ASSISTANT EDITOR

Mark Allen is a forward-thinking, inclusive media company celebrating yet another record year of success. We're excited to be looking for an Assistant Editor to join our welcoming team on our portfolio supporting the social care sector. Contributing to the success of our dedicated careers zone and providing career advice. 

We offer continuous learning and development, flexible working, and a salary of up to £30,000 plus benefits. 

The Opportunity

Community Care helps social workers stay up to date with the latest and most significant developments in practice, law, and policy to help them to change lives for the better and flourish in their careers. We also support social work employers and leaders to recruit and retain high-quality practitioners and develop their staff to the best of their abilities.

To give you an idea of how this role would look and feel, here are some of the rewarding things you can expect to do:

• Produce Employer Zone content for local authority partners to help them meet their recruitment goals, hit deadlines, and manage relationships with clients to ensure the success of the campaigns.
• Working with the Head of Content to undertake a rigorous analysis of survey data and then present this back to senior leaders as part of our unique Retention Risk Tool.
• Supporting the Careers Editor to grow and maintain Community Care’s Careers Zone, a new part of the site aiming to support social workers with key aspects of their careers.
• Developing and maintaining Employer Profiles, Community Care’s unique ‘always on' content marketing strategy.

You will thrive in this role if you have

• High-quality editorial skills including interviewing, fact-checking, the ability to write clear, engaging copy, copy editing, and proofreading.
• A strong focus on customers and end-users and a determination to deliver on customers’ objectives.
• A strong ability to build and manage relationships with internal and external senior stakeholders.
• Good research skills, including the ability to analyse survey results and pull out the key findings for reports and presentations.
• Attention to detail with the ability to work calmly under pressure and meet multiple deadlines.

In return, you join a fantastic, inclusive company. Head to our careers page for more info on our ED+I promise. We will invest in developing your career, and nurture your potential. You will earn up to £30,000 (DOE) and enjoy employee perks including a dedicated 24/7 employee wellness platform, season ticket loan, pension contribution, flexible working opportunities, ongoing training to continue developing your skills, #MAGSWAG, and more!

Flexible working: 2 days in the office, 3 remote. This role is based from our Sutton, Greater London office  

Mark Allen Group consists of seven divisions: MA Healthcare, MA Business, MA Agriculture, MA Education, MA Exhibitions, MA Music Leisure & Travel, and MA Dentistry Media. 

We are continuously looking to invite driven, ambitious, and enthusiastic candidates into our MAG family across our lucrative businesses. We are a trusted, family-owned media company specialising in offering professional content and services to global audiences. Content is key to everything we do, be it across print, digital, or events.

We’re not interested in fitting into what a media company is supposed to look like. We are not wallflowers. Our ever-expanding business has rapidly grown from its humble beginnings and we’re only just getting started….

We positively celebrate Diversity & Inclusion in the Mark Allen Group. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our company stronger. We are committed to achieving a working environment that provides equality of opportunity and freedom from discrimination. We aim to become the most inclusive business in Publishing- both for our people and our customers, reflecting and connecting with the diverse communities that we work with. We want people from all backgrounds to feel valued for their individuality and to thrive in our business and feel part of the family-run Mark Allen Group.

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