We’re hiring! Check out our editorial assistant role

Position: Editorial assistant, delicious, Eye to Eye Media.

Reporting to: Editorial director, delicious.

Full-time, fixed-term contract (minimum 6 months)

Hybrid working (2 days in London office; 3 days WFH)

Start date: Mid August

What’s the role? This is an entry-level role for a passionate food lover looking to break into the world of food and drink consumer-led content. This role would have exposure to all sides of the delicious machine (digital, social and print), providing support for the team wherever they need it – that could be pitching and writing editorial, managing budgets, sending out weekly newsletters or speaking to our highly engaged audience.

Key responsibilities:   

Supporting the delicious editorial team across all platforms, including but not limited to:

• Website: affiliate programme and SEO
• Newsletters: building newsletters and reporting
• Social: community management, scheduling and reporting on social analytics
• Books: keeping abreast of upcoming books, logging publication dates and keeping PDFs up to date for commissioning and reviewing opportunities
• Reviews: overseeing/calling in products and pictures, organising testing, writing copy and fact-checking
• Legal: managing the rights and syndication of recipes and images (UK and international)
• Networking: managing our contact database and developing close relationships with PRs and industry professionals, attending events as required
• Editorial: keeping up with food and drink news and trends, and researching, pitching and writing
• Budgets: logging and processing invoices
• Community: reading and responding to the delicious audience inbox
• Competitions: working with the marketing team to source and deliver prizes, write copy and liaise with brands
• Organisation: from customer and client events through to sourcing and managing our props library

Key skills and experience:

• A keen interest in food and drink, and awareness of restaurants, chefs, TV cooks, social media influencers and trends
• Strong organisational, interpersonal and administrative skills
• Good general computer skills (Excel/Google Sheets). Bonus points for professional experience using CMS (WordPress) and social platforms (Meta, Pinterest)
• Strong literacy skills, with excellent grammar and spelling
• Good communication skills, verbal and written
• Passion for storytelling
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Agility and flexible approach to work – every day might look different!
• A team player
• Professional attitude
• Self-motivated with an ability to prioritise

What you’ll gain from working with us:

• Salary available on application and dependent on experience
• Food, glorious food! Expect to be well fed and for conversations to always be centred around all things delicious
• Training across multiple tools, from WordPress and Mailchimp to Excel/Google Sheets, Rhapsody and all the social media platforms
• A great team to learn from with huge experience in the foodie, content and marketing worlds
• A buzzing working environment in a Georgian townhouse in Kennington, South London, with an in-house test kitchen, shooting kitchen, photography studio, and podcast and editing booth
• Opportunity to make the role your own – want to get involved with recipe testing? We can make that happen. Want to shadow shoots? Consider it done.

Does this sound like you? Please email your CV and up to 200 words on why you’d be right for the role to editorial director laura.rowe@eyetoeyemedia.co.uk with the subject line: Editorial Assistant. Closing date midnight Tuesday 9th July 2024. Due to the volume of applicants, unfortunately we can only contact people who we’re inviting for an interview. The interview process will include one interview with the editorial director and a short test, and likely take place in mid-July.