Description
Hey there!
I run a growing fitness blog with 230,000+ visitors per month. I’m looking for someone with expertise or even credentials in the fitness space to edit content provided by writers.
I’m looking for someone who can do editing work like:
- Do spelling and grammar checks on posts
- Fact check claims and ensure posts are as accurate as possible (add links to relevant research, etc.)
- Hands-on editing (rephrasing sentences, moving sections, cutting fuff) to make content as clear and helpful as possible
- Make suggestions to pass on to writers for future drafts
Suggest ways for me to improve similar content in the future - Help create content briefs and outlines to send to writers
Really looking for someone with some expertise around fitness and workouts. If you have certifications or training, that’s a huge plus! But otherwise you need to be extremely knowledgeable about the fundamentals about things like weight lifting or yoga, and be able to spot BS, fluff, or inaccurate information.
(This job is all about getting the content and information solid. It's not a VA job where you'll be formatting posts in WordPress.)
I don’t like a lot of back and forth with the writers I use, so I’m looking for someone who’s willing to dig into a draft, move things around, rewrite sentences, and check facts to make the existing draft as good as possible.
Ideally, you’d spend around 10-30 minutes working on the content of a draft (some posts will be extremely simple and the writing on point, others might need a little massaging). If a post is going to require a bigger overhaul (more than 1 hour of your time), you can give me feedback and notes for the writer so they can revise.
(Most of the editing will be done in Google Docs, but if you know WordPress, that's a plus.)
You’ll also help me create briefs and basic outlines to send writers for new topics to be written. A lot of them will follow an established template and you’ll just need to provide any notes, initial research, or suggestions to get the writer started. Others will be totally fresh topics for the blog and you can help shape what those posts will look like from an outline perspective.
I'm looking to start with 10-15 hours per month of work, but I have budget to go higher once we get in a groove.
In the past, I've paid editors around $15 per hour. If you have excellent samples and, especially, credentials, propose a higher rate in the application.
Thanks!