Editorial Assistant

BusinessBecause by GMAC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative business education news website is seeking a dynamic editorial assistant for a six-month internship. This exciting role offers the chance to engage with a creative team, producing compelling editorial content while developing your skills in writing, editing, and digital media. You'll have the opportunity to work closely with experienced journalists and business leaders, gaining invaluable insights into the industry. If you're passionate about storytelling and eager to make an impact, this is the perfect opportunity to kickstart your career in media.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English with excellent writing skills.
• Organized and effective in managing deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Research and write editorial content on business topics.
• Create multimedia content for a global audience.
• Support social media coverage and engagement.

Skills

Journalistic Writing

Social Media Management

Research Skills

SEO Knowledge

Video Editing

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

*WE ONLY ACCEPT APPLICATIONS SENT BY EMAIL (see below)*

NOTE:This role is a six-month, full-time paid internship for UK applicants able to start working from June 2025. The successful candidate will join the team in a hybrid role, typically spending two days a week at our office in central London, and three days working remotely.

Our working hours are 9.30-5.30.

*TO APPLY: Please send your CV and x2 journalistic writing examples to: [e-mail]

Please DO NOT send university dissertations or essays!*

If you are shortlisted for this position, you will be asked to complete a short writing task before being invited for an interview.

We’re on the hunt for an energetic and talented editorial assistant for a growing business education news website: BusinessBecause.com.

Candidates will be educated to degree level with exceptional English language skills and keen to pursue a career in writing, editing, and digital media. Video-making and editing skills are a plus! You will have access to our strong network of journalists, entrepreneurs and business leaders for your future career development.

With a creative, energetic team and this is a fantastic opportunity to assume responsibilities from the start, and gain experience that you just won’t get in other bigger organisations.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:

·Research and write exciting sponsored and non-sponsored editorial across a wide range of business and business school topics, from career success stories to global business trends to tip-based articles

·Create intelligent multimedia content for our global audience of young, smart business professionals

·Become quickly familiar with the subject area (graduate management education) in order to fulfil research, writing and content production role

·Work with the BusinessBecause Editor and team to suggest suitable sponsored content story ideas for our business school clients

·Conduct interviews for articles using journalistic techniques and professional behaviour

·Proactively support with social media coverage, finding the best ways to post our own content as well as engaging ‘influencers’ to participate in our editorial and promote BusinessBecause

·Use Search Engine Optimisation tools to identify keywords to build SEO-targeted stories and categories and help to generate referral backlinks for these keywords from other sites

·Learn about analytics and the importance of understanding which content and landing pages are attracting the highest number of readers and ‘converting’ people to register – and replicate the best techniques

·Help to compile useful guides and resources for our readers and clients, such as ‘The BusinessBecause Cost of MBA Report'

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE IS:

· A fluent (native-level) English speaker with excellent writing skills – concise, punchy prose and have impeccable grammar

· Academically strong with a bachelor's degree from a top university

· Organised and effective in managing deadlines and workload, with a polite and clear communication style

· Experienced in social media – you’ll ensure that content and stories spread across our target audience

· Full of initiative and able to come up with solutions (eg when we’re struggling to attract MBA applicants from certain geographies to read our content)

· Ambitious and driven to contribute to a tight team with big goals

ABOUT BUSINESSBECAUSE

BusinessBecause.com is an online publisher dedicated to graduate management education with a 250,000+ monthly readership. BusinessBecause.com works with some of the world’s leading business schools including MIT Sloan, Cambridge Judge and HEC Paris.

You’ll report to the BusinessBecause editor and will have regular contact with the managing director of the business, and our contributors around the world. We’re a fun, no-nonsense organisation with flexible working style – but with a lot of challenge and responsibility.

BusinessBecause is a part of the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), a major organisation in the higher education space.

We look forward to your applications.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Internship

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing

• Industries

  Book and Periodical Publishing

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