We're looking for a graduate to join our editorial team

Confidential Guides is recruiting an Editorial Assistant to support its rapid growth across the North West. This key role within the editorial team will be focused on helping us ensure all our content is up-to-date, accurate, well-written, and engaging.

It will suit a graduate with excellent writing skills who wants to build a career in publishing or digital media. Attention to detail is a huge part of this job so you’ll need a focused, methodical approach to your work and a solid, demonstrable understanding of good grammar and punctuation. 

The role combines updating content with related admin tasks for the Confidential Guides editorial team, so you’ll need to be happy doing both.

For you, it’s a chance to develop your publishing and editing skills within a well-established digital media business with good opportunities for progression.

To apply, please send your CV and a covering letter to saraht@confidentials.com by 25 November 2024. Interviews will take place in December, and the successful applicant will start work in January 2025.

Editorial Assistant for Confidential Guides

£22,500 per annum pro-rata. 3 days a week

Office-based, Manchester city centre

Job description

  • Undertaking administrative tasks relating to Confidential Guides.
  • Contributing creative ideas and using your firsthand experience of living in the North West to inform and shape our content.

 Person specification

  • Degree in English, Journalism, Publishing or a related subject.
  • Excellent attention to detail and a commitment to producing accurate, well-written work.
  • A strong work ethic and a deadline-focused approach.
  • Good verbal communication skills.
  • Research and information-gathering skills.
  • Technologically minded with the ability to quickly learn new systems.
  • An interest in food and drink.

 Desirable but not essential

  • Experience of using CMS and optimising content for SEO.