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Digital Copy Editor (Remote)

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Previous editing experience, whether professional or academic
  • Dependable internet access; willingness to use your personal computer
  • Motivation and strong work ethic, even when working from home
  • Excellent project management and time management skills

Responsibilities

  • Edit the team’s work to take it from draft stage to publication with speed and accuracy
  • Provide feedback to writers that improve their writing
  • Communicate status of projects to your Director and other members of the team

Key facts

  • Remote from: Anywhere
  • Fixed term
  • Copy Editor
  • Spanish, English

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Editing
  • Time Management
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Reliability
  • Self-Motivation
  • Strong Work Ethic

About the company

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trades.org

Trade Pros waste hundreds of hours annually on business tasks they don’t enjoy and aren’t good at.​We make running a trade business easy so pros can spend more time actually helping customers.

Company details

Company size11 - 50

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Job description

Trades.org is hiring people who want to be paid to edit written work! We’re building a team to quickly launch a new website, and content creators need an Online Copy Editor with an eye for detail, a passion for corrections, and a desire to help writers improve.

As a fully remote office, we seek individuals who are flexible and comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment.

You may be a good fit for this role if other positions of interest include: copy-writer, writer, marketing, journalism, copy-editor, editor, proofreading.

About Us

Trades.org empowers trade workers and their customers by providing useful content and services. We help trade workers start, operate, or grow their businesses with a focus on improving both the quality of services they provide to customers and the quality of life they experience themselves. We help customers research their options, become more savvy, and hire safely. By supporting those across the home improvement sector, we hope to create a more fair, pleasant, and efficient industry.

Important Details

  • Pay Rate: $15 - $20 per hour; 30-40 hour workweek
  • Hiring timeline: Immediate. We hope to close our hiring process by Friday, May 29th to bring you on board by Monday, June 1.
  • Benefits: None
  • Hours: Flexible. Must be available for (1) remote training and (2) ongoing (but infrequent) meetings with your manager.

You Will Be Responsible For

You will work with a team to develop on-brand content that engages the Trades.org audience. You will be responsible for editing your team’s work while giving them weekly feedback that improves their skills.

You Will Be Expected To…

  • Edit the team’s work to take it from draft stage to publication with speed and accuracy
  • Provide feedback to writers that improve their writing (and that makes your job easier!)
  • Communicate status of projects to your Director and other members of the team

Candidate Need to Haves

  • Previous editing experience, whether professional or academic
  • Dependable internet access; willingness to use your personal computer
  • Motivation and strong work ethic, even when working from home
  • Excellent project management and time management skills; ability to meet tight deadlines
  • Ability to communicate and collaborate respectfully in a multicultural environment

Candidate Nice to Haves

  • Previous online content writing experience
  • Fluent in both English and Spanish
  • Experience in, or exposure to, the construction, home remodeling, or home improvement industry

Crush the Application Process

Fit matters a lot in a small, fast-paced company. We want to be sure this role is meaningful and fulfilling for you, value-adding for us, and fun for everybody. To ensure this happens, here are the steps for our interview process:

  1. Submit an application that includes a resume and writing sample.
  2. Let us know- in one short paragraph- why you are interested in this job.
  3. Learn a little more about the job via a video interview.

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