Copywriter (Part-Time)
Burford, Oxfordshire

About Us

Blue Cross is one of the UK’s leading rehoming organisations for animals. We support sick, injured and homeless pets and care for more than 40,000 animals every year through our rehoming, veterinary and education programmes.

We’re currently looking for a part-time Copywriter to join our in-house Creative Resources Team working 21 hours per week.

The Benefits

- Salary of £25,542 - £30,000 per annum (pro rata)
- Pension scheme
- Company sick pay
- Life insurance (after probationary period)
- Employee assistance programme, including a 24/7 confidential counselling line, support with personal issues and financial advice
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Flexible working
- Enhanced parental, maternity, paternity leave, holiday exchange, volunteer days and sabbatical leave
- Long service awards and Blue Cross Spirit Awards
- Develop your career with a charity that’s been supporting animals since 1897

This is a fantastic opportunity for a talented creator with experience working to a brief to develop exceptional creative ideas and concepts, to join our passionate organisation.

In this key role, you will be the guardian of our written style and it will be up to you as to how we project our message and the work we do across our digital and online platforms, encouraging people to donate, rehome and help us to make sure that every pet can enjoy a healthy life in a happy home.

So, if you have outstanding project management skills and want to use your creative flair to support our vital mission, we want to hear from you.

The Role

As a Copywriter, you will be responsible for bringing our tone of voice to life across our digital and offline channels, engaging with our supporters and volunteers and promoting the brilliant work we do.

Working closely with the Creative Team and other designers, you will work to briefs and produce creative and captivating copy for a range of marketing and communication materials.

You’ll promote our work, get involved in scripting and transcribing videos, proof and edit collateral and even take the lead in projects and at meetings. This is an all-encompassing role that will keep you engaged, excited and enabled to dive into your creative pool.

About You

To be considered as a Copywriter, you will need:

- Demonstrable experience of working with a brief to develop creative ideas and concepts and presenting to clients
- Experience of fundraising, marketing and direct response writing
- Experience in the development of cross channel campaigns
- Project management skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, working to deadlines
- The ability to write compelling headlines and copy for digital, social and print
- The ability to work in a fast-moving, busy agency or studio environment
- The ability to build and maintain good working relationships with colleagues, customers and suppliers
- Exceptional proofreading skills
- Exceptional grammar and use of the English language
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office

An understanding of the importance, and effective use, of branding would be beneficial, as would confidence in pitching and presenting ideas to teams.

A basic understanding of Acrobat would be equally desirable, as would the ability to learn new software skills.

The location for this role can be flexible. The successful candidate could be office-based at our Burford site or work remotely with occasional travel to the office.

The closing date for this role is 7th June 2022.
Interviews will be held the week commencing 13th June 2022.

The salary grade for this role is 4.2.

Other organisations may call this role Creative Copywriter, Copy Editor, Content Writer, Content Copywriter, or Brand Copywriter.

Webrecruit and Blue Cross are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you’re ready to make a real difference as a Copywriter, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.