Blogger / Blog Editor - STELLA MARIS SCHOOLS, ABUJA

Stella Maris Schools Abuja is seeking a professional blogger/ blog editor that can place approximately 4 blogs a week on multiple sites to help us achieve our mission of bringing enjoyable, effective, and affordable education content to the world. We’re working on building out a large-scale content marketing machine. Working closely with our super stoked creative educational digital publicity/e-promotion team, you’ll help take our contents to the next level

Job Description:

• A blog editor with an eye for detail, a taste for tone, a strong sense of search engine results (SEO), and the ability to whip blog content into quality publishing shape
• Review, edit, format, and publish blog posts written by our creative content developer and students, across multiple blogs using word press and more
• Add visual elements to blog posts, help contributors adhere to the Stella Maris Schools Abuja  style guide, review and edit guest posts, and  more
• Ensure that content adheres to Stella Maris Schools message style and tone
• Source, create and add visual elements to blog posts
• Ensure accuracy and efficacy in blog posts developed by students
• Ensure new posts are effectively optimized for search engine results (SEO)
• Post to social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.)

Qualification and Requirements:

• Preference is given to candidate with a Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing, English, Journalism/ media and communications, Creative design or related field
• Graduate with at least 2+ to 4years of experience as a copy editor, blog editor, or focused role
• Flexibility and passion for IT/Social Media, editing, writing and education
• Have outstanding writing skills—are a grammar maven with a clear, friendly writing style
• Ability to collaborate closely with the social media manager, the creative content developer, the digital marketer, the graphic designer and the Executive Teams
• A skilled copy editor with strong attention to detail
• Strong communication and time management skills
• Professionalism regarding time management, and deadline-oriented
• Have experience using WordPress and familiar with WordPress plugins
• Know your way around basic HTML and CSS and already familiar with Yoast
• Knowledge of entertaining education publicity methods
• Have some design chops and can use Canva
• Understand SEO best practices and what it takes to get a post to rank top
• Are always “plugged in” and very responsive online
• Have written for blogs before or have your own blog
• Have familiarity with Adobe Suite

A portfolio of sample works should be submitted with a current resume

Please send at least 1-2 relevant URLs to articles you've written that have been published online (if available)
Please submit 2 sample article topics and 1-2 sentence descriptions you could write about that would fit in with our target audience
Also, please let us know how many high-quality 2,000 word articles (with images) you could write per week with focus on the school

Job Type: Full Time

Salary Range: 50, 000 naira to 65, 000 naira monthly
Working Hours: Monday – Friday 8.00AM to 5.00PM and may be required to work weekends and longer hours weekdays
Written Interview/Examinations will be conducted for shortlisted applicants 21ST August 2017 @ Stella Maris College (The College Hall), Life camp, Abuja

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