COPYWRITER

Our Media is a leading special-interest content business, based in the buzzing, creative city of Bristol. We're home to market-leading brands in craft, cycling, science and nature, homes and music. We help our audiences pursue their passions through highly trusted, original content – in print, video and online. Our much-loved brands include BBC Science Focus, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Your Home, Gathered.how, BikeRadar and Cycling Plus. We also have an award-winning content agency that works with major charities, brands and membership organisations to help them tell their stories and engage audiences better – in print, video, and online. In Our Media Agency, we create commercial campaigns and native content for a wide range of external partners, helping to win and deliver significant revenues every year. Our campaigns run across both our own and client channels – in digital, print and video – delivering fantastic reach and brand awareness. Our agency is also an incubator for new brand launches and partnership opportunities, a place to explore new audience engagement ideas. We’re now looking for an experienced copywriter to work across advertorials, native content and direct marketing campaigns for a broad range of clients. You’ll help bring our commercial communications vision to life, ensuring content across our many touchpoints is to a high standard, maintains brand consistency, and drives engagement and revenue for us and our commercial partners. You’ll be responsible for writing high quality copy for discerning readers and clients, with a particular focus on the travel, outdoor and days out sectors. From snappy social copy to longer form print advertorials, you’ll turn your hand to a wide range of styles, formats and channels. You’ll also contribute to sales collateral by writing copy for mock ups, and fine-tuning pitch decks when required. It’s going to be busy, so you need to be organised and happy multi-tasking. And you’ll need to be a good communicator in person as well as on the page, able to confidently pitch commercially-led content ideas to internal and external stakeholders. So, if you know your editorial hook from your CTA, then this role could be for you. For a full list of responsibilities, please see the job description. Essential: Experience of writing high quality marketing or editorial copy to a client brief, for a range of channels (print, social, online). Typo-free and grammatically sound Able to switch smoothly between different house styles and audiences Understanding of acquisition, engagement, and retention copywriting strategies Confident editing other people's copy, checking and improving if necessary Good time management skills, able to react fast when required and plan work around stakeholder needs Experience in uploading content to a CMS Strong communication skills - can talk with passion and clarity about your copy during project calls and client meetings. Can build and nurture relationships with internal and external stakeholders We respect and value differences. We believe that when people from different backgrounds and with different perspectives work together, we can create the most value for our people, readers, customers, and society. If you are excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with everything listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway, as you may still be a good fit for this or other roles. We’re striving to create a more diverse and inclusive environment and to ensure our content is representative of all our audiences. We have established five internal D&I network groups to help our people feel supported and included, and to provide an open environment for people to network, mentor and exchange ideas, solutions, and experiences. If there is anything we can do to make our recruitment process more accessible for you, please do let us know at .... Flexible and hybrid working We know we create great things and have fun when we come together in person and collaborate. We also know that working from home brings great benefits in terms of being able to focus on our work, and manage our personal lives around our roles. With this in mind, we have established a hybrid working pattern, with 60% of the working week spent in the office. Our people also benefit from a flexi time policy, and a flexi location policy which gives everyone the opportunity to work from another location for two weeks during the year. We are open to discussion about flexible working requests for any flexibility needs not covered by these policies. Company benefits include Pension contribution matched to 5% Season ticket loan Hybrid working pattern, flexi start/finish time 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus Christmas closure, plus your birthday off Option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday a year Social committee, regular in-house learning events 4x life assurance Our values We strongly believe that work is not just about what we achieve, but how we achieve it. We want our people to thrive and develop, and we want to effect positive change in the world. We have an ambitious and robust sustainability strategy, which includes a zero-to-waste, renewable-energy-fuelled office at Eagle House, the complete removal of single-use plastics from our supply chain, and a roadmap to be fully carbon neutral by 2030. To put that spirit at the heart of our business, we recently co-created a set of values with input from everyone here. Our values are: Be kind Always curious Be the best we can be Apply today to take the next step in your career with Our Media - click the apply button below to submit your CV. Please note, we review CVs on an ongoing basis and may close the role early due to high interest, If you're interested in joining us, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible!