Editorial Assistant

JR United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company seeks a dynamic editorial assistant for a leading business education news website. This six-month, full-time internship offers a unique opportunity to develop your writing and editing skills while working in a hybrid role. You'll engage with a vibrant team, producing exciting content that resonates with a global audience. Ideal candidates will possess a bachelor's degree, exceptional English language skills, and a passion for digital media. Join us to gain invaluable experience and make a meaningful impact in the world of business education.

Qualifications

• Fluent English speaker with excellent writing skills.
• Organised and effective in managing deadlines and workload.

Responsibilities

• Research and write engaging editorial content on business topics.
• Create multimedia content for a global audience of business professionals.

Skills

Journalistic writing

Research skills

Social media management

SEO knowledge

Video-making and editing

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SEO tools

Job description

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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: [emailprotected]

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.