Description
Role: Blog Editor
Compensation: Competitive hourly rate
Location: Anywhere, remote
Employment Type: Part time or full time (minimum 25 hours/week, 30+ preferred)
As a FluentU blog editor, your main tasks will be:
1. copyediting and proofreading blog content so it meets all our style and content standards
The FluentU style/content standards will be your go-to guide—it covers everything from how to use Oxford commas to how to teach languages effectively via blog content. You’ll need to be able to digest this guide and implement it to. the. letter.
2. providing constructive feedback to writers on their content, writing style, and technical accuracy
It’s one thing to just tweak and polish blog posts. It’s quite another to provide feedback to writers that ups their game. You should be able to build a rapport with writers and be unafraid to deliver honest, constructive criticism when needed.
3. collaborating with the blog team’s Marketing Manager to plan and execute our content strategy
You’ll help our team brainstorm new topics for our audience of language learners. What are their burning questions? How can we provide the best possible answer to those questions?
It turns out that modern language learners love to ask their questions online. So things like keywords and search traffic do matter to our blog team—they let us know what information language learners want to find. You’ll explore data, research keywords and use that as a springboard to plan content strategy.
QUALIFICATIONS
You might be a great fit for our blog editor role if you:
- Have experience with blog editing: Experience with academic editing, technical content editing, fiction editing, news editing, doesn’t necessarily translate to blog editing. Same goes for editing your own writing work.
- Have worked directly with writers, or have managed a writing team before.
- Hate fluff: If it’s not vital to push the post forward, it’s on your chopping block.
- Are a perfectionist: It’s really hard to get a typo, grammar error or inaccurate statement past you.
- Are not so perfectionist that you get paralyzed: You’ll have a lot of content to edit, so you’ll need to make quick decisions and work efficiently.
- Are tech-savvy: Experience with WordPress preferred. Knowing Asana wins bonus points. Neither is required. It’s more important that you’re tech-savvy enough to quickly learn any digital tool that is handed to you.
- Enjoy brainstorming and researching new blog content: You have at least basic knowledge of SEO. You’re able to combine data with creative, out-of-the-box thinking to figure out which topics our language learning audience will truly enjoy reading about.
- Have some experience with language learning: You don’t have to be fluent, but ideally you’ve consumed enough language blogs, textbooks or courses to know what makes a language lesson effective and enjoyable to read.