Multiplatform Content Assistant

Immediate Media Co; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company in the UK seeks a multiplatform content assistant to support digital editorial teams for Good Food and olive Magazine. This role involves managing SEO-driven content, maintaining features, and utilizing internal tools. Candidates should demonstrate a passion for food, excellent organizational skills, and familiarity with AI tools. A full-time position offering an annual salary of £28,000 - £30,000 along with various employee benefits, including 25 days holiday and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Supportive well-being initiatives

25 days holiday plus extra day for birthday

Flexible working arrangements

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience or strong interest in digital content, SEO, or audience-led publishing.
• Confident writing, editing, and proofreading content.
• Familiarity with CMS platforms and basic image handling.

Responsibilities

• Organise the SEO recipe web shoot for content.
• Execute SEO optimisations on website content.
• Maintain features pages across the website for freshness.

Skills

Passion for food and digital content

SEO knowledge

Organizational skills

Collaboration

Attention to detail

Tools

WordPress

AI tools

Job description

As a multiplatform content assistant, you will assist the digital editorial teams for both Good Food and olive Magazine with the production and maintenance of digital content across our websites and the Good Food app. This is an exciting opportunity for someone passionate about food media and digital content to gain hands‑on experience within a fast‑paced editorial environment, contributing to everything from SEO‑driven recipe shoots to weekly trend reporting. You will also help drive efficiencies by highlighting work and processes that could be enhanced using internal tools and technologies. You'll play a key role in keeping our content accurate, engaging, and relevant - supporting audience growth, and ensuring our users enjoy the best possible experience across our platforms.

Immediate is home to some of the biggest and most loved consumer brands in the UK, including Radio Times, Good Food and BBC Gardeners World magazine. Our trusted, quality content reaches millions of people a month across digital, print, video, podcasts, apps and live events. We're the destination for people looking to get more from the things they love. We're here to inspire, fuel, encourage and educate. Whether it's the big things, or the little things; from reaching fitness goals to savouring good food, cultivating outdoor spaces, or enjoying the latest TV sensation - we help bring our audiences joy!

Responsibilities

• Organise the SEO recipe web shoot, ensuring recipe selections align with existing or emerging search demand.
• Execute SEO optimisations to top‑performing content on the website, as instructed by the Audience Development team.
• Own recipe retests where needed, coordinating with the wider team to uphold quality standards.
• Maintain features pages across the website, ensuring freshness and relevance.
• Coordinate upload of magazine features to the website with freelancers.
• Compile weekly statistics reports to track online trends and inform content ideas for both Apple News and Google Discover, which you will use to pitch angles that resonate with mobile search behaviours.
• Use internal AI tools to research our mass archive of trusted content and look for opportunities to adapt and repurpose existing content.
• Support commercial content processes to uphold editorial standards.
• Support the digital brand leads on admin tasks such as video asset management when required.
• Build app meal plans and collections that reflect audience needs, seasonality, and trends.

Qualifications

• You have a passion for food and digital content and understand what makes food content discoverable and engaging.
• You're excited to learn about and use Gen AI in smart, responsible and focussed ways to boost your creativity and productivity.
• You enjoy balancing creativity with data‑driven insight.
• You love organisation, detail, and helping a fast‑paced content team run smoothly.
• You're curious, collaborative, and eager to learn.
• You will need to meet 4 requirements to be considered for the role.
• An interest in food, health and recipes.
• Confident writing, editing, and proofreading content.
• Experience or strong interest in digital content, SEO, or audience‑led publishing.
• A genuine curiosity and interest in AI; you champion responsible use of AI tools and have experience using them to support with accuracy, efficiency and innovation.
• Familiarity with CMS platforms (like Wordpress) and basic image handling.
• Strong organisational skills and excellent attention to detail.
• A proactive, collaborative attitude and willingness to learn new tools and platforms.

Desirable Skills

• Experience using Content Management Systems for apps.
• Experience using AI tools in a professional setting.
• Experience or familiarity with video asset management tools and distributing video across platforms.
• Confidence working with data and understanding digital performance metrics.

£28,000 - 30,000 per year

Contract Full time

Benefits

• A relaxed working environment with regular socials including a summer festival.
• Supportive well‑being initiatives and benefits, talks & workshops, and Mental Health First aiders & Champions.
• 25 days holiday plus a day for your birthday. Our offices will be closed between Christmas and New Year's which are in addition to your annual entitlement.
• Tailored training and development through both our inhouse learning platform and LinkedIn Learning.
• A progressive and transparent culture focused on your development.
• Flexible / hybrid working plus early finish Fridays.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Enhanced Family Policies including paternity, adoption and surrogacy leave. We also provide a pregnancy loss, fertility, and carers policy.
• Competitive pension plans and Life Assurance.
• A newly renovated modern office with lots of collaborative spaces.