Health & Fitness Writer, Stylist (9-Month Fixed-Term Contract)
An exciting opportunity has risen for a Health & Fitness Writer to join Stylist!
About Stylist
Stylist (part of DC Thomson) is the UK's leading media brand for women, reaching 5 million UK women a month and making up 40% of the women's lifestyle sector. Our audience consists of the UK's finest professional women, a demographic we understand and represent better than any other publisher. Our mission is to support, uplift, and entertain this audience with compelling content and life-enhancing experiences.
The award-winning Stylist magazine, Stylist.co.uk, Stylist+ and our newsletter portfolio reach 400K women in print and over 3 million UK women online through non-stop, mobile-first content. We celebrate creativity, innovation, and inclusivity, offering a hybrid working model to allow our colleagues to work from home and/or the office.
About The Role
Stylist's health, fitness, and wellbeing section aims to help women feel stronger today than they did yesterday. We cover everything from time-effective workouts and nutritious recipes to hormone deep dives and wellness investigations. We're looking for someone with a demonstrable and genuine interest in health and fitness, who is passionate about distilling complex scientific studies and engaging with run club events, print features, and ideas meetings.
Key responsibilities include producing engaging, clean copy under tight deadlines and working in a busy digital publishing environment towards ambitious targets. A significant part of the role involves identifying social and SEO trends and generating ideas for longer features. The successful candidate will write across digital platforms, paywall content, print, social media, and newsletters.
Primary objectives:
* Generate unique, exclusive features and news ideas in a fast-paced publishing environment every day, from pitch to publication.
* Apply SEO knowledge and experience with traffic monitoring to all published articles.
* Monitor work post-publication and strive to hit digital targets.
Secondary objectives:
* Monitor social media to understand the audience's needs.
* Represent Stylist at external and reader events as required.
Requirements:
* A demonstrable interest in health, fitness, and wellbeing.
* Attention to detail in producing error-free copy.
* Excellent time management and ability to meet tight deadlines.
* Ability to generate daily news, social trends, and longer feature ideas.
To apply for this role, please follow our online application process and submit a CV, cover letter, and two traffic-driving digital stories along with one paywall feature that will drive subscriptions. Please include a headline and sell, as well as where you think the traffic/subs might come from.
Benefits:
This is a full-time, temporary position (maternity cover for 9 months), working 35 hours per week. At Stylist, we offer a hybrid working model and a generous package including 26 days holiday plus bank holidays, health cash plan, gym discount, excellent pension, a competitive salary, and many more staff discounts and benefits.
We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage applications from everyone, without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or any other protected characteristics.
The closing date for applications is Wednesday, 9th April at 16:00hrs.
If you have any issues with your application, please email recruitment@dcthomson.co.uk.
Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early once we have received suitable applications. Therefore, please ensure you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Temporary
Job function
* Writing/Editing
Industries
* IT Services and IT Consulting
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