Content Strategist Job Description
Content Strategist Duties & Responsibilities
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Employers hiring for the content strategist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, English, Education, Communication, Business, Writing, Technical, Design
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Content Strategist Job Description
- Utilize an understanding of target markets to set the tone of the content, ensuring copywriting and content standards are maintained, and developing a consistent "voice" throughout the Wiki site
- Create recommendations for Wiki content based on business and user needs
- Assess business goals, user needs, content requirements, and content sources
- Provide the background research and analysis that stakeholders need to make smart decisions about content
- Develop content strategy and contribute to content management planning
- Contribute to editorial guidelines and content processes
- Edit and proof content as needed
- Build and manage the content roadmap for a business unit
- Determine the mix between brand generated and third-party content
- Align impactful content types with specific points of the customer journey
- Define, document, and maintain guidelines for content and metadata
- Be an evangelist for all things content
- High level of collaboration with multiple content strategists, IAs, designers
- Ongoing collaboration with copywriters/content creators
- Develop content strategy for complex informational interfaces (transactional websites, intranets, knowledge management systems)
- Concept, Research and Write ideas and stories for video
Content Strategist Job Description
- Collaborating with UX/UI Designers, Content Strategists, Producers, and Researchers on multi-device experiences for online and mobile banking, financial education, product information, tools, and applications
- Write clever, emotional, comedic, or inspiring GFX copy to tell a story visually
- Use photo/video sources such as Getty help tell your story
- Oversees quality coaches, reporters, and photographers in establishing each journalist’s weekly and monthly strategic plan
- Map out a content strategy that supports and extends marketing initiatives, both short- and long-term, determining which methods work for the brand and why
- Develop a functional content calendar
- Manage the RFP (request for proposal) process from a creative standpoint, from organizing brainstorms to writing response copy, working on decks and PDFs, and executing the final response sent to the client
- Work with sales, product and editorial teams on special projects
- Complete pitches and presentations for new business opportunities
- Manage the RFP (request for proposal) process from a creative standpoint, from organising brainstorms to writing responses, working on decks and PDFs, and executing the final response sent to the client
- Looking for a content strategist that has experience working with a Content Management System (CMS) environment
- Two to four years of magazine, website, or blogging experience
- A passion for video is a must but a specific video background is not required
- Comfort with the fast pace of web video
- Content Strategist with retail category experience, or comparable experience
- A bachelor’s degree or higher in Journalism, Communications, English or related field is required
Content Strategist Job Description
- Manage social media strategy, creates campaign ideas, plans content to appeal to target personas
- Lead industry analysis to identify and disseminate best practices
- Collaborating with customer experience (CX) Designers, Content Strategists, Producers, and Researchers on multi-device experiences for online and mobile banking, financial education, product information, tools, and applications
- Creating engaging short-form content that can be transmitted to target audiences through a variety of internal and external communications vehicles such as newsletters, emails, and social media posts
- Expanding and coordinating the use of social media to build greater awareness of the accomplishments, strategies, news/information, and stories from the School of Public Health
- Experience in creating a social media presence for an organization
- Partner with product managers, internal business stakeholders and functional teams to define content requirements and strategy
- Establishes and enforces journalistic standards – quantity and quality
- Direct the message hierarchy, content types , tone, voice and creative interpretation of content so it is on brand and aligned with marketing objectives
- Identify, manage, and structure engaging and contextually-appropriate content
- High e-business experience
- Experience in managing teams is a plus
- Ability to think outside the box to find the needle in the haystack of user-generated content that answers clients’ needs
- Work at a desk for long periods of time
- Work at a computer for long periods of time
- Standing at events for long periods of time
Content Strategist Job Description
- Collaborates with the UX team on content organization, navigation, site maps, and information design
- Regularly audit and inventory online content to identify gaps in quality, compliance, standards, and branding
- Develop content matrices and calendars to track and manage content updates
- Lead efforts to identify new content/communication opportunities, repurpose existing content, and other creative ways to create more meaningful user experiences and efficient processes
- Clearly present content strategies, with focus on storytelling
- Work with copywriters and editors to ensure that copy meets strategic objectives, business requirements, and digital principles
- Leads efforts to continuously improve digital content, including mining user data and research and conducting competitive assessments
- The over arching Content Marketing strategy of reactive and proactive programs centered around branded content – both social and video based content
- The articulation and formal write up of creative mission statement for each outgoing program
- Developing the materials needed to present and pitch these ideas
- Use agile approaches and methods in order to experiment and learn
- Please include a link to samples of your work that show a breadth of experience across a range of content types, like user interfaces, microcopy, user education, direct or transactional emails, style guides or product launch content
- Familiarity with Search Engine Marketing and Optimization strategies
- Experience working with digital advertising agencies or consultancies is preferred
- Ensuring that the aforementioned mission statement is aligned with what the Talent teams can confirm our influencers will do
- Using data to both prove and be the inspiration of brand content concepts
Content Strategist Job Description
- General marketing and social media strategies
- The ability to successfully write for the desired media (online content, marketing copy, informational/journalistic content, blog posts, social media)
- Overseeing creative strategy from ideation, to pitch, through execution
- Organizing programming based franchises for pro-active pitches - primarily focused on key client categories
- Developing tent-pole, seasonal packages ever-green ideas to “stock the shelves” for pro-active use
- Ability to attend client senior level client meetings and present concepts you have developed
- Develop overall schema for organizing and developing content
- Use CMS to build Web pages
- Work closely with UX Architects and Visual Designers to create user experiences that are intuitive and easy for customers to use
- Intake and understand complex requirements and problems and distill the appropriate customer-centric solution
- 5 years' working experience, contributing to successful transformation of digital experience(s) within large organisations, developing publishing strategies
- Live and actively participate in the digital world already (blogs, Twitter)
- Have a flair for writing, and also deeply appreciate the nuances of brand authenticity and voice
- Passionate about learning about new industries, topics and trends
- Eager to find how to tell client stories in a fresh and interesting way that's relevant to the online communities in which clients play
- As much a visionary as you are a strategist