At a Glance
- Tasks: Sub-edit horticultural content for print and digital, ensuring accuracy and style consistency.
- Company: Join a leading gardening media brand with a passion for horticulture.
- Benefits: Flexible working hours, creative environment, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative team atmosphere with a focus on quality and accuracy.
- Why this job: Make a difference in the gardening community by ensuring high-quality content.
- Qualifications: Horticultural qualification or equivalent experience, plus sub-editing skills.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 40000 £ per year.
Responsibilities
- Sub-edit editorial content across all media (print, web, newsletters and social), ensuring it is horticulturally accurate and suitable for the home gardener, with correct botanical and common plant names in line with current naming conventions.
- Ensure content is grammatically, factually and legally correct.
- Ensure content is consistent with the GW house style and tone of voice.
- Prepare content for publication, including headlines, metadata and accessibility standards (such as alt text) for digital content.
- Sub-edit marketing and commercial content with the same degree of accuracy.
- Work on files in In Design and the gardenersworld. com CMS, using Monday. com to record and track the progress of your work.
- Check audio and visual content for horticultural accuracy as required.
- Assist with technical horticultural queries from the GW team as needed.
- Help maintain and develop the GW horticultural style guide and terminology.
- Complete work to deadlines set by the Head of Multimedia Operations.
- Champion the value of high-quality subbing and horticultural accuracy across the brand team, helping reduce recurring errors at source.
- Comply with BBC Editorial Guidelines and BBC Magazines Commercial Guidelines.
Requirements
- Horticultural qualification, or equivalent demonstrable expertise.
- Proven experience of sub-editing editorial content across multiple platforms.
- Proven experience of bringing print pages to completion in In Design.
- Experience of using a CMS to sub-edit digital and newsletter content.
- Familiarity with workflow tools such as Monday. com.
- Excellent attention to detail in all you do.
- Experience of juggling multiple deadlines and workflows.
- Good working knowledge of media and defamation law.
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We think you need these skills to ace Horticultural Sub Editor
Horticultural Knowledge
Sub-editing Skills
InDesign
Content Management Systems (CMS)
Attention to Detail
Understanding of Botanical Nomenclature
Familiarity with Workflow Tools (Monday.com)
