Content Strategist

28 Jun 2024

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A NYS agency located in New York, NY is looking for a Content Strategist for a 12 month contract.

Some onsite work is required throughout the life of the contract, and is likely to increase over time. Local candidates only.

To be considered for this position, the client has advised that upon placement, consultants will be required to wear a mask under certain circumstances, show proof of full vaccination or submit on a weekly basis proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR diagnostic test

Requirements and skills

  • Superior writing ability, including enthusiasm for writing at a lower grade level and simplifying complicated ideas. You should love understanding and explaining things to people.
  • Experience in marketing, journalism, communications, or some other field where you were forced to write for the public and meet deadlines.
  • Experience with a CMS (Drupal, Wordpress, or something similar).
  • Some experience with content design, or at least strong opinions about web page layout.
  • Ability to collaborate with senior management across the spectrum of an organization while advocating for customer-centric voice and tone.
  • Experience with product or project management software including JIRA, Trello, Airtable, Asana, or something similar.
  • Experience managing social channels for a business, brand, or institution is a plus.
  • Some basic understanding of how to convey information visually, or how to work with designers to use words and pictures to their full effect.
  • Experience in user-centric principles.
  • 4-6 years' experience: Report Writing, Writing proposals and reports, Technical Writing

Responsibilities

  • Create and manage project websites for agency capital construction projects and other major projects.
  • Coordinate with stakeholders across multiple agencies and project teams to ensure content is compelling, up to date and findable.
  • Help write and publish newsletters.
  • Develop customer communication strategies in collaboration with senior management across the spectrum of an organization.
  • Write content quickly and cleanly. Help edit when needed.
  • Lay out web pages, organizing them to be rider-first rather than organization-first.
  • Work with the product team to build new CMS tools and features, serving as an evangelist for content editors.
  • Recruit editors and writers from various project teams, training them on the CMS and showing them how to update their sections of the website themselves.
  • Contribute to the text and language standards for the agency, potentially including voice and tone.
  • Need a Content Strategist to help tell that story to the millions of people that we move through the city each day.
  • You'll sit at the intersection of marketing and our Construction & Development team and help tell their story. This will involve multiple digital channels including mta.info, newsletters, and social.
  • You'll work with agency's editor to reach millions of New Yorkers with essential information. This will require working with stakeholders across multiple agencies and project teams to ensure project content is accurate, while rewriting and reorganizing it to be more customer-centric. Have you ever wondered why it's so hard to find out why there's a big hole in your street? Did you love that the L Project posters were pink? This is the job for you.
  • This could be someone with a marketing or journalism background, but we need someone who can both write and also has an eye for web layout.
  • Your audience will be more than 8 million people per day - and you will be on the front lines of modernizing the agency

About us: QED National is a leading IT consulting, solutions and staff augmentation firm, serving both the public and private sectors for over 29 years. Headquartered in midtown Manhattan, QED National's team is comprised of the brightest minds in the industry with the skills to solve the most complex technological problems.

  • ID: #43649001
  • State: New York New york city 10008 New york city USA
  • City: New york city
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2022-06-28
  • Deadline: 2022-08-26
  • Category: Et cetera