by Kay Tay | Oct 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Praytell is a creative communications agency made up of teams with strategic minds and spirited hearts. We create timely, integrated, headline-worthy campaigns across social, earned, digital, and more. After 10 years of cooking up award-winning work, we know one thing for sure – we’re just warming up.
If you’re looking for an opportunity to join an ambitious team that is singularly focused on doing great work with great people and making your mark in an industry long overdue for a shakeup, we’d love to hear from you!
As Copywriter, you will be:
- Developing copy that spans social channels, digital ads, websites, and bylines—you’ll be asked to write for nearly anything and everything you see online (or in print!).
- Interpreting creative briefs and client needs, and creating compelling content that communicates a clear point of view.
- Brainstorming creative concepts for everything from monthly social content calendars to fully integrated marketing campaigns.
- Working both independently and with design and account partners to bring your conceptual vision to life during the production of deliverables.
- Juggling multiple projects while successfully managing tight timelines and delivering quality work (and being a problem solving teammate).
- Collaborating with teammates across time zones and in departments ranging from project management, design, copy, and video to account, strategy, and influencer marketing.
Requirements
You have:
- 3-5 years of social- and/or digital-first copywriting experience working at a PR / social agency.
- Experience writing for both B2B and B2C clients. Tech and medtech brands are a plus, but we value a wide array of industry experience.
- Delved deep into subjects to write about them with empathy, confidence, and a keen sense of humor.
- The ability to understand and interpret a brand identity / voice, and apply it to all copywriting deliverables.
- Excellent attention to detail, especially in regards to grammar, writing, and proofreading skills.
- Confidence in your ability to write effective copy across channels, contribute to creative concept development, and leverage strategic insights to spark great ideas.
- A familiarity with major social media platforms, their nuanced tones, and collaborative writing tools like Google Docs.
- A portfolio showcasing your copywriting work for social and digital channels.
Equally as important, you are:
- Meticulous and well organized
- Flexible and adaptable
- Collaborative and a team player
- A creative thinker and problem solver
- Ambitious and entrepreneurial
- Inquisitive and eager to learn
- Honest and ethical
- Committed to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the workplace
Benefits
- Salary Range: $65,000 – $80,000
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with a no employee contribution option which means nothing comes out of your pocket
- Employee stock ownership plan where you receive company shares for every year you work here
- Traditional and Roth 401(k) with employer contribution
- Four-day work week
- Flexible time off (FTO), company paid holidays, and mental health days
- Employee assistance program spanning mental health, financial, and legal support for you and your family
- Parental leave
- Fertility support programs
- And more!
Next Steps
- Submit Application
- Phone Screen (30 minutes)
- Team Interview (1 hour)
- Final Interview (30-45 minutes)
- Skills Exercise (TBD)
- Offer
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by Kay Tay | Oct 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Bixal is a mission-driven, woman-owned small business determined to improve people’s lives through human-centered strategies and transformative technologies, with a firm belief that everyone has the right to an effective government.
We deliver on this belief by partnering with leading Federal agencies to design, develop, and deliver powerful customer experiences through holistic digital product solutions and strategic communications initiatives––bringing a high standard and unique creative energy to our clients––and our wonderfully diverse culture is what makes it all possible.
Bixal unites different people with different perspectives from all over the world! We provide our team with an open and empowered environment where collaboration thrives and solutions flourish.
Location:
This role can work remotely from anywhere in the USA. You must be legally authorized to work in the US. Bixal does not provide visa sponsorship.
What will you do?
Bixal is seeking a Medical Writer/Editor to support one of our clients in the creation, organization, transformation, management, dissemination, and delivery of curated, consumer-focused health information. The ideal candidate is a skilled writer and editor with subject matter expertise in medicine and/or public health. Strong knowledge of medical and public health content is required.
Important Note:
This role averages 8 hours/week.
Requirements
- Contribute to overall development and daily maintenance of health topics, medical test monographs, and other content on a public facing consumer health website.
- Write and update information about laboratory, health screening and diagnostic tests for a consumer audience. The intended audience must be general health information consumers in the United States. Content must be written in plain language, and between a 5th-8th grade reading level and free of grammatical errors and typographical errors.
- Use a strong knowledge of medical content and the overall needs of the consumer audience to write and edit summaries on health topic pages and content of medical test monographs.
- Support the review, update, and maintenance of medical test monographs on an annual basis, and as needed between annual updates to meet the needs of the changing science. Medical test monographs cover laboratory, health screening, and diagnostic tests.
- As needed, complete other tasks in content creation or review for a public facing consumer health website.
- Provide timely responses to clients, stakeholders and team members.
- Accommodate all requested edits and revisions in a timely manner.
- Ensure that content for all pages is accurate, up-to-date, complete, and unbiased, while adhering to established guidelines for style and content.
- Stay current with health news and make appropriate recommendations for additions to a public facing consumer health website.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher.
- Ability to undergo a background investigation by the U.S. Government and meet eligibility requirements for suitability.
- Skilled information specialist with subject matter expertise in public health, health information, or a similar specialty with at least 2 years of experience in the field.
- At least 1 year of experience with writing, editing, and evaluating health information as well as similar editorial experience reviewing and updating existing content on a public facing consumer health website.
- Knowledge of and/or experience with creating/reviewing content related to medical tests for consumers.
- Demonstrated experience tailoring medical content to the overall needs of the consumer audience.
- Expertise in plain language guidelines.
- Experience working effectively in highly collaborative and team-oriented environments. Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills.
- Ability to balance multiple tasks from different sources.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Strong critical thinking and analysis skills.
- Commitment to diversity and inclusion and to serving the needs of a diverse population.
- Ability to participate (in person or remotely) in meetings, both regular and ad hoc, with programming or content staff.
Nice to haves
- Degree in medicine or public health communications.
$45 – $55 an hour
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by Kay Tay | Oct 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
A thriving, mission-driven multimedia organization, NPR produces award-winning news, information, and music programming in partnership with hundreds of independent public radio stations across the nation. The NPR audience values information, creativity, curiosity, and social responsibility – and our employees do too. We are innovators and leaders in diverse fields, from journalism and digital media to IT and development. Every day, our employees and member stations touch the lives of millions worldwide.
Across our organization, we’re building a workplace where collaboration is essential, diverse voices are heard, and inclusion is the key to our success. We are committed to doing the right thing in our journalism and in every role at NPR. This means that integrity, adherence to our ethical standards, and compliance with legal obligations are fundamental responsibilities for every employee at NPR.
NPR is looking for an editor adept at audience strategy to help ensure that NPR is nimble in its digital storytelling, and can help distribute our reporting on- and off-platform to meet the needs of our audience.
This means exercising stellar news judgment, having an eye for what stories audiences are interested in and optimizing our journalism to fit varying distribution channels. It also means jumping in at a moment’s notice to strategize about how we should cover a breaking news event.
The right candidate for this position should be comfortable shifting seamlessly between different coverage areas, from political news to science coverage, and have hands-on experience working across social media and third party platforms preferably in a national news environment. They should thrive in a high-adrenaline news environment, and can think quickly and creatively about how we reach and retain new audiences.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Drafts and edits display copy, including story headlines, social media summaries for Facebook, Threads and alert language.
- Collaborates with NPR Visuals team content creators, partnering to drive strategy to grow audiences across social platforms including Instagram and TikTok.
- Coordinates with news leadership and the engagement team to shape overall audience strategy, with an eye toward attracting and retaining younger and more diverse readers.
- Proven ability to create, plan and lead projects.
- Sends push notifications for planned features and breaking news.
- Liaises with our third-party platforms to distribute our daily journalism, including Apple News and Flipboard.
- Performs keyword research and advise on SEO for daily news items.
- Monitors social media and search trends and recommends story assignments based on audience and news demands.
- Writes and edits for the web and social media with speed, accuracy and voice while on deadline and/or under pressure.
- Is well versed in audience metrics and uses real-time analytics to inform decision making.
- Exhibits stellar news judgment and ensures all materials meet NPR News standards and practices, including standards of accuracy and fairness.
- Shows flexibility in priorities and subject matter under tight deadlines.
- Is willing to work weekends and evenings, as news demands warrant.
- Other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in journalism, or a writing-intensive discipline (or the equivalent combination of education and experience)
REQUIRED SKILLS
- Minimum 5 years social media experience or audience-focused role preferably for a news organization
- Experience editing and managing branded social accounts on deadline, preferably at a news organization
- Demonstrated excellence in writing and editing for digital
- Demonstrated news judgment
- Demonstrated familiarity with NPR journalism and AP Style
- Ability to work quickly and efficiently under deadline pressure
- Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously under stringent timeframes and changing priorities/conditions
- Ability to both work independently and collaborate with others
- Proven ability to consistently work well with others, demonstrating, at all times, respect for the diverse constituencies at NPR and within the public radio system.
WORK LOCATION & Schedule: This is a remote permitted weekday role.
WORK LOCATION
- Remote Permitted: This is a remote permitted role. This role is based out of our Washington, DC office but the employee may choose to work on a remote basis from a location that NPR approves.
JOB TYPE
- This is a full time, exempt position.
COMPENSATION
Salary Range: The U.S. based anticipated salary range for this opportunity is $102,500 – $105,000 plus benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum salaries NPR expects to provide for new hires for the position across all US locations.
Benefits: NPR offers access to comprehensive benefits for employees and dependents. Regular, full-time employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week are eligible to enroll in NPR’s benefits options. Benefits include access to health and wellness, paid time off, and financial well-being. Plan options include medical, dental, vision, life/ accidental death and dismemberment, long-term disability, short-term disability, and voluntary retirement savings to all eligible NPR employees.
Does this sound like you? If so, we want to hear from you.
The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum salaries NPR expects to provide for new hires for the position across all US locations.
NPR Pay Range
$102,500—$105,000 USD
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by Kay Tay | Oct 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
We’re looking to hire 2-4 expert fact-checkers to vet articles across a variety of home improvement categories. We are seeking fact-checkers to review our articles, making sure we have all of our facts straight and that we are giving readers the best possible recommendations and advice.
We do not need reviewers to edit the articles, but instead, simply to vet article and brand information and make note of any inconsistencies or inaccuracies. This role will involve conducting research via brand websites, Google Reviews, and the Better Business Bureau (BBB), among other steps. If you have a keen eye for detail and apply common sense and critical thinking to your fact-checking process, we encourage you to apply.
About You
We’re looking to hire freelance fact-checkers who can work a minimum of 10 hours a week. Some specifics we’re looking for:
- Has a keen eye for detail and applies “gut checks” to supplement fact-checking
- Is tech-savvy (i.e., understands Google Docs and can work off a Google Sheet)
- Has familiarlity with home improvement categories, such as landscaping, home warranties, plumbing, solar, etc. (a plus but not required)
Compensation
We offer a competitive per-hour payment structure of $20 per hour. This is a short-term project (approximately 2-3 month commitment) with opportunities to expand into other fact-checking projects as needed.
Anything Else?
We have a high editorial standard to ensure the content we publish meets and exceeds the expectations of our readers.
Please include any experience you feel would be relevant for your application.
APPLY HERE
by Kay Tay | Oct 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Assists with the execution of strategic social media and digital initiatives including daily posts to all applicable social media platforms.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
- Assists with digital and social interaction with viewers and fans in real time on various web platforms.
- Determines best practices to optimize video content across social media platforms.
- Works with various departments to ensure proper online messaging, relevancy and consistency across multiple networks.
- Assists with cultivating new communities and managing branded online communities using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and other social media platforms.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED:
- A degree in communications, marketing, or a related field.
- 2+ years of marketing, public relations experience and/or social networking experience; strong familiarity with online marketing best practices.
WHAT YOU WILL BRING:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills (including proofreading)
- Expert knowledge of social networking channels.
- Experience writing, editing and crafting content for the social media space.
- Experience with social media management and analytical tools.
- The ability to work with cross-functional teams, a knack for research, sharp wit and a willingness to work during nonstandard business hours.
ABOUT SCRIPPS:
The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) is a diversified media company focused on creating a better-informed world. As one of the nation’s largest local TV broadcasters, Scripps serves communities with quality, objective local journalism and operates a portfolio of 61 stations in 41 markets. The Scripps Networks reach nearly every American through the national news outlets Court TV and Scripps News and popular entertainment brands ION, Bounce, Defy TV, Grit, ION Mystery and Laff. Scripps is the nation’s largest holder of broadcast spectrum. Scripps runs an award-winning investigative reporting newsroom in Washington, D.C., and is the longtime steward of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Founded in 1878, Scripps has held for decades to the motto, “Give light and the people will find their own way.”
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