Travel Writer for Student Beans
Location: GB, , 
Department: Editorial
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Associate
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Function: Writing/Editing
Company profile: The Beans Group is a media company that exists to empower young people to thrive.  We have been on an exponential growth spurt since our inception as #URL_8d1ca4faf2d2518ce9ec21b3fbe5c63e4b47f383d6bb1f0a681ff6cc801b4550# in 2005 and in 2013 we won Digital Business of the Year. The Beans Group owns two brands: Student Beans, our youth media brand, strives to make life a little more awesome; and Voxburner, our youth insights consultancy, helps young people to be understood.We have created a business we are passionate about and really proud of. To continue to grow we need brilliant people who inspire and deliver change all around them - that's why we're looking for talented, ambitious and creative folks to come and join us.
Description: The UK’s leading student website, Student Beans, is on the hunt for a travel writer to produce awesome, engaging and entertaining content.---The Role---The Writer will be responsible for producing articles and sourcing images in a fun, fast-paced environment. Your will craft compelling copy and hilarious headlines, with occasional research expeditions into the depths of the internet for outlandish and amazing stories to be developed.We are looking to develop a new Travel channel, and you will be responsible for working with the Editor to do this. You will be also be doing some writing across our other channels, soon to morph into Campus, News, Lovelife, and Food & Drink.The stories you’ll be writing will be targeted (naturally) to a student demographic, and so the Travel section will be more ‘Coach Journeys You’ll Survive on Your Gap Year’ than ‘Private Beaches I’ve Known’.You will be working within a small team of passionate, funny and creative writers, reporting to the Editor. We like our content freshly brewed, so you’ll participate in a pitching meeting every morning.If you are brimming with fantastic, original ideas and want to put them in front of millions of 16-24 year-old eyes, we’re going to get on famously.---Apply Now!---Are you The One Applicant Will Change What We Think About Writing, and Blow Our Minds? Get in touch with your CV, covering letter and writing samples.
Requirements: You are immersed in viral content, with a terrifying knowledge of fantastic and underappreciated websites.You will also be well-versed in the culture, attitudes and issues of the student demographic.You will have a minimum 2:1 degree (since student experience is helpful).You will have written plenty of lifestyle content online before, and the more of it that falls within the Travel sector the better.Social media and news will be second nature to you, and you’ll know exactly how to share something to maximise response.
Benefits: Multiple Award-Winning Company and Brands; Entrepreneurial Startup Culture with Security of being Fully-Self-Funded; Major Growth Plans; Awesome Team; Competitive Salary; In-House Training and Development; International Opportunities; Childcare Vouchers and On-Site Childcare Facilities; Discounted Gym Membership; ad hoc Partnership Discounts (e.g. Tastecard, Local Dining Establishments); Office Remote-Control Helicopter Collection.
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