Health & Fitness Writer, Stylist (9-Month Fixed-Term Contract)

An exciting opportunity has risen for a Health & Fitness Writer to join Stylist!

About Stylist

Stylist (part of DC Thomson) is the UK’s leading media brand for women; talking to 5 million UK women a month and making up 40% of the women’s lifestyle sector.

Our audience are the UK’s finest professional women – a demographic who we understand and represent better than any other publisher. Our mission? To support, uplift and entertain this audience with compelling content and life-enhancing experiences so that they always feel seen and heard.

The award-winning Stylist magazine, Stylist.co.uk, Stylist+ and our newsletter portfolio sit at the heart of the brand, reaching 400K women in print and over 3 million UK women online through non-stop, mobile-first content.

At Stylist, we celebrate creativity, innovation and inclusivity. We offer a hybrid working model to allow our colleagues to work from home and/or the office as part of Stylist’s working culture. We keep a commitment to feminism, equality and female empowerment at the heart of everything we do.

About the Role

Stylist's health, fitness and wellbeing section is all about helping women to feel stronger today than they did yesterday. We cover everything from the most time-effective workouts and nutritious recipes, to hormone deep dives, sexual wellbeing guides and wellness investigations. We're looking for someone who has a demonstrable and genuine interest in all things health and fitness and who is as passionate about distilling complex scientific studies as they are getting stuck in with run club events, print features and ideas meetings. 

An ability to produce engaging, clean copy and being unfazed by tight deadlines is key to this role. The candidate will have experience working in a busy digital publishing environment, where they’re used to working towards ambitious targets.

A large part of the role will involve identifying social and SEO trends, as well as coming up with ideas for longer features. The successful candidate will be writing across free site digital, paywall, print, social and newsletter platforms. 

Primary objectives:

• Generate a range of unique, exclusive and exciting features and news ideas in a fast-paced publishing environment every day - and to see them through from pitch to publication
• To apply SEO knowledge and experience with traffic monitoring to all articles published
• The ability to monitor work post-publication and strive to hit digital targets

Secondary objectives:

• Monitoring social media to further understand the needs of our audience
• Representing Stylist at external and reader events, as and when required

• A demonstrable interest in health, fitness and wellbeing
• Attention to detail when it comes to producing error-free copy
• Excellent time management and ability to hit tight deadlines
• The ability to come up with daily news, social trends and longer feature ideas

To apply for this role, please follow our online application process and submit a CV, cover letter and two traffic-driving digital stories and one paywall feature that will drive subscriptions. Please include a headline and sell, as well as where you think the traffic/subs might come from. 

This is a full-time, temporary position (maternity cover for 9 months), working 35 hours per week. At Stylist, we offer a hybrid working model. We also offer a generous package including 26 days holiday plus bank holidays, health cash plan, gym discount, excellent pension, a competitive salary, and many more staff discounts and benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage applications from everyone and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or any other protected characteristics. 

The closing date for applications is Wednesday, 9th April at 16:00hrs.

If you have any issues with your application, please email recruitment@dcthomson.co.uk

Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early once we have received suitable applications. Therefore, please ensure you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.