Content Writer

Our client in the Advertising / Design / Marketing sectors, is currently looking to employ an experienced Content Writer in their Humansdorp offices.

Minimum of 2 years in a similar role / field secures.

An awesome career opportunity awaits.

Job Description

• Working with other creatives, copywriters use their excellent writing skills to create and deliver imaginative advertising campaigns for their clients.
• You'll work from client briefs to conceive, develop and produce effective advertising campaigns.
• You'll focus on providing the written words (the copy) for an advertising campaigns and content, while the art director will deal mainly with the visual images. Copy can include:
  • creating headlines,
  • slogans,
  • catchphrases,
  • straplines and
  • body copy for print advertising and leaflets,
  • writing for web advertising,
  • social media and mobile applications,
  • creating scripts for radio jingles and
  • TV commercials.

Competencies:

• the consistent ability to produce and communicate fresh ideas and visual concepts
• high levels of motivation and perseverance with a strong belief in your ideas, plus the skills and confidence to express them
• excellent organisational skills with
• the ability to prioritise work and multi-task
• the ability to work as part of a team
• the ability to take rejection and criticism and to be able to adapt ideas to clients' and colleagues' needs
• the capacity to deal with stress and work well under pressure in order to meet tight deadlines
• enthusiasm about advertising with a desire to keep up to date with new developments in the media
• an integrated and creative approach to the media and how the media can be used in advertising
• an understanding of the advertising processacute observation and an eye for detail.

Responsibilities include:

• Work on campaigns from the outset, managing details about the product, target audience and required advertising message
• Generate creative ideas and concepts as well as copy to fulfil the client's brief
• Expert-level knowledge of each allocated brand, including positioning and audiences
• Thorough knowledge of target audience and business that the advert is aimed at
• Meet with the creative lead and account managers before presenting ideas to clients
• Build creative presentation to pitch ideas to clients alongside your team
• Brief other members of the creative team on monthly content via content creation tool Mastering tools like Falcon, Toggl and Asana to complete tasks
• Month to month copywriting for a variety of always-on clients
• Create briefs for creatives by coming up with concepts for printed or digital design
• Create storylines and story boards for video and video content
• Get all content out on time and up to client expectations
• Creation of recipes
• Extra: Account Liaison for selected clients 

Required skills and qualifications:

• 2+ years in a relevant field
• Entry Requirements:  Writing skills, Excellent English spoken and written communication skills. 
• Degree:  Communications, Journalism or Language (Not a must) 
• An innovative and disruptive mindset, constantly looking forward
• Excellent English language skills both spoken and written
• Agency experience