester • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Copy-edit our commercial content submissions in line with the style guide and in reference to the product guidelines.
- Reword technical text sensitively without altering the meaning and raise queries for authors where necessary; review author amends and progress contributions to approval and publication. Ensure intelligibility of EFL submissions.
- Use relevant resources, such as pre-defined Gen AI prompts, to suggest substantive areas authors might cover.
- Write must-read headlines and standfirsts for our commercial content.
- Implement the right tagging for each content piece and suggest improvements to taxonomy as appropriate.
- Create content to support the promotion of our substantive commercial content on our platforms or on external ones (eg, social media).
- Work closely with internal stakeholders (eg, coordinators, CS, online content, sales) to coordinate publication processes and ensure content is published to a high-quality standard and on time.
- Improve content usability, for example by ensuring author-supplied links are accurate and adding new relevant links.
- Review and correct online editions across the content set.
- Proofread across the content set.
Requirements
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent grammar
- Good comprehension and editing skills
- An ability to rewrite complicated text
- Good communication skills
- Good time-management skills
- Experience in publishing or information services (advantageous)
- Experience of using Gen AI (advantageous)
- Knowledge of the law (advantageous)
- Knowledge of Adobe Acrobat (advantageous)
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word (advantageous)
- Experience using a CMS (advantageous)
- Experience using work-management tools (advantageous)
Benefits
- Eye care
- Employee Assistance Programme
- A day off for your birthday
- Pension (4% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution)
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- £350 annual wellbeing allowance to contribute to gym memberships or fitness classes
- Puregym access
- Perks at work platform access
- Private healthcare
- Company socials
- Access to Employee Affinity Networks
- Mentoring scheme
- Volunteering Day
- Mortgage Advice
- Work from anywhere (2 weeks)
- Generous parental leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
copy-editingrewritingproofreadingcontent creationtaggingcontent usabilityediting skillsgrammarcomprehensionknowledge of law
Soft skills
attention to detailcommunication skillstime-management skills