Content Assistant London, England
Job description
Hybrid - Office and Remote
We are Circus Street.
At Circus Street, we partner with global businesses to help people learn better and work smarter. We’ve transformed digital skills training by making it interactive, effective, and informed by up-to-the-minute expertise.
Our mission is to create a common digital business language.
Our vision is to modernize education, making it relevant in a world of continuous change.
We make it happen by focusing on two things:
Our People - Be authentically you at Circus Street. We hold great pride in the diversity of our people and have an environment that is based on trust, inclusivity, personalized wellness and connection that encourages us all to flourish and be our brilliant selves. We are proud to have built an award-winning team from all backgrounds who possess the talent, energy, and empathy to bring our vision to life.
Our Customers - Getting to know our Customer’s business and crafting a learning journey that achieves their goals, delivers the goods, and cements the learning. We work with more than 200 ‘Fortune 500’ brands around the world, with populations ranging from 1,000-100,000+ users.
Job Purpose
The purpose of this role is to support the creation of animated educational videos and materials that enable leading brands to create a common global digital language across their business.
With growth plans earmarked for 2023, we are looking to add a Content Assistant to support our writers and editors in the Content team. Reporting to the Managing Editor, the Content Assistant will help prepare our video scripts and lesson materials for production, and work across both content and production teams to keep the editorial process moving and key information updated.
There is potential to progress into more extensive writing duties and to participate in filming, depending on experience and interest. This is an ideal opportunity for someone with good organizational skills who wants to grow into an editorial role within a creative team.
A Day In The Life:
- Assisting with content updates to existing lessons, including background research on specific topics
- Creating lesson packs and workshop packs which contain materials that expand on our lesson content
- Fact checking video scripts prior to filming
- Reviewing completed lesson videos prior to release to ensure they are error-free, and text and animations work smoothly together
- Ordering and reviewing English subtitles for all lessons
- Liaising with our translations team on translation of assessment questions, subtitles and scripts
- Building finished lessons in our content management system (CMS)
- Creating and maintaining a ‘case study’ log tracking organisations featured in our content
- Updating our lesson database on a monthly basis to reflect changes in release status, and details of upcoming lessons
- Assisting our directors and producers on set
- Exceptional English language skills, including writing skills
- At least 3 months work experience or an internship in an editorial/creative role
- Experience managing multiple tasks and deadlines
- Ability to work collaboratively and as part of a wider team
- Ability to learn new topics efficiently and research relevant subject areas
- Ability to communicate proactively
- Strong attention to detail
- Work experience at a learning organization
- Knowledge and experience of digital education
- Professional writing and editing experience
- Experience on set and/or in post-production
- Project management experience
As part of your employment package with us, we’ll give you access to a huge number of benefits and a wellbeing toolkit that reflects the everyday challenges you may come across, to help support you in all aspects of life, whatever it may bring.
Here is a sneak peek into the kind of benefits you can expect when joining Circus Street…
Mind and Body
Circus Street takes a whole person approach to wellbeing, what this means for you is private health insurance from day one, CBT and Nutritional Therapy as an example - none of this ‘waiting to pass probation nonsense’...
Down Time
We believe rest is super important that’s why you’ll get 30 days leave to use as you wish, plus bank holidays, a Duvet Day, and a 4pm finish on Fridays, as well as working from home 3 days a week.
Let’s Talk Money
We offer a fair and competitive package for everyone including pension offering, Cycle to Work tax savings, and thousands of retail discounts not to mention all the free wellness and social events.
Personal Growth
Learning is ‘our thing’, it’s what we do. Our people love to develop themselves personally and professionally. As well as an excellent management training program and ambitious goals for each individual, we give everyone 6 personal development days to upskill creatively or professionally and 6 volunteering days to give back to causes closest to your heart, as well as group fundraising events.
The Fun Stuff
We deliver big things for our clients and solve important challenges every day, and we have fun along the way. We’re a really sociable bunch and we love to spend time together. You’ll find us getting together for crafting, games nights, herbal workshops, pottery, and maybe even a spa night! Not your thing? You’ll find us in the pub too.
We’re also proud to be recognized in 2021 as one of London’s ‘Top 50 Mid-Sized Companies’ to work for. Get in touch to find out more.
