Senior Copywriter - Historic Newspapers - Part-time

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Senior Copywriter - Historic Newspapers - Part-time, London

Client: Historic Newspapers

Location: London, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference:

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5

Posted:

30.03.2025

Expiry Date:

14.05.2025

Job Description:

Senior Copywriter at Historic Newspapers

What we do at Historic Newspapers

At Historic Newspapers, we are proud custodians of the world’s largest collection of privately owned ORIGINAL newspapers. A truly unique gifting option, we have papers available for 99% of dates over the last 100+ years.

A bit about the role:

You’ll collaborate closely with our Creative Director, as well as the creative and marketing teams, on a variety of exciting projects. Your work will include crafting engaging product entries, attention-grabbing headlines for brand campaigns, and compelling editorial content for our books.

Taking briefs from the marketing and web teams to work on them as a team or individually.

• Creating captivating copy for the web and marketing teams.
• Researching and writing pages of editorial for our special interest newspaper books.
• Ensuring that all the copy presented by Historic Newspapers is consistent and follows our tone of voice guidelines.

Requirements

The person we’re looking for

We’re looking for a driven and enthusiastic Senior Copywriter to join our Creative team. It’s a chance to use your creative brilliance to help our team deliver high-quality, premium campaigns and products for Historic Newspapers as we grow.

Life as a Senior Copywriter at Historic Newspapers:

• It’s your role to help tell the world all about Historic Newspapers and our brand purpose, and of course sell our wonderful books.
• You’ll work with the rest of the team in producing your best work across book launches, email campaigns and other marketing initiatives.
• We are a small team. So we are looking for a self-starter who can work independently as well as part of a team.
• We have recently completed a major re-branding exercise. Our website and redesigned products look fantastic—now we need a skilled copywriter to bring our new tone of voice to life.
• You’ll always be on a mission to make Historic Newspapers sound and feel its very best.

Hopefully, you'll have some or all of the following:

• At least 3 years copywriting experience.
• You feel at home delivering engaging yet consistent creative across all channels: Website, CRM, email, organic social and print.
• Experience of writing to tone of voice brand guidelines.
• A selection of examples of high-impact, consumer-facing work.
• Excellent verbal, visual and written communication skills.
• Experience and a working knowledge of SEO preferred.
• Detail-oriented and well organized.

First and foremost, you should join Historic Newspapers because of the work. We’re on a mission to create exciting, inspirational and beautiful personalised books.

• Three/four days a week.
• A pro-rata salary of up to £40,000 per annum.
• The chance to work on something your friends and family will fall in love with.
• We have a flexible, hybrid working model that you can tailor to suit what works best for you.

Equal opportunities employer

Our team is committed to providing equal opportunities for employment regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, disability, family structure, socio-economic status, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis.