Content planner and creator

Job ad for content planner

Our online education company is looking to hire a full time content planner.

We help fiction writers improve their skills and make progress on their novels. We have a range of events, courses, and live classes through the year. Right now, the business has grown to involve hundreds of paying customers and thousands of newsletter subscribers. However, the business does not currently advertise on social media or publish content for search engines (SEO), so we are looking to expand the team to bring on someone to help build the content for such a campaign.

We are looking for a “content planner” to join our small team. You would be a creator, strategist, and scheduler, designing materials that could be short videos for Instagram, pins for Pinterest, and essays for blog posts. You would not need to create all this content from nothing. We have a big backlog of old newsletters and lectures that you can re-purpose. Much of your work, in other words, would be translating content from one form to another. This might include:

– uploading a video to an AI transcript-creation service, and turning the transcript into a pdf
– creating pins to advertise a blog post on Pinterest
– edit a short video to play on Instagram
– rewriting an old email broadcast to be a blog post optimised for search engines
– making a simple handout look more professional

As this is an educational company, not all your work would be about marketing — you might also assist me, the main teacher, with creating educational materials (charts, lists etc)

In collaboration with existing team members, you would:

– help to create social media content, handouts, and worksheets
– collect from the team’s big back catalogue of past newsletters, blog posts, and videos content
– designing graphics with Canva and other design tools
– catalogue a range of types of content that we need for different campaigns
– assist the team with educational content creation when needed
– schedule social media posting with calendar tools

You do not need to know how to use social media schedulers or other online content planning tools: we can train you.

What is important:

1. Excellent English reading skills
2. Good organizational skills: you like to keep your projects planned out in advance
3. High standards for the designs you create: you hate it if one word in a graphic has the wrong font or if a sub-header is aligned wrong
3. A sincere interest in helping our customers succeed and write the book they have been dreaming of
4. Willing to work with the team or carry out projects alone
5. Eager to learn new tools and skills, with an interest in becoming expert at the platforms we use
6. A generally reliable Internet connection

Benefits to the position

– a supportive working environment
– flexible working hours
– supportive management
– feedback and coaching
– paid vacation
– long term stability
– 13th month
– bonuses and profit share (after the first year)

What is it like to work with us

– we’re a small remote team
– I do not track your hours or require time sheets
– the core team of three people have worked together for a few years now (this is a stable group)
– I am based on the east coast of the USA, so if you are able to check in early or late your time that would be useful (I am 12 hours away from your time zone)
– we communicate via text discussion in Google Chat and shared short videos (we do not generally have meetings)
– I give lots of feedback but I also expect you to have a list of projects you could be working on and to work on them if you have free time
– this is a full time position and my expectation is that you are working five days a week on the business outside of holidays, vacation, emergencies, and agreed on breaks
– no work required on weekends – except for…
– three weekends a year, we hold a big online event for writers. If you can help out, that would be very appreciated – I pay overtime and give extra time off to compensate for these additional hours

How to apply:

Please title your email’ subject line: Helping Writers

Please describe in the email how you would be interested in the work and 2-3 experiences you have that connect to something in the job description. Please make your email substantial enough that I can learn something about you.