Content Writer Eastleigh, England
Job description
Job Title: Content Writer
Contract Type: Permanent Full time, part time, job share
Salary Range: £28,000 - £40,000 Depending on experience
Location: Eastleigh, hybrid, #smartworking
Closing Date for applications: Tuesday 2nd May 2023
Content Writer: We have an exciting opportunity for a Content Writer to join our External Affairs Team. The Content Writer will create engaging copy about exciting developments to enhance our reputation among external audiences and build understanding amongst key audiences of brokers and customers.
As a Content Writer the successful candidate will ideally have a background as a PR, corporate communications professional or journalist and have proven experience of writing and editing a wide range of corporate material, preferably of a technical nature.
Please note while this role is based out of our Eastleigh office and working hybrid, there is an expectation to travel to other Ageas sites including, Gloucester, Bournemouth, and London
Main Responsibilities as a Content Writer:
- Build robust relationships with teams across the business to uncover and create case studies and interesting stories that help Ageas communicate its key messages to its varied stakeholders.
- Be the expert writer, creating and editing engaging written material such as case studies, press releases, blogs for senior managers, news articles, social media content, presentations, speeches, awards submissions, reports and documents.
- Work collaboratively with the External Affairs Manager and the wider Communications team to originate and develop creative ideas for use on campaigns that proactively and positively support internal and external communication programmes.
- Champion Ageas UK’s corporate tone of voice, ensuring complex insurance and regulatory language is translated into simple, engaging stories.
- Keep a finger on the news pulse (both internally and externally), ensuring any written content is appropriate and relevant
Skills and experience you need to be successful as a Content Writer:
- Exceptional communication skills and proficiency in the English language, both verbal and written
- Consummate self-starter, able to take the initiative and work well with minimal direction.
- Ability to ‘sniff out’ a good story; able to quickly establish and use a strong network of contacts, internally and externally to the business.
- Natural storyteller with the ability to create and edit a wide range of content, working with the house tone of voice and company brand guidelines.
- An interest in news and public affairs, with the ability to understand how this might impact communications plans
- Highly organised with the ability to work to tight deadlines.
Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the Content Writer role:
At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.
Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares . We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
Supporting your Health – Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders
Supporting your Wealth – Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
Supporting you at Work - Sports and Social Club events and more.
Supporting you and your Family – Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks’ at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.
Benefits for Them – Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover
Getting Around – Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover
Get some Tech – Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave
About Ageas:
We’re one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our people help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work, which is echoed in the service we provide to over four million customers.
As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, a Stonewall diversity champion and a Disability Confident Employer (which means interviews are guaranteed for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum role criteria). For more information please see Ageas Everyone.
Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.
