Description:
As part of the Design102 management team, you will enjoy collaborating with others, have a positive attitude and take a proactive role in shaping Design102’s brand and development.
If you are up for the challenge to inspire a team to create copy that changes lives, then we’d love to hear from you.
Main responsibilities:
- leading and line managing a team of creative copywriters and copyeditors
- working to creative briefs, with 50% of your time spent writing and editing, providing creative direction and quality assuring work
- setting and maintaining editorial standards and ensuring exceptional attention to detail for all projects
- championing our government style guide to all clients and using it as a basis to create bespoke tone of voice guidance for new brands and campaigns
- providing quality assurance checks to ensure all copy upholds government accessibility principles and that final results fit the brand, brief and budget
- working with the Head of Strategic Planning to set the direction for your team with clearly defined roles, responsibilities and objectives
- supporting the Head of Strategic Planning in gathering insight, conducting brand audits, assisting with focus groups, and interviewing stakeholders
- managing the copy team’s projects while providing first-class customer service, and prioritising and re-scheduling to ensure all deadlines are met
- developing your team’s capability to think creatively and come up with innovative solutions
- contributing to new processes and ways of working to ensure we’re always improving
- continuing to build the writing and editing skills within your team while identifying new disciplines or techniques to learn
- encouraging and helping your team to interrogate, scope and challenge briefs appropriately
- identifying and supporting succession planning and individual career development within your team
- liaising with the Head of Strategic Planning to recruit permanent or freelance staff
- having oversight of you and your team’s use of time management systems, ensuring they are up to date and is accurate and that work is delivered on time and to budget
- working closely with the client management team to generate new business, and to maintain and build positive client relationships
- scoping, quoting and producing schedules, working closely with design managers, video managers, artwork managers and the client team to ensure processes and resource allocation help us to be effective
- promoting cross-team working whenever possible, and identifying when strategy, design, animation, video and photography can be incorporated within projects
- acting as the voice of the copy team, proactively ensuring copy and design teams work closely when developing and articulating creative concepts
- presenting finalised ideas and concepts to clients, explaining clearly and confidently why the creative work matches their strategy and brief
- keeping abreast of trends and technologies in copywriting for digital and print, ensuring the team’s solutions respond accordingly
- creating and hosting workshops to support all colleagues with their understanding of copy and their own learning and development
- acting as an ambassador for copy and being the first point of contact for any copy-related questions