At Manchester United, our focus is to create a high-performance environment where everyone can be their best, working together towards our common goal of football success. We believe the key to achieving this goal is connection and collaboration. Everyone coming together, working from one of our Manchester United office locations every working day to share skills, knowledge and ideas, building on the best of what we already do and looking at where we need to change and innovate. 

The Purpose:

This role will be on the front line of editorial and coverage of our matchdays, football teams and the wider club. This is a multi-faceted, multimedia based role, and the successful candidate will be proficient in written content, as well experience working with video and social media.

The Role:

Ideating, planning and crafting innovative digital content for our website, app and social channels, that will resonate with the club’s diverse global fanbase.
With a specialism/skillset in editorial and the written word, you will be creating digital content for our website and app.
Building and maintaining strong working relationships with key internal stakeholders, including our Communications team, players and coaching staff, to ensure highest standards of production are achieved.
Monitoring media trends, keyword trends and other analytics to inform what we should be covering.
Optimising articles for SEO and accessibility.
Conducting research.
Writing, sub-editing, proofing and copywriting.
Mastery of the Manchester United style guide.
Mastery of English grammar, punctuation and spelling.

The Person:

Experience working in teams that require collaboration with other functions to produce content.
Proven experience of writing articles/blog posts, ideally for a sports team or similar.
You will also be proficient in writing content and crafting copy for social posts and marketing materials.
You will be the type of person that is inquisitive about analytics and the performance of content and help us meet departmental and club-wide KPIs.
You will understand how to use a CMS, and how to optimise content for mobile and SEO.
You will have an obsessive knowledge of football, Manchester United and an empathy with local and global fans, remaining sensitive to real-time sentiment.
Ability to work under pressure and be comfortable with the demands of ‘live’ matchday content production.
Flexibility to work late weekday hours and willingness to contribute on weekends.
Comfortable working on-the-go and at stadiums (largely outdoors), and also within a ‘War room’ environment for remote and away matches.

As part of your application, we would love you to include a link to your portfolio or some examples of your work.

If you'd like to submit your application, please do so by Thursday 29th August 2024

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Junior Content Creator (Editorial Department)