We’re seeking a creative and collaborative entry-level copywriter who’s excited to learn and take on a wide variety of projects in support of our mission and impact.
In this role, you’ll be part of a small creative team that helps communicate initiatives, ideas, and stories through our public television series, brand marketing and social media campaigns, workforce tools and resources, educational programs, and more.
This is an entry-level role, and you’ll have room to learn, so the most important thing you can possess is a good foundation in writing and communicating ideas. We’re especially looking for someone with an ability to keep a key audience in mind and speak directly to them in a friendly, relatable, and clear way.
Here are some other things we’re looking for: You love thinking about how to communicate ideas and tell stories; you’re detail-oriented and have some proofreading skills; you have an interest in education and social issues that impact life and career outcomes; you’re proactive, solutions-oriented, and a great collaborator and communicator.
That last one is especially important because, on the copy team, we collaborate with almost every department in the organization—film and production, marketing, partnership development, impact measurement, education, product and UX, and more. That means you’ll get to work on many different kinds of projects, dive deep into a variety of ideas and topics, and work closely with a good portion of the wonderful, mission-driven folks across the company.
The flip side of that: We’re often doing something new, so adaptability, curiosity, and the ability to understand and focus on the core mission are key.
This position is open for either fully remote or hybrid in our office in Costa Mesa, CA.
Who we are: Roadtrip Nation is a nonprofit career exploration organization that empowers people to define their own roads in life. We’re one part media company and one part education organization. What that means in practice is that we create humanizing career stories and content that power our career resources, educational programs, and tools to support people in building confidence and finding their path forward.
Our award-winning documentary series on public television has been on the air for more than 20 years, covering topics like careers in public service, finding your path after incarceration, women in STEM, and much more. And we wrote a best-selling career guide based on the advice we’ve heard over the last two decades.
We create our primary impact through partnerships with leading social impact organizations and other mission-driven organizations who support this storytelling work on public television and connect our learner-driven career exploration programs and tools to people striving to find their paths in life.
What does this position entail? In this role, you’ll work on the copy team to ideate, write, and edit written content across a variety of platforms and mediums—from videos to websites to educational materials.
What we’re looking for: A great writer who’s creative, detail-oriented, adaptable, and engaged—and feels excited by the idea of learning and working on a range of different kinds of projects and topics.
A typical week in this role might include
- Collaborating with directors and editors on our post-production team to create onscreen copy and credits for our public television series
- Brainstorming social ads and campaigns with the marketing team
- Researching relevant topics and issues to inform creative briefs and new projects
- Working with producers to create our applications and promotional materials for upcoming documentary projects
- General editing and proofreading
- Brainstorming names for a new series or product
- Writing website copy for our documentary series and workforce projects
- Writing for our blog or newsletter
- Scripting videos for YouTube, or a lesson video, or a marketing video
- Helping to create materials for our educational programs, lessons, and tools
$45,000 – $55,000 a year