Francis Crick Institute
Job title:
Digital Content Editor
Company
Francis Crick Institute
Job description
Salary for this Role:
From £37,850 with benefits, subject to skills and experience
Job Title:
Digital Content Editor
Reports to: Fiona Muir
Closing Date: 29/Jan/2024 23.59 GMT
Job Description:
Digital Content Editor
Reports to: Digital Communications and Content Manager
Contract term: This is a full-time, permanent position on Crick terms and conditions of employment.
Summary
Contract term: This is a full-time, permanent position on Crick terms and conditions of employment.
We are looking for a talented writer with a great eye for detail to join our Digital and Creative team, helping manage our website content and producing long-form articles to engage our varied audiences across our digital channels.
The ideal candidate will have a passion for digital communications, and will edit and update copy across the site. As well as taking a user-focused approach to identifying and developing engaging stories from sometimes complex sources, they will also have a solid understanding of best-practice in digital engagement – from search engine optimisation (SEO), accessibility and copyright/intellectual property (IP) – and be able to take a pro-active role in evaluating our content and related practices to ensure our digital content is continually refined and improved.
We’re also about to embark on a major project to redevelop our public-facing website, where this post holder will play a pivotal role. They will be involved from the project initiation, auditing our website, working with our Digital Communications and Content Manager to help develop the new website’s content strategy and content design principles, overseeing content production and migration, and right through to rolling out training to website editors across the Crick.
Key Responsibilities
These include but are not limited to:
General
Develop and commission digital content, with a particular focus on written copy, to engage our varied online audiences with the work and science of the Crick.
Copyedit and fact-check website and long-form digital copy, ensuring it is up-to-date, factually accurate, on-brand, grammatically correct, accessible and search engine optimised.
Monitor, evaluate and make recommendations on website content using tools and techniques such as Google Analytics, user-testing, focus groups, online surveys.
Write articles and long-form content translating the Crick’s science and research for a non-specialist audience;
Source, edit and advise on photography and images for the Crick’s website.
Lead on website content production projects, collaborating with colleagues from across the Crick.
Train website editors on best-practice writing for the web, website accessibility, and how to use our website CMS.
Work with our Digital Communications and Content Manager to develop and implement an SEO strategy for our public website.
Work with our Digital Communications and Content Manager to help shape and implement website governance processes, to ensure our site is up-to-date and well maintained.
Regularly review our website audiences’ user journeys, updating our website navigation and content to reflect our audience’s needs.
Keep up to date with digital innovation and trends in digital content and platforms.
Website redevelopment project
Additional responsibilities during the Crick’s website redevelopment project:
Audit our existing website content, including website pages, images, videos, downloadable documents etc., to help inform and prioritise our content migration and production project workstream.
Work with Digital Communications and Content Manager to oversee content production and migration for the new Crick website.
Work with Digital Content Manager to develop and roll out content strategy for our new Crick’s website.
Develop editorial and content design guidelines for Crick’s new public website.
Work with Digital Content Manager to manage testing of our new website content.
Key experience and competencies
The post holder should embody and demonstrate our core Crick values: bold, open, and collegial, in addition to the following:
Knowledge, skills, and experience
Essential:
Experience of producing user-focused, accurate and engaging digital content.
Excellent writing skills with a keen eye for an engaging story.
Experience of managing content for a large public-facing website
A strong understanding of website accessibility.
A strong understanding of SEO principles.
Proven ability to write content that translates complex ideas for a non-specialist audience.
An understanding of principles of project management.
Experience of providing website editorial and CMS training.
Experience of working to tight deadlines without compromising standards or attention to detail.
Excellent organisational skills with the ability to deliver on complex projects, working with colleagues towards coordinated deadlines.
Strong inter-personal skills and ability to negotiate and influence.
Experience of using Google Analytics to evaluate and report on website content.
Experience of using Photoshop to process images for the web.
A passion for digital communications.
Desirable:
Experience of using Drupal CMS.
Experience of content design.
An understanding of the principles of content strategy.
An understanding of intellectual property and copyright.
An understanding of the basic principles of UX design and navigation.
Experience of working on website content migrations and creating content audits for large public-facing websites.
Experience of using the wider-Adobe suite, particularly InDesign, Illustrator and Premier Pro.
A strong interest in science and its benefits to society.
Find out what benefits the Crick has to offer:
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Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We welcome applications from all backgrounds. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities, regardless of ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, pregnancy, age, disability, or civil partnership, marital or family status. We particularly welcome applications from people who are Minority Ethnic as they are currently underrepresented in the Crick at this level.
Diversity is essential to excellence in scientific endeavour. It increases breadth and perspective, leading to more innovation and creativity. We want the Crick to be a place where everyone feels valued and where diversity is celebrated and seen as part of the foundation for our Institute’s success.
The Crick is committed to creating equality of opportunity and promoting diversity and inclusivity. We all share in the responsibility to actively promote dignity, respect, inclusivity and equal treatment and it is our aim to ensure that these principles are reflected and implemented in all strategies, policies and practices.
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Expected salary
Location
London
Job date
Thu, 18 Jan 2024 08:58:41 GMT
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