We're looking for a Features Writer to join our talented team on loveEXPLORING.com – are you the person we're looking for?
Love Inc is an award-winning, independent digital lifestyle publisher with a global focus and more than 10 million readers a month.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, creative Features Writer to join our hugely successful brand loveEXPLORING.com, to help grow our audience around the world.
You’ll be producing engaging and insightful, photo gallery-style features on a vast range of topics, from the best new hotels opening around the USA to shocking weather and climate-change related stories, to historic galleries featuring vintage photos of places around the world.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who loves the challenge of researching and creating compelling gallery features and evergreen travel content, and who wants their work to be read globally.
This role will predominantly be home-based, although will occasionally require travel to London (around once a quarter).
Key responsibilities of the role:
- Generating and pitching great ideas that will help us grow our site’s audience;
- Researching and producing engaging content, primarily made up of photo-led evergreen galleries;
- Updating key pieces of older content so they are up to date, SEO-friendly and relevant.
- Monitoring performance to understand what’s worked and what hasn’t and why, using analytics tools (full training will be provided).
What we are looking for:
- Excellent writing skills and the ability to craft clean, compelling copy on any topic;
- A passion for digital journalism and travel. A passion for history, another key area that does well for us, is also a bonus.
- Top-notch attention to detail and faultless spelling, grammar and fact-checking abilities;
- Confidence when pitching ideas and a great eye for a travel-related gallery;
- A good eye for images to showcase our pictorial galleries;
- An ability to write compelling headlines;
- Experience of using a content management system is beneficial (although training will be provided);
- Good interpersonal and communication skills;
- A proactive, positive attitude;
- Excellent project/time management and organisational skills;
- Photo editing skills are a bonus;
- A knowledge of media law and image use is a bonus;
- Knowledge of cruising and/or the US is preferable but not essential;
- An NCTJ-trained journalist is preferable but not essential.
Compensation
We offer a competitive salary dependent on experience plus a discretionary performance-based bonus scheme and excellent benefits, including 30 days’ annual holiday.
About us
loveEXPLORING.com is part of Love Inc, a fast-growing digital lifestyle publishing company with a global focus. Our sister sites are loveFOOD.com, loveMONEY.com and lovePROPERTY.com.
Love Incorporated is an equal opportunities employer. We value and respect all differences (seen and unseen) in all people. We aspire to deliver inclusive working experiences and an environment that reflects the audience we serve. We actively encourage applications from diverse backgrounds.
How to apply
Please send us your CV alongside a cover letter detailing why you are right for this role.
Please also send three ideas for brilliant photo gallery stories that you believe would be attractive to loveEXPLORING’s readers around the world, not just in the UK, complete with both an SEO headline and a click-worthy site-level headline, with a short summary of each idea and why it would be successful. Please ensure the ideas you pitch do not already exist on loveEXPLORING.com. These ideas can be included at the bottom of your cover letter. You can see more examples of the topics we cover at loveexploring.com
Your application must also include your salary expectations.
Applications without all the above elements will not be considered.
You must have the right to work in the UK.
Please send applications to Lynne Maxwell at Lynne@loveinc.com
The closing date for applications is 1 January 2025.
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