Staff Writer - Draft Job Advert

At a glance

• Working pattern/flexible working - We know flexible working is important to you, and it is important to us too. The Partnership has adopted a blended working approach meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. The Experimentation team aims for around 1-2 days a week in the office to connect and on a more ad-hoc basis to attend key meetings but again, are flexible on this. The role is based on our Victoria Campus.

• Salary range - The salary range for this role is set at £33,000.00 - 49,500.00

• Contract type - This is a 6 month Maternity Cover

About the role

John Lewis & Partners’ editorial team is looking for a Staff Writer (known as Copywriter internally) to contribute stories across our print and digital titles.

We’re looking for someone who can pitch, write and publish stories in our Content Management System that will surprise and delight our customers.

We’re not just a boring brand blog, John Lewis’ editorial team is known for award winning journalism. We’re looking for professional journalists who will bring brilliant editorial storytelling to our Partnership and customers.

To be successful in this role, you’ll be confident with journalistic best practice and have good experience with a CMS. You’ll be great at SEO writing and making digital story formats.

In this role you will share collective responsibility with other Partners in the same role for:

• Writing editorial articles and copy for print and digital

• Building and creating articles in our CMS

• Proofreading and subbing

• Interest and knowledge of a wide range of retail lifestyle categories

Essential skills you’ll need

• Proven extensive experience working for a UK or US top tier media company, newspaper or website and excellent digital article writing

• Experience using a Content Management System preferably Adobe Experience Manager and content building

• SEO writing proficiency

• Proven experience with editorial best practice

Benefits of the Partnership and the role

• You will enjoy 25% discount at John Lewis and 20% in Waitrose

• The Partnership has a competitive pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay)

• Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working (include wording on holiday/able to purchase) and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave Policy

Find out more about the extensive range of exciting benefits that you could enjoy when you join us on our website under About the Partnership; Benefits.

Next Steps

• The application form consists of a CV upload followed by application questions. Please ensure you refresh the page each time you complete a task to ensure you complete everything that you need to in time. (If internal, check your Workday notifications and see further guidance on the PDW under "Internal application process").

• You'll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we'll be sure to discuss it with you.

• Thanks for your patience in the meantime and for showing an interest in joining the John Lewis Partnership.

If you’re an Internal Partner, you can view a copy of the full job outline here: Staff Writer (Internally known as Copywriter)

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